Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-11-05

throughout tho world, and that without it, tho
army and navy could not exist, and tho fleets
Of the merchant service would run the risk Of
rotting in the FIRST port they entered.
Discipline is as necessary on land as on sea-
A mutiny in sugar mill would prove more
disastrous than the famous one ON the Bounty.
When the crops are ripe they must be cut,
and when they are cut they must be ground.
Delay in these cases is fatal. With lnborcrs
who arc privileged to throw up their engage
mcnts on the slightest provocation the ma
ohnery Of a plantation could no; run ono
season.
Witness the disastrous strikes in tho United
States and Great Britain. There arc re-
Inducements in those countries; but are they
allowed to step in and earn their honest bread?
Here there are no rc-inforcemcnts We need
more help than wo have thus Ear been ablc to
obtain. Without the contract system (is il
any worse than the apprenticeship Of a minor?)
this kingdom might as well shut up shop.
Now, IA to the treatment of immigrants upon
their arrival at Honolulu. Tho Chronicis Of
October 18th says (and it has obtained all its
information from tho anonymous or disrcput-
able parties whom il has hunted down) "Thoy
(the immigran,s) "nre driven from the ship n,
Honolulu in drores. precisely as the cattle
"landed at Hunters Point are driven to tho
"shamblcs in Butcher Town aud, again like
cattle, all onclosed in pen until they can
"bc numbered and sent to their owners"
Perhaps the Chronicle might have suggested
conducting the immigrants singly to Que of the
hotels, or recommended turning them loose
strangers in a strange land, to provide foI
themselves. The voluntary immigrants who
arrive at Castle Garden, Now York City, are
penncd, for the timo being; the coolies wht
arrive in San francisco, arc pcnncd for the
time being, and subjected to rigid personal
examination, which is always humiliating, ant
| sometimes brutal.
If the Chronicle were to run short of items
why not look near home for a sensation. w,
can imagine these startling headlines greeting
the astonisbed eyes of its readers somo fin,
morning: "Horrible Treatment of Christian
at the hands of Brutal Monopolists." "Men
Women and Children locked in pens" "Drver
in droves like cattle on to boats, and compelled
to stand in railway carriages" '1nsufiicicn
| Accommodations" Thousands of lives |,
peril" "And all for the greed of gold
Yet this is what happens daily and amo,
hourly on the San Francisco and OaklanC
ferry.
There would be as much reason in the on
incendiary, clap-trap, newspaper hullabalo
as in tho other. The best people in the lane
are there penncd with the worst, and in pen
that are by no means inviting They ar
locked in and detained until the boat arrive
and then there is rush and a tumult, such a
would not flatter the cattle that arrive a
Hunters Point and depart thence to tn
shambles of Butchertown. Common sens
grows more uncommon daily. There is
certain class of Journals that is nothing if TIC
sensational. Were these journals to enter tn
field of Legitimate journalism, they woul
sacrifice the very element that has given thcr
an unenviable success.
We have neither space nor patience to pur
sue the subject this week. but we hop.
return to it and trust that in the end, cal,
reason, coupled with cold facts and figures wi
prove that if there is anything rotten in Den
mark, one must go to tho Ch,onicis Office
inhale the effluvia.