The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1879-07-16

through trades unions and secret societies,
but the practical operation of all such rules
has been to bring to grief all those who at
tempt such an unnatural tyranny upon society.
There is, therefore, no reason in opposing the
Chinese, because they think proper to sell
their labor for less than the white man thinks
it worth. And still less reason TO oppose the
race because they are not of the Christian
faith, but prefer mode of worship handed
down TO them long anterior TO the Christian
era. In other words, the Chinese are por-
ton of Gods creatures, created and sen. into
this world according to the councils of the
great Creator, and it does not become any
portion of His creatures to call in question His
purposes in regard to any portion of His works.
'rhe earth is the Lords and the fulness
thereof" and the earth has been created for
all Of Gods creatures. He has endowed them
with mobility and given them the whole earth
to move on, and therefore, it does not become
any portion of his creatures to exclude his
fellow men from the territory that belongs TO
the Creator only This is a fundamental
principle which cannot be changed by the
Vaccinations of men, or the proscriptive spirit
of a fanatical crusade. We contend simply
for an abstract principle of right in refer renee
to the Chinese, as we would in behalf of any
other nationality. We recognize all men as of
one blood, no matter where born, the color of
their skin, or their peculiar religious belief.
The place of their birth and color of their skin
they could not control, and their religious be-
lief is matter between themselves and the
great 81 am, with which we have no right to
interfere, except in so far as we can do them
good by educating them in those things that
will make them good citizens and proper
members of society. If they are heather in
religious belief, let us, by the true Christian
test, teach them by kindness that Christianity
is not proscriptive, but charitable; and thus
win them by acts of kindness over to what we
think is right and proper. Let US remember
that God "has created all men free and equal"
and if by reason of local circumstances, their
natural conditions have been changed by the
Vaccinations OF man, il is our duty to anelio-
rate those conditions by good example. and
prove that the education to which we invite
them is superior to traditional superstitions
and idoatry We have been induced to make
the foregoing remarks in the discharge of
duty we feel we owe to truth, justice and fair
dealing. We find the Chinese here in large
numbers, they are patient, law-abiding, sober
and industrious their labor is making "the
wilderness blossom as the rose" they have
been invited hither by those who need their
labor, and as a class they are incomparably
the best laborers on the Islands, and for these
reasons, we think they are entitled to prctec-
tion and encouragement, rather than be treated
with harshness and brutal violence. In
word, we abhor persecution in any and all
forms, and therefore oppose it wherever we
lind 1t, and with the help of God, we will con-
time to do so, so long as we have power to
stand in the breach.