The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-08-19

made by native member One, the member
for Lahaina CsIr. Aholo) lay or two since on
a kindred subjec, had sa that he would not
assist m extiuguishing a in one part of the
country, because he cad not put it out
altogether. Another, IL member for North
Kona, (Mr- Pilipo) had i'd that be would not
advocate the sending ofawaiian girls to such
schools as those kept bthe Sisters and Miss
Bingham. He had exped better things from
these gentlemen, and I would point out to
the latter of them thgood effects that had
been produced by thesschools, for many of
the girls brought Jpn them were now
respectable married mosrs Of families, while
others who had not ha that advantage were
the class that filled t streets, and would
certainly be destroyed. The beasts Of the
j~ungle-lions and tigers-ught to the death for
their females so did be and horses and deer.
Go through all civili7edfe, and it would be
found that women are eyewhere protected. In
every country an insult tcwoman is avenged by
those who are her mattel protectors. 1t was
only here where the comfy was the case. In
the United States he had lown two cases where
a jury would not conyimen of murders who
had shot and killed thoseho had wronged them
in this respect. One of e men shot he knew
very well. But here, wi q female population
so far below that of the ales, hundreds of men
are deliberately brought to add to the dispro-
portion, and the measure acquiesced in and the
money voted without murmur. The system
hitherto advocated by histers was certainly in
his opinion leading to { extinction of the race
and the loss of the indepdence of the country.
Ministers might think dsrently, and he did not
impeach their motives, d he repeated that he
could not sufficiently exsss his qualification at
the change in their polio By the census taken
in 1872, it appeared thathere were some six or
seven thousand more mas than females In the
country, and the desperation was continually
becoming greater. Latel several hundred Chi
namen had been importe and more were COM
ing. What was 10 be thend of this, if some
thing was not done to ring women into the
country? The preser5 W; an unnatural state of
things, and if it werenot ut an end to some dire
calamity would oyerake the country. Nature
would not be outrage witt impuniiy she would
surely vindicate herse.. The evil was daily be-
coming greater, and s the female part of the
population ~disappeart at S much more rapid
rate than the male, he catastrophe would be
upon us sooner than sue imagined. All would
suffer the natives, ) being the weaker first,
afterwards the foreigns. Indeed, We could see
now how the natives 're suffering, by what we
daily saw and deplorein the streets. He would
ask, could a building Re the one we are now de-
liberating in be built stone alone did it not
require cement as well fany one attempted to
erect such a building ithout cement he would
find that his endeavorsould not only be in vain,
but would be attendeGYith disaster, for it would
most certainly fall ancrush the workmen. Now
every s~ociety-every entry on earth-was like
that building; it mu be composed of proper
materials and wome were to society what
cement was to that buling-it held it together.
For his part, if every dlar of the fifty thousand
were to be expendedin bring Chinese women
alone, he would consid it well expended. He
did not care what coulry they came from, pro-
vided women came VIII the men. There were
the Azores, swarming 18th people; the Cape de
Verdes too. But noting w'uld be done if we
sat down with our hand folded. Ministers must
work And one reason Thy he had wished to
know what government land we had, was that
measures might be taken to title immigrants on
them. Native gentlemen shlld not be afraid of
spending the money; it void all return none
would be lost. And it woui be the best invest
ment they could make, ir it would preserve
themselves and their indepdence.
"There was another reOn why they should
not regret this APPROPRIATE. The revenue was
principally contributed b foreigners. Where
did the money com from Why from great in
dustrial enterprises froi sugar plantations
large importers iron worl, and undertakings of
a like character. Now hG many of these was
carried on by natives ? None, as we all know.
Natives had not yet su&ent knowledge; they
could not have made he Constitution under
which we live, or even hive built the house we
are now in. Gentlemen lust not think that l
am haunting them or exaEng myself at their ex-
pense. 1t would be a burning shame and dis
grace to foreigners if mates were their equals in
knowledge. Foreignershad the advantage of
thirty centuries of knowlige hundreds of thou
sands of volumes, many obtaining the choicest
works of antiquity, were at the disposal of for
eigners, whereas for naves some forty or fifty
translations on the most ordinary subjects, were
all the literary riches the had. Besides, foreign
ers were in the habit of canning different ques-
tions, and some welded irge capitals, which ma
tives could not do-they lad not the experience.
was not their fault. He was not upbraiding
or haunting them with it but it was proper they
should know the truth, md think over it."
In view of past experience as to " transfers."
the proviso is inserted that this sum shall be
expended for no Other purpose. There are two
that t.ni to detract from the
satisfaction We might otherwise feel at the
passage of this sum in the bill. One is, the
obvious ~inquiry-where is the money coming
and the other, our want of confidence
that the present Ministry will ever heartily or
intelligently enter upon he work indicated.
On Wednesday the Hon. Mr.. Gays bill,
that government lands when for sale