The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-07-24

the monkeys. On Saturday last. a weekly paper,
with little or no town, but an extensive country
circulation, gives a very bad leading article on
tie Chinese as c0louists, especially 50 because Il
is calculated to convey erroneous impressions,
and is evidently written by some one little &C
quainted with tie subject. The writer OF the
article in question says - The worst feature
about them probably Is their peculiar notions OF
morality" What their notions of morality may
be are best known to themselves, very probably
quite different from those notions on the same
subject preached, if not always p~ractised, by men
calling themselves Christians. But Of those
taught by their great philosopher and priest,
Confucius, it is said in the =" Encyclopedia Bri-
tannica, - His morality is in many respects sup
erior 70 that Of Greece and Rome, and yields TO
none upon earth except 70 that Of Divine revela-
ton" Again, the article goes on to say -
But at the same moment that a Chinaman Is
practically without moral feeling or religious OBJ
legation, he has q civilization Of ms Own, and has
been well educated. He is not the man 10 COM
NIT crime in a country where the police are tole-
rable efficient. Besides, he has been well trained
IN habits OF industry, and, though entirely I'M
scrupulous, he finds it more convenient; and com
Portable to work for his living 1t
is certain that the evil is frightfully increased by
the systematic agency for decoy and corruption
which is employed by the Chinese
Children of tender years having been seduced by
PROGRESSES, taken to dens of infamy, drugged
with opium, and delivered over to their heather
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weekly paper is profoundly Ignorant, and hazards
charges that cannot be substantiated, and in fact
do not exist. Now, hear the evidence of the
Melbourne detective police about this same mat
ter :-'' Of the class who keep houses for the
purpose of introducing young girls to Cinnamon,
l have found that such monsters are happily al
most unknown, but the girls who have been
found in ~brothels, Chinese OF European, have in
variably found their way TO these places them
selves, guided by their deprayed moral nature,
and requiring no snare to entice them" The
reply from the city police was to the effect that
the trade of the procuress for the Chinese was
nearly, if not quite, extinct. For this we may
thank an efficient police supervision over a people
who, though utterly unscrupulous, have been
early trained to habits of industry. Presuming
the police to be as well informed, or better, than
the writer in the weekly, he has been too eager
to fix on the Chinese the odium of a systematic
practice of a most dreadful crime, which the evil
dence of police would certainly shew they are not
guilty of TO the extent for which they receive
general credit. Another charge he makes against
the Chinese as colonists is rather a sweeping one,
namely Among the many thousands who
have come among us, not one can be mentioned
who has conferred a benefit on a person or on the
country" This charge is simply childish, and
contradicts itself. 1t is known to every one that
the Chinese fill all Offices common in our commu-
nifty, from the import merchant to the ordinary
labourer. In living among us they are gaining
some knowledge OF our language, laws, eld DOM
nestle habits, &C., and possibly may be of mate
rial assistance to the missionary in future labours
in China. If this is not beneficial both to indi-
viduals and the community, 1 should like to
know what is. With regard to the Chinese as
colonists, / find that multitudes of them have set
tied in japan, the Philippine islands, Java,
Sumatra, Timor, and Borneo, where they were
are now living in habits of peaceful industry;
and why not in Australia? They are not an ig-
norant people; they have among themselves al
ready an amount of mercantile shipping exceeding
in tonnage that of any other nation. Their fore
ign m in 1854 was estimated at twenty
FIVE millions sterling, and, though they have
hitherto persistently resisted innovation, ret, ac-
cording to the Argus, both the electric telegraph
and a railroad are in operation, or shortly viii
be. They have antiquated usages and heaps of
prejudices to be swept away, but the end of the
wedge is already inserted in the log; to drive it
home will be profitable alike to us and to them.
The author from whose little book upon China 1
have taken some of the above facts was the late
editor of the North China Mail, Samuel Moss
man. He winds up the preface to his book with
these words sc Altogether, there is a great
future in store for British relations with China
and the Chinese, which the rising generation may
sec developed to an extent unknown to their fore
fathers