Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 30, 23 October 1894 — 1849-1894. [ARTICLE]

1849-1894.

Then And Now. It Iooks like a transpositioD of I figare«. 1849 arJ 1894. Judd tben, —Judd now! Mr. Armstrong of tbe AdvtrUtrr is con8tantIy “booming the rui»sionaries of old. He ia abns- j ing tbose «ho elaim tbat tbe pre«once of tbose raissionaries in tbo»e davs was not an unmitigat- J ed blessing. Histo-y is never | better raudc or explaiued tban tbrongb uewnpapen;. Tlie papen» of* tbe day raostly tell tbe truth, and if tbey don t tbey express tbe sentiments of one class of people whose opinion is wortby of j presenriog. M'e aro tired uf bearing ubont tbe snj>er-virtuous raissionaries of | old. We are sick of seeing the j Cbief Jostice ridiug bis bigb ; iuor.il borse, and tbroogb bis ; unraitigated eoneeil look npon tbo otber raortals who dis | »gree witb bira politically and otberwiso. He nnd bis ilk point back witb prido to tbeir fatber and tbey elniin autbority and staud.ng becauso tbo cld doctor was at one tiuio virtnally King of tbe Hawaiian Islands. Tbo Cbief Ju.-tice, we uro told, ieoently said to certain nativeslbat bis sous will bo tbe al\u of tbis countiy. He basnlso stated tbat no wbite man in tho future will marry a girl of Hawaiian parontage. lt seems lbat tbo learued doctor is a littlo olf in bi» propbecies. His boys may bo vory niee voung ”cbai)pios,” but tbey will nover bccorae “aliis” iu tho eyes of tbe Hawaiians uot even per guardian. and as far as raarriages go,tbe girls witb Hawaiianblood in tbcni seoiu to go like “bot enko.” We shouldn‘t be surprised to seo tbo great C. J. some day ns n fatber-in-Iaw to oue of tbo despised raco. That is if the “girls" can’t do any better. Howevor, we desire to>lay, only to show tbe seutiraeuts 4o years ago of tbe presstowards tbo good (!) and only (!) Dr. Judd. lt is funuy tbat tbe satue seutiraents seem to be prevaleut today towards bis son. Dr. Judd who arrived bere in tbc tbirties as pbysicwu to tbe iuissionanes gained absoluto eoutrol ovor tbe King and bis prcmicr. He iuade tbo blue laws whieh wo priut elsewbere, and be was ovidently as “niee" a missionarv as you could desire. Mr. Tvu Eyck was tho Ameriean commissioner, aiul be sized up Judd iu a first class style. Tbo great autocrat was bcing lampooned iu tbe daily Pross. and Websler's dictionary hardly contaiued sufbcient words witb whieh tbe paragrapborscoold sbow the eoncontempt of tho public for tbe “good miSsionary doctor. Dr. Judd sospectod Ten Eyck a» tbe autbor of everytbing writieu again$l bim, and be stooped to bribe a printer to d«liver to hiiu tbe original manuscripis. They wore in Ten Eyck s bandwriting and tbe almigbty doctor cured tbe recall of tbe j*opular c>mmissioner. Wo may mention iucidcntally tbat before Ten Eyck left a most brilliant ball was giren to bim ! by Amcrican citizens. in the he-uae, now occupied by Dr. Brodie. Tbe foreignera uuanimoosly sbowe<.l tbeirappreciaiion of brave Ten £yck and their eoniempl for A’a«to Okoieknla, in the aame maoner that the community of today sbof s its contempt for Kaukū 0kol(kala~ofHO. Aa eiample of what waa writteo and aaid in tboM days about the virtuoos miasIonary we reprint ihe fo!lowiog editoriai from lbe SanduūA I«land Keu'». We last week noticed, at aoiae J 6t <id b wdea 1 °

self to the pablic for the disgracefol part be played in »he ad*ir of tbe raanascripts; bot a* we ieft some poioU antoaehed.; we bave conclode<l tO give it an other rev;ew ng tbi» week. A per»on that professed to h*ve ' no notīons of right and wroug — ; oo raorat or religioos scrnples; to eheek and guid« his condoct — . wbo wonld as soon do wrong as iigbt, provided be conld frame i aoiue excnse to ehiehl bim from j tbe ceosnre of tbe public—would : pron-.rance Jndd s excose for his i condnct perfectly satisfactory, j and say tbat it ougbt to s*tisfy j any one tbat Dr. Jndd was right! in doing as he bas done. And for | tbis reason, persons of snch a description are always actnsted ' by some selfisb motive— eitber ] to make monev. obtam promotion ■ in office, or obtaiu revenge; and j they always act aj>on the princi- j plo tbat all is fair in love, war, i or polit cs;’ and consequently they will stoop to engage m any I tbiug, no mattor how low or dishonest it may be provided tbey j ean run clear of tbe law, to bring about the ends they bave ia view Tbis is Dr. Jndd's princip!e: tbe end«» will sanctify tbe means | Now let us see bow this will aecord with bLs former ( and per1 baps i>resent) professions. Dr. j Judd is a professor of the christ ian re!igion; be haa beld, and still does bold-- to tbe sbame qf tbe cburch be it siid—eommuniou und fellowsbip witb tbe cbrist | ian cburch iu tbis town. He was I at one time a m:ssionary to instruct tbe beatben iu tbe ways qf virtue. bonesty and]morality Me wonder if tbere is any tbing in tbe articles of faitb, or creed of the cbriatian chnrch to whieh j Judd buIongs that ean be eonstrued • to meun ‘the eods will sanctify tbe moans.’ Most certainly tbe Bible, whieh is, or ought tobe, tbo guide of all professing cbristians, does not teacb anv sucb doctrine. Tbis book says ‘tbou sbalt not stea!;’ an*d it also says ‘tbon sbalt not wroug thy noighbor, nor tbe stranger witbin thy gatos;’ tbere is no loop-hole left to tbe crawl out of; no sanction is tbcre givou to wrongful anu unjost acts, eveu if tbey are C3mmitted ag iinst one person for tbo porpose of benefiting anotber. A iuan is not tbero told tbat be may bribe anotber to comrait tboft, or anv otbt-r crirae, if by so domg be tbinks be will do himself. or bismasters a bonefit. It is straigbtforward aud to tbo point—‘Uiou sba!t not doanv wrong;'there are no extenuating timcs or circurastances men(ioned: and for tbis reason wo eannol sup t >ase tbat, iu a raoval or religious poiut o i view, tbero are any circuinstances or oeeasions tbat ean justify a eool, deliberated crime, aud as uear!y all human Iaws are foundod on tbe diviue law, in a legal point of view tbere eau be uo extennating circumstances toiustifv briberv and tbeft. Whon we see a professing cbristian, and a bead of a faraily preacbing sucb pernicions doctrines es‘tbo ends will sanctify the means,’ excusing bribery, theft, and corrnj>tiou, on the f;round that tbose criraes and ofences agaiust raorality were con:raittod for tbe pnrpose of b»inging about an imaginary good,it raay be interesting to look at tbe ev : l inlliienee whieh such exumples may exert upon the coramauity, especially tbe rising generr.tion. A boy of fourteen or sixteen years imagiues tbat bis personal appeannoe would be improved by tbe addition of a uow coat io his dress, or tbnt it would be good for bim to bavo a borso of bis owu tbat be eouKl ride at bis pbasure. He ponders over tbe matter nntil be arrives at tbe determination to bave bis desires gratified, as bo imagines ba »s to receive some benefit frora tho dosired objeck He apply to bis fatber for the necessary sum of iuoney, but tbe parent does not haupon to agree with bis ehikl and refoses uim. Tbe youtb is &ware tbat bis fatber is possessed of money, at Ieast sufficient to satisfy bis desires. He feels a Ionging for tbo money, yet his conscieuce forbids.bim iaking it. At lengtb he picks np a stray newspaper, and in looking it over he porceives a commanicatioa, (rom bis own fatber, perbaps, and be re*dsit; bisparentbas tbere stated that to obtain an ituagiuary .benefit, it is not unlawiul or wrong to resort to theft. Ue lays down tbe paper, and tbe resnlt of bis meditations is-be turos ont a tbief. Uere we bave a person in good standing in tbe cbristian cburch bo)ding a bigb and responsible office nnder tbe King, aud exert ing almost noboanded iufiuence ovor tbe nativ« chiefs, ia faci bis word ia neariy a lawtotbem; bribine and encourmging persons to steai from tbeir neigbbors,and excusing the enme on ihe plea tbat it was done for the purpoae of brioging aboat an imaginary good, be tbonght be wae doiog rigbt, and be is not asbamed of wbat be baa done. Now wbat ia tbe probable etfect tbis wiil bave on tbe balf formed noiio&a of right and wrong entertained by tbe native cbief»? Will it not

have the efiect. wben they ean | benefit tbemselves by it to indace: tbem to be oppressiT©. anjost,j and nnmindfnl of tbe rights o? their inferiors, or the pnperty of their saperiors whenever thev ean find a pretext for carryi:;g it i off? Our readers ean. in tfaeirj own minds. more fully trace outj the evil inOnenee sacb doctrioes I as advanced by Jodd will be likely to exert in a community. Tbis man Judd, who, it has been fttlly shown, is guilty, of a violation of tbe constitntion, in wrongfnlly depriving others of : their property, of perjor>', in violating the constītntion be bad : sworn to pr^tect : of bribery, of ; conniving st and abettiug theft, _of receiving stolea property, an ’ apostate from his religion, as, in bis miserable excase or plea be has thrown bis religions creed articles of faith and the dcctrines of tbe Bib!e to the dogs, and adopted in tbeir stead tbe cro.d of all refined sconndrels: “The ends will sanctify tbe means,” tbi» man, tbough dyed witb tbe blackest tints of iufatny, tho’ sunk to the lowest deptbs of t of moral and before bis written confession of that degradation were diy, had tbe effrontery and irapudence to sav in speakingof Mr.Ten Eyck, ‘1 r>-gret bis disgrace, and tbe necessity that compelled me to drag into dayligbt bis dark detds! If this doesn’t bang Bannagher. tben we are nojudge! > But tbe ‘cbristian‘ Doctor was rather premature in bis regrets, [ i or ratber rejoicings ) for Mr. “ Ten Eyck’s disgrace is yet to [ eome, if ever, and a long while i yet too, if it depends upon sucb men as compose tbe Hawaiian Cab:net to procnre it.