The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1868-07-29

party, or that Of the newly established En-
peror. plainly see, They judge perhaps
rightly, that japan must inevitably share the
same fate for having opened her ports to
foreign intercourse The ruling powers there
either do not, or viii not, see the remedy
for the evils Of such relations, nor how to
reap the great advantage Of them, as japan
might indeed do, were not "her Princes
ehildrenm
During the long months that We watched
the progress Of the revolution, throwing
down one power, and establishing an older
one, there came TO the heart Of the Christian
philanthropist an occasional CLEAN of hope
that the Micado's Government saw the right
path, and were about to step in ii, and per
haps continue there. But how evaneseent
such hope, when we reflected who were the
councillors and advisers of this struggling
Government, so far as 1t received any advice
from foreign Ambassadors Not a statesman
is there among them; not philanthropist;
not one who can comprehend the cause or
end Of the most remarkable revolution of
the age. No, not one among the foreign
Ambassadors, who so far has the confidence
of either the falling or rising Government, as
TO give a valuable suggestion of national
policy-if indeed, any Of them were capable
of doing such ststesmanlike thingl 1; is a
contradiction of facts, TO harp upon the say
ing that they had received Instructions from
their home Governments TO remain neutral,
and even If they offered advice, the japanese
would not receive it, They were all ready
enough to "meddle" when meddling would
undermine their neighbours interest, and ad-
vance schemes they had on hand, but de-
termined stand taken in national polity, for
the good of the Japanese, was thing not to
be thought of Pardon this depression: l
was only regretting .what might have
beer" If the foreign representatives in Japan
had not been children as well as her own
Princes.
The foreign policy is as ruinous to the best
interests of all classes Of people in that land
as is their own internal government, because
both are based upon what are considered the
present interests of the ruling class. The
foreign commerce out of his own territories.
The consequence was, he had more expense
TO incur than profit, in supplying the neces-
sary convenienees and protection for COM
merce, besides all the jealousy of opposing
Daimios, who were prevented from sharing
the supposed profits of foreign traffic We
see but little hope of there being any i'm
proyement in the administration of either
department of the japanese Government
From heneeforth the relations of internal
affairs and foreign intercourse must be much
closer than ever; indeed, the permanency Of
the former depends upon the right manage
ment of the latter
All of a sudden, the japanese have become
a migratory people, By the hundreds and
thousands they are fleeing from one port to
another, to escape the consequences of an
impending war. The retainers of the Tuku-
gawa family fed, by sea principally, from
Yedo and its vicinity, to their own provinces
north ayd south of that capital; and the re-
tainers of Satsuma, ChOsn, and Toza, came
from all quarters to Yedo, in war steamers,
in chartered vessels, and in their own juuks
Thus. the masses are becoming accustomed
to ocean travel: what is to hinder their 60
ing away from "the land of the rising sum-"
if they fail to lind peace and safety in it? 1t
is not a new thing for several wealthy Jap
anese to charter a vessel in the harbor of
Yokohama, at the cost of several thousands
of dollars, to take them and their goods,
families and friends to a distant ses-coast
town, and on their arrival, finding it as IN
settled as the locality they left, TO pay the |
same sum for the same vessel to bring them |
back to their former home The japanese |
are becoming travellers The country, too,
is becoming more and more unsettled from |
its centre to its coast The poor are becom-
ing poorer, and the rich more and more OPP
pressed by the ruling class: what is to hin /
der, we again ask, a mighty exodus from
taking place there suddenly: 1t Is surely
coming, for the mercantile class are begin
ming to feel that ii matters little to them
which party governs-they are oppressed by
both-and the agriculturists are fully aware
that their last stack of paddy is liable to be
plundered by either army, while they are left
10 beg or starve- Hence it was that before
the SriOto left, there were 600 applicants sur
the writer, on the street of ''Curio-
town." elamoring to get passes to go to
Hawaii, and had not the new Government
prevented it, there might have been a thous-
md laborers brought as readily as one There
IRE thousands now anxious to come
'And why did they prevent ~ my read
rs ask 1 answer, knowingly, simply be-
,ause the Foreign Ministers, u win except
he French, not knowing what stand he
ook, but all the restl intimated and sug-
rested to the Governors Of Yokohama that
here were undeveloped resources sufficient
% keep all the la5Oring population in Japan
Employed at hone; that there was no neees-
~ to permit them to go to the Hawaiian
Stands, that farrell, HHkH0urs country This.
md like tvaddIe, was a specimen Of their
neutrality { , in the affairs Of Japan, as well
5 token Of their craftsmanship in direct
ng that troubled nation
There are undeTeIoped resources in Japan
which might employ all her people, but there
5 neither knowledge how, nor willingness
0 attempt their development at present.
Ind this the Grand-dames Of Ambassadors
must certainly see; but they are all anxious !
0 have cup q t.a at the expense Of Japan,
nd being sszy sAeef tes7Party, they are
Watching that tea-ksttIs boil. and just when :
/ Is at the point TO boil over, lest Hawaii