The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-09-28

rived from Maui on Sunday morning last, and
attended the funeral of the late Governor Moeho-
nua the same day. And on Monday she again
embarked by the steamer LikeHke for the same
Island, intending to make a stay at Waikiki of
several weeks. We are pleased to note that the
Princess is in good health. =
AFTER Us THE DELUGE,-'' Apres nous k de-
huge was a saying of a great statesman. 1t
may well be adopted by the managers of affairs
to-day in these Islands. The present necessities
Of the sugar business for mental labor constitute
the overweening demand before which every
other consideration must bow. Not only are
we giving up the nationality and existence Of the
Hawaiian race, for whom American liberality
and Christian goodwill contributed over a mil
lion of dollars, as well as the lifeloRg services of
devoted servants of the Christian faith but we
are in process of giving up these fair isles, which
should be a heritage Off of any race but their
original possessors-the descendants of the pio-
neers from America we aEe giving up the coun-
try to the Chinese Well, says some one, amt
the Chinese as good as anybody? If by their
thrift and energy, they come in and OCCUPY the
land, - it is all right. But being all males, what
sort of u nation will it be,-the Hawaiian nation
of the future? AS things go, the Hawaiian
women will as a matter of course have disappeared
from existence 25 or so years hence. We will
not follow this branch of the subject further, but
leave it for the Imagination of our readers.
The recent tragedy at Hilo, on the plantation
of Judge Austin, is one of the forerunners only
of what we may expect of this reckless importa-
tI0n of YpOToS oF tho s. haatbaO (bipao - When
they get a chance they will improve it. None
but those who have been among them in their
native country can thoroughly understand the
deep rooted feeling they have of the superiority
of China and Cinnamon over every other country
and people. With all the Christian charity we
can at present summon to our aid, we continue
to look with a large degree of questioning upon a
d" Church member > who comes from the Flowery
Kingdom, or one who becomes a Church member
here. Doubtless in some instances there may be
sincere conversions; but we believe they are rare.
For the Chinese character, expressed in two or
three words, is purely and simply egOtistical,
selfish, and cunning.
As things go at present, with this continuous
influx of MALE Chinese, the result will be a reali-
zation of the cartoon which our Hawaiian Mast
produced Il year or two since, wherein " John -
was represented as having monopolized all the
occupations of life at the Islands, even to the
occupancy of the Throne. There was one soli-
tary exception to this general rule: the artist
did not put a Chinamau in the editorial chair of
the Gazette.
We improve this opportunity to repeat what
we have frequently stated in previous issues,
namely, that we don't object to the introduction
of Chinese if accompanied with their women,
even at the risk of the country becoming Mon
gOlian. Nor would we object if we had q sur
plus of women here, to supply the incoming males
with mates. The Chinaman per Sc, under a
strong government, will doubtless prove passable
material-at all events tractable, SO long as he
is the " under dog"
We have persistently presented our view of this
subject before the public, because we have felt
that there was an impending danger that it was the
duty of the press to boldly and plainly speak of.
Having done so, it will not be our fault when
the general crash comes,-as most surely it will
if the authorities do not stop the importation of
male Chinese.
In regard to this immigration subject a pleas
ant, but perhaps Elusive thought is that the
SOuth-sea Islanders who came here by the Storm
Bird, have turned out extremely well, as planta-
ton hands and as quiet, law-abiding people. At
Kaalaea and Heeia Plantations, on this Island,
there are some fifty employed, Of whom the man.
ayers speak in the best of terms and the men
speak well of their employers-certainly a good
state of affairs for the successful carrying on of
such an enterprise as a sugar plantation. Most
of these people came from the Island of Rotuma,
southwest of Tahiti; are either accompanied
with wives from their own island or readily pick
up mates among their cognate Hawaiians are
good workers, eontented, obedient and docile.
Thousands of Just such men with their wives can
be brought from the islands of this ocean to re-
people the fair wales and hill-sides of the once
populous Hawaiian group. The dream of Mr..
WylIie, Minister of Foreign Relations under
Kamehameha III.-the Beloved,-might yet be
realized, that the City of Honolulu should be the
metropolis of the Pacific, with the King of Hawaii
as its Emperor!