The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-01-04
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Commercial AOOtrtlstr
LANTARY 1

THIS little Kingdom is threatened with q deluge
whose moral effects viii be as destructive to society
here as vas the Noachian delugc to the material and
physical world. The cry in California is, 1.-The
Chinese must 20; " with us it is " The Chinese are
coming According to the census Of 1872 there
were only ! 1913 Chinese on these Islands, in q total
population of $3.50. During the six months last
past, two thousand FIVE hundred Cinnamon have
arrived at this port, (besides several hundreds at
other ports Of entry on Hawaii aud Maui). g good
deal more than doubling the number in the country
six years ago. Oar record of arrivals. which is OBJ
tanned from official sources, ccmprehends only the
last six months Of the present year, without reckon
ing the arrivals Of the same race for the preyi-
Gus FIVE and a half years; and it is therefore quite
reasonable to say that the forthcoming census will
show that the Chinese males on these Islands at the
present date viii number in the neighborhood OF
IO,OO0-nearly one fifth Of the entire population.
And under all present circumstances, this MongOlian
deluge, thus fairly under way, will presently over
whelm US. No thoughtful man can look at the facts
and fail to see that the situation is fraught with dan
ger TO the independence and the very existence of
the Hawaiian race.
But there are ONE who, blinded by either their
mistaken philanthropy or by interest, insist tina. it
II I'll Iignt, anu look on Win COUDpiaCeuCy at L
coming deluge Of Mongolians. The Chinaman they
say, has as much right to 60 where he pleases on
Gods earth as the native of any other country.
That would be very well if the Chinamau, like any
other race on earth, was susceptible of Christian
civilization. The Irish, the German, in fact every
body that goes to America to live. very soon assimi-
lates with and becomes a part Of that great nation.
Not SO with the Chinaman; he never changes; once
n Hb;uap.on aluoya n Cb;,arap He leaves 4ha
indelible marks of his presence wherever he gets q
foothOld, and always to the detriment Of good morals
and the deterioration of values. San Francisco is
to-day a striking illustration of this. The values OF
property in the central and once most desirable part
of that city have, through the gradual occupancy of
whole streets by the Chinese, fallen more than seven-
ty-fve per cent. in the space Of twenty years. In
fact, everywhere outside his own "fowery King
DOM the presence of the Chinaman is a moral and
material blight. 1.-The Real Estate Circular gives
some interesting figures which should settle perms-
nently the question whether the Chinese are a desir-
able population. From these it appears that while
the Chinese comprise one-tenth of the inhabitants of
the State, they only pay about one seventy-ffth Of
their proportion of the taxes. In other words, the
Chinese have all the benefits of our Government.
but owing to their peculiar fashion Of sending the
ON'n Va "hHS 10y NH" "a Va AN ONhby f"I
manage to escape paying more than a fraction Of
their share for its support
1.-The exception proves the rule Thst there
have been and are sincere converts to Christianity
among Cinnamon, we gladly admit. but they are
extremely rare and should be highly priced when
met with. But the average Monaghan, as q result
of his national egotism and exclusive training, is
mentally incapable Of either understanding or appre-
ciating the Christian religion in its broad sense, as
taught by its Divine founder. They may and do
initiate its forms to some extent, but sincerity is
with them an extremely rare virtue.
The objections against the Chinese as colonizers, a
few only of which are here stated, are thoroughly
understood in every country where they have gone,
except, seemingly in Hawaii nei. In the Australian
Colonies u heavy capitation tax is imposed on their
arrival, and we note that it is proposed to do the
same in che United States. Here, however, there is
no restraint whatever upon Chinese immigration.
The steamer which arr ived on Monday brought 1914.
and every arrival from the Coast brings more or less
of these California trained Mongoiians. II is said
that one agent alone now in San Francisco proposes
to bring a thousand.
According to the census of 1872 the males in the
entire population of the Islands o~utnumbered the
females by about six thousand. Since then, we have
gone on importing thousands of Chinese males, but
no females. The Legislature, the Government, and
the general public, seem to be oblivious of any dam
ger to result from this abnormal condition into
which we are drifting. The fearful disparity in the
sexes here is the worst feature of the Chinese deluge,
and will prove the coup de grace for the Hawaiian
race. 1t survived q contact with the vices of the
Caucasian, and there were beginning to be hopes of
its perpetuity, but it must soon succumb to a food
of Chinese male immigration. Can King and Gov
eminent do nothing to protect our native race from
the impending extinction, and these fair isles from
becoming q Chinese colony?