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

An attemut 70 build up a nation in these days
with such material would not only be offensive 70
I the civilized world. but would be even ludIcrous.
I They know nothing Of our political system, and
would require wears Of careful instruction before
. tLey could understand IL. As these people are
protected By British laws IN the exercise Of their
religious rites. however revolving they are, they
I would have o. be protected here.
l. may De said that these people would be TAB
/ sJrbed" or ''assimila;cd here and their heath
euish practices would soon disappear. do not
know where the power Jt assimilation lies. Ger
| tainly not 10 the Hawaiian for il is generally ad-
mittei that be needs aid and support himself.
/ Nor j. there power IN the foreign race, the Euro-
pean. % reconstruct the HindO0 until 1t has
greatly increased It's numbers. In the American
States the great vigor Of the AEglo-Saxon stock,
aud the large population, has assimilated, par
TALLY, the numerous emigTants from alien states,
but u has not been without danger. Here there
T. lizzie conservative power, and any large influx
of foreigners Of one race, would IN time establish
a controlling influence. which would necessarily
modify and even reyOlutiOnIze our political insti-
tut1ns. Especially would this be the case if the
new population received the right Ofeufrage, and
held q majority Of votes.
The character Of the women who should emf
crate Is Of the utmost importance. Now It would
hardly be expected that the women Of the class
who % emigratc from India would be very desir-
able a. the mothers Of our future nation. Re
spectacle women Of the Hindoo class do not ap-
lfAE l4 IAD44Es eAGtIiluZ Only Lho=c Dt4OuSlus ~
the mental class. Their religion forbids them TO
cross the seas, and public exposure on shipbOard
would be deemed 4 gross act OF lndellcacy. The
present emigration laws Of India require forty
women 70 accOmVan one hundred men. 1t does
not require that marriage should exist. The ere
c%ruiters" meet with very great difficulty in OBJ
tanning the required number Of women. In sew
eTal instances the law was relaxed IN order to
permit 4 large number of men TO leave. The
late Protector Of Emigrauts in India, says in his
official report QST9):-'The class Of women will
ling 20 enigrate are young widows, married or
single women who have gone astray, and are
therefore most anxious to avoid their homes and
conceal their antccedents.' Those familiar with
Hind0O customs know that widows are OutcastS,
women who lead miserable lives and are hardly
tolerated in HIndOO society. asked the present
Protector of Emisrants how many women out Of
the forty who emigrated were decent or respecta-
BILE women. lie said hardly ten While q
few women Do accompany their husbands, the
larger number are recruited as single women,
brought down to the depots and turned loose With
the men, and herd together like cattle. IL would
hardly be possible to predict a very brilliant iu-
turc Tor u population coming from such women.
IL appears, also, by the official reports in India
that next 10 the HindOOs, the MOhammedens rank
next in numbers rs emigrants. While their re-
ligiOus ceremonies are not as revolving as those Of
the HindoOs. they are obJectional to us, inasmuch
a. p~Olygamy is IL strong feature in their social
life. Besides this they arc aggressive in their
tendencies, and might, rs they are we'll united,
make a dangerous element in the State. | re-
peateiIy asked this question of Europeans who
have long resided in India, eff a better class OF
HindOOs and Muhammedens should be willing to
emigratc u a foreign country, and they were
frankly told that idol worship and pOlygamy
would net be tolerated in the countries to which
they proposed to 90, what would be the effect?
/ was told in reply that = hardly one person
would emigrate." No doubt they might be Sc
duced or trapped into emigrating but any de-
sirable scheme of pOpulating the Islands must
start with giving the proposed emigrant 4 correct
statement of the political and social condition of
the country which invites them. 1t is well known
that the most extrayagant inducements are now
held out to invite emigration, one of the most
common being that the coolie can marry a white
woman with n large fortune.
In addition TO the above statements, | desire
10 copy an extract from a document presented To
the G0vernOr-in-Chief Of Jamaica. and by him
submitted TO the Imperial Government in Eng
land, being a part Of the memorial of the North
Cornwall Association Of Baptist Churches in the
Island Of Jamaica, representing sixteen cOngrega-
tions, numbering about 1900 persons. IL says:
- Your memorialsis have repeatedly expressed
and published their concurrence with the opinion
Of the Hon. G.. G. Bravo, that before a country
can receive general material benefit from the in
PRODUCTION OF population, the bulk OF the indiyid-
ualz emigratins To that country must have one or
the other Of the following qualifications: reiig-
iDNN ana NiufdG tHAfhNfpNt fAoustF - thtIDYs tNtcF
prise, manufacturing skill, educated INT diligence or
money capital, and your memorialists positively
affirm that the coolies who have been introduced
year after year into these Islands do not fulfill
any one Of these important conditions These
men were not specializing on what coolies NAV
be. They are men who are face TO face with the
coolic laborer. 1t 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.
As you have not defined the term population
i'm your instructions, I have allowed myself some
latitude in discussing the question. The stand
ard by which the moral, intellectual and physical
character OF the proposed POPULATE is to be de.
termined has not been fixed. The geographical
position of the Islands will place its population
between two immense, energetic and relentless
civilizations. the American and the Chinese. 1t
would be a political blunder to initiate the growth
Of a new people here, which cannot hold their
own IN every way against these forces pushing
hard from the East and the West 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. But IN
spite Of giving it the best political wisdom of the
world, and in spite Of the most intelligent Chris
tan attention and Watchfulness, the race feels
itself in n hard struggle for existence. To put
beside this race another that cannot hold its own,
would be to sin against light and would involve
those who did it in a gross blundeT. Only those
should become the basis Of population here, who
are, or may become capable of fronting and
standing efcctually before the stronger races
which are now here. With this standard before
Us. and after reviewing the facts bearing on the
East Indian emigration, | DO not hesitate to re-
port that the East Indians are not suitable or de-
sirable as emigrants.
TuE JAPANESE.
The japanese are not an emigrating race. Al
though japan i nearer to California than China,
and the japanese not only have none Of the preju-
dices against foreigners, which the Chinese have,
but also have a great admiration and respect
for them, there j. still 70 disposition TO venture
int. California. or Ctner States in large numbers
Nor Is i. from want Of knowledge OF the oppOr-
tunities offered in foreign countries. The high
rates Of wages paid in California and in Australia
are well known 20 them. The people make no
effort 10 e%migrate. japan Is not Over-TOpulated;