The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1876-03-08

"be well suited for complete assimilation with the
race that peoples this archipelago"
For gentlemen, we understand and His Majesty
understands your address to mean, that il is not
only men that may be required for the immediate
wants of our agricultursts that you desire should be
introduced, but men and women of kindred race F"
to the Hawaiians, by which they may "gain an
infusion Of fresh blood, and so be preserved. This
may truly be part of the great problem TO be solved,
but the undersigned in the name Of His Majesty s
Ministers would feel much difidence about holding
out any very confident hopes that they will be able
soon to accomplish such very important and desira-
bic result although it is encouraging to learn from
you, that in your opinion - the vast hive Of Asia
invites us to recuperaie our Asiatic and tropical
population from its teemiDg millions, " and
we shall find the consanguneous athnities we need
in the overpeopled plains Of British India, in the
swarming Isles Of the great Malay Archipelago, in
the noble Empire Of Japan, so youthful in its ciyi-
zaon, and in other countless hordes Of the industr-
and prolific races Of the great and parent CONT
nent Of the world"
The difficulty would seem TO be then in your opin-
ion, gentlemen, to select out of profuson Of choice
from the kindred peoples ofAsa, the population which
we require to recuperate the Hawaiian II cannot
however afford any real assistance to the object we
have at heart to take too sanguiue view Of the po
stion. Let glance at the Continent Of Asia, and
its great archipelagOes First and nearest TO lies
sdered akin to the Hawaiians, and whom all
agree would be very desirable immigrants. Efforts
have been made by former Governments TO bring
them-some were brought-but as you all know
most of them had to be sent back again at the
quest of the japanese Government. NotWithstand-
ing this failure, the different Governments since
then, have been persistent in their enquiries Of our
Charge Afaires there, as to whether any prospect
appeared Of our being able TO bring japanese immi-
grants The answer has been as persisently-No
The Minister Of Foreign Affairs published in the
newspapers of this city, only few weeks ago. the
latest reply to his enquiries this subject from
Charge in Japan and in which he positively stated,
that present there hope whatever of obtain
ing immigrants from there One Of our Charges,
Mr. De Long, in 1873, resigned that position in Japan
on account Of the efforts of the Hawaiian Govern
ment to obtain japanese laborers through his inu-
aud aid. Notwithstanding these rebus, the Op-
portunity may arise Of obtaining Japanese aud if it
does, it will not be neglected by His Majesys Gov
eminent. But gentlemen, when in your address
you refer to the noble Empire Of Japan as the source
for recuperating population, you must be under
stood to mean that the japanese are, also be-
lieVe desirable immigrants, not that it has been
hitherto, that it appears TO be in the future,
practicable to get them, for the circumstances Of the
difficulties connected with the Japanese immigrants
too recent for you to have forgotten them What
might have been accomplished in this case by the
exercise of more faithful and intelligent dipom-
acy," which you seem TO infer may have been ig-
nored or neglected, the undersigned cannot under
take to say;-and although no doubt there may
readily be found amongst US men possessed of more
persuasive ability than His Majestys Ministers
pretend to, some amongst you will perhaps be pre-
pared to admit, the result of dear bought expert
ence, that it is easier task to persuade imm-
grants TO come to these Islands than to persuade
them to stop, when you get them here.
But to continue review Of Asia. We need only
glance at the map to that the shores of that great
continent nearest to us are occupied almost entirely
by China-that astonishing Empire whose people
have not only maintained their existence, may We
not say, a civilized nation from long before the
time when our ancestors we're covering their bodies
with war paint, but who are now by far the most
numerous separate people the face Of the earth,
and who to-day overlooking, not only into all the
neighboring Archipelago Of Malaysia, but are hold
ing their own an industrious people amongst and
in spite of the a hoOdlums - of California, and the
roughs - Of Australia. 1t is Chinese who con-
struced the railroads of Peru, have dug the coal
mines of Borneo nay, they have been in request to
build the railroads in Bengal the very home of the
cheap Hindoo laborer. 1t seems, TO say the least,
unfortunate for His Majesty's Government that of
all the vast hive of ASIA of all the industrious and
prolific Of the great and parent continent of
the world, the Chinese, who are the only people
which the government has found it practicable to in
duce to migrate TO these islands, should be the only
Asiatcs which you, gentlemen, should especially OBJ
ect to. All the other countless hordes Of Asiat-
les you prepared to welcome and in view of the
highly respectable character of the signatures to the
address now under reply, the members of His Maj
estys Cabinet feel grieved that their efforts TO do
what they best could under the circumstances should
have signaly failed to be satisfactory to those for
whose benefit they considered they we're more espec-
tally taking this responsibility But what they still
more regret, is to find that you consider that the in
PRODUCTION Of Chinese must, from their unchaste
character, aggravate the sterility Of Hawaiian
women. If this be true, the introduction Of Chinese
should be stopped instanter. 1t is no doubt true
that the dsproportion Of the is evil in any
country, but it is period Of trial which many eoun-
tries have Of necessity to pass through, and from
which they recover in due time In remembering
the evil doings of some of the worst Of the Chinese
however, we should bear in mind that an outcry
would probably be made when low Chinese is dis
covered shining, when the game crime would hardly
call for remark amongst similar class Of natives
We should also bear in mind the fact that some Of
the largest families which have been borne to Ha-
waiian women have been by Chinese fathers and
that even the lower orders of Chinese, and we say
this with regret, are, we believe, reckoned by the
Hawaiian women &c make faithful and attentive
husbands than the similar class Of HaWaiiaps. The
progeny also Of these two races seems so far to con-
firm your view that the mingling of HaWaiians and
Asiatic blood may prove success, far at least as
the Chinese are concerned OF the result Of o union
with other Asiatics, of the less robust Hndoo for in
stance, with Hawaiian woman, we have little
experiences it is to be hoped that such an experience
may be soon afforded.
The next portion of Asia which presents itself is,
as you justly term them, the swarmng isles of the
great Malay Archipelago The attention of sll the
different Hawaiian Cabinets has been repeatedly
called to this part of the globe as q region from
whence to draw our much desired population, and
the records Of the correspondence Of our Foreign
Office show that as repeatedly, enquiries for definite
on the subject have been made by the |
government. The undersigned may also state that
they have taken some pains to ascertain what we're
the chances Of in this quarter and the result
of their enquiries agrees with the experience Of the
Hawaiian Cabinets before them that the idea of OBJ
tanning population from thence is entirely vision
airy. The latest letters from our Charge d'Afaires |
in London, Mr.. Manly Hopkins, confirm those pre-
viously received from Mr.. Variguy, Dr. Hillebrand |
and others who have been especially directed to make
every inquiry this subject; and all leads to the
conclusion that the Malay Archipelago cannot be |
looked to as a source of population for Hawaii The
broad fact that the Dutch in Sumatra and Java and
the English in Queensland and the Fijis which are
close by, cannot, notwithstanding
their great anxiety 10 do So make those Malaysian
populations available, is an evidence that we ut this
great distance would probably meet with no better
success. His Majesty's Government consider that
after all the enquiries which have been made by
previous Cabinets and by the Board Of Immigration
IN this subject, only to learn again and again that it
s Improbable to obtain people from thence, it is
low time that this " VIII O. the Wisp'' should be
inally removed from before the eyes of this commu-