The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-12-17

difficulties in the way of recruiting them
are such n 10 render their immigration I'M
desirable. But surely if any people would
be attracted TO atropicalcountry, it ought TO
be tropical people, and they would be better
adapted 10 their own climate than Euro
peans. If the nOn-tropical people of Europe
wan 10 come here the Royal Commissioners
| offers them neither inducement nor hope, as
in a letter addressed as = Minister of States
to the editor of the BerIiner Zeitung, dated
Berlin, Prussia, August 9th. 1881, he says
that the "Polynesian does not prosper along
side the European and says in conclusion
that " emigration TO the Hawaiian Islands
should be rather discouraged than encour-
aged and this he declares d" formally and
publicly However il must be said in this
connection. that as the English text from
which we quote is a translation from Il
German translation. we cannot be sure of
the exact import of the COmissioner's
words. until We have seen his original
English letter To the Berlin editor, which
no doubt as an official paper, he will pub
Iish erelong, for the satisfaction of an en-
quiring public.
The Royal Commissioner says that he
fully "concurs in the views and sentiments
presented "by His Excellency II. y. p.
Carter, TO whom the report is addressed, in
a "reply, dated March 9th, 1881, to a me-
mortal on EastrIndia Immigration" Now
as this gentleman, Mr.. Carter, also took
part in and signed a very important
memorial in relation TO East Indian I'M
migration, in! 1876, it is a pity that the
Royal Commissioner did not take them
both into consideration in connection with
his report. Because although these
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each other in their views, the earlier one
urging that we must repopulate with Hin
docs and other Asiatics, and the later one
cOinciding with the Commissioners posi-
tive opinion thai " East Indians are not
suitable or desirable as emigrants," yet
they would furnish a curious illustration
to observant minds, how n change of politi-
cal or financial conditions may operate very
remarkable revulsions of view.
And here we notice with pleasure hat
the Royal Commissioner takes pains to
quote the opinion of some clergymen of ia
maica who say that before a country can
receive general material benefit from the
introduction of population, the bulk of the
individuals emigrating. to that country
must have one or the other of the following
qualifications, religious and moral educa-
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turing skill, educated Intelligence or money
ed capital" And the Commissioners re-
marks on this it would hardly be wise to
cast aside this positive testimony, especially
as it comes from men, who from a religious
standpoint have no selfish ends to serve"
And we would be glad to know what is the
Royal Commissioners religious standpoint
which enables him to determine a selfish
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pleased to point out for the consideration of
awaiting patriots the class of immigrants
who shall bring for the'blessing of. Hawaii,
"religious and moral education, industry,
energy, enterprise, manufacturing skill, ed
ucated intelligence and moneyed capital
And we notice an opinion of the Royal
Commissioner, in rejecting on our Hawa-
iian situation: "Only those should become
the basis of population here who are, or
may be, capable of fronting and standing
effectualIy before the stronger races which
are now here" Which means we presume,
that only foreigners of European race should
come here to compete with resident for
eigners of European race. He has else
where said that 1.-THE Polynesian does not
prosper alongside the European" And
again he says that-"no nation came out
of barbarism with less friction than the
Hawaiian. No people ever received such
tender care from the fierce powerful, and
often brutal races which now mainly rule
the world" Yet the friction has been such
that the indigenous population, during an
intercourse of sixty years with the foreign,
has declined from 13G, 900 to A, 900; and as
the Royal Commissioner proposes that
only the "fierce powerful and brutal"
| shall come here tn 90 front and Stand nm
before" those already here, it is evident
that the friction would be increased to a
degree, that would be like placing the
weak native between the upper and neither
milestone of crushing social and political
forces. The brown races, flourish and in
crease in many Islands and States in asso-
citation with the European, and why should
they not in the Hawaiian Archipelago q?
Because brown races, elsewhere, have had
preserved unto them what belonged to
their race life but here another and an
unnatural race life has been substitutes;
and it is proposed in order to preserve their
race existence there shall be an increase of
stocks, that must tend not to protect, but
to obliterate the aboriginal race existence.
Why should not the increasing and multi
plying brown japanese, East Indians, and
Malays, promote the increase of a Polyne-
sian stock, and ensure in the future, a nu-
merous kindred, and homogeneous stock,
rather than the European, who will not
sufficiently mingle or assimiIate ? These
ATTITUDES will require their climatic races
and great industries carried on under our
tropical sky, will need the races tina do not
wilt, or decline under an enervating sun.
In conclusion we are glad to recognize
that the Royal Commissioner points out
"that the foreign races in this Kingdom
owe important duties to the Hawaiian race
and that "the Institutions of the country
should be so preserved, or modified, as to
secure its integrity or perpetuity." Yet he
Is somewhat contradictory i'm his views
in regard to measures for Hawaiian preser-
walton, rs he virtually says that only the
strong white races can take care of Hawai-
ans that the best Europeans won't come