The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-05-04
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Naturc j. made to put on a ncw face. and while
her beauty i enhanced and improved. her useful
nes l. developed. BY the increase or decrease Of
population may be invariably estimated the
material prosperity ola country Whatever may
hr the natural resou-ccs and advantages Of Il
country. ia soil, climate or situation. they are
u-clcss without the men 70 develop them.
The fact now so Undenia5ly apparent, that our
aboriginal population iz rapidly decreasing, and
IL j. reasonably feared viii in a few decades
become extinct, bring, u notice thc imperative
necessity Of Immigration from abroad. ! great
deal has been said and written in former years
about the necessity Of attracting capital hither u
aid in the development Of our agricultural re
sources. hut of what avail would De q large capt.
raj without tie hands 10 hc employed by II!
What i needed most of all. II L,soR-infcHigcut
sLiHsd hqjor, and diversified industry. Look ut
the various fields for profitable enterprise that
exist in our I-lands,-thc broad acres lying fal-
low, the watcr-Power running to waste, and yari-
OILS valuable products growing luxuriantly wild,
and rotting ungathcred. There is scarcely an
article Of necessity to the comfort Of life that
could not be produced here, but yet we import
almost everything from abroad ut high prices.
Ch'H a. tFil ~ liilll-o AdlillpN Ibl!E tAlsl III dilE
community without ruinous results. Al con-
sumcrs and few producers is 4 condition that the
veriest tyro in political economy will pronounce
to DC an extremely unhealthy one for a state or
community. That, to q limited degree. is our
present position, every day becoming moro APP
parent. And therefore we repeat, that the
necessity for immigration from some quarter is
imperative.
The question arises, where shall we look to in
wife or from where expect an accession TO our
population? Not to Asia, for we have already
too many of those experimental . immigrants
among us, as the records of the Courts will
amply show. The Polyncsian Islanders, as being
of the same race as the Hawaiians, have been
frequently referred to, as desirable immigrants to
repcoplc our Islands. But they are uncivilized
at best, and would readily fall into the vices
that are now eating out the life of this people.
The Portuguese of the Western Islands, IL good
many Of whom have settled on tie group. are, as
Il class, useful citizens, being temperate, indus
trious and thrifty. But under the laws of
their country. emigration il forbidden, and those
who ship on whalcships are said to do so by
stealth.
To the densely populated countries of Europe
we can look with more hope for our immigrants,
and the one race above all others that recon-
Incnds itself to us for the requisite qualities of
intelligence. plOdding industry and thrift, is the
German. That race i'll an eminent degree pos
sesses these characteristics. The poorer classes
of Germany are better educated than those of
any other country in Europe, and as n general
rule they are more yirtuous, honest and steady.
The minority nf tho most Ia-i-tlln anl ,r.l.,,,,l
acccssions to the population of the United States
arc from Germany, and they readily settle down
into rclccablc, useful Misunderstanding and
producing members of the community. Such Il
class Of immigrants, if they could bc induced to
come to these Islands in sufficient numbers, men
with their families, would prove an invaluable
acquisition to our means Of progress and pros
Icrity. How much better for the government,
with its elaborate and expensive : Board of I'm
the laws, rules and regulations
which have been adopted for its guidance, to send
10 the Oyercrowded countries Of Europe for labor
instead Of seeking them among the blrbar-
Gus and pagan idclatOrs of Asia, who are incap-
able of Christian civilization and ncvcr will
assimilatc or am~algamatc with either the IIa-
waiian or the Caucasian races. Let Il cOolic
intermarry with n Hawaiian, which is done, to n
large extent, and the Hawaiian is not elevated.
but rather dragged down to the level of her hus-
band, and the offspring of such marriages are
most generally found to display all the bad traits
Of their male progenitors. OF course we do not
now refer to the small but respectable class of
Chinese merchants and importers of Honolulu.
many of whom are a credit to the country.
In these days Of rapid and cheap travelling by
steam, both on sea and land. great facilities for
immigration are afforded. If 50 disposed, our
government could materially aid in this matter,
and some aid is necessary, for the class of Euro
peans to whom we Observation-Disclosures, ~artizans
md manuiacturcrs-are too poor themselves to
be able to pay without assistance the expense of
with their families, "a very necessary
the long voyage to these Islands. Cam
not government, as an initiatory measure, pre-
the way for this desirable addition 70 our
population, which we have suggested?
We have, thanks to the late incumbent of the
Foreign Office, Hawaiian Consuls and Diplomatic
representatives in many of the Commercial En-
of Europe, whose duties have heretofore
of Il merely nominal character. They can
,e usclully set to work to publish in those coun-
rics facts concerning the actual condition of the
cA'chl d lliu Ncb uhiHhlroNcd, inc
productions and capabilities, the popula-
ion, laws and form of government. Many a
family, which now by dint of hard and
'oorly requited labor, ekcs out a bare subsistence
N the poorest OF fare in the thickly populated
%ountrics of the old World, would gladly come
bringing with them their agricultural
nd manufacturing skill and industrious habits
While thousands of acres now lying idle would
C brought under cultivation and our exports
uadruplcd, we might, in n few years dispense
nth the importation of many articles of neccss-
~ and luxury, which with skilled labor could be
here, and for the purchase of which we
nw annually send abroad larre sums off mnncr-