The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-06-21
MORE A L CHINESE.

BY the census taken on the 9th of December
last, there were five thousand six hundred and
eighty-fye male Chinese in these Islands, and
two hundred and thirty-one females. Since the
first of January Of the present year, there have
arrived here one thousand two hundred and four
teen male Chinese, and three females. so that the
number of Chinese males now in the country
exceeds the females by six thousand six hundred
sixty-fve. And we learn that four hundred more
are on the way from China, having left in q
steamer May %, which will swell the number of
male Chinese in the Kingdom to seven thousand
and sixty-fye. Let our readers pause just here,
and reflect for n moment upon the condition of
society that these facts imply, in a country where
by the last census there were already three men
to one woman!
Is this immigration of male Mongolians to go
on unchecked, until these Islands become n mere
Colony of celestial pig-tails? We believe that
the members of the present Administration, en-
l~ightened and conscientious men, as fully appre-
ciate the evil here complained OF as do we, who
are constantly q keeping it before tue people :"
but they consider that the government can do
nothing towards staying the evil without Legis-
lative action. Nearly 4 year Will have passed be-
before any action by the Legislature of 1880 can
be had in the matter, and then due notice must
be given to all Concerned before any proposed law
can take effect; so that by this process about eight
cen months must elapse before the demoralizing
tide can be stayed. During that interval, at the
rate at which the Chinese have been coming
here the past six months-and there is every
probability that this rate will considerably
increase, especially of the more Objectionable
class from Ca1iEorpfa- yro sbolI Lo-o .lIol
about four thousand to our Chinese male
population, making n total of this class in the
country Of about eleven thousand, or nearly one
third of our entire male population. And We are
told that there is nothing in our Constitution or
laws to authorize any action by the King and
Privy Council towards checking the fearful evil
not even an ' emergency . clause, whereby any
such action might be taken between the sessions
of the Legislature.
The Board of Immigration was created by
statute in 1864, to be under the control of the
Minister of the Interior, whose duty it was made
to devise and recommend for the adoption of the
King in Privy Council such measures as might be
necessary to secure the importation of foreign
laborers, and also to recommend from time to time
such measures and re ,~ulations as might be deem
cd expedient to promote and encourage free
immigration. At tie session of 1868 an Act was
passed, To extend the powers of the Board of
immigration, wherein it was made the duty of
the Minister OF the Interior, with the assistance
Of the Board, 8 to devise and recommend for the
adoption of His Majesty the King in Privv
Council, such rules and regulations as NAV be
deemed necessary for the good government and
control Of immigrants that have been brought
or admitted, or that may be brought or ad-
mitted into this kingdom as servants or laborers
under license or permission from the Board of
Immigration a rule requiring that Chinese
immigrants should be accompanied by a certain
quota of women, would a~ssuredly 81 be deemed
necessary for their good government if not
for their proper control, and as we understand