The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-12-11
% HOOULU LAHUI"-INCREAsE THE
PEOPLE.

"H0OULU LAHUI"-INCREASE THE
PEOPLE,
l. the watchword Of this reign. The King has
declared it a. the chief measure of his royal policy
and the name Of KALAKAUA, it is hoped, is 20 be
identified with the increase Of the population of
this kingdom. But what has been done 70 carry
out this patriotic purpose, and to satisfy the hope
Of a declining country? A few more coolies have
been ordered A request has been addressed to
a Chinese merchant 10 induce a few iAlndreds Of
his cOuntrymen to come here, by. the offer of
premium of twenty-five dollars a head and a
similar proposition has been made to a ~shipmas-
ter to bring more Cinnamon ~here and with
tLis effort, our craftsmanship ceases in the way
Of the acquisition of the increase Of q permanent,
productive and we'll assimilated population.
= We have in our little nation about seven thou
sand more males than females and now we are
to have this sad disproportion Of sex still farther
increased by the addition Of another thousand of
supernumary males, with a slight modification of
the disproportion, such as may be occasioned by
a handful of females, say fifty more, or there
abOuts, from the slums of Canton. Surely this
is not the full measure of our yaunted immigra-
ton policy, for which a provision of fifty thousand
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this procedure alone would hardly be creditable
to Hawaiian craftsmanship, and will not be re-
garded abroad as sustaining the enlightened and
patriotic views of the Hawaiian King.
immigration is our chief question. Our mar
ket question, leading US to seek closer commercial
relations with the Great Republic is a most i'm
portant one but it is not paramount, nor equal
to our population and labor question. A minor
national interest should not be allowed to over
shadow q major one, nor hold it in allegiance
and as America controls the former, and Great
Britain the latter of these questions, it would be
wise and fitting, that whilst we have a representa-
tive near the Halls of Congress, we should also
have an equally influential, if not superior repre-
sentative near the Court of st. James.
1t may be we do not need the favor of England
to bring about the immigration into these islands
of a few more Chinese coolies, who may supply
some needs Of labor on plantations, and pander
still more to vice among Hawaiians but we do
need the favor of q Power which has a dominant
influence over millions of Asiatics, who can fur
nish the best and most available human material
for the national recuperatiOn of this kingdom.
The physical characteristics Of this archipelago,
and of its native population are of a type, which
clearly indicate that India and South Eastern
Asia offer the natural sources from whence to de-
rive q satisfactory and permanent increase and a
physical Regeneration of this people, even such as
insular Britain found in the invading races of
Western Europe and Of Scandinavia. And we
believe that England will be led by proper repre-
sentation, to look upon it as a duty to permit
this country to obtain in her Asiatic dominion
that supply of fresh and assimilative blood, which
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Nations are seldom or perhaps never induced
to accommodate their policy for the advantage of
others, without some equivalent, either direct or
indirect. But Great Britain has done much for a
sentiment, as We have seen in the sacrifices made
by her for the suppression of African slavery
and there are reasons why she should listen to
the appeal of weak and helpless Hawaii.
She could not, of course, be persuaded to favor
measures that would lead to the up-building of
a rival or antagonistic political influence in the
Pacific but being well assured of our purpose to
maintain national independence, she could not, con-
.sistent with her high enlightenment and christian
spirit, shut Hawaii out from her natural source
from whence to derive the material for maintain
ing her national life, correcting her demoralizing
disproportion of sexes, and preserving her
autonomy.
Our isolation, our remoteness from all other
populations, our numerical weakness, and our
poverty render US incapable of improving or rec
tifying our own condition. We cannot do any
thing towards equalizing our sexes, as Oregon
and California so readily did in their early days
of disproportion, by help of the ample means
derived from the products of a rich country, and
still more especially by the facilities afforded by
the highways of a great and populous continent.
We are stranded on our ocean peaks, and if we
suffer n fatal decline and Generalization in con-
sequence of our isolation, we have a humanita-
rian right to appeal for help, or rather for a pri-
yilege of quest, to the Power or Powers, who
control our natural sources for refrigeration.
This need and duty of national restoration
should command the attention of the leaders Of
public affairs. The supply of q few more Chinese
coolies as laborers is the mere business Of a
bureau. This business no doubt has its impor-
lance, in meeting the exigeneies of influential in
terests,-of large plantations with growing crops,
and in want of more hands to ensure their preser-
walton ; still the great public question of popula-
ton remains paramount. and as 1T requires some
thing more than the action of a bureau or q de-
partment, let it fully command the brain and
heart of those whose duty it is, and who should
deem it their chief glory to supply souls rather
than : hands 4" for this Archipelago.
POSTAL MATTERS.
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