The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-08-28
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY,. AUGUST %.
On

On Emigration.
We noticed some time since that a body o
japanese had emigrated to California for the
purpose of colonizing, and of their kindly recep-
tlon by the people Of that State. We have
sought for information concerning their progress
and prospects, believing that, If successful there,
some efforts might be made TO influence their
countrymen to come to these islands. Herr
Schnell, the person under whose protection and
care this party Of japanese went to California,
has visited the editor Of the Alta California and
informs him that all of them had a severe accli-
mating fever, from which they are now recovered;
that they are now cutting their grain, and after a
few lessons they learned to WELD the cradle
adroitly. Considering how much more that in
strument cuts in a day, they at once gave it
preference over their accustomed sickle.
The tea-nuts which they planted on their dry
rolling land. from choice, are all up to n fingers
height, which Is much more than they would do
in japan in SD short n time. They are oil tea
gardeners and tea-makers. They mean to make
ten their speciality. Its success admits OF no
question. Such frosts as are usual in California
foothills are beneficial to the plant. The best
teas always come from plants that have sixty
days snow and frost. The tca-plant is a camelia-
1t bears n fragrant flower. 1t will probably grow
very busby in that climate, Its natural height
varies from three to five feet in China and Japan.
In California it's tendency will probably be to
grow taller but for convenience Of p~lucking, it
will probably be trimmed down to four feet. 1t
is unwise to begin taking of leaves till the third
year Of its growth in plantation. Neither would
Zoo early leaves make wholesome beverage. Once
established, a tea-garden lasts for years., ii
plucked rcservedly. Otherwise. its leaves grow
woody and seven years is its limit for tea-making.
Bot, having n plantation, its renewal is a matter
Of no aPpreciable expense 4 ten plantation is
easier to establish and realize from than mulberry
trees. The manipulation OF the tea leaves is n
delicate process, and probably it will be left to
Asiatics, who arc skilled by long practice. But
ten culture, when conducted prudently, is q
highly productive industry and what we call
poorest lands are best for its finest qualities.
The japanese have planted mulberry trees also,
which are Of better quality than those which
want Of knowledge has unfortunately scattered
50 ~profusely over California They are all from
known varieties, grated in japan. The Japan
ese will have silkmen presently added to their
colony, and they will add this industry to their
selection. They have vineyards and wine presses.
Wine-naking they have to learn. They hope to
make varieties suited to the taste Of their coup-
trymcn, and to find a market for it in japan.
Rice they plant for next year ; they have varieties
adapted to FL Dorado County. But they have
learned to bake bread our fashion, and they take
to it Wonderfully. The neighbors like these
people, ant give them hearty welcome. Every
packet carries to Japan earnest entreaties for
their friends to come to n country where every
body is free 70 do as he likes, and there is no
stanero. Stanero is the enforced kneeling when
in presence of a superior. They say, {" You have
heard of Heaven away OF. We have found the
place. Come and share our happiness"
Under the circumstances it is hardly probable
that Japan will solve our immigration problem,
and that to re-populate these islands We must
work up some field not trenched upon by Ameri-
cans. If our japanese coolies have written to
their friends in Japan it is hardly fair to sup
pose that they date their letters from {" that
place, Heaven"
Speaking of immigration into the United States
of America, a correspondent of a California
paper says that the German papers are missing
great hue and cry against the enormous emigra-
ton of young men with their families to America.
This tide of humanity which is now setting
toward the New World, If continued at the same
rate for the balance of the year, they say, will
almost d~epopulate the agricultural districts of
their young men, while in some places the inhab-
itants have emigrated en- maSse to found new
colonies in America, where new land is cheap
and labor always in demand. The journals do
all they can to discourage this heavy exodus of
the bone and sinew Of their 'sfaderland' from leav-
ing their old homes, old associations, and old
traditional customs, to adopt the new ones OF
:" das Yankees" But they seem to plead in
vain, If we are to judge from the number of
passage tickets for the transatlantic voyage
which have already been sold for this year.
Nearly every steamer, ship and sailing-vessei, Of
every kind, that is fit for n sea voyage, has its
berths all taken several months ahead.
The free institutions Of America invite emigra-
ton from Europe upon one hand and Japan upon
the other. A government Of the people has
for the governed Of Kings and Empc-
rors against which the old homes, old associa-
tons and traditional customs of the faderland are
powerless. Is it reasonable to suppose that
Hawaii nei, with the history which it has made
in the past FIVE years, will attract the oppressed of
other lands? In order to re-populate this group
emigration from abroad, is it not essential that
some radical change should be made in the form
and policy Of the government?