Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 153, 2 July 1894 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

(We da not hold onrselre»je8ponsible oor the opinion» or the utterances of Jot corres^K>ndents.] Editor Holomia. No truer sentence wrs ever uttered than tbat of C. C. Moreno, that the missionaries are a greater curse to this country thau the leprosy. Not Satisfied with tbe miser3 r the3r have already inflicted upon the Hawaiiansthe Adverfiser woukl add more tortnre in the shape of “Jury reform.” To execute the editorial whieh appeared in the June issue of the A'iveriiser woukl be in keeping with the othor injustices aeeomplished up to date b\' the missionary regime. It is too bad that the missionary ladies have J not a vote, as they would be of I great assistance to the Advertiser iu its latest scheme. Certainly abolish the present jury s\*stem. Abolish po)itical equality. Abolish everything i that does not accord with the missionar\- idea of how tbings should be: By the great awesome talisman of the Judd of goldon silence; abolisb every* tbing and anything whieh in any way obstructs the heavenly mission of tbe missionaries to spread the gospel of Christ among the heathen. The seed of christian religion has been sown deep indeed in tbe heart of the Hawaiian. So well have thesa missionariessucoeeded I I • I in their christiau work, tbat, having arrived here pennilesS. beggars. their passage paid by j 10 cents coutributions of church j congregations and Sabbatn SchooU, they are now io possegsioo of ihe land of tbe Hawaiian, in trnst for Christ. £earing tfae banner of Jesus they hare progressed ateadily in their christian work. Unactuated by worldly motives they hare at latt, by dirine bmu,

lalmost completed their religioQ3 mi»sion. in obUining control of the Hawaiian Government. Goidetl still farther by the light 1 of heaven these hamble disciples 1 of tbe lowly Jew of Nazarene ‘ wonld now enforce a doctrine ■; espressed by the Rev. fakir in conversation with 1 Robert Ingersoll, the eioqaent agnostic, and preserved for posterity by ‘ Eli Perkins.” “VTould yon like to live in a community, Mr. Talmage. where I not one cigar coold be smoked, [ aud not one drop of spiritaous 1 I liquor could be sold or drunk ,> s asked Ingersoll. »1 “Certainly,” said Talmage. | [ “that woukī be a social heaven.” “And you wonhi like to live where no one could play on the Sabbath day; where no one could langh out loud and enjoy a frclic? “Certainly.” 1 “And where ever\’one had to go to chorch?” “Yes, sir, that would suit me. It would be paradise to live in a communitv where everyoue was compelled to go to church every Sundav, where no one eoukl swear, and where the law would make every mun good. There the law wouU make every man’s department absolutely correct” , “And you think such a man woukl be a good christian —a better man than I am'” “Why, of course, Colonel.'’ “Then,” said Mr. IngersoIl, “ I advise you to go right to the penitentiary. At Sing Sing there is a community of 15,000 men and women governed in precisely that raanner. They are all good by law.” Far better it would have been if God, who is spoken of as, j merciful had sunk- eyery ship j bound bitherward carrying Yankees, and their Connecticut blue laws. After haviug stripped the Hawaiian people of all their i easthly posses9ions, in the service | of tbe Lord, they wouU now make these Islands a veritable penitentiary with aDoleful Jailor. Zebo. i ———