The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-09-01
THE PACIFIC
Commercial A0bertlser
SATURDAY,. 1.


In ALLUDING again to the Chinese question, we
shall premise by saying that common sense adopts
the opinion that the world is made for mankind,
and that every individual man and woman
should have a perfect right to 60 and reside upon
whatever point on the outside of this planet he
or she fancies most. But, wherever a man or
woman lives, he or she has need to eat. drink,
sleen, and wear some clothes and all this costs
money. There are also other animal instincts
likely to be felt, at least in youthful and vigor-
Gus age. The man or woman, who travels from
home to a foreign land, may want a wife or hus-
band, too. Now, at the outset, a most natural
question suggests itself; how are you going to
live, when you get where you want to go? Rich
folks may answer, at once on my money, which
L fetch with me from home. With these rich
folks. we have not one word more to say, except,
perhaps, to remark passingly that they are
pretty sure to meet with a very hearty welcome
wherever they go-as long as their money
lasts. At present, our remarks are in regard to
people who leave home for a foreign land,
bringing nothing with them save their labor.
1t is plain to US, that such people cannot COM
plain if they are not welcomed in places where
the labor market is overstocked already. Nor
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own arrival causing a glut in the labor market
and a consequent fall in the price of labor, the
old hands of the place display a feeling of dis
like for the newcomers, sometimes eliminating
in hatred and overt acts of personal violence-as
recently in California. If, furthermore, the
newcomers are of one sex, say the male sex
and young men, it is only in keeping with
human nature to find them addressing themselves
to the women of the locality where they settle,
either honorably or dishonorably; and it can
astonish no one if this course gives rise to
jealousies and contentious with the young men
of the place. Under all circumstances, then,
we think that when young people emigrate from
their own country to q foreign land, without any
other means of supporting themselves on their
arrival than their manual labor, it is quite rea-
sonable that the people of the country where
they come to settle, should be allowed to ask
some questions concerning the character of the
new arrivals, before admitting them into their
midst. We pass over their religious condition
because any pagan, like Saul, may, in one day,
or hour, or minute, by the miracle Of Gods
grace, become a Paul. But, in the case of i'm
migrants, the very first question which should be
raised is: are they young, and, if SO, are they
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where they arrive may render it desirable, nay
necessary to admit only single females, or mar
ried couples. In such a case, the arrival of
large numbers of single young men is very
pernicious. Among our neighbors of Califor-
MIA, there appears to be a glut in the labor
market, and the working hands there are indig-
nant at the influx of Chinese laborers. Here, in
mel, there is an urgent demand for
laborers on the plantations; but there is also a
vast disproportion between the sexes, the males
being considerably in the excess. We notice
that the press of San Francisco is congratulate
ing the public there on their good luck in
getting a chance of being rid of their Chinese,
by an exodus of the undesirable element to
nei. In our last issue, We expressed an
lnequivocal opinion on the subject. 1t is mon
strous to admit young men by hundreds here, no
matter of what nationality, without making
ZONE provision to equalize the ratio of the sexes.
these single young Cinnamon are allowed to
in hundreds on these shores, then it be-
ONE the bounden duty of the government, at
,nce, to introduce at least an equal number of
and enforce the rigor of the
regarding good morals in this country. We
see no other remedy for this monstrous and
state Of things, and We again press the
natter on the notice of Government.