The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-06-12

- ,fr.' i5-.H.. aftsr Bur- Iamisr'- i-!aay Or
o. huldral SOLAR. fr,laH AMI -y-r Iat.rr r-tr-ilo-!i ia
tn hing. go = -leh Psrsg without i- ilse- aforesaid
bsn- - lalaHi Palace mt- I.u. Lay = FEBRUARY. \. u
Ey sh- King. "''' T.
CH'ELEs CoRroS HorsIS-..
This certainly i clear, and any man who yil-
late it. docs so At hi Peril. It has not been
stated. &" by authority in tie Ga-efie or else
where, tlat any one who wishes 10 introduce i'm
migrants can obtain the necessary permission .
though this ha- been stated and rcstated by an
anonymous writer. whose authority may well De
Questioned.
u! che government chooses o ignore IL special
immigration Commissioner. ~ the Gg-eff. writer
a--1rc- Is Il dYes. il l. IT. own matter, not ours.
We lad our information from an i~udi=Iu,ablc
source, and II government denies IT, truth.
well and good. Ii viii make one less item to
Jriu. into the Indemnity bill. go one m1rc -
cover up under some other name.
The Ga-sn, asks what j. meant bv d" free i'm
migration -" We answer, the introduction, by
the employer. 81 immigrants or labprers who are
cITahle Of making contracts in;c.ligently. and
who DO - Of their own free will. which was lot
the r,-e with many If the Chinese and japanese
iabJIcr.. scores OF whom never signed a contract
AMI many Of whom have declared they were de-
eei,c,! respecting the terms Of their service. THE
certainly j. a species Of involuntary seryitude.
The appropriation by the last Legislature was
JasseI to provide the country with voluntary or
free immigrants, and II such laborers can be pro-
cured from the Southern States let them be OBJ
tanned there, either by the government or other
parties. No one asks that the public money be
paid cut for passages without a guaranty of its
-, r.,.TI AL a,.- .n. ,,,-- -, -ip,,lo+,,
who suggests it. All that l. desired is that gov
srnncnt take efficient steps 10 secure Intelligent
who voluntarily come and engage 10
serve their five yeaIs term Of scrvicc. Planters I
nd others have already lost considerable sums by
he Ioor, sickly and ignorant laborers introduced
far. and all they ask is reform. and a pro-
.lrll Of the Lssf hjOr Ia BE- ha2. wherever il may
7Iuc from, or = repeal of the obnoxious law
imposes a fine Of one hundred dollars Icr
cad :or every lablrcr introduced without permits
The Go-eHs quotes from another letter from
.lr. Gibson, rs follows The gross ignorance.
the Hawaiian Islands. in the United
tate-, i painful. We arc NJ better known than :
be FJis to tire mass Of tie people Any one
las travelled in tile United States will endorse
he truth u this statement. But we take the
that the freedmen are sufficiently intclli-
{, understand where they are 10 60, and to
them capable Of entering into contracts ~ .
.borcFs iute!ligcntly, TO the advantage of them .
elves and the agricultural interests ui this archi- !
clago.
Mr.. Gib=ou's evidence. therefore. furnishes the )
confirmation desired. that there is a de =
rahlc opening found for the procuring Of al the :
.borer- we want, and all that i needed is ell q
Engagement on the part of government. and Il 4
,moyai Of thc penal prohibition against mdiy!i- g
al enterprise. .