The Hawaiian gazette., 1881-12-07

Moreover the strict laws demanded by the Imperial Govern
ment including the "protector provisions extenu 70 e
R;t;b Colonies and any exception made In favor OF the
Hraiian Government would be quite inconsistent Inc
Hawaiian Government makes distinctions IN favor OF any
nation the matter of native seamen Tor 1t considers us
on that subject Just and reasonable. 90 the Imperial
eminent considers the exac from foreign countries
as condition of obtaining weak and ignorant British SUBJECTS
as Just and reasonable
TIE EAST INDIANS LABoRERs.
There great difference of opinion the value of Indian
lobo but believe the prevailing opinion Is that the
Chinese are superior Indansat the same time TINS cooe
labor is used with profit many countries and 1t might DC
ed with profit here All of the Chinese are not superior to
all of the indians but the emigant aborers from China are
rather superior the emigran aborers from India ms
owing to difference in the social and religious thought Oh e
two countries The natives of the Coromandel coast VINO 40
work on the plantations of the Malay Peninsula receive
doube the wages given the Bengaese cooe IN the same
loco Rnt the native from Coromandel will not remain
i in be MALAY country He returns home the end of
six months 1t is so Burnah where thousands OF coolies
emgre from In ia work few months and return home
The East Indians are emigrating people They are
not distressed IN move from one part of India to another or
from India foreign countries Great EFFORTS nave Dee1
made to move them from crowded parts to the scany settled
portions but with little effect The tea planters IN the as
trict of Assam have great difficulty getting aborers ana
already find that the high cost OF getting them Is makn
many the cultivation of the tea plant quite unprot
able The Indian prefers suffering and famine at home to
removal even to another part of India See Indian Famine
Repo During the recent great and distressing anlnes
no considerable numbers offered to leave willing to
leave their homes few living near the seapors offered to
emlgrate -,
Across the Bay of Bengal Burma one OF the very
of the Indian dependencies The demand there for labor is
very great and the wages high 1t scautly populated
that ten millions people could readily find support within
IFS boundaries But the Indian cooe though fully protected
refuses to settle there preerrng rather to cross the Bay OF
Bengal few months aud return to India and 1--we at
home till his money spent The planters IN the Malay Re
nnsa are sory pressed for labor in working the sugar. cot
fee and gambler plantations So the planters OF Sumara,
and comparatively high wages offered but the demand
scany supplied Ny own observations On this subject are
,cian Gazette June o. 1881 The statistics published by the
Indian Government for the year 1879 offer strong proof on
This point There foreign agencies for obtaining
;rants in India These are located in Calcutta and rep
resent Demarar Trinidad jamaica St Lucia, ST. Vincent
Maurus Natal FIJI Surnam and Guadaloupe Each agent,
nv the requirements of the Indian laws must be saarled
officer Sec 81 The agents employ recruiters 70 scour Ine
country and these licensed by the Indian Government
During the year 1S79S0 the 2S6 recruiters obtained
persons who registered emgran the different districts
OF these 900 only $4,000 into the deos at Calcutta
Ten per centum abandoned their contracts These ESQ
CRITTERS we're paid 81 for every emgran finally entered In
the depot Tie payment of this comparatively large sum
shows the difficulties Of obtaining emgrants Although the
agencies located Calcutta the capital of the province
of Bengal which holds thirty millions of people, there we're
only three hundred and six 3O6) emgrants Province
Central India comprising the great districts of lndOe May
pore Jubbepore Raypore Rewah and Gwalor, furnished
only hundred and twenty altogether Now here IN an
Empire hundred and fifty millions of people, IN perhaps
the poorest country in the world famine prevailing somewhere
nearly every year. the rate of wages not reaching i've cents
places the people must be solicited and begged to
emigate and only 10000 obtained year from these
millions Moreover the licenses of onescvenh part of the
cancelled 1alSe
alton the proposed emgrant showing that the recruiters
questionable to people The coole
toling CO. Miserable and starving as the poorest
classes are they greatly tempted by wages from
to per day Experience shows that social religious
and financial reasons by cedabe to the cooe
quite influential as the prospect OF increased wages No
Indian rule who has prospects at home VIII
ling leave Many who ckly try emigration, but are
refused The returns to the Imperial Government FROM the
Island of Jamaica that the medical attendance the
cooe in that most healthy country averages $3.50 per head
per annum During the year 1883 Demarara Granada and
St Lucia did the small number of emigrants they
required and during the year 1919 50 1.-THE year In which
an official return made Demarara and Trinidad failed to
the few which they required See official report to the
Indian Governmen) At the same time Demarara is quite
popular with the returning emigrants 1t must remembered
that these foreign States working for emgrants India
with well constructed dpo and the business managed by
highly paid and who experienced in all the best and
most successful methods of inducing the people to leave home
As about 900 people do emgate every year, the question
arises from what class do they come? If the people generally
not disposed to emgate 1t not quite safe to conclude
that those who do emgate not the most derabe Dr.
Grant informed that rule they from the lowest
the most servile caste in India.
With respect to the expenses connected with Indian emil
grafton the rates of wages allowed the terms OF service
CURED will hereafter present such detailed report as you
may require. will state however, that in the competition
for obtaining coolies Surinam for instance requires only five
days work the week. hours each day. and
turn passage at the end of five years The official returns from
the Island of Jamaica show that the cost OF securing the emil
grant of deang his to and fro amounts to $3.50
EAST INDIANS AS A BASIS OF POPULATION
In considering this branch subject would be
sary into most careful consideration of the moral
physical and intellectual condition of the class of East Indians
from which the emgrants that you and those
interested in this question familiar with the literature
the subject shall therefore, present only few facts which
my opinion should settle this question The Hndoos
divided into The lines between these castles strictly
drawn. Every Hndoo child is born in the other of the
and remains for life The higher castles hold the intelligence
and wealth of the country As you descend through the lower
cases wealth and intelligence decrease until the lowest
reached which contains the ignorant and those with the least
moral and Intellectual power Ages of social religious and
political despotsm have kept this lowest caste in such mis-
cradle condition that that they have become the least valuable
+" stock" in the Indian population.
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