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WRQHC VIEWS.
WLcn Burns penned the sentiment
that it would be of great advantage
to us ' Wad 60tne power thn giftio
see oursels as ithers see
us," tlic Hawaiian Islands were
little known, and the eity of Hono
lulu had not 1 cached the protoplasm
stage of development. The poet
may therefore lie excused for doing
the Honolulu ofthe latter part of the
19th century a manifest injustice;
lor it would be almost a national
calamity if we should be subjected to
the necessity of seeing ourselves as
others arc disposed to sec us. As
seen from abroad, we are an isolated
set, exiled from civilization and
afflicted with unbearable ennni. That
we have paved stieets and a road
supervisor is noted with amazement
by tourists who land on our shores.
The astonishment almost invariably
experienced by visitors dining their
first days in Honolulu is proof posi
tive that this Kingdom, even in the
great centers of population abroad,
is an unknown country. Persons
have landed on these shores with the
notion that the native clement in so
ciety is a nonentity, and an: sur
prised to find the ancient Hawaiian
"clothed and in his right mind"
like his while neighbor. Nor are
these absurd opinions confined to
the unread and ignorant by any
means. The readers of the Augustus
Sala letters could see cropping out
all through that brilliant author's
writing the idea that the evidences
of advanced society he met here
were almost startling in their novelty
to him. If to the lialf-fiozcn deni
zens of two-thirds of the North
American continent in this month of
November we could convey any
adequate idea of the supremely salu
brious climate of Hawaii, and con
nected therewith the fact that the
best society of Boston, New York or
Montreal has its counterpart in Ho
nolulu, and that the institutions of
benevolence and moral enterprise
for which more pretentious cities
arc famed, arc in full blast in our
iuidstYif would come before them
like a new revelation. Moral ex
hortations in Sunday schools in
America arc very commonly spiced
with the ominous warning that some
wicked boys perforin feats of in
iquity that would be " bad
enough for Sandwich Islanders."
They forget, or rather never knew,
that the crowning viec3 of the Ha
waiians, as a race, arc those intro
duced from the headquarters of
civilization. As regards the native
population, double mission work has
been very effectively performed.
They have been Christianized to a
large extent, and, at the same lime,
too many of them have been, if not
demoralized, shunted off on to new
tracks on the road to ruin. While
all the ways, both bad and good, of
civilization have been fully rooted in
Hawaiian soil, there need bo no
doubt in the minds of foreign
tourists on pleasure bent or invalids
in search of a salubrious winter cli
mate, that in the latitude of
Honolulu they will find air, society
and institutions adapted to their
several tastes and necessities. Until
these facts arc thoroughly ventilated
abroad, justice demands that the
gift of seeing ourselves as others
sec us be transferred to other people
in such a way as that thejr may wish
to inform themselves of our claims
to bo properly known and under
stood.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPETITION.
The surprising news came by the
steamship City of Sydney, that ar
rived from the Australian colonies
last night, that the arrangement for
carrying the mails between Austra
lia and America, by way of New
Zealand and flic Hawaiian Islands,
had been broken up. Mr. John
Pearce, nfJohn Elder & Co., Glas
gow, owners of thu steamships
Zealandia and Australia, who had
engaged to have those vessels par
ticipate in the new contract initiated
and promoted to a conclusion by
flic New Zealand Government, has
withdrawn from the contract with
his two steamships and announced
his intention of starling an opposi
tion lino from Sydney to San Fran
cisco, calling at Fiji and Honolulu
but leaving Auckland out. There
is no very definite cause assigned
for Mr. Pcarec's withdrawal, but one
or two evident facts throw some light
upon Ills action. During the con
IK' gic us, to
tract of the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company, New Zealand is con
sidered -in Sydney to have system
atically subordinated the intorcs.ts
of New South Wales to her own. in
dealing with the service. This sel
fish policy is alleged to have been
at the bottom of New Zealand's
single-handed efforts to have a new
contract ucgotinted as that with the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
was approaching its end. AVe have
not space, at this writing, to particu
larize, but the foregoing is the gist
of public opinion as reflected in
the Sydney press. Then the new
arrangements, involving tranship
ment at Honolulu, have proved ex
ceedingly unpopular in commercial
circles of Sydney. An agitation
has gained great strength there, in
'consequence of the disaffection re
ferred to, in favor of a direct ser
vice. A meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce, and another of influen
tial gentlemen representing the com
mercial and shipping interests of
Sydney, have both stiongly pro
tested against the break in the route
at Honolulu. In reply to a dele
gation from the Chamber conveying
their views above-mentioned, Mr.
See, the new Postmaster-General
(there has just been a change-of
Government in New South Wales),
defended the new arrangement and
signified his opinion that he should
have to carry out the engagement,
in connection therewith, entered
into by Mr. Norton, his predecessor.
The contract has been ratified by
the New Zealand Legislature, but
lias yet to be submitted to that
of New South Wales. So far
as the latter colony is con
cerned, therefore, in view of the
strong feeling against the composite,
and in favor of a direct service, the
contract is in a critical position. In
the meantime Mr. Pearce has insti
tuted si direct service, as heretofore
stated, between Sydney, Honolulu
and San Francisco. Doubtless he
is confident of obtaining a subsidy
from New South 'Wales, without
which it is scarcely probable that the
direct line can be maintained. It
may hero be stated that the firm of
John Elder & Co. has never ap
proved of the agreement made be
tween the Pacific Mail Company and
the Oceanic Company, during the
late contract, by which the latter
bought from the former a monopoly
of the freight and passenger traffic
between Honolulu and San Fran
cisco. Their two steamers being
now independent deserve a liberal
share of the Honolulu trade and the
pationagc of the travelling public.
The withdrawal of Mr. Pearce has
not compelled the abandonment of
the contract by the Union-Oceanic
combination. The Union Company
has a new steamer of 5,000 tons, the
Mararora, just built at Glasgow,
which is expected to be ready to go
on the route, starling from Sydney,
on Dee. 3rd. From this side the
Oceanic Company's steamship Ala
meda, that was to bae left San
Francisco on Nov. 21st, goes on to
Auckland and Sydney, instead of
stopping at Honolulu according to
the original arrangement. If the
competing lines can prosper side
by side, so much the better for
this kingdom. If not, it will be a
refreshing change to have even a
short respite from monopoly in our
intercourse with the outside world.
THE LAWLESS ELEMENT.
In yesterday's issue n correspon
dent proposed a remedy for the
growing prevalence of piedatory
offenses. It is, however, very doubt
ful if such measures as he recom
mended arc within the scope of ex
isting law. Yet it is absolutely
necessary that residents should be
piotected, and if that is beyond the
power of the authorities to havo
done, then property owner will have
to combine in some method of de
fensive action upon their mutual be
half. People who have lived here a
long time allege that roost-robbing
and similar offenses have always
been common. Nevertheless there
can be no doubt that the petty
criminal clement has never been
larger than it is now in the commun
ity. Neither is there any probability
that cither the number of maraudeis
will diminish, if no effective check
intervene, or that the degree of their
criminality will change except m the
way of aggravated heiuousness.
Unless something decisive be adopted
to stem the rtsliif? tide
of crime,
therefore, tho likelihood
is that
Honolulu will soon be a preserve of
a class relatively as large and abso
lutely as dosporato as any city in
the world harbors. Many residents
havo attributed the comparative
immunity of this city from serious
crime to the fact that the narrow
bounds of the kingdom and the
limited means of communication
with the outer world, make it n
great difllculty for anybody com
mitting n grave offense to elude the
grasp of justice. This may be n
serious delusion. Equally as reason
able explanations of the good charac
ter hitherto attaching to this com
munity arc, we believe, forthcoming.
Is it not probable that tho main
reason for our past exemption from
violence may be found in the trac
table and peaceful nature of tho
native race, and the exceptionally
good class of foreigners, outside of
contract laborers yet partly in
clusive of them, attracted hither by
the commerce and industry of the
country? Another likely reason for
the same thing lies in the changed
relations to the community, com
paring now with not very long ago,
of large portions of the population
imported as labor supply. Thou
sands ot contract laborers have de
cided that their terms of bound ser
vice were as much as they would
endure of toil among the cane, un
less forced to renew their contracts
by sheer necessity. Therefore, in
swarms these people, of different
nationalities, have left the planta
tions to hive in the city, here to
make a living by such methods as
were most readily discoverable by
them. It is doubtless from among
the habitations of the class just des
cribed that manj', if not all, of the
nocturnal prowlers, at prescntgiving
so much annoyance, sally forth to
pilfer and rob, availing themselves
of the shelter of darkness or the
guidance of the moon, according to
their individual degrees of boldness
or illegitimate necessities. If the
last-mentioned are the real contri
buting causes of increasing criminal
activity in Honolulu, then, while
there is no prospect of the stated
conditions coming to an end, the
only rational conclusion is that the
evil must continue to grow until it
culminates in a veritable reign of
terror, provided efficient means are
not adopted for speedily quelling
the predatory clement. There will
not, perhaps, long be wanting
demonstration of the delusiveness
of that sense of security, before
referred to, founded upon the diffi
culty of guilty rascals cither per
manently hiding in the country or
escaping abroad, if offenses against
property, with occasional outrages
upon the person, continue so largely
as in the late past to go unrequited.
Perhaps it would not be a rash pro
position to state that the case of one
criminal evading his deserts gives
more encouragement to evil-doers
than can be counteracted by the ex
amples of two falling under the
penalties of justice. To give the
law its due terrors, the exceptions,
in grappling with crime, must be in
the number of villains who go un
whipt of justice rather -than those
who arc nnidc to suffer for their
misdeeds. But here the case is ex
actly reversed: the exceptions arc
those who are convicted, the rule is"
formed of the thieves and robbers
who escape. There is only bne end
possible to such a condition of af
fairs: the depredators must be put
under the iron heel of justice, or
they will subject the city to a regu
lar siege of anarchy, for n longer or
shorter period according to the com
parative ability of the respectable
residents to rid themselves of tho
incubus when at last awakened to
action.
AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE.
The following extracts of a letter
from Mr. F. W. Scaife, lato of the
Daily Hawaiian, will be read with
interest by his many friends in Hono
lulu. The letter is dated Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia, Nov. 3rd, 1885:
"I left Hongkong by the S. S.
Guthrie, one of the most beautifully
fitted-up ships I over saw. From
Hongkong wo went into North China
to Foo Chow Foo, where neatly all
the foreign vessels load their tea
cargoes. We had a stay of about
fourteen days here, anil took the
most of the opportunity of visiting
the interior, which we found exceed
ingly interesting. Wc visited several
of the chief joss houses, nmongat
which waar that of tho Shnn, tho
oldest and richest ono in China."
Mr. Scaife then briefly recounts
hi trip up the Minn River, past the
sites of several notable land and
naval battles in tho recent Fianco
Chineso war. Several lioneladB were
building at tho Pagoda Anchorage,
where nre a dockyard and arsenal.
He proceeds:
" After getting between 3,000 and
4,000 tons of first season's ten on
board we left Foo Chow for Palm
eision, Poit Darwin, as we were the
mall steamer and hud to call for
mulls. Things are getting a little
lively at Port Darwin ; a new ship's
pier is in course of erection, and a
new railway from Port Darwin to
Adelaide is being contt acted for."
The steamer nuvlc brief calls at
several minor ports, but stayed two
days at Brisbane and about eight
days in Sydney. The wilier savs:
" I consider the hnibor and en
trance to it, at Sydney, the finest in
the world without exception, and
parsing the Heads, especially at
night, with those enormous, powerful
electric lights lighting up the narrow
defile, makes a sight always to be
remembered afterwards. About three
days after leaviiij Sydney we arrived
at'tho Queen City of Melbourne,
Victoria. I like Melbourne very
much, and think it one of the most
beautiful and best laid out cities I
have yet visited. The streets are
broad, the footpaths ditto, and are
kept exceeding!' clean. Neaily all
the streets either have the wood
pavement or are receiving it, and
the new cable tnmway is just com
mencing to run out to Richmond and
the Mihurbs. Melbourne is, no
doubt, going ahead. Sydney is,
a fine city, but not, in my
opinion, anything in comparison to
Melbourne. The streets arc too
narrow, crooked, and not over re
markable for cleanliness, and the
public buildings do not show up to
the same advantage as in Melbourne,
owing to their having the appearance
of havbig been crowded into their
present sites, and not having elbow-
room."
Mr. Scaife describes the tragedy
on the Flemington racecourse on Ihc
Saturday before his writing, when a
collision of two hordes brought the
whole field of 42 horses down in
a stuiggling mass, from which
Nicholson, the leading Australian
jockey, was taken out dead and
many other "jockeys seriously in
jured. He gives a graphic des
cription, too lengthy for our space,
of the terrible spectacle. Oilier mat
leis of general interest ivfcired to
are the sculling race, to have come
off on the 19th inst., between Beach
and another Austialian for the
championship of the world, and
subsequently a race between Beach
and Teemer, the American who
lately defeated Ilanlnn. A post
script of Nov. 4th describes the
race for the Melbourne Cup the pre
vious day: "The scene was an es
pecially brilliant one, and put one
much in mind of our Derby at
Epsom. The race itself was splen
didly run ; all the field keeping well
together for three-fourths of the
distance and making a most brilliant
finish, beating the record, and .yes
terday's cup was won in the quickest
time ever made in the Colonies two
miles in two minutes nnd 29A sec
onds. An outsider, 'Sheet Anchor,'
was the winner and most of the
people present were pretty well bit."
Mr. Scaife was doing well, in
good spirits, and well pleased with
his new location.
THE WAIKIKI FIRE.
The first information receiveil re
garding the lire at Waikiki, which
was barely in time for yesterday's
issue of this paper, was incorrect.
It was not Mr. Freeth's house, but
an old barn belonging to him, which
was on fire. That building, together
wtib a barn, a cottage and a wood
shed owned by Mr. A. J. Ctut
wriglit, wore burned down. The
loss to the latter gentleman is
$2,000, covered by insurance. There
was a seal city of water, lint a strong
breeze blowing to the sea reduced
the danger to surrounding properly.
How the file originated is unknown.
Its occtii rence is a strong argument
for the projected fire company at
Waikiki. Nov. 25th.
TROUBLE AT SPRECXELSVILLE.
There was serious trouble among
the Japanese laborers on the Spreck
elsville, Maui, plantation, week
before last. Hon. A. S. Clcghorn,
Inspector-General of Immigrants,
ami Mr. Ito, one of the Japanese
consular secretaries, went to the
spot, and wilh more or less diffi
culty succeeded in restoring order
and subordination among the re
calcitrant Japs. It appears that the
licensed liquor dealer at Wailuku
had furnished thu Japanese with a
considerable supply of liquor, to
cany nyvay with them, contrary to
the condition of licciibu requiring all
tho stuff sold lo be drunk on the
premises. The consequence was
that the laborers inflamed with drink
became disorderly and refused to
work. Hence the necessity for
olllcial1 intervention as stated above.
Nov. 25th.
WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE
UNION.
Annual Meeting The Year's Do
ings A Noble Woke.
Tho annual meeting of tho Wo
men's Chi istian Temperance Union
was held last evening in the Y. M.
C. A. Hall. The platform and desk
were luxuriant in floral decorations.
Palm leaves, ferns nnd flowers were
also artistically arranged in dfferent
parts of the hall. A small banner
over the platform bore the motto, jit
largo letters, " Fort Goo, ion IIomi:
and IluxiANirv." Underneath this
hung a sci oil, with a handsomely
worked uionogiaui W. C. T. U. in
the center. A small blackboard
lo the right of the choir bore the
inscriition, 110,806 gallons liquor,
8851.306; Schools and Edusation
880,000; Protestant ChuichcJ and
Missions Sol), 000: comparative ex
penses for 1884.
The chair way taken by the Presi
dent, Mrs. J. M. Whitney. The
Rev. A. O. Forbes opened the meet
ing with reading of the scriptures
nnd prayer. The proceedings of the
evening were enlivened by excellent
piano and violin music, the former
by Mrs. J. E. Ilanford, the latter
by Professor Yaindley. The report
of the Honolulu Union was read by
the secretary, Mrs. 11. J. Gicen,
giving an able and comprehensive
review of their operations during the
year. The Tieasurcr, Mrs. C. M.
Hyde, presented the financial state
ment, showing that the funds have
been liberally sustained and judicious
ly administered, leaving a balance
6n blind of S141.29. The President
read an ably written historical ac
count of the W. C. T. U. from its
origin to the present time. Miss
Mary Green, who has been employed
by the Union in temperance mission
woik on the Islands, presented the
report of her doings in the past
year.
miss queen's ni:rouT.
When the ladies of the W. C. T.
U. a year ago, undertook this tem
perance work on these Islands, it
was emphatically pioneer work. Wc
had Utile plan as to how it should
be carried on, or how extensive it
should become. As the work devel
oped under our hands, it became
evident that a large portion of our
strength should be devoted to the
Hawaiians. The fearful increase of
intemperance' among them within a
few years, the fact that they arc in
so laige a measure the voters and
the law makers of the country, and
moi c emphatically the sad evidence
on every baud, that not only indivi
duals, but the entire nation is
doomed, unless the tide of intem
perance and other vices can be ar
rested, forced this conviction upon
us.
Following this plan, the ladies of
this association, in connection with
the AVoman's Board of Missions,
engaged me JLo devote my whole time
to temperance and evangelistic work
among the native people. In other
woids, my woik is to preach and
teach gospel temperance; because
we are sine that temperance only
can be successful, as it is founded
upon religion. 1 commenced labor
llie first of March by vi-iting from
house to bouse, and endeavoring to
awaken an interest among native
men and women in the cause. Wc
were soon able to organize the first
society among Hawaiians in this
city, which we named "lie Ahahui
hoole waiona o na Kanaka Hawaii."
(The Hawaiian Temperance Society)
It now numbers 90 men, women and
chiMreu. We hold a meeting every
Thursday v. m. and the mcinbcis
show very commendable interest,
and even enthusiasm. Our first out
station was Kamoiliili, three miles
east of the city, where we have a
flourishing society of 04 members.
They report that, whereas that dis
trict was formerly noted for drunk
enness and disorder, especially on
holidays, now there has not
been a case of intemperance known
for several months ; and that none
of those who have signed the pledge
have fallen. We have also organized
branch societies in Manoa, and at
Waikiki, and hope soon to form
others in this vicinity. When Mrs.
Leavitt was hero, she visited Hilo
and Wailuku, and organized branch
societies in those places. At tho
earnest request of the ladies in Hilo,
I went thero July 15th, 1 spent a
month there, working with, and for
the society, which consists of both
foreign ami Hawaiian ladies.
I held meetings at the four Pro
testant chinches, and visited from
house to house, distributing Hawai
ian temperance tracts, and convers
ing and praying with the people
when I could do so. Mrs. F. T.
Lyman, the prcsidont of the Hilo
branch, is an indefatigable woiker
in the temperance cauo at Hilo.
I visited 70 Hawaiian homos in
Hilo, from Waiaken to Puco. At
the Kalepolepo church tho nudience
was composed of men and women
who looked to us longingly, trust
fully, for aid and sympathy, as they
were jn trouble, for intemperance
was coming in upon them like a
Hood.
At Puco I went to the door of n
beer shop. Tho proprietor was keep
ing time on a "taro patch fiddle" to
tho quick steps of three hula girls.
On the 10th of August I loft Hilo
for Wailuku, having received an
earnest solicitation to spend a month
in temperance work thoic. At
Wailuku intemperance pievails: re
ligion and molality are at low ebb.
We organized a society at the Kan
humanu church, and secured 33
names to the pledge, held sevoial
meetings, at the church nnd prison ;
distributed tracts, and conveised
with many on the streets and by
ways. On the 13th of September
wc organized a temperance society
at Waiknpii. Its members number
eight. 1 held temperance meetings
llieic also.
I organized a society at Waihee :
33 have signed tho pledge. Much
enthusiasm was manifested. Septem
ber 30th, a union meeting was held
at the Wailuku and Waihcc socie
ties. The secretaries' reports were
encouraging.
Airs. E. Bailey, President of the
W. C. T. U. branch at Wailuku, has
shown her interest in temperance
work by untiring devotion to the
cause. At Paia,'Makawao, I was the
guest of Rev. J. P. Kuia, a wide
awake, active pastor. Here wo
organized a society. It was indeed
gratifying to note the special interest
taken in the plans nnd arrangements
for the society, as manifested by the
young men. 1 have this week re
ceived fiom the spcretary at Paia a
icport of meetings held at Paia,
Paihiihi, Haiku and Huelo. Total
number of those who have signed
the plcdre at the four places 72.
On the 6th of October I landed
at Hana amidst a ciowd of welcom
ing friends. The people of this
distiictaie in earnest for temper
ance. The judge is said to pursue a
straightforward course. The pastor
of Hana church, and the Govern
ment school teacher are patrons of
the cauc; men of great worth to
the country. At our evening meet
ing a thrilling account was given by
a former judge of the district, of
having a year since spent a night of
drunken revelry: of deliverance
fiorn sudden death from falling over
a precipice in attempts to reach
home, of an interview he held with
the pastor, whom he asked to dash
in pieces the bottles and glasses, and
his determination never to revisit
the place of temptation.
Sixty names were pledged at
Hana. The children who took an
extra three miles' walk that even
ing each returned with a white rib
bon. God bless those boys and
girls every one.
By the advice of the-W. C. T. U.
I returned to Hawaii about the mid
dle of October. While at Waiohinu
was the favored guest of Rev. J.
Kauhane. Mrs. McCuliy had pre
viously spent a few weeks there,
and much of the success at that
place is due to her efforts while
there. We held three meetings and
organized a society. Seventy-four
names were enrolled in the society's
book. The day pi evious to our de
parture a dinner was given at the
parsona'ge, at which the officers of
the newly-formed society were pre
sent. That evening we held our
last meeting at Waiohinu : it was
full of interest; there was no lack of
testimony given by those who had
tasted by bitter experience the evil
effects of intemperance. Among
those who signed the pledge was a
sweet young mother, a former pupil
of ours. She came with her babe ;
as the white ribbon was tied, I re
minded her to do all she could to
save her husband. I had noticed
her efforts to induce him to sign.
In the course of the evening he rose
and said, "I try to climb the ladder,
get up a little ways and fall ; God
knows I long to bo free from drink."
Wc waited longingly, prayerfully
tor one, a young lawyer, in wlioso
welfare his friends feel deeply inter
ested. At last ho came forward,
signed the pledge, then turned to the
audience, and gaye utterance to his
feelings in a manner that elicited the
closest attention, lie urged the mem
ber of the society to keep watch over
each other, and if tho judge or any
member of tho society saw him in dan
ger, to go to his rescue. I tied the
badge, and from the heart's depths
offered prayer for all who that even
ing had signed.
A ride of 43 miles brought us to
Ilnokcna, South Kona, to tho home
of Rev. W. G. Wniau Saturday
evening, October 25th. Tho next
morning, at the native church, I
addressed the largo and flourishing
Sabbath School, of which Mr.
Robert T. Amain is superintendent.
He has charge of tho district school,
numbering 116 pupils. Such men
as Robcit Amain of Hookcna, and
Benjamin Kahoopai of liana are
blessings to the temperance societies
of which they are livo members.
At Hookcna we formed a society,
when 85 signed tho pledge.
The next day wo rodo on to Na
poopoo, Kenlakckitii Bay, tho home
of Rev. Stephen Desha. He, with
his estimable wife, have, with God's
blessing, wrought a chango for the
better in tho morals and religion of
the community.
Sincere regret was expressed by
many that wo could not extend our
temperance work" through North
Kona, Kohaln and Hamakua. I left
Hawaii October 28th for Honolulu.
Tho unfeigned cordiality of tho
Hawaiians that I have met every-
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