Show OUR HAWAIIAN COLONY DR det UBERT B CARTER of honolulu islands is registered at the windsor hotel in company with mrs carter the doctor is a new yorker but suon after taking up residence on the island four years agot ago he met his present wife who is a high caste native one object of or dr garters carters visit to this country was to inquire into the condition of hawaiian proselytes prose lytes to the mormon church about of these people had been baen induced to follow the mormon elders to utah and rumors highly damaging to the latter day saints were waited back to honolulu the doctor made madea a thorough investigation of the charges barges and before leaving salt lake city filed his bis report to tho the inland government ern ment he found that twenty families famille 4 had become dissatisfied to such an extent with the practices cices tices of that they renounced their allegiance to the church and were regarded cled as outcasts 1 I found many 4 t them on the verge of starvation said the doctor with no opportunity of getting employment and with prospects of freezing 99 to death when the cold weather seta beta in the mormons cormons were so much incensed against the recent recant members of their flock that all avenues of securing a livelihood were shut out against at them M A abill bill appropriating ta pay the passage of the deluded creatures back to their old homes was pending before the legislative assembly when dr carter left honolulu the people ire living in a valley seventy five miles from salt lake city and nd look forward with the most anxious solicitude to any escape from their terrible position the doctor states that those of the natives native 4 who still remain faithful ua to the church are assisted bythe by the momono and appear sa tuned to remain in this country the ab above ave is taken from the denver news it is larg largay ly erroneous and misleading dr carter is a man of some sanding st incline in honolulu and it is strange that he should lend himself to such misrepresentations as are contained in the foregoing statements it may be that his remarks have been touched up and embellished by the enterprising reporter there are some facts and some notion in his alleged statement the former are these A number of hawaiians Hawaii ans have settled in utah they are living in a valley west of thia i city rumors that they we are dissatisfied have reached honolulu A bill to appropriate money to assist them to return has been under tinder consideration in the hawaiian legislature the rest of the story is either partly or wholly fictitious we will briefly state the truth in relation to the colonizing of the sandwich Ts Ta landers lu in utah some of the native members of the mormon 11 church desired to come to this territory and received permission to do so on their arrival they obtained work chiefly in this elty eity they were well satisfied and other natives followed them but it soon appeared that they would not rise above ordinary laborers unless I 1 ess some bettor better opportunity than this city afforded was found for them several elders who had been missionaries to the islands joined in the formation of a company and purchased nur chased some land in raull bleu 11 valley as a place for the Hla hawaiian wallan on colony the natives removed there and were pleased with the change A few of them not more than ten or eleven since the fatt t arrival desired to return to them the islands blands anti and went there one who had been excommunicated eam munica ted for improper conduct spread the reports of the dissatisfaction of the colony and thus the movement for an ai appropriation to take them back was started at the present there are but two persons who contemplate returning and they have obtained help from their friends to do so they are not dissatisfied with the church nor have they changed their faith there is no destitution among the natives in shull valley some of j those hose who have returned were improvident rov ident and spent more than their income so that they ran behind their brethren in tho possession of creature comforts ff but they have all been sl supplied applied with necessaries and some luxuries through the kindness of the elders having the matter in charge the hawaiians Hawaii ans so we learn are doing very well and are contented and prosperous they are not any of them in the condition said to have beer described by dr carter his hip thorough investigation 11 was con 0 n ducted in salt lake city he should have gone to the settlement and pursued his inquiries on the spot he would then hav arrived at very diffie different rent conclusions if his report to is made up of such material as he is said to have given the denver re porter it will be of very little value to the hawaiian government it seems as though nothing that the mormons cormons Mor mons do can escape misrepresentation the of the gospel to the sandwich islands has been of marked benefit to the natives the good done by the elders among them morally and in has received official aye royal recognition it has been a labor of love and true christian charity in the same spirit the Rawa hawaiian iian farm in skull valley has been obtained and managed it may do no harm to appropriate money to take the natives back to the Island sand we are of the opinion that it will do very little good it will only in all probability furnish a jow job for some intriguers intrigue rs and the prospect of this is probably the incentive in moving for the appropriation tion |