The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-12-08

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already alluded to this subject in preceding issues
of this journal, and we again feel it our impera-
tive duty to call the attention of government to
the immediate necessity of putting some barrier
to this crying evil. We consider it hardly nee
essary to discuss the matter from the point Of
view of the immortality of allowing SO many
male Chinese, mostly young men, to congregate
on these Islands, with hardly any of the opposite
Eek amongst them the danger and injury to the
native Hawaiian women consequent thereon is
fragrant and mournful to contemplate. especially
when the excess of the male over the female
natives of these Islands is also taken into account.
The coming year, 1873, is fixed for the taking of
the next census, which, as most people know,
periodically occurs once in six years according to
law, the last census having been taken in De-
cember 1872. The total number of Chinese
women on the Islands at that time-fiVe years ago,
was only 10Y, while the male Chinese then
amounted to 1881. For twelve months more,
we must remain without any reliable official in
formation concerning the numbers of male and
female Chinese at present on these Islands but
we may, however, infer that very little increase
has taken place during those five years past in
the number Of Chinese women, while the influx
of male Chinese during the same period may be
calculated by thousands. Five years ago the
native women on all these Islands were only o.
GA, while the male natives were &c, $780,, show
ing an excess at that time of the male over the
female natives of 3,2l6 natives. In twelve
months, it is likely that it shall appear from the
returns of the next census, that the excess of the
native males over the native females has largely
increased, as we'll as that the native race has
considerably diminished. Now, it is absolutely
hideous-tO give it a mild name-to calculate
the harm that the presence of 30 many hundreds,
nay thousands, of single young Cinnamon on
these Islands, without women of their own race,
must have occasioned to the native women of the
Hawaiian race, during those past five years.
What is truly astonishing is, that the Hawaiian
ministry, since 1872, with those startling figures
of only 10Y C~hinawomen to 1881 Cinnamon be-
fore their eyes, appear to have been standing
with their arms a-kimbo, contemplating with
stolid indifference, or worse still, with conscious
dereliction of their duty, the brutality, from a
physiological point of view, to say nothing of
moral responsibility, of simply abandoning those
unfortunate Hawaiian females to the inevitable
result of intercourse with thousands of minated
young Cinnamon. Such has been the plain state
of the case for five long years, without going
back any farther into the history of this mon
strous state of affairs. Not long since, a young
Hawaiian was capitally executed for taking the
life of a Chinaman who was married to a native
Hawaiian female. Apart from our general dis
APPROVAL of capital punishment under all circum-
stances, we thought at the time that the very
fat olnna IF Tho habitat nf q (hInarn N
with a native Hawaiian female, was a state of
things likely to lead to bloodshed at the hands of
a native Hawaiian male when we remember the
scarcity of Hawaiian females. The executive
seemed to lose sight of this circumstance or to at
tach no importance to it and the capital sentence
was carried out on the culprit-juetly perhaps.
From information received, We believe that the
executive may very likely he called upon to en-
force more sentences of a like ~Aagitious nature,
because, in view of the tide of male Chinese inn
migration flowing necessarily upon these shores
without a single female Chinese along with them
a storm of Indignation is brewing in the midst of
the native race Of these Islands, which may sud-
denly burst upon this government, and cause the
most terrible disasters. We are assured that the
inactivity or indifference of the executive in this
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Hawaiian females from Chinese pollution, is re-
garded by some of the most enlightened people
here as positively degrading to a civilized gov
eminent. We regret to be obliged to endorse
this opinion. There is really no excuse for this
government in allowing this constant influx of
male Chinese without women. In a former arti-
Gle, we suggested that no more Cinnamon should
be allowed to land here, unless married
men. We raise no special objection to the arri-
val Of married cinnamon but it is now the duty
of this government to stop the further influx of
single Cinnamon. If some step of this kind is
not taken by government, we are led to expect
from the information afforded US, that very de-
plorable consequences will eventually result,
even eliminating in bloodshed. Now, this
would be a great ~iniquity, because, OIL course,
young Cinnamon are not to blame for coming
here, to seek their fortune, as the saying is and
some Cinnamon in this community are unex-
ceptionable, even protesting christianity.
Hence We solemnly warn the head of this gov
ernment,-but, indeed, We now recall that this
government has no head, about which moro
anon-orw homsoever is responsible in this case,
against the danger Of allowing this glaring evil
to grow beyond endurance. 1t would be mon
strous to witness in this peaceable community
those disgraceful scenes which have recently been
enacted in California. Yet here the grievance
against the Chinaman is even more calculated
to stir up such feelings. inasmuch as the morality
Of the Hawaiian women is in question.
Personally, We are animated by no antipathy
or prejudice against the Chinese, who are as in
dustrious a people as any other under the sun
but, unfortunately for themselves, they emigrate
from their own country without bringing their
own women with them. Very seldom, too, or
never, in most cases, do the male Cinnamon
abroad ever think of sending home for wives, as
other emigrants in foreign lands do. They are
not much given to family life,-not that some
few, who become fathers by foreign women are
not very kind to their offspring. But, as a rule,
being pagans, the Cinnamon, of course, have no
idea of christian morality. Now, in this coun-