The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-03-25
R~ejOinder to Minister for Foreign Affairs
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>AeFcl- hey uct't an ansWcr, As they cmAnat
from the Minister for Foreign Affairs. And As l Ia!
all personal feeling aside, I attack the principles an,
not the maB.
The Minister supports the opinion that the intro
duetion Of people Of q more vitality" than the Ia
waiian is just IS likely to e1termina,e, as to recu
perate this nlsresfing people" Now very
likely the vitality Of the white foreigner and Of tn
ye!lOw Mongolian; being too violent a cross for tht
Hawaiian. may help more TO exterminate than recu.
perate the aborigines, and an avowed annexationist
may say, this is a eOnsummation devoutly TO b
wished. But kindred races coming together,
though one may have more vitality than another,
viii reinvigorste. and not destroy identity Of race
The population Of Java, which numbered about two
millions when Europeans fret assumed 8 political
control in that island, and now numbers over fifteen
millions IS Tie resas2f 3 fusion Of Hindu COlonists
with the aboriginal Kavi, aud SInuee $780, and
still called Javanese. The powerful Achinese peo-
pie who recently resisted the power Of the Neither
lands are a fusion of kindred races;-Malsys, Killings
and Arabs, with ancient Achihs. But why 60 TO
Asia for instances, when We have in the British
Island an Illustration Of increased vitality and num-
bers resulting from n fusion Of kindred races. for;
saxon and Norman and Dane are We"
and still as of old, the name of Briton is retained.
The statement made in the = Ministerial reply -
signed by Mr.. Green, that Hawaiian women are
more prolific in association with Chinamen than with
-Hawaiians, is an assurance that greater vitality, as
assumed in respect to the Chinese, is a guarantee
of more progeny, and as no one expects TO preserve
the isolated Hawaiian in perfect purity Of aboriginal
blood, let us have new races, even ifpossessiug more
vitality than the native. But one would reasonably
suppose, that a man who derives all his official con-
sequence from the favor Of a Hawaiian King, and
whose opportunities of emolument and competence,
are mainly based upon the labor and support Of the
Hawaiian People, would be prompted by q sense Of
honor, and of grateful acknowledgment. even if in
different to any humanitarian or philanthrophic
view of the case, to strive in any endeaVors to be
made TO strengthen, restore, or "recuperate" this
kingdom, that such recuperation, should be if posi-.
BILE by the help of a people, who would most readily
assimilate, as Kamehameha ", desired, with the
Hawaiians, and be the least likely to destroy their
identity hereafter as a Polynesian race. An honor
able Minister, and a loyal servant of the King GER
tainly would not be content to say, let population
come from any quarter as the result of commercial
advantages, even if the new people oVerrun the old.
This may not be an improper sentiment for a stran-
ger merely seeking fortne in this country, but it is q
disloyal one in " His HaWaiian Majesty's Minister"
"Seif interest - says the Minister " must be our
main resource for repeOpling these islands. Must,
it indeed? What an offensive must. Self interest
would no doubt utilize apes, if they really were more
available and profitable for certain industries than
men; but a government, the fostering and protect
ing power of a people should rise superior to self in
terest, and holding man, and the souls of men
greater than any amount of material
progress, should make self interest some higher
purpose than merely to fill its own pocket.
The Government of this country should care
more for the family and the homestead, than
for field gangs and plantation quarters. 1t should
provide for women and for little ones;-it should
regulate labor and instruction, and if all this should
require som sacrifice on the part of self interest. it
should say in the name of humanity, this must be
done.
The Minister furthermore says it is a " delicate
matter - to go to the Hawaiian Legislature "to ask
them for liberal grants of money with the object of
introducing a foreign people" l should think il
would be both difficult and " delicate - hereafter to
get money from Hawaiian Legislators for ~immigra-
And why2 Because Ministers, not only of
this reign, but during the reign of Kamehameha v,
have connived at a misapplication Of public funds,
intended for immigration, and have allowed them
to be squandered for other purposes in q way that
Is almost embezzlement Of public funds. Such a
Of revenue would be 80 treated in some
However, as | do not undertake now to
tx the onus of this peryersion or embezzlement of
public monies upon any person, l will only say, that
hope, when the Minister brings again the " deli
cate matter " of a bill for an appropriation for i'm
before the Legislature, that Legislators
will hold to a stern account, whoever is responsible
or the misapplication of the sum of fifty thousand
lollars, so literally provided for immigration. Per-
maps an awakened Legislature may see fit " to go
nto an investigation, and " manage the matter " in
a way that will be very satisfactory to the pub
ic, however much a few designing Ministers " may
and rave - on the subject.
And when the Minister suggests that native Legis-
ators may regard the introduction of a foreign peo-
lie, as calculated " to reduce the value of their own
,eople's labor he can hardly believe a word of
THAT he says. He knows that increase of people,
will bring increase of production, of consumption, of
markets, and of course of wages, as has already
AIKEN place in these islands, in consequence Of the
Incoming of more people. Then why should he al
ude to what he cannot believe? 1t may be thata
pirit that would acquiesce in the perversiOn of pub
c funds, would be ready to pander, for the sake of
elf interest, to a popular prejudice.
But let me conclude. The Minister has been sup
osed to be a man of some culture and enlarged
Jews; yet 1 regret to say that his letter under con-
in its clumsily involved paragraphs, de-
,~reciates his literary character, and the absence of
ny expression of bopefulness, or endeavor in q COM
~osition, that overfows with an ebullition Of temper,
an impression of narrowness Of soul. The pub
c,-the earnest and hopeful portion. had expected
etter things at the hands Of this Minister Of State,
TO be denied all hone in respect to the reno
ulation of this country; and those who wished him
ell have been grieved to see him arrogate his Off
ial consequence in such a manner, as to say virtu-
lily, that this or that public question, shall be taken
p by him, or let alone, independent of any opinion
-hich his peers and former associates in the land
hall form. This dictation surprises both friends
nd foes; and leads them to exclaim: "On what /
leats doth this our Cesar feed ~ What hath be