The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-09-07
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E2Eucl Uy our enlightened CUfSEciEIs a 1ESH4 III
the speech from the thrUne, before the Legisls.0re u
1865. measures for the re-peopling OF the realm
The next census viii disclose q notable decline in
our numbers, aud We must feel q sensible decline IN
our political consequence. H0w what intelligent IN
diyidual, whose interests are identified with those Of
these islands, without considering the question Of
philanthropy, win not feel saddened ST the decay Of 8
young State, with the promise Of, aud no, without
the basis, for a great prosperity.
ID We desire the perpetuati0n OF our political con-
ditioa asan independent PolynesiAn State Or. do
we merely wait TO see the present political order
- frozen out, 10 be replaced by a prOlonsolar az
thority exercised over Us as an appanage OF a distant
power L The latter are the hopes Of any one. they
are vain. The American annexAIionist, in particular,
has little or 10 ground for his hope. III it were not
al insult aud treason TO an hereditary and treaty
sustained Sovereign to discuss here the question Of
political surrender, We would soon discover that our
discussion was vain, AID our prefer OF political ad-
hesipn diSregarded by the Government Of the great
People into whose political existence We would beg
10 merge our own Il would not be safe 10, say, thai
the American Government would not, under any
circumstances, consent TO the annexation of the
Sandwich Islands; but l am sure that il will not now
90 cut Of its way, or try to influence BY enc Iot2 II
action, any such political result. Then why should
any OF US, subjects or residents OF independent, rec
oguized Hawaii, assume the attitude Of a FIjian or 3
Samoan, and crave some fostering political tuteage
70 supply our lack of enterprise.
We are perhaps, many Of US foreigners, not in
such happy conditions rs we may have hoped for in
our own lands; but since we are here, il IS better to
identify ourselves heartily vita the country, to take
root and grow, than 10 complain, and dawdle away
life in the hope OF a return 10 busier-lands and scenes,
for which we may have lost our adaptation. Why not
strive to be something here, and we can be by trying
to make our little state prosperous and glorious. /
know that we are twitted about our httleness; and
many a weak minded resident joins with the facetious
stranger IN Jocular comment upon the pauclty OF our
Political significance. dare say that ancient iInpe-
rial Persia twitted Athens for being such a miniature
state; but the Athenian spirit was worth more than
q globe full Of Persias. sLtf Fl HALt
Perhaps our littleness is more in our souls than in
our territory. But l will not think so. We have a
culture here to compare f~avorably with the highest
condition OF enlightenment elsewhere And why
should it not be our aim TO contribute every effort
and influence to make our political. as well as our
social condition., respectable. Why not unite to
labor and strive so well, and so grandly, in the
development of our interesting Pacific State that if
n political change must come ii may be, as it
is said by the Poet about Death in respect TO the
Roman, that America or any other country may be
- proud to take u.s."
We need many more people in these islands. The
harvest might be mighty, but the laborers are too
few. The traces of a once vast host of souls show
from the sea to the SUBMITS of these isles. There
are islands no bigger than some of these, and with
no better physical conditions, that support more
than q million of people. We might have, or ought
to have. at some future day, q population of millions.
A dream, you say. Why should Bali, not larger,
nor more fertile than Oahu, support more than one
million of people, The former as well as the latter,
has Its rugged, broken, mountain surface, but Its
swarming people terrace and till the hills TO their
tops. The soil that We would reject, the Balinese
rejoice in, and by the economical distribution of the
water that falls upon their island make productive
every foot of its surface.
OF course water, and its distribution, must be a
condition precedent TO all our schemes for population;
and this subject requires an especial consideration.
There is Santa Cruz, not bigger, nor better by
nature than Lanai, that can boast of its hundred
thousand souls; whilst our Lanai has only ten thou
sand sheep, and could not, nor could Santa Cruz,
support the half of one hundred thousand sheep.
Our tropic islands could support more men than
sheep, and | would rather breed men than sheep.
Five hundred thousand sheep would overstock us;
but we could never be oyerstocked by men; they,
however many, could create more than their needs,
their increase could multiply our markets, and their
would extend the area of husbandry
beyond the limits of the isles to the remotest seas.
Now our situation being tropical, we need tropical
men TO work. The European could not permanently
supply all the needs of labor in our ATTITUDES; but
the Europeans superior capacity for organization
will of course always be needed. None of the condi-
tons Of the country are favorable for individual
settlement. The single handed European emigrant
can find no such opportunities in these islands as in
the well watered woodlands and prairies- of America.
Our territeryis mostly held by a few proprietors in
large districts. These districts running from the sea
to the mountain tops, are comprised of dry beach
slopes, fertile valleys and benches, and wooded
uplands, which cannot be probably separated and
cut up into sections. So that neither the Govern
iLNhN NV AAhHN AoNAF doe@AO h1FS my
portion of territory TO offer to tempt the settlement
Of farmers with small means. We must develop the
islands with organized labor on large domains, and
that labor must be mainly tropical |A
We ought to find here, oil the labor for the imme-
diate needs of our plantations and other Industries.
We have perhaps not less than five thousand avail
able, unemployed, or at any rate non-laboring
native male adults-who have physical ability and
intelligence, and apparently need the wages that are
waiting for them; but this need is only apparent.
They can secure subsistence almost without labor.
They can live cheaper than any other people in the
world; aud are Just as willing TO shirk the bending
the foreigner, who has q chance to exc out gratuit-
ously a loa6ng existence. We might, and We do
the industry Of the Hawaiian; but he is
naturally proud TO exercise ii in an independent
He, like every other laborer, prefers a job,
to be worked out at his convenience, rather than the
unremitting routine of gang work. The feudal
restraint that once would have bound him to labor
has not been replaced by any training or discipline,
10 stimulate his productiyeness. So that the Hawai-
ian cannot be hired to work, as now needed, on
or ranches, and if We would compete in
the production of sugar, and other great staples
is our obvious interest, we must look to other
sources than home for our supply of tropical labor.
What could We not do with an abundant supply of
workingmen, hired upon economic terms. But how
cheap must be our LABOR? 1t will be only cheap 10
the country, when we are liberal TO that extent, that
Iaborers are not only willing 10 come, but contented
TO stay. Now for the country to which we must look,
has a surplus of the kind of people that we
want, and the one most likely to supply our immedi-
ate needs for labor, is undoubtedly Japan.
This interesting country just wakeued up to a
desire to move onward IN The march Of civilization,
proposes not only to send, as she is now sending, her
abroad to be taught and trained as scholars,
artists, engineers, and diplomats, but also as arti-
and skilled laborers, and no country offers sHch
political conditions for the trial Of such
experiments as ours Japan we see, is careful of
children; she will not consent to let them 60 TO
be merely harried with d~rudgery in such lands as
Peru and Cuba, and she has reason to dread for
heir sakes the anti-coolie prejudice against all
Asiatics in America; but in Hawaii, the japanese
may hope to find q home; and moreover, our native
or rather, his recognized political conse-
luence, is pleasing to the Asiatic Potentate; hence it
would be important in our diplomacy in Japan, to
impress on japanese statesmen the permanence of
our native royal dynasty, if we would hope to stimu-
ate a beneicent flow of Japanese emigration. And