The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-05-27
SHALL WE INTRODUCE NOR.
CHINESE

+ An appropriation of fifty thousand dollars has
been asked for by the Ministry under the
heading of encouragement TO agriculture and
immigration = but as the context shows plainly,
this means, encouragement to the Importation of
Chinese. A covert fling at the "Memorialists, -
who opposed the idea of any further importation
of Chinese, is the preface to the proposition in
the Ministerial Budget, and we are informed,
that although, ga Memorial, signed by a large
number of respectable and influential people.
was presented to His Majesty, urging the nee
essity of taking measures looking to the impor-
tation of other Asiatics than Chinese, =
His Maiesty's Government is not aware of any
such race, and cannot therefore encourage the
Legislature to vote money in aid of a scheme
which is believed to be chimerical. Still
further we are informed that, "to give up
bringing Chinese, whom we know we can obtain,
in hope of obtaining a more desirable people
from other parts of Asia, of whom we know
little or nothing, and in attempting which we
may meet with failure, would seem to be to lose
the substance in grasping at the shadow"
We much doubt, if argument and fair means
only are used, that any intelligent Hawaiian in
the Legislative Assembly will be persuaded to
FObO " AtAC my OAAdiS "a OfSh q
quarter of that sum, for the further immigration
of Chinese into this country. There is no
native, or other foreigner living on these Islands
who has not felt the mistake that has been made
in the importation of these Asiatics, and the
Memorialists, few in number, but large in
intelligence, expressed the popular feeling in this
regard, when they said that instead of a
systematic effort to repeople these Islands by the
introduction of a coguate race that would
amalgamate with the Hawaiian, the government
bad endeayored only to procure "a few Chinese
male laborers to subserve the
interests of a particular industry" A ~foretaste
has been had in this very city of the evil which
portends, and which is charging its dimensions
as time rolls on.
To-day we have about FIVE hundred Chinese in
Honolulu, and not more than a thousand
foreigners of all other nationalitles and with a
prospect under the present dispensation that the
Chinese shall form a still larger proportion!9 The
Hawaiian feels their baleful influence in the
contamination Of their natural unchastity, and
the habits conducive of social and physical ruin
they are everywhere introducing among the
women of Hawaii, with whom alone, for the
mere qualification of Imperative animalism, they
seek to mate. The empire which has preserved
in her people an identity of physical and moral
qualities unbroken and unchanged during the
lapse of thousands of years, by the transmogri-
flying effects of wars and invasions, and by the
contact of superior civilization, is not the one to
send out people to be easily, or ever, moulded to
the requirements of q distant and q different race
as are the Hawaiians. The foreign mechanics,
other than Chinese, feel their balefuI influence in
their theft of trades and their cheaper working
of the same. They cannot compete with men
who require for food only a pound of rice, and
perhaps, a rat, per diem, which costs but a few
cents. when they themselves require many times
that amount to maintain them.
We see by the census of 1872, that out of two
thousand Chinese, most of whom have been
imported to labor on plantations, about one
quarter of the total number are in Honolulu
in fact Honolulu is fast becoming a Chinese
town, as the numerous stores stocked with every
variety of merchandise and products of home
industry will attest to any observer.
The remark, frequently made that a cinnamon
can begin business with 4 bunch of bananas, a
stick of sugar-cane, and a watermelon, and at
the end of a year, have a five thousand dollars