The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-04-05

wretch that abuses thy hospitality is the accurscd Of
Allah Let him be banishei 20 the solitude of the
desert. where his presence will not c%ontaminate a
living soul. but his companions will be his brothers,
the heartless rocks" The memory Of the above SEN
tence came to me forcibly on glaneing over the last
effort Of :. viridis headed Annexation No. >. and
l thought with the poet,
III there be a crime,
OF deeper dye than all the guilty train,
OF human vices, Ills ingTaiisUde"
What woulist thou think of the stranger. oh gen.
tie or ungentle reader who should enter thy abode,
enjoy thy hospitality, receive thy kind AID courteous
attentions, enjoy thy table, rest on thy downy couch,
battle in thy sparkling waters, sport in thy fowery
pleasure grounds. enjoy ad libitum all thy premises.
and who should then turn around upon thee and
say, that thou didst not have one r~edeeming virtue.
that thou vast destitute Of patriotism. that thou
didst not comprehend the love of country. that thou
vert always a slave, that thou vert ever hoopiii-
meaai to thy chief. that thou didst not lisp a MUIR
muir when an Englishman bullied thee, and a mer-
curial F~renchman knocked of thy hat, that thou
vert bathed in ~apathetic sleep when a prince with a
squirting of absolutism, took away the charter Of
thy rights and gave thee another which thou didst
not and canst not comprehend, that thou art a strau-
ger to Independence, that thou art proverbially
ready TO sell myself and thy homestead, and that
thou wilt barter away thy wife and children?
Wouldst thou not say in the elegant language of
Brigham Young, that such a guest deserves 20 be
"winked at by blind men and kicked across lots by
cripples?" Wouldst thou not be willing with an
ornamental coat of tar and feathers to make q rard
arts of him and send him forth on the desert TO be q
companion of his brothers, the heartless rocks7 Ha-
waii nei harbors in her bosom men who detest her
people, her institutions and her laws, and pour the
black, damning drops of wholesale SANDER upon
them, and of such is "Viridis.'' Like the gold
hunting robbers of Mexico and Peru, they can see
nothing but golden visions, and they care no more
for the natives than if they were insects in their
path, and Of such is "Viridis." We have men
among us, who care not for the moral, social and in
tellectual advancement of the people, do not regard
their conservation and their political rights, and if
their own interests are subserved by annexation or
reciprocity, the natives may all go ~headlong to the
devil, and of such is "Viridis." Is he a foreigner,
or native born of foreign parents, and raised among
the h%ospitable and generous HawaiiansH If the lat
ter, well might we say in the language of Lear,
"Ingratitude, thou marbIe-hearted fend,
More hideous when thou shOw'st thee in a child,
Than the sea MONSTER
Not content with abusing the native population,
"viridis virtually calls them ignoramuses, that
they do not know what is for their good and that he
and others of like ilk must think for them, must
take them in hand and. noEens UOiems, do with them
as they deem best, and their chief good would be
annexation. This savors very much like enjoying o
mans hospitality, and repaying him for it by vitu-
peration and kicking him out of house and home.
9 Viridis - asserts that the natives formerly = herded
together in huts of one apartment and in idleness
and vice" 1 venture the assertion that in no coun-
try in America or Europe, are the people better pro-
vided with dwelling houses than the native Hawai-
ians, when not enslaved by labor contracts. The
poorest kanaka's hale piti is q palace compared with
Paddy's mud edifce q" and his ornamental pig.
Those connected with the plantations, with some ex-
captions, are morally and socially ruined. They are
poor and ~thriftless, always in debt, like the poems of
Mexico, and care nothing of the future, for in it
they see no hope. Endless toiler for others, without
the hope of a home and a family, he is reckless.
And every observant man can see that this has been
one cause of the diminution of our native population.
The more the plantations are extended without i'm
migrant labor from abroad, the worse it will be for
the natives.
Monopolies are injurious to the masses in any
form. Large tracts of land in the hands Of n few
for the purpose of carrying on any business, either
agricultural or grazing, will be prejudicial to the ma |
tive population. They would linger in abject poverty
here or be forced to emigrate like the rural popula-
ton of Ireland and Scotland, while the lands that
formerly sustained them, are converted into deer
parks or cattle pastures-blooded stock displaced the
peasants in many districts. Wherever a plantation
has been started, with the exception perhaps Of Wal
luku and Waikapu, the natives have greatly de-
creased in numbers, and there is no longer that
growing moral and religious tone among the few
who remain, that once existed under missionary cul-
ture. The thirst for gold among the Spaniards, who
conquered Cuba. and the mania to make rapid for
S,,o. oorcol H.. a. 800 L. o;-Io 81 -0,afo 50
tives as mere machines, till the island was depopu-
lated. So the thirst for gold, exhibited in the mania
for sugar making, would make mere implements Of
these people till the islands became depopulated.
The moral, social and religious condition of the poo
pie is lost sight of in the dreams of wealth on a
sugar basis. Would annexation accelerate or retard
this result? In annexation / see nothing but the
ruin of the native race. 1t may be that I am wholly
wrong, and that my positions are not well founded,
but | have yet to see further light than has been
shed upon the question before / change them.
1t must not be understood that / am opposed to
immigration to these islands. We want no more,
however, of the Asiaties than are necessary to carry
on our plantations. For a population, We must have
others of a higher grade-of a more vigorous and
progressive character. We need Europeans. The
experiment has been tried in Florida with the most
f%attering success. A planter sent to Sweden and
shipped, at less cost than we now ship Chinese at
Macao, a colony, which he placed in his lands on the
st. Johns River. As an inducement to serve him
faithfully he gave each a freehold Of FIVE acres.
They constructed houses, labored on his plantation,
carried on various mechanical arts, constructed mills,
and have nov one Of the most aourishing and pro-
gressive colonies in Florida. They brought their
families with them and have schools and churches
among them. The hardy Norseman has shown that
he can flourish in the sub-tropical climate Of Florida,
and why can he not do so in these islands, which are
far more temperate and healthy than Florida. The
Morse immigration did not stop here. More followed.
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