The Hawaiian gazette., 1873-03-19
CORRESPONDENCE.

] klOr DelleNe that tue Two must 90 together
but the advocacy of annexation to the Unite
States by Mr.. Phillips, until lately a member Q
the Prvy Council apd a Cabinet Minister, rem
ders it incumbent upon every one who thinks h
can do so to show a reason for the hope that t,
this people this disastrous union need not b
consummated
do not intend to enter into an elaborate crit
csm of Mr.. Phillips address We have every
reason to believe him conscientious in the ex
preston of his views, and indeed in all that re
ates in it to the cession Of Pearl River, entire
ly agree with him but in differences from hi;
views as to the state of the country, just as en-
tirely differ from him, and consider that many Of
his positions are utterly un;enable. As do not
intend 10 deliver an address myself, but merely
to present some few points for. consideration
which appear to have hitherto escaped notice, ]
shall content myself with quoting one small ex-
tract from his address. He says: 1.-The public
mind is confused and uneasy. This is extraor.
binary, A Sovereign has just assembled the
throne amid great public joy. He has invited
highly respectable gentlemen to his Cabinet.
There are external indications Of a happy reign.
But matters below the surface are disturbed.
Thoughtful men anticipate the future with gloom
and apprehension. Why is this Trading men
say sugar is very low in San Francisco n and
taking this for his text, after a long chain Of ar
gument he comes to the conclusion that the only
remedy for the low price of sugar is the extinc-
ton of the independence of these Islands. and,
10 speak in the mildest terms, the overwhelming
of this people by the swarms of adventures
against whom their struggles would be powerless.
l think, Mr.. Editor by different method of
reasoning we should arrive at a different conclu.
sion; but then some preliminary questions must
be proposed and answered before we come 10 the
great and distressing fact that sugar is very
low at San Francisco" Amongst them are
these-Who are the sugar growers here Where
did this capital come from by which the nlanta-
lions were established Have the plantations
hitherto made any money for their owners? Is
it notorious that plantations have changed hands
and owners withOu. interchange Of single dol
lar, paper being the only value given? Are the
plantations now in existence skifuy and
economically managed, or are their owners for
the great part absentees, attending to other
business elsewhere? The answers to these and
other questions. equally pertinent that might be
put, if canddy give n, would show here is some
thing rotten in the State of Hawai-, or at any
rate in this cry for annexation, but their discus
sion would take lore time than ] can spare from
my business, and more space than you would be
likely to grant me in your paper. This in a few
words. is the conclusion | have come to. If the
capital by which our plantations were in the first
place created, was made here if the plantations
in the aggi egate have made money for their own
and their owners agents. in spite of the vicissi-
tudes Of trade and the inexperience of their pro-
jectors. then we have nothing to fear in the fn-
ture, although sugar is now very low at San
Francisco. If it be. ibut as write the news has
arrived that the price of sugar has gone up at
that place, and is likely to be still higher,) we
have other markets now which were not tried to
any extent some years agO-as New Zealand,
Australia, British Columbia-and these markets
are continually increasing
There is, to my mind, something inexpressby
low and unmanly in the continual appeals al mi
SerecOrdi1Hl, which We may be sure will meet
with no response, except upon the condition of
the sacrifice Of our independence, aud even then,
from material point of view, who can say that
the remedy for our ills would not be worse than
the disease itself. We are not yet moribund, or
in a state of bankruptcy we have made money
before and can make it again, and as far as mar
kets 90 we are in a better condition now than
some years ago. Let us then disregard the wall
ings of interested parties, who wish to get rich
by sudden operation without labor, and rely
upon ourselves and our own exertons for the
future. Let US do our duty and leave the rest
to Providence.
We have before us now, as We had years ago.
The prospect OF hard work for the term of our
lives and who shall say that we are the worse for
Il. ! have always understood that hard labor,
except for the very few, to be our normal state.
If our difficulties appear TO increase, let US in
crease our opposition to the2l, and what noble
ecOmpense the very fact of our overcoming them
would be. One of the greatest evils we have to |
ear is the spread of leprosy, but if the Govern
nent firmly and sterny does ITS duty and sepa-
ates the stricken from the sound members of the |
even this scourge may be eradicated |
The census shows frightful decrease in the pop
llation, a great disproportion in the numbers of /
he sexes. and tells to the thinking mind woful |
ale of the causes of the destruction of the wo-
men, and the consequent threatened disappear
nee of the entire native race. But TINS same /
ensus affords Us our first but great CLEAN of |
Ope. We see by it that the children are on the
Increase. If this be really true and proper ad.
antage be taken of the present status, we may
lirly hope that the time of gloom is passed, and
hat by proper management the people will be
aved from the grave which appeared yawning to
eceive them.
The question now is What is the cause of
he increase of the children and the answer i'm
lediatey presents itself, The superior virtue and
hastily Of the mothers; and this ] take to be
ne to the noble and selfsacrfcing labors of those
haritable and Christian ladies', in the first place
,atholic, and in the second Protestant, who have
lade it the business OF their lives to train the
emae youth of these islands. wonderfully aided
y the policy that has lately obtained of separat-
y the sexes in the schools.
Everybody who chooses to inquire may know
nat under the old system of mixing boys aud
iris in the same school, the girls were destroyed
hie they were still children; there was no hope
II them; but the present increase affords les
IN that should not be neglected or ignored by
ur rulers. and that is that ereJy possible effort
l0uld be made TO TRAIN THE YOUNG OF EACH sen
PART FROM EACH OTHER, and to encourage early
carriages then we shall have little fear for the
ture. Let this course be adopted as principle
Ot TO be departed from, let the trainers and
'hool teachers be women, and as far as possible
foreign blood, who devote their lives to the
iucation of youth, and we shall be using the best
cans of preserving the native race.
PHO HAWAII.
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