The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-06-25
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(FsoM THE Celestial Empire, MARCH zoI
With respect to the motives the King of
Hawaii has for taking this tour, they are
tWo:-Firstly 10 ascertain the most deslra-
| BILE class of immigrants to induce to the
| Sandwich Islands; and, secondly, Tor the
purpose of refreshing his recollectlons or
| the tray wells he made some years since. The
| sandwich IsIands over which King haia-
kaua rules are in our opinion, the most ue-
lightful regions in the Pacific; they form
a terrestrial paradise. The climate is an
! eternal spring, and the Inhabitants are,
| physically speaking, the m st beautiful III
that part OF the globe, and decidedly the
most intelligent. commercially considered
Honolulu, the chief town III the group, is
one of the most important groups in the
Pacific. With San Francisco, sydney, ana
Auckland, it forms the centre or all trade
in that ocean. Despite all these adVan-
tages, the native race is last passing away,
and it is this mournful fact that has in
duced the monarch of these Isles TO take
this journey and see what is the best CLASS
of people TO encourage to ms klhguom:
And as far as our personal knowledge OF
the matter goes. we believe that the Portu-
guese will stand the best chance OF being
invited TO settle in the Sandwich Islands.
Numbers of them have ALREADY become
subjects Of His Majesty and with emigrants
fr~m Madeira, Americans and English,
they form the bulk Of the foreign popula-
ton. 70 speak candidly the major portion
of the trade with these islands is III the
hands of the English and American. The
United states have east a cOvetous eye on
the group but we think that that nation
will never be able 10 annex the Islands as
their Importance is too greet to allow such
"A step be taken.
His Majesty is said to be well educated,
of exemplary habits, and refined manners.
he speaks English fiuently, also French,
and Italian. In fine, His Majesty can lay
claim to the title of an accomplished gem
From the ClcaiaI Empire. April 5th.l
ul.z.l:oo1 ,-;tl. y-hfol, fIn K5pn nf fha
Sandwich Islands has left his dominions
deserves to be noted rs standing 10y itself in
the annals of Kingdoms. According TO the
81. JdD1eS's gazette there have been nations
that nave gone in search of a King, but
this is the first case of n Sovereign who has
gone forth to look for n people. The neces-
sity which has driven King kalakaua forth
to visit the nations of Europe and of Asia
is a singular one. Under the influence of
that mysterious law which DEGREES that the
touch of civilisaticn shall be fatal to the
native of Polynesia, the Sandwich Island
ers are dwinuling away at II rate so rapid
as to threaten their monarch mt no distant
date with the entire disappearance of his
subjects. And so, as there cannot very well
be a kingdom without resident population,
nor Il constitutional government without
the material to govern, King kalakaua has
started in quest of Il suitable race to supply
the place of his fast-dying kanakas. One
sample of the human race the
King has already considered and rejected:
will not have any chinese the objection
to whom is as strong in the Sandwich Is
a. it Is in California, and probably on
the same grounds. 1t is clear that no ord
mary emigrants will suit the peculiar needs
of Hawaii. What is wanted is rather u
than labourers-an upper class,
a middle class, and Il prOletariat all COM
plete; such as were the colonies anciently
sent forth by Greece. In Il few years there
will be left only a skeleton of II civilized
system i'm the Sandwich Islands, with pro-
nothing surviving but n half-caste
King, the Yankee members of Parliament,
a handful of English traders and mis-
siOnaries. Yet i'm the time of Captain Cook
the Sandwich Islands were reckoned to
n population ofsome 5000 persons.
If il is a people already exercised in the
institutions suitable to a
lalf-savage state of society which King
wants, would it not be worth his
while to extend his visit to our own islands?