The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-01-27

20 laborers willing to work on shares Does your
neighborhoOd offer any especial opportunity wherein
capital or q government subsidy might be employed
to advantage to develop the resources Of the country
and attrac; immigration - Now these and ether
for;y-seven equally pertinent enquiries. issued in =
circular called forth a very general response, en-
bracing much varied and valuable information,
which was embodied il q report published in July.
1874. In this d0cumen at page 10 the following
remarks are made, SAG set forth in the numerous
reports Tor replies to eaquiries) that the Secretary CT
tae Society has received, many planters and other
landholders are ready to offer land On shares, and
would afford to satisfactory immigrants an oPpor-
tanity to establish themselves and secure q comforta-
bic home without any immediate outlay on their
part In this report furthermore, not only the
opportunities for favorable settlement, but all the
various cultures IS adapted to this country were
fully set forth; and | may say that the Information
vas sufficiently precise to warrant the government
at that time, or subsequently,, TO take action in this
matter without farther enquiry.
But let me add that whilst the enquiries OF the
Immigration Sociey had reference to information
bearing upon the pan Of settlement in this country
of u class of immigrants, such as "msde the United
States prosperous, and whose presence might i'm
prove the country socially :" as well as " add to the
value of estates, . yet it had also in view the immi-
grafton of races with which the indigenous and nu-
merically and politically superior race Of the arehi-
pelago might associate and amalgamate. And it
also kept steadily ia view the lamentable fact of the
of these islands, aad urged that in order to equalise
this disprOpOrtiOn among apeOpls of apparent Asiatic
origin. that it was desirable and no doubt necessary
70 saaL far noa1aI o,ru; ~ raon1a o.nao;.IIy
females, among Asiatic stocks. No thinking man
resident N this kingdom can doubt the Importance
of making efforts, such as have been made by the
collection and presentation of information, to induce
industrious and worthy families with small means to
leave Europe or America in order to help the ad-
vancemnt Of these islands, and obtain for them
selves iealthful homesteads and q competence. But
il also must be borne in mind that there is q Hawai-
ian people whose spirit of race and whose tastes
must Ie consulted. It is true they are weak and
would De if alone, almost helpless in the march Of
civilization. Yet after all it is mainly by their sweat
and tGl, and Of such as they are that this realm is
susta ned, and has an export and q revenue which
command consideration abroad. Therefore whilst q
Board of Immigration endeavor to induce to come
and to bring here husbandmen and artisans to
strengthen and advance the important European
colony in these isles, yet they must not neglect the
requirements of the native population. Public men
of Hawaii will be hdd to account by the enlighten-
ment of the world N this matter; and 1 will say
moreover, that whilst efforts in the way of material
progress and the settlement of the European in the
Pacific will receive a proper need of praise; yet no
success of enhanced estates and of increased export.
and no trophies of material prosperity will condOne
for the neglect of all proper means for the preserva-
ton and increase Of the Polynesian race and indi-
genous masters of this archipelago. E
WALTER NJ. GIBSON,
S.c'y Haw'n Immigration Society.
Lahaina, January "a, 1877.