The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-08-11

isterlDg their own bIrth-rlght. Ihls 10 d uutJ
which is imperatively incumbent upon them.
The children of whites born in the country,
those Of mixed race, and the native HawaIians
all constitute one and the same nationality. 10
them belongs the country, and upon them falls
the onus of conducting its government, ana pro-
noting its future progress. Already the sons OF
Hawaii nei have given evidence Of talents and
abilities ouch as are unsurpassed by the most
favored nations. At the present time, a worthy
son of the soil occupies, with ability and credit,
a most important diplomatic role, at the Courts
Of England and Germany. Other Hawaiians OF
pure or mixed race, are not wanting as evidences
of the capacity of the people of this country to
take their stand amongst the nations.
But, it is necessary that the Hawaiians,
whether of pure or mixed race, or children of
whites, should become impressed with the re-
sponsibility that rests upon their shoulders unit
eddy, of taking the control and management ofthe
business of the country into their own hands.
For this end, it is highly desirable that, hence
forward, Hawaii nei should lose as few of her
youthful sons and daughters as possible.
AS we have remarked, the canc-growing in
dustry holds forth very excellent opportunities to
young men, not only as growers, but in various
other capacities. Thus sugar boilers and good
engineers are wanted upon all the plantations,
where steam engines and machinery are at work.
Then, clerks and overseers are needed, and, in
short, numbers of young men have now n fair
chance of profitable employment on the sugar
plantations of these islands. These are situa-
tions in which it is highly desirable that the
sons of the soil should be engaged, and to fill
which they certainly have the first claim. But,
for such places training is requisite, and here it
becomes the duty of the country itself to seek to
train up it's youth henceforward in such n man
ner as to enable them to fill the situations which
the country offers. 1t is highly desirable that
the training Of the youth of the country. of both
sexes, should henceforward be done in the
country itself. The divines, the lawyers, the
physicians and surgeons Of the country should be
educated in the country, not abroad. Young
ladies, instead of being sent to foreign schools,
should be brought up in first class seminaries in
this country. In a word, the country should
begin to make an effort to become self support
ing in all that concerns its religious, social,
political and industrial working. BY the Reel
procity Treaty, the future of these Islands is
positively secured for the next half-dozen years,
and probably much longer. The efforts now
being made to recuperate the race, and renovatY1
the population, have good prospects of success.
In the times that run, halfa-dozen years bring
wonderful changes. Before the expiration of
that period, the present generation ought to sec
IA commencement, at least, in these islands, of
electric telegraphs and inter-island cables, and
perhaps of railways on the principal islands.
Steamers will, in all likelihood, be calling in at
Honolulu, from all points of the compass-from
San Francisco and from British Columbia, from
China and Japan, from Central and South Amer
lea, from Australia and the East Indies. The
cutting of the Darien Isthmus for a ship canal,
which appears now on the eve of being under
taken, will completely metamorphose the Pacific,
and work a magic change in Hawaii nei.
Here are no utopian fancies, no idle dreams of
a visionary-these are the practical views of such
as know full well that this world must wag,
that events follow upon events, and that, given
certain combinations of circumstances, such and
such results must necessarily follow. While,
then, the future of Hawaii mel is ofso fair promise,
it is the duty Of the fathers of the rising gener-
alton and of-She country at large to seek to
keep the children of the soil in the country,
where even the repatriation of one young man
or woman of talent is q heavy loss,-and to do
the best endeavors to educate them and train
them up in the country itself for the future
work of the country-which includes all that is
connected with the religion, government, and
social and industrial development of the nation,
carefully impressing upon the minds and hearts
of the rising generation the great national prin-
ciple Hawaii nei for the Hawaiian born.