Speaking of missionaries, in Hawaii there's a traditional comment that goes something like: "The missionaries came to do good--and they did REAL well!"

The missionaries and their friends ended up owning far and away most of the island real estate that was of value, and almost all of the big business, and kept a heavy foot on it for many decades. Truth to tell, I bet you could look at the 100 richest families in Hawaii and you'd find that most of them derived their riches from the missionaries' machinations.


Dave Oesterreich