The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-12-25

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We ARE pleased 70 see an interest awakened
in the community in respect to immigration,
other than Chinese, as shown in the observations
Of our correspondent " Vox." lie makes a val
liable suggestion in regard to the great aptitude
Of the Hindus for the care Of animals. The op-
portunity which these islands afford for acquiring
and rearing a few cattle and other domestic ami
mails, at a very lowTate Of cost, and in a land
where a perpetual pasture prevails, would be a
great inducement to a hardy Sikh or other inhab-
liant Of Northern India to come and abide here.
It has been observed in Demarara-which is a
successful field for Madras coolie immigration
that Hindu men and women are particularly de-
lighted with the opportunities afforded on that
island to keep a cow OF two. We have a still bet
ter climate and pasture in these islands than in
the West or East Indies and although we depre-
cate the increase Of vast herds of wild cattle to
destroy our forests and injure our water supply,
yet we would rejoice to see twice as many hpis
as now roam destructiYely over our islands, if a
Hindu family was associated with every COW and
calf; because then the cattle would become a
blessing and a profit to the land. We could find
room in time for one hundred thousand East In
dia patch cultiyators, each with a cow or goat and
an orchard Of fruit trees.
But our correspondent goes somewhat out of
the way in his sneer at the Great Republic, and
at our " sentimentality.' We said that no nation
or government ever made a concession to another
without some equivalent, either direct or indirect
and at the same time we said that England had
done much for a sentiment, especially in respect
to the suppression of the African slave trade.
However. we must now remind our correspondent
that though the sentiment of philanthropy ami
mated Wilberforce and a multitude Of kindred
English souls against the negro slave trade on
British territory in the Antilles, yet the govern
ment Of Great Britain at that time had the incen-
tive of policy to prompt a crusade of emancipa-
ton in antagonism with the interests of a rival
power, largely sustained by slave labor, on the
continent Of America. And now we say in re-
spect to the i old country - favOring this little
country in the important matter of an incI case of
population from c~ongenial Asiatic sources, that
our appeal can be made to policy as well as to
sentiment as by an increase Of a permanent and
well assimilating population in Hawaii, the indie
~pendence of this Kingdom can only be assured.
Hence we feel confident that for the guarantee of
such independence ona permanent basis, and to
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Pacific, England and other maritime states of
Europe, would cheerfully make some concession
as for instance, to permit us to seek population
in their dominiOns, as a satisfactory glid pro quo.
Is REFERRING to the recent article of the Bor-
sen Zeifing, of Berlin, Ga portion of which we
copied last week. in which that paper said that
constant complaints were coming to the Russian
ouFIOritinE i'm aaEfatn Sibaria about viola flor. Of
the frontier and illegal seal hunting on the part
of American whaling vessels, the New York
Commercial AdrItiSer says it has more than one
reason for doubling the truth of the facts related
in the St. Petersburg letter which the Berlin
paper caused to be forwarded to it. Just at the
moment when the Prussians have failed in their
project of buying up Port LimOn, in Costa Rica,
and when they are trying again to purchase from
Denmark its colony of st. Thomas, they may
naturally wish to divert the attention of Ameri-
cans from these German but anti American pro-
jects by p%arading alleged Russian insults before
the eyes of the United States. The Commercial
says the statement that representations we're
made at Washington on the subject, but they
have hitherto proved Intellectual, /" the Cnited
States Government being apparently p~owerless to
COltlOl NtC uOitiSc Va NiC ShABpC4c Ol IIC l. dClAlC
coast, most of whom come from San Francisco
is sufficient to illustrate the ignorance and the i'll
will of the correspondent of the Berlin paper,
and this still increases our doubts as to the
balance of his story. He pretends, indeed, that
the Russian Government will carry out its threat
of treating the American whalers " as pirates
and for that purpose the number of ships of war
cruising in the waters Of Eastern Siberia will be
increased. An intention of sowing discord be-
tween America and Russia is here evident on the
part of the German paper. Such a discord
might, indeed, be raised if the Russian Govern
ment was blindly governed by red tape, as is at-
frmed by the Herald, which attributes the delay
Of the acceptation of Russia to be present at our
Centennial to the whimsical and powerful inhu-
ence of 4 subordinate officer, " who dreaded sea-
sickness and remembered Vienna with m~ortiica-
ton" Red tape does not exist in the Russian
Empire any more than in some republics, and it
is an institution which could not flourish under
n statesman like Prince GortschakOff, for whom
the Siberian officials are mere passive instruments,
like all other officers and ministers, who would be
as roughly treated as was Mr.. Catacazy, if they
endangered in any way the old Russo-American
alliance. Emperor Alexander IL and his Gel
ebrated Minister of Foreign Affairs govern the
immense interests intrusted to their care, as did
Nicholas, and as does also Bismarck, directly
through themselves, and they know how to ap-
pease any international difference which may
have been caused by the insoucidncs or inability
of their officials, a case which has very seldom
happened in the annals of Russian diplomacy.
There is no doubt, therefore, that the alleged
grievances in regard to American whalers will
turn out an invention of a German paper, or
that it will soon be satisfactorily settled through
the care of the recently arrived Russian Minister.
THE ATTORNEY GENERALSHIP.
By the steamer which left here November -, a