The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-12-18
Hawaiian whaIcmen.

From an Article in the Gazette We gather n few
facts and figures which we choose to serve up
with different side dishes than the caterer to that
journals readers seems disposed to. The Harbor
Master, il seems, has paid of four hundred and
eighty-eight native seamen the past fall with the
sum Of ~forty-6ve thousand scven hundred dollars,
paying them advances to the amount of twenty
seven thousand dollars. One would naturally
suppose that these facts and figures would be
subject matter for thankfulDess and congratula-
ton, but s' some think that they should not
be permitted to earn 50 largcan amount. Selfish
mortais, To understand the drift of the writer
we are constrained To give him the advantage of
our circulation by clipping the following from
his article
Foe the past season there have been between Gsty or MY
.hiVs sngaevd in rhsHnE IN ,hs North PIsiasi tssir average
Ing 10 ne above, fully oDe third of the men Engaged In this
psrhaps, more than aay oGh~r. hat ~hAbeshiT- make this their
port Soc rseTunag. Il bSins vel hso~s that q, 90 o,Sss Poe,
expense ~ here, asd nen, 40. who are az well Of not brtteD
49, .ss aSaa ssG MT ssss-sosssa sad esirIpsi.inx yssas
men 10 a serious dra~-sas1 % our hosas ss1..ea -, ss%s; "
To ship on hrsirD vsss~ls, IL woea Be % Frsai sdsantASs 10
one Ting {. pretty e-rrala. ihar so IOnz 3. foreign -hsIer. are
Permitted 20 ship natlse samsn, nc rcxehr yearly sfoak,h
that the conduct IL certain parties, including % course the
Govr-nmsnt- win drive The whaiemen away from our ports -
all . bosh.- "a k 90 thSif advantage 10 come here, and -
nux as "a 10, thsy vii en1se-
This draft upon our 1" able-bodicd and enter
prising young men is certainly enough to draw
tears from the eyes Of even ministerial planters.
To think that four hundred and eighty-eight
Young men should be ambitious and enterprising
enough To embark in n venture which nets them
ore hundred and fifty dollars q year. when they
might, by settling down as agriculturists, have
meaner food, poorer lodgings and perhaps one
ffth Of the amount as the result of the same
term ut home. Surely their wings must be clip
red. Gentlemen Of the Government will ut once
prepare q penal enactment for insertion in the
Civil Code, something TO this effect
SECTION Isso, - II any psrson Who might. could you'd %
should be employed upon = sugar piantauon shah &c fund en-
40 Inc vnaIr fishery, be shall be a ~sabjcet hr arrest By any
person, with or vithOut . warrant, and shall be eonhned IN
eaIrurfss Cor n term Of not ess than hve years, the 1-t years
wages being Erfit % th< person making hs arrest
This will tx his flint, and we shall have four
hundred and eighty-eight men to draft from for
our plantations. A Napoleonic idea. 1t is poe
siblc that at least half Of our merchants, whole
ale or retail, may have to cmigrate; that over
half Of the working capital of the country will
be Withdrawn ; that our harbor will bear a July
aspect the year through that the revenue sc-
cruing from harbor dues, water bills, licences,
even 70 abandoned women. taxes, &C., &c, may
be reduced, but what Of that, IL the dear "a some"
can only have their way.
The rights Of men to acquire and hold property.
and others equally dear 10 frccmen, which add to