The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-10-19
CORRESPONDENCE.
Inducements to Observation-Disclosures
and Citizenship.

The land policy Of our Government is st present
unfavorable 10 any plan for providing hOmesteads to
eigners but there are, otherwise, no material OBJ
staeles 10 such an enterprise As soon as the senti-
ment OF the Government shall favor the encourage
meut Of immigrants through the homestead induce
ment, the manner Of e1ecUing II Will not be a ques-
ton Of any serious difficulty.
As this paper Is devoted 20 the discussion Of the
influence OF certain inducements upon the minds Of
possible immigrants, | shall leave to a future time
the examination Of our land policy and the home
stead principle as affecting cur prosperity.
There il little doubt but that an opportunity of
obtaining an interest in :he soil would DC highly
prlzr1 by members Of such thrifty races rs the CHI
nese and japanese The demand for labor, with fair
wages In return, Is enough 10 lead them all over the
world, generally with the inteution Of laying up
money TO take back 10 their native land. Combine
with this inducement, the chance OF becoming land
holders with all civil rights, and not only would the
temptation for them to leave their homes De very
much increased, but many of them would be led TO
settle permanently and give up their native Tor their
adopted land. the second and perhaps most imPOr-
taut step in the great work Of recruiting our popu-
iatiOn.
With the general features of our climate and soil.
this experiment is more feasible here than almost any
where else. Already, our own observation shows US
that Cinnamon do not find it hard to decide TO settle
permanently in our land, where they find u society Of
their own countrymen, a friendly people and luxuri-
ant fields Of their own staff of life.
We have wide wastes of fertile and unoccupied
T--T E RHO
Tngfall immigrants who desire, with tracts Of this
land, varying in area from half an acre 10 FIVE or ten
acres, according to location, quality and other fea-
lures; that fee-simple titles should be granted them
upon reasonable condltions,-stated terms of occupa-
tion or nominal money there Is little
doubt but that, with little assistance in getting here,
a great many would flock to our shores for such OPP
pOrtunitieS, and we should also keep those who might
have come for labor or other objects. And this is a
kind of immigration which would increase as it
became better understood and more widely known IN
those countries where it might take its rise.
The rights of citizenship in this connection seem to
me more important than TO some others. They are
necessary to the success of a plan of repopulating
the islands by settlement. 1t might be prudent to
make a residence Of n few years one of the cOndi-
tons TO naturalization, but that there Is every reason
that individuals adopting this country as their own
and investing in its soil with the intention of re-
naming, should have all the privileges of native
born citizens as soon as a reasonable time for becom-
ing acquainted with the meaning and force of such
privileges should have elapsed.
1t is not probable that the right to vote for repre-
s%entatiyes here would be regarded as of any value by
Chinese or japanese 1T home who might be intend
ing to e~migrate, but living here and interested in
the administration of the country, as all must be
whose business depends upon its prosperity, they
would by degrees learn the value and power of the
voting privilege, and after they should so understand
it there would be no reason for Withholding it from
them. The responsibility of civil rights is in itself
an educator, and this would be one of the influences
which would 60 to make good citizens of such mmi-
grants.
The belief in the practicabiity of such n plan for
inducing the Chinese and japanese to come to our
islands as settlers. is not founded upon theory alone.
The presumption of fact and experience is in its
favor. Their attachment for their native land is q
sentiment that is mostly satisfied with the assurance
that their bones shall be sent thither for interment,
and it becomes weaker with each new generation in
the adopted country. Their disposition to migrate
and colonize is a matter of history, and we have but
to take advantage OF it and give them reasonable
encouragement and they will willingly become our
subjects and join with US in developing the resources
of our country. ). Is. DOLE.