The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1872-10-16

funds requisite to bring these industrious and
virtuous families here without expecting to reap
soI1e benefit in return from the immigrants Can
any one person or any number Of persons acting
on their unaded and individual responsibility do
it, or even the Government itself? These ques-
tions appear to me to require great study be-
fore they can be properly answered. The true
course, as l see it, pointed out last week-it
must be brought about by a combination of capt.
taI and labor of the cheapest and best attainable
description, backed by the Government. II we
cannot, except at ruinous cost, induce whole
families or even married men and their wives only,
to settle among US and work for hire, We must do
the best we can and bring single men only The
endeavor to bring their wives with the men has
already been made and has signally failed and,
fortunately or not, our people have not the OPP
portunity of choosing their wives in the same
manner as did the Romans on one memorable &C.
casiOn from the Sabine women.
Well it appears TO be a matter of necessity
that the men must come without companions of
the other sex-undoubtedly hardship to people
of domestic habts-but this is not the descrip-
tion OF men we should be likely to find willing to
try their fortunes with u.s. nor is it an uncommon
state of things in this work-a.day world. Most
great undertakings, especially in new countries,
are beset with difficulty and discomfort we alone
cannot hope 10 escape the Inconvenience with
which Providence seems to have fenced them in,
but because we cannot avoid meeting them we
certainly must not abandon our work but by
opposing end them.
1t is for US. in the first place. to risk our means
in bringing laborers it is for them, so brought
to practice frugaty. save their earnings, and
either send home for their wives and families. or
intermarry with the women here Their obliga-
tons fulfilled, they would be in a position to
make new and more profitable arrangements by
becoming producers themselves. This, it strikes
me, is the course these matters must take it
appears to be plain, simple and natural, and in
deed 1t is the course that analogous operations
have taken in other countries from time immemo-
rial indeed, it seems that by the migration Of
men, and men only new blood is infused into de-
caying or weakly races, aud that it Is the only
means by which they are saved from utter ex.
tinctiOn. The doctrine may sound harsh, or ap.
pear unreasonable, but believe it to be true If
the migrations or rather the acts of conquest.
enumerated in Mr.: Dole's first letter are exam
ined, il will be found that ;he conquerer- when
they settled in the country they had sublued
took the women Us wives and from those unions
was produced race generally superior in all re-
spects to that displaced.
1t will be objected that as no nation has made
war upon us our men are not destroyed aud It IS
not just that their women should be taken from
them, and themselves be as strangers in their own
land. answer that in the younger men here the
spirit OF enterprise is as strong as in any other
part of the world that they voluntarily leave their
homes, and that they are to be found on the
guano islands, on board ships of every descrip.
ton they, but not the women. are to be found
scattered about the States of California and Ore
gon, in British Columbia and other foreign coun-
tries. Why then should not the rights they ab-
dictate be assumed by other enterprising men,
they themselves having the like privilege in their
new homes
We ourselves know that in the old countries
of Europe, and in the thickly settled States of
the American Union, it is always the enterpris-
ing young men Of family that seek their for
tunes in the Far West or in the wds of Austria
lia, and that generally none of them think of
marriage until they are able to support family.
The men brought here would not be in worse
position.