The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-11-19
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
NOVEMBER 10 ISL
SATURDAY

OUR contemporary the gazette has at
length made very clear the views and ex-
pectations Of himself and Of the party he
represents by putting to Us the categorical
question "DO you believe that the Ha-
waiiau race will a. a race be perpetuated ~
To this question we reply without any hest
tatiou in the affirmative, but with a reser-
vatiOu unfortunately forced upon us-not
If the country Is for ever to be ruled by
men. who believe and hope the contrary.
We take leave to call the twaddle about the
natural laws or Divine DEGREES, by which il
is said to be rendered impossible for the
brown races to flourish along side their
white brethren-a mOnstrOus blasphemy.
Brown races nave Increased and multiplied
i'm Java and the PHILIPPINES in contact with
their European rulers. And certainly the
Hawaiian race, which is to so large an
extent ATyan in its origin and character
istics, and therefore far more closely allied
To the white invaders of its territory than
are the populations To- which we have
alluded, both can and VIII hold its own
again., and recover from the downward
course il has pursued, if il is governed by
enlightened minds who seek its welfare
before all Othcr things. The misfortunes Of
Hawaii have come to il 10y contact with the
white races but not because il was neces-
sarily so.
We may take the opportunity to put some
pertinent questions to the Gazette, and to
those who think with it. We will ask
them What has been lone to save the
Hawaiian race from being exterminated {?
All the efforts of our rulers, through ali ,.Ie
long years in which the numbers of the
native people have been declining, have
been to increase the business of the country,
to extend our foreign commerce, to null
tiply our exports, to render greater the
facilities for the white man to build up n
fortune out Of the work Of the Hawaiian
labOTer or finally, TO supplant that labor
by the intrusion Of h was expected to be
a cheaper sort. To these ends, to thee Xclu-
sion Of almost every other consideration,
has the work of such little brain as has
hitherto been employed in the government
Of this country been devoted. \ great deal
is sometimes made of the philanthropic
expenditure at our Leper Settlement. How
long was the disease allowed to go rampant
without an effort to check it, or to anne
IiOrate the condition Of its victims What
sort Of a thing is our Asylum for these
living-dead at MOlokai without even
medical appliances or proper accommOda-
ton for any research into the conditions of
the disease, or the best method of sOftening
its horrors TO those who are imprisoned
there without even a medical attendant
OH the spot for half the time every year d?
What pains has ever been taken to teach
Hawaiians how to take care of themselves Il?
Some moral and sanitary precepts have
been delivered from Hawaiian pulpits in
years past by foreign missionaries ; but
such admOnitiOnS are valuelesS, and
have proved 50, in the absence Of a more
systematic and practical incubation of the
rules of health. What do we learn now Il?
An edition of 5000 of the Sanitary Instruc-
ions for Hawaiians" has been printed by
the Government, and as fast as the books
come out Of the binders hands they are
sought for by native Hawaiians who say
and say truIy-that they never understood,
or had any means of learning these simplest
rules Of health before. What acquaintance
indeed have the men who virtually rule
his country, and cherish i'm their hearts
the illusion that they are statesmen, with
the actual condition i'm which the Hawaiian
is living in his native valleys and by his
ancestral shores at this time? What do
they know about the life of the Hawaiian
at all. even i'm this city itself, where recently
the revelations of a Gazette reporter as to
the condition o. certain tenements and their
inhabitants, were a nine days wonder e?
The Hawaiian race will live and increase,
if il i cared for and governed by men n
hope in its perpetuity, and are determined
To promote it.. 1t will live and increase,
even if IL be let alone, now that it Is awak-
ing to a knowledge Of the true causes of its
decrease. Nay more, we venture To avow
the belief that it will live and increase in
spite of the Indifference Of Governments,
the open hostility, the sneering incredibly,
the thinly-disguised contempt of those with
i'm spite ola policy which considers material
pOgress alone in spite of neglect, discour-
agement, and every secret opposition. And
thus we answer the question: DO you
believe that the Hawaiian race will, rs q
race, be pcTPctuated? p"