The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-11-20

scif-lOsc, the immense 1dvaEtaGc ~ ttul y oibo&cn
Gus community, and retaining the amount of wages in The
country. would 6e worth some irooble."
At the meetings, Planters and Citizens, several
speakers, among whom We regret to say not one
planter OF one representing the planting interest
can be counted, spoke of the influence which this
immigration was to exert upon society, clearly
depicting the immortality and vice consequent
upon the influx Of Chinese male labOrers, the
planters having distinctly stated that they wanted
no more women. Upon this point the author
says:
= There is no other means. according to the testimony Of Mr..
tAsn- But we comprehend that Sir John BoEring enereeticAl-
dued by the immigratioo Of Cinnamon without family. and
heartily applaud the language Of Sir George Booham; II no
Hsa should aSseay eease.Hnoraiis. and the duiie. which i
SaI scs 90 o., eSl,n, ,hs c ~ sIa aHs %S.a Q. III ? ne p D1a1o :,
tiuas Of the tao s-xes Cannot be re-estabhshed, an end must
siiy? Thi. imasor.miy Of The Cinnamon and Indians, and these
inys,erais asages; one power aicns could e"nqssr, nS. ,asTe
ani,y-"
The miserable apology for women which have
been introduced here, and the small percentage
of women compared to men, warrant us IN the
belief that our Commissioner found it very diff
fcult to procure the class which we 80 much need.
ain "a moral point Of view. the reconciliation Of the races is
far from being complete. The immisn.iiSn Of new races
ger. which would b. fatal II this immigration weie not essen
tally provisional ard strictly superintendent II wouId ali IA
eoloui.u TO fall back into their old habits, to discuss the price
Of collie. as they did fomeriy that Of negroes, and, under the
pearauc~s- IL IL already every day increasing immortality and
criminality, and paving the way for the degeneration Of the
racer
Already the native Hawaiian has protested
against the farther importation of Chinese, in
fact against the immigration OF them in any form.
The reconciliation of the races can never be
brought about. Already we are aware of the
baneful habits and practices which they have
transplanted upon our shores, of which the use
OF opium and prostitution of young Hawaiian
females are most prominent. How demoralizing
it has been to foreigners we can imagine when we
consider that from a community that held slavery
in such adherence that they freely gave OF their
substance To prosecute n war which aimed at the
determination of slavery in the United States it
has become So callOus that the sale and assign
ment Of coolies has been publicly advertised with
out exciting n note af alarm, or even comment.
from many Of those who became the self-appointed
champions of the Southern Slave. Behind the
. delusive fiction OF Z" buying and selling contracts"
they have discussed the price of coolies as they
would a horse or a yoke of oxen. NJ. Cochin
SAYS
sBaIefuI 20 the freedmen, an evil counsellor To the colonists,
immigration creates above all n permanent danger To the social
AMI moral stale q the coiouirs. On thinking of these hooks Of
the gIobe, where crowd and n,insIe together masses OF negroes,
Indians, chin.men and Nalays, with a handful OF whites, one
-hujders for the race, Threatened by ~deplorable niStares, aud
for morality and good order, afflicted by this invasion OF u
heaihansm which Christianity has not time To break through.
l sy .ns ad q :. p,e ?, as. ,ss m nsW PnSs,a, Attribute b shI ,Ss p1o.
gress OF e~riniusliy, and how should it be oiherxise!"
Again, Mr.. Duval in speaking Of Bourbon. in
1860, says: "At no epoch, not even in the
worst times of slavery, has the country had to
mourn heinous crimes so numerous and 40 various,
rs since the East Indian immigration" The
criminal statistics of Bourbon show /. that crimes
and Offences were committed in the proportion of
one among three hundred slaves, one among sixty
East Indians, one among thirteen Chinese" y
writer for the Hawaiian Gazette, in September,
1865, says The native has no genius for
trade the Chinaman, on the contrary, usually
more ignorant, more immoral (for the vices of
the Chinese [cooliel are atrocious for turpitude,)
n pagan, and ten 10 one The former inmate Of a
prison for crime, he comes here, and when his
time of service is ended, is almost certain to start
some commercial speculation The italics are
ours. y native speaker at the meeting of Hawai-
ians said: Look ut the statistics of crime since
the coolies have been brought here-the great
increase must all be attributed to them they
occupy most of the time of the Courts, and for
them the gnllows is erected"
Again, Sir John Bowring in a letter to the late
r. C.. Wylie says, in speaking of Chinese
Z" They are, if properly selected, the very best of
oriental servants, in all capacities; but if multi
tudes of them settle among you, they ioiH super
sede your kanakas ahogeiher.'' Upon this point a
writer in the Economist says: "a large emf
grafton of Chinese means therefore the Danish
ment of Europeans. and that evil, so far as it is
an evil, must be taken into account"
The total foreign population of this group at
the last census was 4,l9i, of which 1900 were
Chinese, and although the next census may not
prove a decrease in number of foreigners, it will
not show, ut present rates of increase. u much
larger number, while the Chinese have in
creased, and If the planters in His Majesty's
Cabinet can have their way it will be nearly
doubled in a few months. The opinion of His
Slajesty's Ministers before they became 30 deeply
in sugar, and their opinions now. show
how their personal interests interfere with n wise
policy.
The history Of Mauritius after the immigration
OF coolies proves that the production of sugar
was increased, but the colony E. burdened itself
immortality, becoming an Asiatic instead Of an
African colony Lord Stanley, in 1912, speak
ing of Mauritius, said: alt is equally true that,
in the moral point of view, immigration has been,
and is, a scourge, not only at the epoch when it
was an unmatched enterprise of private specula-
ton, but even after the Intervention OF the gov
When we hear the planter complain of the
or disposition of Hawaiians to avoid
work on plantations, We are reminded of the
remark of n person who visited an abandoned
plantation in the West Indies, after Emancipa-
ton, and seeing the freed slaves 'lazily sleeping,
said "See what freedom has made of labor"
and the answer, d. See what seryitude has made
Of laborers."
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