Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 182, 18 March 1893 Edition 02 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

So»ne of the neck-or-nothing br»inlesis foo!s who eu{>fMjrt the P. G., t;.r >ngh thiok«an(? thin, without rhvme or reas<>n, h;»ve been endeiv >ring to excite a little syiuj>at;.v for lheir e ghteen tin-gods-on-wheels. by stirring up antipathy to the J;»|>an*n?e rej>reseRt.»l:ves by j>uhliclv denouncing them for she.t* r:ng and abetting (as they are j>ie >sed to terui it) a rourderer. Tiiese loud-voiced and brainless tiannei-mouths have i>r>>babiy f>rg tt-n ihai their own self-be- j lauded P. G. is ex»ctlv m that i J I j)os;tion; having not on!y “sbeltered”and “abetted” Iwo attempted vi!ful muidtrers, but havinggiven one of them higb miiitary rank, and a goo>i fat s.»lary with nothing to d ■ for it. but to rest his caudal extreiuity in the recesses of a cushioned seat. While the Japauese representatives here have Btroply done their duty whieh the laws oblige them to do. The facts of tl>e Japaiiese matter are simply these. A Japanese war-vessel is Ja(>anese territory. When the esca(>ed convict reached it he »vas, pr;»cticilly speairing, in J ipan. And as his crime wos not committed in that country, he ■ Could not be considered a crirninal th>-re till the Japanese conrts had duly ))roiiounced sentence on him; and if the P. G. here want their man they will have to do what the St.»te >>f Cahfornia did here—make aoj)lication M> tbe eonrts there toorder him delivered up to them. No connnissioner, of whatever rank, or Caj>tain of a war vessel, of any nalion, dare create a precedent by doing something whieh even their home g >vernmen , t «Sare not do till authorraed'by thelegal authorities. Aml this is precisfely what Coramissioner Fugi and Captain T.»go have i>olitely jx>itited out toMr. W. O. Smith. the legal ad vis»r of the P. G., and possibly have exptessed a ]>.>lite surprise that hie legal reseirches and attainments had not disCovered that, prior to his making a deraand so imjx»ssible to be c>mj)lied with. It is impo8sible to take Mr. H. N. Castle om 9erifur wheu he writes editorials by the eoiumn in his j»»per about heathenism. superBtition, and cbristianity. A weaker and more'Silly exhibition than that lu.nle by him in yesterday's Advertiser has not eonie to our uotice even in tha! j5eculMir organ. Is it no longM**a> fact. then. in thiscdnntry thut men are free t»> Ihiok or believe as they ehoee t»> do, and if not.* towhom Are theyre9j*>nsible‘? What is Mr. H. N. Caatle’s religion? Do»-s he even professes Christianity himself? Ib it nccess.>try for any b»>dy in this P«radi8e of the Fscific topublicly pi\>tVss a certain religion or else be an object for persecuti<m or o»ntempt? In his enlieiam *of 6Mfop Willia in thi8 Adverti8er, Mr. H, N. C;»8tle trie8 to ridicule the Bishop and say8 that he is centuriee behind the time. Doea not tbe editor of tbe Advertiser ihink that all tbia lalk about beatben!sm and spirita taatea a great deal more of tb« nxleenlh century than of Ihe niae> leenth f Imafiae for a momenl a pap« whieh preteoda to be & eeiioua difaified |Mimal' ootamar «Uh

•*y>nd-ban<i »Uve«oeois of wh»t • Mrs Alapai, or Jack ’’ (we h*re heardthat namē8omewbere before), or Palau do or think in the heathen and ido!atrr busifless ! Let u? fancy any Aaierican journal lilling up their si>ace toteli al»utthesuperstition» of three ignorant negroes exctpt as a hum rous anecdote. Why, an attempt lo treat such matt.“r senousIy w.»uld kill any paper auywhere. but Mr. Castle—the man educated in free-thinking Germany—siings his j»en and tells us how Mrs. Alapai trie<i to cure somebody throngh a rum and hanana core, »nd gravely adds, as m:»gnifying theotiense. tha( the doc~ tre.<* took the mcdirine herstlfand mad( th( patlent fnot the bill! How j perfectly beautiful ! What a pro1 gress from the present st*:te of affairs where the chnstian(?) doc* tors of Mr. H N. Castle’s clique. not alone, like Mrs. Alapai, let their patients foot their bills. but aiso make them swallow their piHs. How many lives would have been saved and ean, in the future, be saved if the medical fraternity would only adopt the method of Mrs. Alapai and take their own mediciue. This gruesome relapse lo heatheniam seems, tojudge lrom the Advertiser. to be charaoteristic of Hawaii, althougb Mr. Cistle doesn’t deny that there still is some suuerstition left in North Europe. Does Mr. H. N. Castle ever read the American newspapers ? If so did he ever see anything about the Cartentes iu Michigan and any amounl of other heathens, whose aetions and doings make the Lanai horror seem tame and insignificant. Does he ever noliee the strings of Advertisements from irediums, and astrologers, and mind-readers, and faithcurers, and what not in the pr*'3s of the republic whieh he at other times elaima to be the most pr<igressive and most eulightened on earth.

) But he needn’t go in among the & • — nativea to find healheniain. Let him look around among hia. Immediate friends of bis who, under the sham eloak of Chrrstian Scienceare practicingand believing * in spirituaiism, whieh, to the true Christian. is as abhorrent a form of heathenism as any pig-roasting, rumdrinking or banana-eating ka- ' naka faith, rumored ab >ut the corner or propagaled by that gossipmg old woman Sereno Bishop—who just now forcibly demonstrates that i “Sātan finds some miscbief Still For idle hands to do.” Tbe righteousn#ss and Pharisaism of the Congregational Churcb ber« is ezcellently illustrated by this last pieee of witch-hunting. lf ■ is done‘for the purpoee of assisting the annexation scheme the Chorch will fiud itself on a wrong track, - heeauae iatente ridicule will be the only resoJt of tbe fauaticism worked up by S“reno k Co.. and ezpounded by Mr. H. N. Castle. Wheu the Advertiser editor «ouplea Cbristianity with progress and liberty ofspoech. and thongbt. 1 with rei»gian, he ia reowrrkably i ineooaistent when hr»t *he aame i time takee part in the hue and ] ary *gaio*t tha. alle§ed J£avaN*n l beathene. And • why have tbe < good miaaionanea aeemingly ahandonad aaah en amealhn» ftald for i

tb« dou]-4avinf bu$io«»§ »n«i iustead gone into ibe sugar and shmy slandvr busine«-* ? Whv wai* some few years ago a subecnpliou taken up in the mi?sionary Churrh for the purp>w of «ending a s wpels!inging bilk to Greeoe. to convert the alleged heathens there. when it wa« known to Seren > and the rest of that ilk. that Mrs. Alapai and Jac’s, and I’alau <till had a lurking faith in the:r heart in Pele, and in hanaoaa. nim. and other epinle. (The 1 itter faith is probiblv n -t alt g-*ther abaud»ned by Henry aud fimily.) Wny have tbeee pretended representatives of the Chnstian G"d us- d all their power, and inlluenoe. and all the force <*f the g>»apel, not to save the aoul of theuatives—whioh reallv to them wae a verv prob- "... ' K lematic Kind of business—but to save laiuls of tbe alleged heathens for the worldly benefit of themselves, and to obtaiu their political vote. Why didn’t this grey-haired hypocriticdI ab»mlnation who now daily vilifies and abuses the Queen, from the pulpit to whieh he has access, smite without fear or favor the Spiritualists in the miesionary fi»ck who, although they have withdrawn their heart from the Christian faith, and their presence fr»m the Church, still continue their d >nation lo the eolleelion box, and still assist in feeding the persons wh»se work they openly ee >rn and sneer at, while at aame time they and many others of the osteusib!y faithful members open their purses to support one or tw» so-called astrologers, or rather astrnl»geresses, living m affluence on their contributions, and distribuling their f»reign heathen charms, and holding theirseances in tbe shad»ws of Kawaiahao and Central Union Church.