The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-01-11

The foremost question just now in these
Islands is that Of labor. The native Hawaiians
cannot be blamed if, with their light, their
easy means of living, their kuIeanas, their troops
Of fricnds-they refuse to bind themselves for u
term Of years to labor for ten or say fifteen
dollars a month. On the other hand, the capt.
talist, whose funds are invested in the c~ultiva-
ton aid manufacture of sugar. will gladly
accept OF any and all labor that may Offer
within proper bounds. So FAR as his purposes
are conceFned-and purely legitimate ones they
are-it does not matter to him whether the
labore-, who brings the cane to perfection.
whereby he, the investor of capital, gets nine or
ten per cent, is a Chinaman OF a Hawaiian.
The Hawaiian Government has never had a
policy. This Journal has insisted on that fact
throughout its existence of nearly 4 quarter of n
century. Successive Cabinets, have somnolently
folded theiE hands, and attempted no remedy for
the national decay, while acknowledging and
lamenting that it was continually going on.
Money, collected from the PEG pie who are thus
going to extinction. hundreds Of thousands of
dOllars-is expended year after year, in order to
keep up a show of Departments of State, and a
fictitious dignity as an independent nation. Is
u0L nix All true 10 our shame De IL SAID
Meanwhile, the Hawaiians, to save whose souls
from perdition. good, honest, hardworking Bing-
ham, TbuIston and Whitney exiled themselves
from their native land, lave been disappearinl
from the earth. The places that once kner
them now know them no more forever. As pre-
sent appearances foreshadow, the Hawaiian, with
his simplicity, good nature and open-heartedness,
Us to vanish from these fair isles of his ancestors,
and to give place to the delectable Mongolian-
- the coming man."
a fraction of the money which has been an
nually squandered in this country on the main
tenance Of government display during the past
twenty-five years, if laid out in procuring immi-
grants, would have placed us ~to-day-native
Hawaiians and denizens-in a much more advan-
tageous attitude than that which we now present.
1t is not necessary that we here repeat what we
have so often urged as to fields from which we
might bring immigrants; for it seems to be ac-
knOwledged hat we are now beggars, and are
glad to accept what California discards-the
worst class of Cinnamon. They are coming by
every arrival. Christianize them? Yes; but
you must civilize them first. The - civilization
of the lower classes in China, who emigrate to
SdlAiOluib uhutI II dueplceo Vi lHe CeleDTa(eu
Six Companies, is something fearful to contem-
plate.
The Ga=ene of Wednesday last, speaking of
the scarcity Of laborers on the plantations, says
" If Cinnamon cannot be had, where are the
planters to obtain the necessary and to tend and
secure their 7aluable crops? and even in the
face OF all this dearth of labor, we have among
us men who seem to be blind to the real neces-
sites Of the hour and who delight in denouncing
the introduction of Cinnamon into these islands,
who of all other people, appear to be the best
adapted to the wants of the planters, and strange
to say, these same DIRECTORS to the Chinese do
not attempt to point out a substitute for the
Chinaman as a plantation laborer."
The intelligent public of these Islands under
stand perfectly well the position of this journal
upon the Chinese question. We are neither
9 blind to the real necessities Of the hour, :" nor
to the certainties that lie close in the future,
when we oppose the exclusively male Chinese
immigration which is now rapidly assuming such
formidable proportions. If the government is
blind to the probabilities of the future, it must
be willfully 50. and to it will attach the respon-
sibility Of encouraging an evil that will soon be
beyond control. We beg pardon, in this con-
n%ection, for the Odeuse of having quoted a para
graph OF the Ga>ene's bad grammar, bad logic
and bad rhetoric.