The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-05-08
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Commercial Advertiser.
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HI S4TCRDA J.. MAY s.
7TnE Government Gq-eue uf Wedne>day last
contain, nearly four columns Of windy yerbiage
ON the labor question. If any have had patience
to wade through IT. tedious length, they will have
found that IL i devoted 10 Il lame defense of the
Bard Of Immigration, and the sum total Of the
argument amounts to thi- That the Board has
done the be-t il knew how 10 Do. II Il gratifying.
however. To- learn. from the following paragraph.
that the Ministry are beginning to appreciate
the magnitude 81 tie tax Of providing Ii
bOrers, which, Thus far. they have appeared 70
ignore
" more grave ana aaneai' robin ea'd T. go--9,-l TO
~ ~ Ssgniy .aGy ir-.',1 o. a IfeiHe,T 1%i Hs"ait--
uhish, BY faro esmI@uuH- wiz compel .ur OWL I-Ti- 9,
Labor.
This j. just what We have been aiming ut all
aIong-tD impre-- on the Government some idea
Of the task it has undertaken, aud thc fact
that II need for it, solution tie help and cooper
alton Of all interested in agriculture. which can
never be gained by excluding them from all par
t~iciIatiDn In tie great work, which gathers in
magnitude = every year Tas-cs by, diminishing
the native population and increasing the calls for
labor.
II j. unnecessary to g into any extended To-
view Of tie Ministerial arguments. after ali that
has lately been -aid. yet. two r three Ioins- may
be noticed. The writer says
Il Ih- country has ben dsh s.i powerful, vita a large d.
and brrom~ otz-n-- o. u u h"i CARD n"thug tr III native
race, anil va Wiligz O. see q es~run ami crashed cut BY a
BEEN at ALI difficult
Are the public to understand from this as-cr-
ton that u j. considered unsafe for the Hawaiian
Government to follow the precedent adopted in
other countries. and oiTcr land to immigrants
who may wish to migrate to theee Islands, for
fear that they viii oycrTun and crush out the
native race? Or that no efforts are TO be made
to Introduce hb0rers and immigrants except those
Of n similar race AMI inferior capabilities? If We
understand the language Of the Ministers, this l.
to be their policy in tie future, as indicated
above If 20, the labor question assuInes u new
phase, and a more serious aspect t. planters and
capitalists than they have SUPPOSED. Again
The G1v,rrr1ant. thauzh o.. iri--ri-uf. anil ~ rsieet-i
q" .. iniep~ni~nr- 2 IN srvat-t q IN great I"E.Ls- :
fre, unabr o. m1k- grants q hai g. the %, viii come
eouatr aaa alsm-atn< it, I-rpatau-
II j. generally believed That the Government
lands and the Crown domain comprise more than
onc-half OE the four million, Of acres constituting
the whole ara at tire grpup-suficicnt to supply
ten acres 10 each AMI every immigrant for the
next fifty year,, though arriving ut tie rate Of
one THOUSAND persons Ter aunum. IT the popular
estimate oF the public lands j. incorrect, will the
Ministers publish the actual figures. OF q fair e.
innate OF the acres comprised in the domains
referred to-
The Gg-ens again quotes our remarks endor--
in= the passage Il the law which authorized the
appointment Of the B.ard % Immigration. 10 aid
- =. ~ s.--T...s.- r T1.-.-...r
free immigrants. We endorsed tie law and the
action Of tire legislature. and il the Bard lad
proved it-clr competent to execute tire task a.
signed to IL, We should support 1t now but
having made no effort - carry out one principal
part Of the law. after four years service having
violated the intention # the Legislature by for
bidding AL parties 70 engage in Efforts to intro
ducc labor having, moreover, proved itself to-
tally unqualified for thc service, and q complete
failure. and arrayei itself practically in hostility
to the agricultural interests Of the country it
becomes the duty or every man interested inagri-
culture To- seek 4 change in o. policy. or else It,
entire abandonment.
Again. the Ministerial writer quotes the follow
ing from tie columns pi thi- PAPER A. evidence Of
our opinion Of srnIie testimony
.Ia.,s~. f. rt .-rH=lr-r-I sy t-tr r.,rmaay. suI % rai
with ~ssh Wll.---- 3 rrHre.fF
let u refresh the memory Ut it, readers by
stating that Tire above Wa written Ia reference
o. the trial u manager Hitchcock Of ts Haiku
Plantation. for drawing a pistol anil manning a
collie, when Attorney General Harris. eager t.
fnd an opportunity 70 show hs POWER md. Per
hap, vent hi. personal feeling, prosecuted aud.
on the strength II cunlir evidence, hunl Judgment
against Mr.. Hitchcock AMI, IN spite IF the
charzr 81 the uISv AMI a divided jury, hadhIm sen
teuccI o. q fine ~ ouc hundred dollar. All this
yvu- DOM. when. % few months LATER. uu nSrE-"rT
an1rhsr plantation. "ir shot anil kiI"Ia 'gl-