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

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gratifying item Of intelligence,-one that
t0iH gladden. the hearts of all interested in
planting enterprise in the Native States"
Gtalies ours) "the announcement this the
Secretary Of State for the Colonies has con-
sented to allow our Governor CSir F. y.
Weld to permit the introduction of India
Coolie labor into the Native States" (See
the article in another column Now what
shall be thought of our Commissioner in
formation, or fairness of statement, in view
Of these broad contradictions?
Another great ground Of objection to
Hindoos as immigrants, which the Com
missioner urges, is their immortality! Alas
that such an IMMORAL people, should so in
crease n multiply, as to be one of the
most numerous and prolific races in the
world! The Commissioner fears the effect
upon our Hawaiian Paradise of the incom-
ing Of "Hindoo young widows, or single
women, who have gone astray ~ And
this apprehension is expressed by a gentle
man who has spent a very large part of his
life in a great city, where, according to DIR.
Sangir, and later authorities, there are not
less than one hundred thousand prostitutes,
kept mistresses, and other women who
have gone astray. Surely, in view of his
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pie suitable for immigration, he would not
have our little kingdom recruit its popula-
ton from that great city; for if it did, ac-
cOrding TO his own words, lit would hardly
be possible to predict a very brilliant future
for a population coming from such women"
But would he or any other Immigration
COMMISSIONS be content TO gather. only
the soiled doves of any country? Surely
not And In ~nroIifo HinIuufop . No In rOou-
lOus New York, he could find multitudes of
untainted girls and women fitted to bless
Hawaiian homes /; whom, if he could not
get. he could, at least, let the others alone.
And the COMMISSIONS sets forth the diff
culties of getting only twenty thousand
East Indians to emigrate in one year.
Well, as We only want one thousand, or q
a lesser number, to test the availability of
this race for the recuperation of our Hawa-
iian State,-the recruiting difficulty in our
case may not be insuperable.
And now as regards the question of "pro-
lection" ofcOolies and of I" foreign interven-
lion" in connection with the introduction
of British East Indians; the Commissioner
says, referring to q conversation with Sir
Louis Mallet, the Under-Secretary of State
for India, that this gentleman urged, that
bAAAE1 NAlClG 10 u COliNtIlllOh dIu PIO-
t~ection,' the most s~alutary laws might re-
main without force" And this is a Just
and proper consideration, and one that
should not present a difficulty to the minds
of a government and people, aiming to act
justly and fairly towards any poor and ig-
norant strangers, coming to labor and live
in the country. We know that some of
our laws, framed to promote the welfare of
contract laborers, in respect to sanitary
Judgment and treatment, are overlooked,
and in some measure are become practically
a dead letter, because our Government, or
Board of Immigration, has not provided
inspectors, or protectors in the several dis
tricts where immigrant labor is largely
employed, in order to see that the law is
carried out in behalf of the poor and ignor-
ant stranger. Our Government has indeed
provided q South Sea Island protector; but
it should provide protectors in the princi-
pal industrial districts, for all the poor and
ignorant immigrants of the Kingdom.
And in order to avoid Islander and abuse,
such as has been recently heaped upon our
Kingdom and its labor system, our Govern
ment should invite the Governments of all
countries who permit any of their poor
labOring people to come here, TO appoint
their agents or protectors, who, conformity
with our own, could have every opportu-
nifty to see that our excellent avs were
justly administered. Enlightened and phil
anthropic States abound in protective gen-
cies-to prevent cruelty to animals, even
cruelty to children, and wrong to whatever
is weak and ignorant. Because, however
enlightened and humane a community
may be in general, the rich, the strong and
the prosperous,-will always in their ener-
getic push to advance their fortunes, be
careless of the rights of the weak and the
ignorant. The Hindoo protector means
simply a retained counse for poor laborers
to see that they get their rights before the
local Courts. He has nothing to do with
diplomatic Intervention. Or, if so, would
France with British Hindoos in Bourbon;
or Holland with many Of them in Guiana,
consent for one moment to o protection"
that meant foreign Intervention within
their dominions No! The talk about
the political danger that attache to the
British Hindoo protector, is a mere politi-
cal scarecrow, that is well understood.
THE JAPANESE.
The Commissioner says; ",The Japan
csc are not an emigrating race" He had
previously said "the East indian are not
an emigrating people" And he might
have said with the same reason, the Ha-
waiians are not an emigrating people. And
yet it is reported that there were some time
ago about GOO Hawaiians in Oregon and
California. There are over a million of
East Indians in several countries to which
they have emigrated, and we know that
when we received a recruit of Japanese per
Scioto in 1867, that a great many more
would have come, having been shipped by
our agent at Yokohama, but many eager
intending japanese emigrants were not al
lowed to depart by the local authorities.
And there was some misrepresentation and
want Of information at that time which
induced the Japanese Government to send
Commissioners in 1869 to Hawaii to request
the return of certain japanese immigrants.
the japanese Government is now bet
ter informed and we ave assurances that
the enlightened Emperor and Government