The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-11-16
Speculations of an Immigrant.

EDITOR p. C. ADVERTISER 81 have been struck
with the soundness Of many ideas advanced by your
various correspondents, and am heartily thankful
that we have 80 many sound thinkers in our midst.
Pretty much all the ideas contributed to your
columns from time to time are good, and the only
fault that can possibly be found lies In the variety
that characterizes the subjects TO which our attention
is called.
The electric telegraph would be n good thing, and
we have every reason to hope that in time IL will
reach our shores from the Coast,, 10 take breath
again for another long dive towards japan. But il
will take time. We might, it is true, offer some
extra inducement that would fully determine those
most interested, in this route, but ] can hardly be-
lieve that the time has come when that inducement
should take a moneyed form.
Reciprocity would be n good thing, but there
again | think that our race for IL should be q wait
ing one. Before such a ~umm is reached, 10
would be necessary that we should harmonic public
opinion on this point here, and then work together
on the United States Senate. They just of present
have enough to attend to, and as we are too late TO
carry the scheme forward on the rushing wave Of
the late popular election by attaching il TO the skirts
of some successful political leader, we must practice
n little mastery inactivity" until the second
term . is fairly inaugurated.
The whalers would be another good thing, but
here too our best policy will be TO let our much
lamented friends try San Francisco one season, and
then see whether they will not return 10 MS. i think
they will. The natives of these islands make good
seamen they like TO go, and when they return
there are but few Of them who do not lDoTk here, IL
NNJ c. VI Us
what | consider to be our best POLICY in regard 10
the whalers. 1t will occur TO you that it is probably
the only one we are at liberty 20 adopt. Let US then
make n virtue out Of the necessity.
/ have spoken Of the three leading topics that your
correspondents touch upon aud advised that we let
them all take n back seat-for whatf For the sake
of developing more quickly the results hoped for ia
the formation Of the Hawaiian Immigration Society.
We need immigration, and one Of the surest methods Of
bringing here the telegraph, the whaers, and 70
o. tain reciprocity, is to repOpulate our land. Let US
then lend a hearty support TO the association that
proposes to furnish the pioneers in bringing about
a new order of things. Heretofore the efforts made
10 procure labor have been confined TO this one
matter; now we are prepared TO entertain n more e-
tended scheme. In former times a newly landed
group Of men from other shores were looked upon as
a means provided for meeting present and pressing
needs for working such lands as the planters had then
under cultivation. Now / hope that each new ar
rival will be hailed as settlers. To this end we should
look around and see what lands we have that would
DO for q beginning. There are many small patches
on every large estate that need TO be settled upon to
yield a fair living to the occupier On all such can
be seen the traces Of careful cultivation in former
years when our hills. and wales were alive with a
native population, and they but need occupancy 20
again yield their fruits TO the husbandman. There
is many a quiet out-of-the-way valley that would
afford a c~ongenial home TO the silk grower or tho
rice planter. As our population increases we oan
utilize the many valuable fbres that abound on the
group; and in time. if we will but help forward those
who have initiated this effort towards emigration, We
will have the means to establish our own telegraphss
send out our own whaling fleets and obtain ~reciproc-
ity-if we then want it. AN IMMIGRANT.