.HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, 
 
But the descendants of the early American missionaries have turned 
against the honorable traditions of their fathers; they only attend to 
the natives now to negotiate some ironclad mortgage deed, and they no 
longer care whether or not the "6effects of annexation would be disas-

trous to the native race," although the old reasons therefor are just
as 
patent now as forty years ago. Further than that, they have not only 
ceased to be the trustworthy advisers and helpers of royal authority, 
but they have been bent solely on using all their moral and financial 
influence to grasp the administrative power for the furtherance of their

own ends and interests, and from these men arise all the present 
troubles. 
This change in the morality of the missionary descendants came to 
its climax through sugar, and it may here be said that sugar has been 
a curse to these favored islands, making some few men-foreigners- 
immensely rich, but impoverishing the masses, the natives especially, 
and bringing about corruption     and greed, and political venality 
unknown to the converts of the early missionaries. 
The sugar greed was of long and gradual growth, the early efforts to 
give it an impetus by appealing to American generosityhaving repeat- 
edly failed through the prudence of Congress; and it can be safely said 
that just prior to the season of extraordinary financial prosperity that

followed the treaty at last granted in 1876, by the kindness of our great

and good friend, the Republic of the United States of America, all the 
old foreign complications had worn out, so that the native Governument 
was running smoothly and our people at large were living in peace and 
in greater harmony than they have ever since. It was a time when we 
had less wealth and less selfishness, but more quiet contentment. 
The divergence of sentiment and lack of harmony came about through 
the ambition, the sordid desire of foreign residents and sons of mission-

aries to accumulate great wealth and grow suddenly rich. To accom- 
plish this end the few who had the advantage in lands, money, and 
friends saw that the main point for them was to control the Govern- 
ment, so as to secure the special legislation necessary to carry out their

designs, and especially to procure the indispensable cheap labor and 
keep them down under labor laws equivalent to slavery. To this fac- 
tion this country owes the undesirable and un-American introduction 
of Chinese, Japanese, and the still more ignorant and illiterate Portu- 
guese. Millions of public money, under the fallacious pretext of 
"encouragement to immigration," have been spent for the sole purpose

of bringing in laborers for the planters, and even the voyage around 
the world of King Kalakaua was made use of to try to obtain Indian 
bution of the population according to religious beliefs, and it must be taken
as very 
significant that, in the last census, the religious element was left out
altogether, 
for the reason that the missionary party who presided over the operations
of the 
census could not allow their decline to be made public together with the
ascend- 
ancy of their rivals. In the absence of other authorities, the Catholic clergy
claim 
30,000 adherents on these islands, about 18,000 being natives, out of a total
of 40,000; 
and as the Anglicans, Mormons and Seventh-Day Adventists also claim quite
a num- 
ber of converts, it is thus seen that very considerably less than 22,000
natives remain 
under the spiritual sway of the annexationists' faction, and, moreover, it
could-easily 
be ascertained from the missionary publications that, within the last few
years, the 
Hawaiian communicants reported by their churches have diminished in the propor-

tion of about 90 per cent (2,200 against 21,000), the reason of this is solely
the anti- 
patriotic anti-Hawaiian anti-loyal attitude assumed by the missionary churches
and 
their schools, wherein teaching the children to pray for the country and
sovereign 
has been discontinued. Even in the Kamehameha industrial school, founded
with 
the money of the last of that illustrious native family, the pupils are taught
rank 
republicanism and disloyalty to their country and race, and forced to sign
the 
annexation pledge. 
 
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