Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1880-09-18
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1t is sometimes we'll to extend to leading
newspaper articles and correspondence the
consideration which is provided for subjects
requiring legislative action, and that they
should not be valued or acted upon by first
reading only The views with respect to Ha-
wniian affairs expressed by one of our con-
Temperatures would, on first pcrusal, doubt
less appear philanthropic, patriotic, poetical
and beautiful We are encouraged to the
practice of private benovoence we are told
that Hawaii should be governed by Hawaii
ans, aud exhorted to contentment with Ha-
waion King and Government, faithfully
guarding native and foreign alike and we are
reminded of the opinions published by such
men as Wylle, Judd and Ricord, as to tho
Importance of the Kings influence and author
ty. and the duty incumbent upon his Min
listers to resign Office at his bidding. Trade
is we are told prosperous, and relations with
foreign treaty powers delightfully."- tranquil.
Why, it is asked, is an cutlery raised about
subsidy to promote the influx of Chinese "that
may never be paid" when some planters and
merchants are still interested in encouraging
a Chinese male immigration?
This is all exceedingly satisfactory; and
surely the challenge of an opinion upon Ha-
waian affairs need hardly see a necessity for
any second reading. Let us however, if only
for sake of form, read again.
Is private benevolence active, or is it not Z?
Who are the subscribers TO the Queens
Hospital, and who contribute to the mainten-
ance of travelling physicians in many parts of
this group in which foreigners are employers
of labor? Are the people exclusively of the
brown skin by whom many all Hawaiian
sick-bed is watched, and many native boy
and girl taught and trained towards an in
dustrious and hopeful future? We will not
hasten an answer. The devoted priest whose
labors have been in Molokai has, we believe,
not been less appreciated by foreigners than
by natives during his residence there. As in
every other civilized country, organization is
welcomed as a condenser and director of pri-
vate benevolence, the working of an active and
conscientious Board of Health has been an i'm
portant mechanism in this country, and in this
respect your contemporaries call for private
effort, is to q considerable extont anticipated.
While the Adrerfiser thus anxiously appeals
on behalf of the sick, the wisdom of honorable
Legislation of the party which that journal
supports has Withdrawn the provision neces-
sary for the maintenance amongst the lepers
themselves of resident doctor, to whom his
isolated duties could not have been very tempt
lIlE upon tnt H1OueTdtc bdiuTy uHOTueu
were they not viewed as duties in high and
patriotic sense of the term. Now the matter of
public health is committed to Board COM
prising, if we except the compiler of the medi-
cal work for Hawaians, as unproesslonal a
selection of men as could be found in the
group, and The Board has, after all, decided
that some medical man must go back to Molo-
kai and commence to gain that experience OF
native character, language and diseases which
his predecessor has acquired during many
years. -
Is Hawaii governed by Hawaiians?. To
take the word Hawaiian as meaning those OF
native descent would exclude many sons OF
the soil who owe no fealty to any other
country, and who have no flag to protect
them but that of Hawaii but for the argument
upon the second reading we will 30 exclude
them. The King governs, and his lieutenants
| over the various islands are all Hawaiian
| while two of the four ministers of his late
| cabinet were Hawaiian. The Supreme Court
| is composed of foreign judges, no Hawaiian
| we believe, having recently qualified himself
for tho rendering of legal decisions which
must rank as precedcnts for the world. But
assuming that the function of Government ex-
tends to the Governors and Cabinet Ministers
we find that the civil list is over $4,000 :
| year, and that the salaries Of these officers
amount to $4,000 annually, of which &c..
600 only is paid to men not of native race. al
though Hawaiian subjects. ri'f
s AS to tho faithful guarding of native anc
foreign alike nothing may DO said, unless tina
if we rightly understand your contemporary
the King alone is tiletito hold any o.inions a.
to what constitutes this faithful guarding.
Wyllic, Judd and Ricord have left name
almost hallcwed for their patriotic efforts il
the establishment and maintenance of-what
An autocratic sovereignty of the kind nlmos
out of date unless in Turkey? Or a consti
tutional monarchy, whose King should oc
cupy position in which "noblesse oblige,
his position and authority being lifted hig
that they might be above tho influence Of un
wise advisers or unworthy Adventures? !
IL only fair to the great men quoted to look n
the lifelong tenor Of their efforts, and this, j
u first reading Of your contemporaries para
graph, we may have omitted to do.
II is trua that merchants and planters nee
laborers and send for Chinese workmen; bu
who see more clearly than they tho preser
and threatened evils of an unmixed and I'M
limited immigration of the male sex only. TIL
merchants and planters pay q large proportio
of the taxes and duties which this Governmei
collects, and would gladly see the divorsiu
of some share of it toward the promotion Of
mixed Immigration sugar plantations are ft
the present holding their own, but their posi-
ton would be much altered II upon thel
should be thrown the burden Of paying for II
immigration Of large numbers of non-laborin
women, u matter which concerns the nation
large il it concerns anyone. The planter ma
fairly AJAX, in reply 10 the structures Of Il
Aarcrtiser and its correspondent, to whom "
owe the failue of the reasonable attempt late
made to regulate the proportion of sex
amongst immigrants, and whether the expe,
diture Of payers money would nos ha'
been better employed in bringing here 10
hundred women 10 make homes for our Chimes
fellow subjects than in erecting statue al
purchasing a crown, things the necessity 4
which Wyllie, Judd and Ricord appear to ha
uuaccountably overlooked.
EpIIoR SATURDAY PIEss-SI notice In
last issue Of the Advertiser that it IL the intsnti
J Of the Board Of Health to establish hospii
here, and probably similar ones ga the cthss !
ands for the reception Of lepers in suspect
: state, or in the early stages Of the disease,
treatment before being sent To Molokai this I'd
was backed up by q very sensational editorial
! the subject, against both Of which now wish
enter this my public protest. After an experser
here Of over twenty years, with excspti0nai opp
tunites for observing and studying this disease,
we'll az the character and mode of life Of the j
waiiaiis, consider that am in position 10 spe