Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-01-20


Islands is anomalous. Just such a mix
ture of distinct races and civilization
exists nowhere else. The total popula-
ton is somewhat less than 10000, of
whom about 10000 are Chinese, $500 are
from other foreign countries, and the
rest, 10000, are natives. There are $4,000
males and $4,000 females. This dispro-
portion of the sexes, due to the fact that
few Chinese women come, is one cause
of the frightful moral degradation of
the inhabitants. Curiously enough,
Chinaman in Hawaii seem to exercise a
controlling influence on the customs
and manners of the people, although
they are in minority, and have brought
with them all the vicious practices pre-
vailing in Asia. including polyandry.
The true nature of the average Celestial,
which in the United States is repressed
by the force of public sentiment, shows
itself in Hawaii, and is destructive of
virtue and decency. The Hawaiin Chi
nese are grossly immoral, the So-called
higher class as well as the lower class.
The wealthier of them, who live in fine
houses and marry the pick of the wO-
men-natives and foreign-by their
practices set an example which is de-
grading and demoralizing to society,
high and low. 1t is said that not over a
tenth of them live respectfully. The na-
tive men have adopted polyandry to
some extent. and the women seem to ac-
cept it willingly. Domestic instincts
are thus destroyed, all ideas of sacred
ness are eliminated from the family re-
lation. and heathenism is permeating
the whole population.
THE news from the East indicates that
Greece perceives her vantage, and in
tends to make the most of 1t by forcing
on war with Turkey, and thus con,pell-
ing the European powers to intervene
in her behalf, so as to extinguish the
conhagration. Greece has doubtless
been badly treated, and deserves the
kind offices of the Western powers.
During the Russo-Turkisn war she had
the long coveted opportunity to strike
and rescue the Greek provinces of Thes-
sally and Epirus from the Moslem rule.
After the fall of Plevna, when the Turk
l., 20 oil h,cf 70 do
fend Constantinople, Greece could easily
have taken back her long-lost provinces,
almost without striking a blow. Eng
land then favored the Turk, and inter-
vened to prevent Greece from using her
opportunity, promising that all her
wrongs should be righted by the treaty
of peace. The Berlin treaty did. indeed,
cede to Greece these two proyinces-On
paper; but when the time came to evac-
uate them the Turk refused just as he
did at Dulcigno. Montenegro was to
have Dulcigno, and when Turkey re
fused to cede it, marched brave Mon
tenegrin army to take it. Albania took
sides with the Turk. 1t was the Mon
tenegrin resolution to fight that led to
the settlement. For all tie powers dread
the beginning of fighting, not knowing
where it will end snoulI it once start. A
small insurrection in Herzegovina led to
the Servian war, and this to the Russian
war, which logically ought to have end
ed in the obliteration of the Ottoman
Empire in Europe. Fears of Russian
aggrandizement led the Western power.
to intervene and set the sick Turk VI
on his legs once more; but the settle
ment was not sound one: therefor'
there is a dread that the war will breal