The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-10-30
I,be Mcet,ng last Evening.


The fourth and last meeting of the citizens oi
Honolulu wac held at Kaumakapili last evening
agreeably to adjournment
In the absence of Col. Jones, who lett on
Thursday, to attend Court on Hawaii, Linton l..
Torbert, ESQ.,, was called to the Chair.
The attendance Was good, though not SO large
as at the two previous meetings held in the same
place. About 225 persons were present by actual
count, and up to the passage OF the labor and
tariff resolutions, manifested great interest; but
as soon as they were disposed Of the audience be-
gan to decrease, showing that these subjects most
interested them.
The following are the resolutions as finally
adopted by the meeting:
/. Resofued, That the immigration into any coun-
try should be governed by the natural laws OF supply
and demand, and by the advantages which that
country holds forth to settlers and iahorers' and not
by governmental interference other than the bestowal
of such sums of money and ia such ways as may be
voted by the people.
?. Resofped, That the further introduction into
this country of Chinese coolies is undesirable-the
term Sc coolie' being understood to mean Asiatic
male laborers bound to service for a term of years
3. Resolved, That as the laws of this kingdom do
especially favor the introduction of such laborers, by
legalizing foreign contracts for service, and by pro-
viding a penal enactment for the enforcement of
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effect be repealed.
4. Resolved, That laws, enforcing contracts to
service by penal enactment, tend to injustice, and
are contrary to the spirit of the age.
5. Resolved, That we do approve of the appro-
priation of governmental funds to the assistance of
Pacific Islanders who come here free of contract, as
settlers.
6. Resolved, That IN consideration of the high
tariffs of our commercial neighbor the United States,
it is e~xpedient for us to devise some means for pro-
tecting our own industrial interests in like manner.
Z, That an executive committee of FIVE be appoint
ed by the chair. to prepare q petition to the next
Assembly, in the Hawaiian and English
embodying these resolutions, and urging
upon that body the consideration of the principles
therein enunciated the said committee to cause the
same to be circulated for signatures throughout the
Islands.
In accordance with the last resolution a Com
nittee was appointed to draw up and circulate a
to the Legislature, embodying the senti-
nents adopted by the meeting.
After the passage of the resolutions, a commu-
addressed to the meeting, was read from
twenty or more of the leading Chinese merchants,
sympathy with the citizens in the pur-
pose of their meeting, and earnestly protesting
lgainst the further introduction of their country
men as coolies. The letter was ordered to be pub
ished. and will appear next week.
The absence from this meeting of the few sym
with the ministry, who had attended
he two previous meetings, with the evident de-
ign of disturbing, was a noteworthy circum-
lance, as showing preconcerted action in their
movements.
The meeting adjourned sine die.