The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-07-31

more frequent every day of the utter inability of
the executive to suppress among these people
their tendency to crime, and the disorder conse-
ouent upon their influence in the prosecution of
the sugar interests of the country. There are
enough of this people here now to supply labor
for twic. the number of plantations now existing;
but, averse to honest labor, the majority seek an
easier livelihood in craft and crime, and with the
unity of sentiment and the bonds of secrecy by
which they are held together, they are able to
defy the laws in a manner not precedented in the
conduct of the people of any other nationality
among us. Did they keep at the work for which
they we're originally imported, no complaint
could with p~ropriety be uttered against them as
a people, bat such is not the case. Their inclina-
tion is not to labor in the field, and their con-
tracts to labor on plantations are seldom renew
ed. Their original term of service having been
completed, they are sure to repair to some town
or village where they can barter dry goods, pro-
visions and rum for the produce, or coin of the
country natives. Everywhere on these Islands
to-day. respectable people are complaining of the
numbers of idle Chinese that throng the towns
and villages, while the plantations are in want of
their labor. And every fresh importation of these
people to meet the demands for labor means
nothing less than an augmentation of this deplor-
able evil in exact proportion to the numbers re-
ceived. Some four years ago a memorial, signed
by a large number of respectable and influential
people was presented to His Majesty, urging the
necessity of taking measures looking to the i'm
~portation of other Asiatics than Chinese; and it
was the persistent disregard paid by the Ministry
Of 1876, to the expression of this Memorial that
eventually caused their resignation. The evil
then was as nothing compared with what it is to-
day. They now are beginning to crowd out more
respectable traders and merchants, and have al
ready begun to crowd the planters, for whose
benefit they were originally sought; and soon we
can confidently look to the entire monopolization
Of the sugar interests of the country by them;
and the very abandonment of the Islands by other
foreigners, if a check is not put upon their immi-
grafton hither. Surely, it is time that all clas-
ees of other foreigners should unite in a strenuous
endeavor to stay this prospective result, INSTEAD
of tamely submitting to a destiny which, by
active measures theyy might now be able to avert.
We would endorse no scheme for their persecu-
ton; and do not even blame them for their
presence among US; but do believe that a nation
has a right to decide what its own best interests
are. as well in the matter of population as in
that of trade and and when it has be-
come apparent that the augmenting numbers of
this peculiar people is detrimental to our interests,
and bids fair to crush out the ascendency of the
aborigines, as well as the foreigners whose
homes and whose business have long been here,
we have a right to protest against their further
introduction. The Government has now scarcely
the strength to cope with them in case of an up
rising; and the result will soon be, if things are
allowed to continue as at present, that the pro-
lection of other governments will be needed. His
Majesty should beware of what the possible ulti-
matum may be, and not encourage the swarming
of these people into his dominions, to blast the
bright promise as to the future of
this Kingdom.