The Hawaiian gazette., 1876-03-15


also, should be brought, the expense of which,
the State might bear We arenOt, Gentlemen,
a nest of unfedged birds waiting with our
beaks open to be fed, and if we require people
to assist us in our various enterprises, we must
put our own shoulders to the wheel to get
them, and not rely entirely upon His Majesty
Government. Self interest may after all If we
may not rely on the government, prove tosbe rs
good method as any that can be desired for
the repopulation of this country from abroad.
As has been well observed on this subject,
there are three main modes, and three only, by
which countries are usually repopulated from
abroad namely, by conquest, from religious
enthusiasm, and by self interest The last must
be our main resource. The steady increase of
the products of Hawaii, is an earnest
that our general population may increase, even
without the expected treaty, for the portion of
the population ,at you more especially repre-
sent, Gentlemen, those of foreign and mixed
extraction, has been steadily increasing, and
forms nucleus for nation, with an indefinite
power of further increase, independent of our
hopes of increase of the pure Hawaiian race.
or of the immigration, which, under even or
binary circumstances viR occur. Upon the due
consideration of these facts, their bearing upon
many parts Of your Address will readily occur
to you.
1t may be well, Gentlemen, in forming an
opinion as to what your Address conveys on
the face of it, to notice what view the public
Press of this city takes on this point A por-
ton of it at once, and without hesitation, ac-
cepts the Interpretation of your Address,
namely as the desire for change of Ministry,
which have already stated must be placed
uponit, and it hastens to inform the public of the
array of influential names appended to the doc
ument, and which comprise, it says, with a suf-
fciently close adherence to the truth, " FIVE out
of eight of the foreign born mobiles of the King
dom, the leading members OF the bar, all of our
leading merchants, the whole of the editorial
fraternity, along with numbers of the most re-
spected and influential of every creed,
cline, and pursuit to be found in this commu-
ty." Truly formidable and a goodIy ar
ray, and that there may be no mistake as to
what it means, the same article goes on to say,
I" that in our opinion those who are called
upon and who are capable of furnishing to the
government plans or more definite and practi-
cal suggestions for the repOpuation of the
country, should have that opportunity to carry
them out which the present incumbency has
enjoyed, and at the same time has so signally
And again in another article
the system of Ministerial Pre-
mier it endeavors to give effect to the recon-
for change of Ministry by under
valuing the efforts and the character of every
Minister of this country, past and present, that
i can call to mind, reserving only the "loyal /
md indefatigable Wyllie" And it winds up
with patriotic determination to forget in the /
emergency, past enmities and the chickering's of
years, in the following appeal. "And if our
will join with us in, sustaining
healthy public sentiment for reform of govern
nent, we may yet hope for the formation of
'esponsible Ministry and the establishment of
IN order of administration of public affairs, that
hall stand or fall only when it receives or is
lenied popular support" Who are they that
hus invoke popular support2 You must have
perceived, Gentlemen, that those who man
ged for you this Address, have in this whole
natter ignored the pure native element
hey have neglected to give due consideration
o that part of the Hawaiian population
which has really the most interest in the
natter, and the most right to be heard on this
Important question. This oversight, however
) to be explained, if those gentlemen were
lore strongly impressed with the advantages
7hich this~eountry viii derive from a change
Ministry, than the particular steps which
'ould be ultimately unnecessary for the intro
uction ofpeople. They have been literally
reckoning without their host" and it is a
,markable coincidence, Gentlemen, that any
ortion of the Press should at the same mo-
tent make the same mistake, and one of such
Magnitude. If to have another set of men at
lie head Of affairs, was the object of the trainers
your Address, as no doubt it was, it was n
rand mistake, mistake which ought to be,
nd which is, fatal, absolutely fatal, to any
I
resent moment, that there should not have been
1pended to it the name of one single man of
IRE Hawaiian blood.
There would seem to be also another re-
arkable omission in the get up" of this
ddress-the large aud important class of
echancs and others of foreign extraction in
onOlulu are not represented. Itwould surely
I'VE been proper that on question which it is
wv admitted on all hands, was mainly the de-
)ting as much Of the revenues of the country
possible for the importation of people and
Dor, those who pay their full share of the taxes
the country and add the. most to its wealth
ould have had voice. Here is another !
impact and united regiment Of men, whose
terests are identical, having many times
e numbers that you count, Gentlemen,
ID, who, may we not say, are perhaps your
uals in intelligence, and of whom at least it
ly certainly be said, that they possess,
Mems sana in eorpore sano,D who have been J
terly ignored in this affair, although they
We more direct interest in this question of
e importation Of labor than have many of
Ose who append their names to this Address.
1t this may yet be remedied if 1t was through
oversight that their names are not there,
when this Address may be supplemented
the signatures Of these men, and the sigma
res of such . fair proportion of the native :,
Iwaiians as may be entitled TO represent lie !
lple, need tell you, Gentlemen, how gladly
you'd then resign my portfolio and join you Z
helping whouisoeyer His Majesty might put 4
my place to accomplish as far as may be
1per, that in which you may consider have