The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-11-16
A Few More Nlain Thoughts.

MR- EDTroR--" Obserser." who appears In the
GG-cii, OF this week. is J fancy. a decidedly bilious
individual He il dissatisfied With You. and J. and
apparently about everybody eise. and when y"
calmly reviews his owa tsrformancc. ! thlak he
will be dissatisfied WA ihRt alSs.
The subject that | had uppermost when I penned
my Few Plain Thoughts in your last Saturdays
issue was that OF population, with which this Ha-
waitan nation Is TO be rcbuildr5. ! may not be
very wise or very deep. hut In my estimation that
Is the most important subject that addresses itself
to oar attention just now. IL however. Observer"
and his party consider labor 10 be ihe first aud
population the secondary idea. | can but disagres
with the proposition. and briefly state my reasons.
All the lahorers. Chinese or Japanese that are now
needed on the Islands To grow sugar. will not ex-
coed two or three hundred, NJ the most. They arv
not and will not become population. la the sense
thaE the country needs. The coolic. at the expira-
ton OF his term OF service, ~ he does not return
home, becomes generally a petty trades or shop
Keeper class shat l. far too numerous among us
already-and enters at once on bis work OF demon
aiming the natives Snd compelling the maintain
ance OF police. That Is not the kind of population
We want. IL they can have their policy adopted.
they will make of the Islands, one grand sugar
plantation. with a few " Observers Is owners,
merchants, and overseers. with here and there u
mechanic or two In case OF necessity. shese belong
Ing to the white races. and the remainder, the great
mass OF the population. to consist of coolies. or
kanakas even,-aoyihing, 10 lonE as they are NO
poor and ignorant as 10 be manageable at a low
wage per month. That. Il seems 10 me, l. the kind
OF n" State" they would make OF Hawaii nci--a
lew very rich. and the many very poor. What u
saccharinc desert IL would bel
As l read the speeches as reported In your last
paper OF Messrs. Harris and Smith nj the meeting
Of the " immigration Society they are to be con-
strued as putting labor as the thing we need.
"a FIRST. last. aud all the time aud the idea Of our
getting any other kind Of population ~ snerred ut,
because, forsooth. we have got no land On which To
put settlers. OF course the " Observer" party do
not want settlers who will be intelligent and indie
pendent enough to work for their own bcneEt. As
to there being no land TO be got--that Is simply
untrue. There is land in abundance, aud " where
there's n will there's a why 10 get Il. Observer
says that many believe that such public lands
would be- comparatively useless for the purpose.
even could they be conjured into existence"
What perverse drivel Is this. when there are sny
number OF streams on the islands running usclessly
into the sea. all the year round. awaiting only the
application Of capital and mechanical ingenuity Ia
lead them on 10 the now barren wastesi But such
n view of the possibilities OF our future are not
suited to WRITER'S of the "calIber - of - Observer"
lie would not like to ~see,-for IL would not suit
bis purposes Of self-aggrandizement-Ha Hawaii built
mp into "A thriving, generally prosperous state, with
AN independent, intelligent population the saccha-
rine paradise is what he wants. with himself as one
Of the owners OF land and men.
/ repeat. in order TO repopulate the country and
TO make of Hawaii mel a free, prosperous and en-
lightened state, We want intelligent. 'smail
farmers ISLANDER.