The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-06-10

transfers h. money within a week O. Hnuululp 20
De sent t8 Celestial China; and alter aHothrr week
be solicits from bis employer an order on The STORE
t0r bis necessary lamp oil or tobacco Every CIT
urs- retail dsa. rr. after having failed in business.
perhaps two ur three times when be- has accsmh-
lated q certain amount ui cash. returns Co N"ina.
No tir can bind tbc Chinrsr 90 any country. lie
comes aud mArrlsr. aud when his denominations
age sufficient leaves Nifr ard children 90 return 90
bis home Ia China. All biz labors OF 40 least tbe
proceeds 81 o.. are no benefit tn this country but n
decided injury. by drawing from % The specie that
might have built mp enterprises OF lasting bvnrht
TO the country.
Let the native Hawaiian who has 50 few re-
sources from which 20 earn a living by iDdepend-
ent labor. ind the cultivation Of POTATOES q source
OF scant Income. and hundreds Of Chinese cock
reaches rush into the business. Let reciprocity
make rice culture as profitable a. sugar, AID IN a
few years the Chinese cockroach will have every
rood Of rice land by fair or foul means from the
native land owners. tn every taro patch IL con
yerted into rice land. and natives are LETT TO siaIve
for want Of their national food, and What benefit
will the 100000 or S300.O0O imported for our
rice crop by the Industry OF Chinese be 20 the
country Every dollar will End its way 10 China,
and when the lands are worn out and useless,
when the lemon is squeezed. the Chinese will leave
the rind 10 an impoverished people, which was 50
foolish. 50 void OF common sense. a. 10 permit
them TO transfer the kernel 20 their home and
throwing the husk 10 the native owners Of the soil.
We desire 10 repOpulate the islands, bat by all
means let our immigrants be the bee. Instead 81
the c0Ckroach.
The mechanic who earns from two dollars Go
three dollars per day by his labor and supports a
respectable family, who look 10 this country as a
home for their children. l. displaced by the Chinese
WHO works for one-iouTth II the white mans price.
and while the former spends bis income ia the
country OF his adoption, the Chinese cockr0ach
by his miserly economy, aud the
country loses not only that amount amassed, but
an enlightened FAMILY and its income are driven
from the country.
have ASHAMED altogether from considering the
Chinese question from a moral stand point, being
that the above remarks will remain
equally good for every well wisher OF these islands.
Every father who looks for a home for his children;
every native who desires the independence Of his
native land. must have the earnest desire 10 be pro-
tected from the incursions Of these Asiatic %leeches.
mighty curse to the progress aud prosperity OF
Hawaii nei. and the remnant Of A race that was
once numerous and prosperous.
IL would be unwise TO prohibit cheap labor
(while labor is SO much needed) from entering the
country, but II labor desires e. enter the country,
It Is not more than the common good demands. that
labor is and remains available labor. IL Is a
a more than lunatic action. 90 Introduce
cheap laborers into the country at a great expense.
TO allow them. after a few years, and as soon as
they have become useful as labOrers. by having
learned the labor required Of them. to leave the
labor for which they were imported, to prey upon
the community. and Us the cockroach dehles every
thing eata5le in a pantry, TO gnaw at every indus
try by which valuable citizens, skilled aud reliable
and native owners of their native soil.
AaNtA ~ NthE ~ 49, 49, AANEN ~ ~
that to avoid the future popular wrath Of an injur-
ed and long-sufering people. our Representatives.
mindful of the best interests of their country. will
advocate a law prohibiting the presence in this
country of Chinese. otherwise than as hired Labor
ers on fields. OF as domestic servants; a law which
the giving of any kind OF license TO Chi
nese. and prohibits the renewal of all licenses at
present in force. after their expiration, except H.
censes TO wholesale merchants and importers.
Let all Chinese be prohibited from holding
lands by purchase, lease or rental, and all Chinese,
two months after the proclamation Of such a
law, are found unhired, be set TO work by the gov
at public labor, at twenty-five cents per
day, until a sufficient amount has been thus earned
by them to pay their passage back to China. Such
a law. strictly enforced, would make labor more
permanent, and the country would be cleansed
from a sore that is every day eating more deeply
its life.
Self preservation is the first natural law Of indi-
Viduals, and no less Of nations. To continue
Chinese immigration, with an idea TO repopulation,
would be the conception of the brain OF a lunatic;
As no person can possibly be ignorant OF the fact
hat for every life added TO the population by
nter-marriage Of Chinese with native women. others
have been sent to untimely graves through
Chinese immoralities and Chinese vices, before un-
known in this country.
Respectfully submitted to the consideration Of
he public, by your humble servant, ii.