Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 273, 4 September 1891 — Race Prejudice. [ARTICLE]

Race Prejudice.

We have been often aceused of race prejudices, and of creating class feelings, bv the mouth pieces of certain rnterested parties in this country, who have never been able to mentiou a siugle fact We are free to sav openly that we are no respecter of persons; that one man to us is as good as another us long as he does right. Our discrimination is betwe(m right and wrong, between the commereialmissionary who will imporl alotof goods arid sell them at two to throe hundred per cent p«rflt ahd tl?6 true mis--Bionary who eamo into this world and gt\\*e Ms life fpr the salvatiou' $fmankfrid and iiot"for*liis damna-1 tion. and who herrc h»d not even»-.a.Riace. tpvisest hia head in. We have a holy abiiorence and w«judioe for a hypowho ridfcs around m his car-' riage and savs he loves a iutive, but Uat» s,him in his iie;vrt, as de- ; momti\Vt«*l l»yliis aotions.

I of how muo}> [ nu'i; tii r* in or>unj try, wc U*ynv ; «H 1 !\ Hav\ air:nu vvij'* IkisVJk i, mv 4ot i«i\* of ii\ thei l*o. v . (\u:rr. ;»!id wh.o !or thv x <am<>

pay has been compelled to add interpreting as part of his duties, and in case of sickness or absence frōm the court. to pay others for interpreting in his stead. This practicC never- was legitimate before when the incombent was a whiteman but is so now in the case of a Hawaiian, and is donē ■ to show ihat. peculiar ,appreciation of tives and that non-prejudice of some of those missionary offsprings whose parenis eame to tbe U. S. in the Mayfiower, and by whoni the appointment is made as well as those of clerkships m the Supreme Court.

Prcjudice ! Yes, ! It was *consdered lieinous for a native to enter a missionaries dweliling in olden times. And as mueli of an offence was it deemed if a native did not leave liis home and family for the nse of one of these individuals, who are supposed to be only a shade lower than angels.

The Hawaiian ought to be the last man accused of prejudice. His verv nature, as proven by the history of the race, is the Very oppoeite; he ever was over-eonfiding in and sympathetic to foreigners, and for this scharacteristic quality, whieh has been a weakness in him, he has been taken advantage of by his spiritual meatoTS, who were very far from being free of prej udices. And the fathers , preji#diee still exist at the present time, in the missionary offsprings, only in a still more intensified form, because now the native is beginning to realize that he has been used as a dupe by the missionaries in years uast, and because he now to speak of it.'

We are aware of many unspeakable things, but the spirit of forbearānce has eheeked any uiention of them. There is however a point wlth some people, when forbearanee, ceases to be a virtue. Heretofore, the raissionary and his children have been eonsidered by the conl!ding native very inueh as Gaptain Oook until lie was tosted. In the ease of the great navigator, & native who had his suspicious aroueed as to the delusion they were laboring under, th ist a apear at him. And so itis n. with uain the case of the mis--61 i ?y, ā few more dariug than the multitude have exposed the infallibility of the self-constituted elect, and find them fallible human ereatures, who from certain old standing habits, have grown ruore selfieh and inhuma» in their ways, than others of the human family, who did not elaim to be as gopd. Some w®aklingB, who have uo other argumentß to put forward. and who>hav« nofects to eubatantiate the af«ertion that we are prejudieed, when they fined themBēlves cfoVn3red for proof or for rea«ong, turn puritsaUcal ōlfactory argan up in 4he air, &nd, iike the phaneeee, congratukte thomBclveB thaU thank Gkvd ? thry were ūot &b oiher men. * —— • That staff iiMhe In- t terioV !>epartment are all Hawaiians, arsd are jth.e be«t lopking % the l>est paid, the best treat4d, the most oontbntwf and tao nu>st ellioient staffin the Uoverin*jiU servV , .that Jimuiy K.. wiII li4r-boUk of nnimm to thls afWr th«y read this ; for we *ro "tra'dry, M ' ' * ' * r • . ■ ' •. ' , • • < : • • ' . i