The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-07-19

lands, u. S. Grant, If he comes here, will be
welcomed as a distinguished s5idier and q wise
Ex-Chief Magistrate OF n great nation. Our peo-
pie, Of all classes, owe a debt Of gratitude to the
Great Republic, and the presence here of the man
who signed our Reciprocity Treaty will afford an
opportunity for Us to show, in some sort, our ap-
probation Of that country, through its represen-
tatiVe.
TIE SUBJECT OF the Chinese deluge in Hawaii
nei, which the ADVERTISE has spoken Of for
years past, appears at length to have awakened
public attention, but yet only in a half-inle-
rested way. The Hal0aiian Gazette Of this
week has an article on "The Chinaman as q
Laborer, Evidently the production Of somebody
outside the editorial sanctum. The article in
question starts out with the proposition that the
Chinaman is able and efficient as q laborer.
Nobody denies that, nor that the ANT is able and
Efficient, as a laborer, but who wants the ant as
a near neighbor or a constant companionH The
writer above referred to goes on to intimate that
there is here a " spirit of persecution, that would
drive the Chinese from q country to which they
have been invited to come, live and labor for a
livelihood " and protests against any effort that
is made or may hereafter be made, fto drive the
Chinaman out OF this Kingdom, either by hostile
legislation or brute violence" Can anything be
more absurd than this2 The strongest, as well as
the weakest friends Of the Monaghan could not
have put it in a more ridiculous light. But has
the writer q few thousands invested in q
plantation? Says he: There is no reason in
opposing the Chinese, because thoy think proper
to sell their labor for less than the white man
thinks it is worth" What becomes, In this
connection, OF our ideas Of q higher civilization,
towards which we are supposed to be aspiring?
The Chinaman, who lives on q few cents per
diem, and has no wife or child to support, is by the
Gazette put on q par with the I" white man,
who by his training and Christian civilization
needs just what the Chinaman regards Us super
Huities. Is this q fair competition?
a little further on we are told by this writer
that there is still less reason to oppose the
Chinese, because they are PGgans. We regret
to have to record such an utterrance in the pub
lie press Of these Islands. The inference sought
to be conveyed is that we object to the Mongo-
liam because he is not a Christian. Article 2 Of
the Hawaiian Constitution opens with these
words " All men are free to worship God nc
eording to the dictates or their own conscienccs."
If the Chinaman wants to set up q Joss House in
Honolulu, he is quite ut liberty to do so-the
probabilities are that he has already done 80,
sub rosa. 1t is stated that a Chinese Theatre is
projected for Honolulu, the funds for the build
ing and maintenance Of which have been pro-
yided by Chinese residents. 1t is also stated by
current report that a very small portion Of the
funds contributed for the proposed edifce of
Christian worship for the Chinese came from the
people Of that nationality.
Says the writer under review The Chinese
are here in large numbers, they are patient, law
abiding &C.. Patient they are, in the art of
acquisition law-abiding they are-but only so
far as their fears are eoncerned-as witness our
court reports. They are noted Us opium snug
glers il is n notorious fact that not only can
native Hawaiians get spirits from the Chinese at
all times with perfect freedom, in violation of
law, but that on Sundays, when " white men"
are supposed to be interdicted from the privilege
Of buying spirits, it can be got from Chinese.
The same or woIse state Of affairs, lie found to
exist all over the Islands. The Mongolians are
demoralizing the native Hawaiians. A writer in
the Gazette Of the 16th-the number under
review-says that " The Chinaman comes here
and is demoralized." Great Cesar! After
nearly sixty years Of Christian evangelization in
the Sandwich Islands, the Chinaman comes here
to be demornliEed Where are our churches and
schools and don't they need to be supplement-
cd very much7 1t would seem, after all, that
the arena of Christian missionary effort, so far as
q portion Of the great Chinese nation is con-
cerned, is in the Hawaiian Islands. Somebody
writing from Honolulu to the San Francisco
Chronicle, and who seems to write without pre-
iudice, gives q truthful view OF the Chinese CUES
ton in Hawaii Nei. It's true, tits pity pity
tits tits true" The letter opens thus:
The miniature kingdom of the Hawaiian Is
lands, with its population Of So 900 souls, its army
Of ffty-seyen men, its king and court, it's COM
plete and efficient government, its strange mix
ture Of race, its wonderful volcanoes, beautiful
scenery and magnificent climate, presents many
points Of interest to the world at large. None OF
them are of more importance than the position
which the Chinese hold in the country, their
rapid increase in number, wealth and position,
and the strong probability that they will soon be
the controlling power of the kingdom"
And the writer goes on to give facts and figures
that " must give US pause He says that the
Chinese are pouring in-not at their own expense
-" but at the expense of the sugar planter,
tchom they DiH soon dsPLaos."
Just here let ne repeat what we have 30 often
stated in these columns-that We do not object
to the Chinaman ss a fellow-countryman in
Hawaii mel, if he will only bring his ,Oahine with
him. As a single man. We decidedly object to
him, for his influence upon the native Hawaiian
is demOralizipg. [ Satan's agents are potent
enough already, pr the destruction of the Ha-
Waiian, without being supplemented by the as
tuteness Of John Chinaman.