The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-06-22

DURING the past few years the continuous
dimInution of the native population of this
Kingdom has been 50 great as to awaken the
keenest anxiety in the minds of the more
thoughtful among our people, and led them to
welcome any accession to our numbers from al
most any source. We have made efforts in
various directions in search Of people who would
assimilate with our own Hitherto without much
success. The recent arrival of the SOrn6ird,
however, seems to have shown us the right way
by which the problem is to be solved, and we
hope the experiment (for it is yet but little
more) VIII be thoroughly tested. Such seems to
be the wish of the Assembly now in session, as
well as the public generally, for all recognize the
~prOpriety as well as necessity of striving to in
crease our numbers by the introduction of a
cognate race who will easily and speedily become
homogeneous with our own. A race who are
entirely antipodal to ours in their social habits,
ideas and customs, to say nothing of their
heathenism, from which it is almost if not quite
impossible to wean them, is not the race we need,
and the sooner we acknowledge this fact, the
better for the aboriginal inhabitants of these
Islands and for ourselves who have chosen this
land for our homes.
Our readers cannot have failed to notice the
large immigration of Chinese from San Francisco,
the past year or two, and may have asked them
selves, to what proportions is it likely to reach.
California will willingly spare all who can be
induced to leave the opening up of new plan
tations all over the Islands, as well as various
other industrial enterprises, is likely to cause a
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from some source, and shall that supply be from
a race whom the Pacific States are trying, might
and main, to spew out? The answer rests with
ourselves, and should be made promptly. Have
we the nerve to make it? We hope SO; and we
hope there will be no delay in doing it. Every
day increases the evil and the difficulty. ~WeS
see by the last mail that another ship, the Ariel,
has been chartered in San Francisco to take a
load of Chinese passengers to this port. We
sincerely hope the present Assembly will not be
prorogued until some ~efectual restrictions are
placed upon the indiscriminate introduction of
exclusively male Chinese into this Kingdom. i
We can control the evil now by proper legisla-
ton it is growing fast, and in a very short time
it will reach dimensions with which we shall
it hard to cope. When their labor contracts
are ended, most of these Chinese will stay with
us. and their presence will injurlously affect
nearly every business interest of the country.
1t is not wise to shut our eyes upon this ques-
ton. We need look no further than California
to see what is in store for us, if we continue
much longer hugging the delusive phantom of
hope that there is no danger, or the silly belief
that we shall have any special immunity from
the gigantic evils that now aff1ict our neighbors
rom this vast and rapidly-growing menace to
heir peace and prosperity. Again We beseech
our legislators to be wise, and take warning in
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