Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-11-19

homes both by force and fraud. the whites
and Chinese by fraud the poor Islanders by
practical force. II is perhaps, unneccs
sary for us to observe that this statement is
not only false, but it is malicious. Man is by
nature migratory; were it not SO, the world
would never have been oolouized. Those Of
VS. who cauno, look abroad for pleasure or
profit, are wistiul and impatient. There is in
the hesrt Of every rational being an honest de-
sire to better his couditicn-this he hopes to
accomplish through change. If we are sue
cessful at home there is probability of our
sighing for new worlds to conquer II we are
unsuccessful, all Our hopes lie on the other
shore, and tbither do we hasten as fast as op-
portunity will admit Of The distance grows
more enchanting the longer our explorations
are delayed. It is this blind belief in the eff
cacy Of change. the belief that nothing can be
worse than the present situation, which inpcls
emigration. 1t is sweeping Germany clean
Of its lower laboring classes. 1t is heighting
the fleets that sail from Genoa to South Amer
lea, with picturesque peasants who turn their
backs upon the olive slopes of their beloved
Italy without sigh, even though they have
achieved government for which they strug-
gled bravely. 1t started the negroes out of the
South like black sheep, skipping after bell
wether who has brought them into a strait, out
OF which only few have been able to oxtri-
cate themselves. 1t is helping to depopu!ato
Ireland in spite Of the Irishman's admiration
of the Green Isle, and it hns made Of the jew n
wanderer upon the face of the earth. This,
and this only has impelled emigration to the
Hawaiian Islands there is no fraud in it,
there is no force in it, Even the Coolies
aud the savage South Sea Islanders come and
go. The Coolie comes again-the question is
how to get rid OF him, aud once rid of him, how
to keep him away. If the South Sea Islander
does not return here, it is because he prefers
indulging in his natural Incidence to working
nine or ten hours day for wages aud found.
OF course, all immigrants are not satisfied
the wonder is that 80 many labor cheerfully,
though it is their only brthright, and are con-
tent to renew the contracts when they lave
expired. This is not their land Of Beulah /;
hough they were to search till doOmsday,
they will never, in the fesn, fud that de-
lectablc country.
Blu; this is II very good land the chances
are it is much better than the one they left
behind them. OF course, in migrating CON-
munities there are louG-mouthed grumblers.
and we wonder that the proportion is not
larger, knowing as we do, how Disappointing
the realities of life are when one comes to the
close of an adventurous voyage. Even excel
lent and well-disposed persons are prone TO
complaining il the results of speculation fall
below their anticpatious.
If here and there among the many i'm
migrants is found one who refuses to be conf
forted, he is merely one of a type that has ex-
listed from the beginning of time, and he will
continue to wag his tongue though the heavens
fall. There is no land under the sun good
enough for him; there is no state nor condi-
of life that will satisfy him; he is like the
bad apple in the bushel that harms tue whole.
His mission i'll life is TO breed sorrow and dis
contents and the wonder is that an organ can
be found undignied as to trumpet his
troubles to the world. Such an organ may be
said to have returned to that stage of develop
lnent where its chief pleasure is TO "suckle
fools and chronicle small beer" "