t is not true hospitality. Can
that hospitality be correct in theory or practice which sends
old men and sick men to work under a hot sun, whilst lusty
young people lie in the house playing at cards.

There is a very wholesome tone in this remark:

At present we are a poor people, for the surplus produced by
the few who work is consumed by the many who claim at their
hands the rights of your boasted hospitality. Never close your
doors on those who are hungry through sickness, misfortune, or
the wrongs they have received; but on the other hand never
help those who are too lazy to help themselves.

Another nail is most decidedly hit on the head in the following:

I will allude to another bad feature in the native mind; I
mean the idea in which too many of you indulge, that a fortune
if not made in a day, ought to be acquired in a very short
space of time. If a man does not get rich in the first few
months of his endeavoring to do so, he suddenly relaxes in his
exertions, subsides into his native indolence, and becomes a
laughing stock to those whose ideas are in advance of his own.
You say commonly, everything a foreigner touches he turns into
money. But the fact is that if you worked and persevered as
the foreigners do, then you would grow rich like them. There
are three essentials to success in cultivating the soil. The
first is a place to cultivate--the second, the hands to work
with--and the third, perseverance. You have all your patches
granted you by law; your hands are not tied either by natural
or artificial bonds--but as cultivators you do not succeed,
because you have no perseverance.

The concluding sentence was almost word for word as under:

The great sources of poverty amongst Hawaiians are laziness
and the want of perseverance. I know that what I now say is a
matter of which you and I also have cause to be ashamed. But
placed in the position I occupy, and as a Father to my people,
I cannot hide the fact.

The King's address was listened to with great earnestness, and every now
and then we heard subdued expressions of _Oiaio no_ (True, true,) from
different parts of the house. At present we see no cause to doubt that
much good will result from the new society, and to those who interest
themselves in it we hope to see the honor given which they undoubted