The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-08-05
THE PACIFIC
Commercial AOOcrtisrr
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You may ask the Waterman, but he can only
point to the silent sphinxes that guard the veal
and woe of the stase. His Exeellency of Foreign
Affairs might tell you, if inclined to be comma
NEGATIVE. OF the SUCCESS which has attended his
labors in repoPula5ion, whereby he has induced
several hundreds OF Chinese male immigrants 70
come hither, accompanied by three females, from
which stock, owing TO their well-known capacity
to increase and multiply, the repopulation of
these islands mag be looked upon as an accom-
plished fact. So nleaorialists may dream bright
dreams of n future immense population.
The Minister Of Finance may lay open to the
gaze of the doubling inquirer the silver and gold
en- treasures that are heaped up in the vaults of
the state,-a goodly pile,-and the only shadow
thrown over it is the thought that it is a pile of
borrowed money but nevertheless, money, that
may be handled and pushed about, and,-best
blessing of all,-may be expended a pile of
treasure that is blessed, like the widows cruise
or bag Of meal for an appropriation of $50, 900
for immigration and agriculture may be expend-
ed, but at least S35 900 will return to the treas
ury-it will not stay expended, and it returns.
1t is still there in its full glitter and solidity.
Turn it into Chinese labor, and Chinese labor
into sugar, and sugar into cakes and ale, wines
and liquors, and all the hundred adjuncts Of a
splendid ball and it is here-the S35 900 re-
turns to the treasury. All, Waterman, these
signs Of promise are cheering indeed to an expec-
tant people!
Turn to the Minister Of the Interior, and with
a sweep of the hand he will show you that there
are still forests left on the SUBMITS Of Hawaii,
Maui and Kauai, from which to build fires sufi
Gent TO do the cooking for the entire population
of the country for the next ten years to come
that there is still water enough in the roaring
river Of Nuuanu to breed millions of mosquitoes
and fill every woman's tea-kettle in Honolulu for
more than a year that we have fine wharves, and
the PeIe takes care Of the harbor, and the KiLduea
is ready for all inter-island business-as long as
she holds together.
The Attorney General, behind a huge breast
work of legal tones, keeps an eye on offenders
and therefore safety and security reign from our
Dan to Beersheba.
What more can be desired ? Ii business is
dull, and the harbor empty, and the wharves like
dead cemeteries Of former busy times yet we
have much to be thankful for. The taxes very
likely will be paid, somehow, and Congress is
sitting upon at reaty which will perhaps be Matched
ere long.
Thus saith the Waterman but nevertheless,
the people are not satisfied. This strange people
are perpetually demanding that something be
done something that shall tend to make the
country prosperous and progressive. They want
to see some symptom of a forward movement, in
stead of the eternal swinging Of the pendulum.
For perchance the pendulum may stop altogether,
and what then? All, what then? echo the four
helpless little birds that sit in the nest with their
bills wide open, chirping for mother bird Reel
procity to drop food and life and growth into
them. These poor unaedged ~birdlings,-not
shivcring from cold, for their nests are feathered
very n~icely,-but naked of resources. so helpless
and feeble that they cannot pick up the crumbs
that lie around them, are forever chirping for
mother Reciprocity. Will they perish OF inani-
ton if she fails to come?