The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-06-25

object is to set forth, that the opium trade
of British India with China being a great
national wrong, inflicted upon a nation,
| that, however numerous, had not the skill
or means for resistance at the time of the
inhiction, and that the United States of
America seek to correct, or modify the
influence of this great wrong, by entering
into a treaty with China, in which they
bind theLlselves to forego all trade with that
country III the single article of opium. And
this Mr.. Brooks claims is a great moral
ADVANCE. And it certainly would be; if
the United States had any opium to sell.
However. MI. Brooks does not dwell much
upon the demoralizing effect of opium upon
the Chinese, 30 much as he does upon the
fact, that in one year, sixty million dollars
worth of teas and silks were exported by
China; and that she imported the same year
sixty three million dollars worth of opium
from British India; and therefore,; 'ifnearly
the entire value of China's exports of tea
and silk are appropriated by England to
pay for the opium forced upon her, she has
little purchasing power left for trade with
other nations That is the real grievance;
that england now controls the trade of
China"
Further on, Mr.. Brooks INDUCES in the
often repeated phrase of many American
writers, that "England's occupation of
India cannot be permanent for it is against
the current of natural migrations" which,
according to this class of philosophers, who
can see nothing but what is going on under
their very eyes, must of necessity be o from
East to West" History shows that human
migTations have always followed the physi-
cal law of :" least resistance" Asia over
flowed westward into Europe when it was
a comparatively empty void, peopled in a
scattered way by feeble races like the
modern EsquimauX. The hordes of Asia
found Africa, even then, teeming will popu-
latiOu, and there was no " WESTWARD flow
on that continent, although in later times
Il stream of emigration, neither large nor
strong. struck southwark where the resist
ance of existing population was not so
great. The westward stream flowed by fits
and starts into Europe until all voids were
filled and then Il reaction took place-the
NIantchu went eastward, the Arab went
eastward. and other warlike Asiatics over
ran the eastern part of their continent and
the islands of adjacent seas. And all the
time hat the western" emigration was
proceeding there was a steady flow east
ward from the great Asiatic cradle of races
populating and ~re-populating the great
islands and archipelagoes to the South and
East till even the atolls and volcanic
islands of the Pacific teemed with a popula-
ton, the numbers of which are the envy of
their vanishing descendants. When i'm
proved methods of navigation overcame
the resistance which the Atlantic had
offered to further migrations, n new ''west-
wardr flow began and has continued with
increasing vigor to the present day. But
large as are the proportions it has recently
assumed, it is yet but small and young,
compared with the vast movements which
nave proceeded it in the history of the
human race. 1t looms large to those who
stand in the midst of it and feel the effects
of the tide, but even in the United States
there has been ample evidence that "na-
tural migrations'' are not necessarily either
east or west but always towards a void, or
towards the territory occupied by races
weaker than the migratory hordes. Had
the Chinese Government been as ready
during the past half-century to encourage
the emigration of its subjects rs it now
appears to be, the fate of the North Ameri-
can continent might have been very
different to what it is; and the alarm
occasioned i'll the United States .by the
Chinese immigration of the last twenty
years, is ample proof that the fact that
" the current of national migrations' may
flow eastward as well as westward, is we'll
recognized there. So the English, French,
Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese races have
gone astward and occupied the best
parts of Southern Asia and the adjacent
Asiatic isles and there is no more reason
to suppose that any natural causes
make against the permanence of their
occupation than they did against the per-
manent occupation of Northern Europe by
the descendants of those Asiatic races who
began to people it more than two thousand
years ago.
The articles of the native paper EIeLG are
written by Hawaiians mostly, and from a
Hawaiian stand point, and although under
some supervision of a foreign mind, must
not be regarded as foreign productions, and
from Il foreign standpoint. Hence there are
styles of discourse, and figures of speech in
a native paper, that would not be appropria-
te or applicable to foreign discussion. The
style of the Hawaiian mind is highly figu-
rative and poetic. For instance, they try
to find some epithet, or phrase to designate
OAllC - ANASS vi u VI 81 4Aitl
idual, rather han give him his plain name.
Mr.. Spreckels the minen manufacturer
and capitalist of San Francisco is usually
spoken of by Hawaiians, as the "Million-
aire of the Plains of K~amaomao", (his
lands on Maui). And then they must use
"a figure of speech to designate a state of
mind. For instance, in an article in the
EIeIe of June 18th al attempted translation
of which is published by the Gazette, oc-
ours his sentences: "huLi hou oe Jo kOna
dLO / &c HuLG o RamaLi, q me ka oband 0
Ka10ie0o ma kOna nlou hiohiona'. Which
the Gazette thus translates he turned his
face to the KuLa of Kdmati, and with the
burden and features of KaaOilOo," which is
simply nonsense. KuLa o Rdmali, and
tnEaH0 o Kalci'CO are figures of speech. Mali
means to beg, hence hoo mali mali to flat
ter; and huLu o RdnIdLi, means the Plain