The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1881-03-02

I CONFESSION is good for the soul and we have tc
make confession this week. In our article upon
/ Chinese which we published last week. we made a
mistake; there was an inaccuracy about oui
figures. We are dreadfully sorry and apologize to
our Chinese friends, we omitted TO credit them
with years increase. We took our figures from
the census Of 1875 and to this we added the influx
for 1850 and 1881, but 1879 was left out wehasten
to correct our statement wemust put the Chinese
population therefore at little over 1900 instead
ofabout l0Oo0. We take the comfort TO our hearts
however that the increase in figures only SERVES 10
strengthen the remarks we made last week
Thirteen Thousand Cinnamon far out number the
adalts ot an other na,ionalities, Chat other ma
tcnap,ies were eoataeuteted, Was what we wanted
10 bifns prominently sogwaF1 titH. and what we
can say with even ereatef Hotye HosN A numerical
piel>tndefance NJ men, who az mass, age tsR,-
rant ~ oar laws, oef cestoaes oBf ,eltstSAi who
do MOI understand oeF lolli4yal systeAa Nhs Aave
beee egaasAt az under influences 81 Totally unlike
tA,,se which have sS,e1 ei4A the native Hawaiian,
1e EeFoleaA ~ she Amegieah thatM IA iMl,essi,
NE F4 tAe mass Nf them ever "a assimilate them
seSys Wiyh as oAA certainly very serioasly atfeo,
tAe Nyege ot ,hese islands fhese reaple aye ad-
leAebls eggaA,segs, tAeS understand working To-
eetAeE IA eenoegt thoroughly, We have seem, ANA
eNr planters have sWfeged fgNln, a combination
spoRg them to keep M the price Of labor, donet
li either the planters the government think for
nomept that they have seen the last Of that
NonelRauoR, they have only seen the commence
meRt VI its workings; in time they viii see it act
much moTe vigorously and for them, probably,
much more mpleasantly,
IL is no use, however, enumerating what may
possibly happen from the presence among us of SO
many men of a nationality, whose genius is op-
posed thoroughly 20 western civilization. II is far
more practical foT us 10 consider what We ought To
do TO oounteraet the evil. The Chinese are here,
and large portion of them ha come at the request
of our own people, both native and foreign for
certainly those gentlemen, who voted for the
Chinese Subsidy Bill, must at that time have been
in favor of the introduction of Chinese. In the
first place, then, We think that the vagtant law
should be strictly enforced As long as the men
labor and earn wages they are not likely to give
trouble. Next we must educate the young the
movement set ON foot for the education of the Chi
nese is stepip the right direction by all means let
us have young China educated in such a manner
that he, at least may become useful citizen Then
the government ought to strictly prevent any furth
er accession 10 the numbers already here. Seeing the
quantity of "labor' we have on hand the authori-
ties may well turn their attention from labor to
population and import either Europeans, like the
Portuguese and Norwegians, or Papuans and Poly
nesians from the South Pacific We do not know
what lands are possessed by Government on the
other islands, but it would be wise to set apart Ger
tain portions of government land TO be allotted to
these settlers when they arrive A class Of small
farmers and peasant proprietors might thus be
created which would give invaluable support to
the government in times of trouble; they would do
more, such men would bring their wives along
with them and would raise up families, sturdy
boys and buxom girls, who would in time supply
the labor market for us, without the necessity of
constantly looking abroad. In writing as we have
done about the Chinese our desire has been to open
peoples eyes, as much as possible, to the number
now amongst us, not that we have any per
sonal enmity against their race; had large impor-
tatlons of low class Americans, English or Irish
males without females been made, we should have
considered the danger TO the country as Just as
great, if not greater.