The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-02-05
Mr.. Gibson's Address.

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E,o. the well-known proprietor of Lanai, who is
noted as a vigorous writer and an earnest friend of
the Hawaiians, issued an address to the people IN
English and Hawaiian, in which he offered them
some very sound advice, and ably reviewed the
national situation. We make room for two or three
paragraphs from the address. Several thousand
copies were printed aud circulated in the native Ian
guage, and some two hundred in English. We have
heard the opinion expressed in many quarters, that
the sentiments therein put forth by Mr.. Gibson have
made q salutary impression upon the native mind,
and had no small influence in producing the quiet
and good order that prevailed in the city on election
day.
You need new blood. You should mingle with
other races kindred to you, and become q re-invigor-
ated people. You have been SO long, SO many ages I
isolated in the great ocean, and have so long inter-
bred and associated in your narrow isles under the
destructive influences of polluting heathenism, that
your blood has become corrupt aud weakened, and
predisposed to receive and succumb to every new
disease that comes to desolate your beautiful islands.
The red people of Java do not suffer from foreign
disease any more. nay, not SO much as the Foreigners;
because the red people of Java have as healthy and
as vigorous O constitution as the foreigners. And
their vigor aud increase is owing to their being q
mixed people of kindred races, consisting of the an
Gent Jawi or Javanese stock of the Sundese, of
Malays, and of Hindoos the latter having founded a
great colony in Java, and constitute the bulk OF the
population of the island, which now numbers over
Is, 900, 900 red skins like you, and yet all are now
called Javanese. And were these Islands to gradu-
ally receive so 200 Hindoos and other red races,
kindred to the Hawaiian, the ~ofsprings of these new
people and of you native people would all be Hawai-
ians; and so your nam and race would continue to
possess this archipelago, even should you increase to
1000, 900 Of souls.
Therefore, why should you, Oh, Hawaians Occu-
by and disturb your minds over questions about a
loan, or = treaty, or even o succession to the throne,
which you cannot affect or change. Let your minds
dwell upon your sad condition as 4 ~decaying rem
nant Of a once numerous people. Listen not to the
lying talk of those who tell you that it is the pres
ence of the foreigner which causes your decline.
Look to your sad disproporlion of sex. The last
census in 1872 showed that there are nearly 1000
more males than females. 1000 men in a little COM
munity like this who cannot get wives Look at Hilo
in a population of 4 ,220. there are about 900 men
who must be without natural and lawful partners.
And notice Koolsupoko, on this island, where there
are l,224 men and 804 women How in such q
state of society can the men find helpmeets to in
. crease and multiply as God commanded ? They do
, not find them; but Oh, sorrow two and more men
f are content to live with mutual consent with one
, woman, under your miserable designation OF puma
= luas, and there are no children No troops of chill
= dren in Hawaii, and how can there be, when so
r many of your poor women are de6led and blighted
t with sterile wombs This is a woeful condition of
your race,-a condition which will not permit any
q hope Of improvement in fecundity or morality; but
/ it affords this hope, that it is a state of things which
t if properly represented to Christian nations like
. Great Britain, having the control of populations of a
= stock suited for your national physical recuperation,
: would strongly and efectually appeal to their en-
r ~lightened and philauthropic spirit to induce them to
y grant to Hawaii every opportunity for increase Of
o people which the demoralized and declining state oi
q this country requires. = +
o And thus I would speak unto your King Oh
y Chief successor of the Great Kamehameha, and
seated on the Hawaiian Throne; though your state
It be small, and the least among the family of nations
n vet your opportunity for renown as an i~llustrioui
o ruler is as great, as if you governed millions Of souls
y OF YOU and of your government there will be ex
s pected by all thoughtful men of the civilized WorlC
re some wise, patriotic, and faithfully pursued policy
K for the cherishing and increase of your people; ane
that such policy will be held paramount to any othel
questions, whether of trade or finance, or other par
d ticular interests Of the country. And you, on
people must strengthen the hands of your KIM
= with cheerful service and q Jealous loyalty. AM
t. then you, united with true hearted and loyal foreign
ers, can all join together as a strong and harmoni
q ously blended little community in the building up G
sr Hawaii. We can with union and wise cooperation
ut stop the prevailing wall Of death with the voices G
T, increasing people. We can with more women c
so chaste races to be found and got by the seeking
n have more fruitful unions and gladden. with mar
~ riages the land SO saddened with funerals. We ca
make our lonely valleys resound joyously with tn
1t clsmor of little children. We can enliven once NOR
IT, the now silent shores of Hawaii with a throngin
and a busy people. And then when on electric CAP
D. unites us to our neighbOring continent and to til
let rest of the world; and when the fleets Of the Paclt
e. rendezvous in our port of Honolulu, and the trafhci
I'd ing and travelling nations fill our marts with wealt
H. gathered from all quarters of the globe.-then ma
p little Hawaii, the least, be one of the most biest
III the family of nations; and being strong in her Chri
~ tan, moral and enlightened attitude. sit royalty
10 the Queen of the great ocean, and shine forth as
y" proud and redeemed state before an admiring world,
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