The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1876-06-07
The Chinese Oues1Ion.

1t is very rarely that journal making any
pretentions to honor, veracity, and dignity, de-
means itself to such an extent as was done by
the Pacific Commercial Advertiser two weeks
since, by the publication of leader headed
shall we introduce more Chinese ?" In imi-
tation of certain fanatical journals in California,
who, for political purposes have raised howl
against the Chinese race, it thinks to curry
favor with our mechanics by slandering and
vilifying people whose great crime consists
in their industry and economy. In taking this
stand the AdUeTtiser assumes a position of hos
tility to the paramount interests of the country,
the sugar and rice cultivation, and says in
effect, "Let our plant tions languish and die,
but let the wages of mechanics be kept up"
1t seeks to bring the Chinese into disrepute
by indicting them for exerting "baleful in
huence" on Hawaiians "by the contamination
of their natural unchastity" Natural unchas-
tity contaminated by natural unchastity Bah
The Chinese as a race have vastly more correct
ideas on the subject of virtue than the Hawaii
ans, and in practise, their respect for the
sanctity of the family relation is not far behind
what is common in more enlightened lands.
Had it been otherwise, the Chinese nation could
never have attained to its present great age
and neutrality-suspicious.. Wea well aware
that the unnatural practise which has prevailed,
of introducing the male sex only to this country,
has been attended with its natural deplorable
results but who is the more to blame for these
results, the Chinese, or the government under
whose auspices they were brought The fact
is, the Chinese have done no more in proper
tion to their numbers than other foreigners in
" introducing habits conducive of social and
physical ruin among the women of Hawaii"
and it is mere balderdash to harp on this
string. Let the nation that is without sin cast
the first stone at the Chinese.
In regard to their I" balefu influence" upon
foreign mechanics, by the theft of their trades
and the cheaper working of the same" this is
like the hue and cry which has been raised
by the ignorant periodically in England and
other countries against the introduction of
machinery. They think they will be deprived
of work and ruined, but the result always
shows that they are relieved of drudgery, and
their condition is in the end bettered. If the
Chinese wedge themselves into the lower strata
of mechanical industries, they will not thereby
deprive other more intelligent mechanics of
work. but will merely enable them to occupy
higher and more desirable sphere of action.
Let it once be acknowledged that the small
minority of ADglo-Saxons in this country have
the right to prevent the introduction of dark
skinned races, ON the ground that their compe-
tition will prove injurious, and the next step
will be to enact laws that the Hawaiians shall
not be permitted to learn mechanical trades |
for the same reason.
Hawaii is the heritage Of the sons of Shem +; |
and the ignorant and bigoted of other bloods |
who cannot smother their prejudices against |
lands where neither Chinese, nor Polynesian, |
nor African will cross their pathway.
Our great want is population. While we |
have ample room for a million souls, we do |
not number $4,000. 1t is acknowledged that |
Anglo-Sa cannot form the bulk of the la
boring population. We must have Polynesians, |
Asiatics, or none, and until we find it practi- |
cable to introduce race more intelligent, more
more law-abiding, and more /
moral than the Chinese, let us encourage the /
immigration of men and women of the latter /
race. We hope to see 10000 of them, men,
women and children arrive during the next |
two years from this number the public ex-
chequer will at once derive an annual income |
from taxes on them Of not less than fifty thous-
and dollars, which will soon reimburse all |
expenses made in getting them here.