The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-03-18

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esty, dated Fe65onTy 22d, 1876:
GENTLEMEN.-Although His Maiesty's Min
listers have already replied to the Address to
His Majesty, which you presented to him on
the 18th ultimo, and which reply they con-
sidered due TO you, and have there met, as
they believe, the main points referring to the
subject of repOpulation, there are still other
important aspects of your Address which the
situation demands should be clearly under
stood both by you, Gentlemen, and the public,
and Ibopo that what I have now TO saw with
reference to it, may not be considered by YOU
either uncalled for, or altogether Improbable.
1t must be now evident to all of you, al
though no clear and unmistakable language to
this effect may be found in it, that the general
tenor of your Address as it reads, not Gentle
men, as perhaps you all intended, is to i'm
press upon His Majesty, that there are very
important national ends and objects which His
Ministers were expected to accomplish, and
in which they have failed, and that great dan
ger to the prosperity and independence of this
country, has arisen in consequence of this
failure, and that therefore His Majesty would
do well to call to his aid those who might
be more successful in future. This, Gen
tlemen, is a legitimate object, and one which
your duty to your Sovereign and to your coun-
try NAV often call upon you TO endeavor to &C
cOmplish. Neither would it be always neces-
sary in order to give effect to your wishes, al
though perhaps desirable, to be either precise
or correct in your reasons for recommending
such a change, for it might well be the case,
that your object was not to inauguTate inter
minable discussions about measures and poll
cies, but to have placed at the head of affairs,
men who would be more successful in effecting
what you require, than in explaining why they
have not done so. This is virtually what
your Address CONVEYS, and whatever views
many of you really had on this point, a public
document of this character and gravity must
be held to mean just whatever may be fairly
gathered from its contents.
L address you In my own name now, because,
as you are well aware, one of my colleagues
has only Just arrived in the country, another
has only recently joined us, whilst the third
was not called to office till a comparatively
late day, and they cannot justly be held respon-
sible for the failure to accomplish objects which
if accomplished at all, must have been mainly
brought about through agencies, instituted be-
fore they Joined the Cabinet.
Your Address Gentlemen, calls His Majesty's
attention to two great points. namely: the I'M
p~ortancc of staying the decline of the native
race, and the Importance of acquiring new peo-
pIe from abroad. AS the measures which have
to be adopted for each of these ends are clearly
distinct, it is we'll to keep them so in our
minds. For, when considering what measures
we shall adopt, it merely tends to confuse the
question and to mislead us. to assume that the
importation of Asiatic races will assist in re-
cuperating the Hawaiian race, or, TO speak
more correctly, will produce a mixed race
which shall have more vitality than the Ha-
waiian, an affirmation, which as you Will per-
ceive on reflection, Is open to the gravest ques-
ton. There are then really two separate and
distinct ends and objects, one to save the Ha-
waiian race, another, to import a foreign one.
I am we'll aware, Gentlemen, that although
these two questions are by no means very
clearly separated in many parts OF your Ad-
dress, and the solemn invocation OF a former
sovereign for one of these objects is made use
81 nc anDJyinor 70 hoth- Won did not intend
to suggest to His Majesty to change His Min
listers because they had failed IN staying the
decrease of the Hawaiian race, which has been
steadily proceeding for nearly, perhaps fully,
a century, nor because they had neglected any
thing that the laws of this country and the ap-
preparation of money for sanitary purposes,
rendered possible, nor indeed that they had
neglected anything which you, as a body, or
the majority of you had recommended, or were
prepared to recommend them to attempt with
that object. No, Gentlemen, the failure OF the
Ministry which you put forward IN sufficiently
clear terms, is, that they have not induced as
many Asiatics and others TO migrate to this
country, as you consider they might have in
duced. What you claim as the lnactlon OF
His Maiesty's Ministers in not importing peo-
pie is the one great ground OF your complaint,
the head and front of their offending.
You also state, Gentlemen, or at least you
leave it to be inferred, as l have already said,
that there can be no doubt that we may recu-
perate the hawaiian race Dy lHlIOuuCAhS
other having affinity to it, and which race pos
sessing that affinity exists in Asia, and further
that although there may be difficulties IN OBJ
tanning such a people those difficulties can be
overcome by proper management: Here are
three separate and distinct athrmatlons.
With respect to the two last L have little TO
add to what His Maiesty's Government has
already stated, but it is only just and proper
that it should be clearly placed before you,
Gentlemen, and before His Majesty, and before
the people of this country, with regard to the
FIRST affirmation, what most of you will on q
little reflection admit, that the introduction
into this country of any considerable number OF
men and women of any of the Asiatle races or
of any race whatever, having more vitality
than the HawaiianS or than the folyheslahs,
land all this is assumed in the premises, OIL
would be useless to bring them at ALL would
to say the east. be Just as likely to help to
exterminate this Hawaiian race, to annlhliate
this d" interesting people," their language and
their associations, as it would be to "recupe-
rate'' them by matchmaking with them. And
yet Gentlemen, have you not been led, 1T may
he unwittingly, III one passage OF your Address
TO convey the idea to His Majesty, that any
one who doubted the proposition that the Ha-
waiian race could be so recuperated would be
80 false to the best interests of this country,
false to the cause of Hawaiian independence,
and disloyal to His Majesty hoyal stare ana
Again Gentlemen it cannot have escaped the
notice of many of you that in an Address of
which the main object contemplated is the ex-
of public money in importing large
numbers of men and women of a foreign race
and LANGUAGE. and in which question the Ha-
waiian race must be so especially interested,
both as to matters of fact and of sentiment
and they are entitled to be consulted IN both
it would have been eminently proper that they
should have been largely represented, and II
must now strike every one as remarkable that
there appears the name Oc one man only ap-
pended to your Address who can claim any
She least drop, of Hawaiian blood.
Upon the principle with which l set out,
that a document of this sort must be held to