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

wives of the native crews very faD.,raUv
accompanied them, he never wou1d have
made the remark that: I'm the Malay
countries, IL would be impossible To induce
them the women to leave" their country.
HAD he been of age 10 notice events i'm the
city of New York in the yesr ISIS. he
would have known that a sazare-rigced
bark, named the E~uthanusia, partly owned
by an Englishman, but built and manned
IN a port or the Island IF Celebes. arrived
IN New York harbor wtth a crew of thir-
teen MaIays, nine Of sgl.om had their wives
with them; and who We're visited on board
their ship by DR.. Francis Hawks, the Pres
ldent, and several members of the New
YORK Geographical Society. And had the
Royal commissioner studied the particu-
lars attending the Malay settlement of
Singapore, and other migrations of the
Malay people in modern times; without
regarding their probable colonization of
Madagascar and South Africa. in ancient
times,-he would have been so much i'm
pressed with the possibility of Malay migra-
ton TO the Pacific, and of the great value of
their mingling with their congeners of
Polynesia, that as a patriotic Hawaiian
official, he would have urged upon the
attention of the Hawaiian Government the
"a - ms ~ NbSL IL lltil ~ lIlt
Malay Archipelago, not for Iaborers merely.
but for an increase of people in the Hawai-
ian Kingdom.
This subject was so far appreciated by a
Hawaiian King and Ministry in 1868, that
a Diplomatic Agent, Walter NJ. Gibson,
was appointed to reside at Singapore, whose
instructions prepared by The acting Minister
of Foreign Affairs, DR.. F. w. Hutchinson,
read as follows:
"Th special object contemplated by His
Majesty (Kamehameha " i'm accord
ing you this official position is to ena-
BILE you to obtain precise and accurate in
formation regarding the probabilities of OBJ
tanning immigrants, male and female, into
this Kingdom from the several independent
states of the Malay Archipelago and South
Eastern Asia. Should a favorable opportu-
nifty offer, it is desirable that you negotiate
with those Princes (of the Malay States)
the terms on which their subjects may
make contracts of their own free will, with
the authorized agent of the Government to
be transported to this country for the pur-
poses of labor and colonization"
Correct had not then been
obtained here in regard to the European
"protection" of the so-called independent
Malay States. However, this mission was
not carried out at the time, and the Agents
attention was directed to other duties in the
city of Washington.
PORTUGUESE IMMIGRATION.
The Royal Commissioner does not deem
1T necessary " to consider the character of
the Portuguese emigrants," inasmuch as
"Hawaiian planters have already had full
opportunities to judge of the fitness of this
race" But we take pleasure in recording
the general sentiment of friendly apprecia-
ton of the Portuguese immigrants through
out these islands. They are everywhere
recognized as industrious and law abiding,
and manifest in this Kingdom, as in other
countries to which they have migrated, a
disposition to settle permanently and to as
simulate with the children of the soil
The Portuguese are indeed very desirable
immigrants for the Hawaiian Kingdom,
and we regret to observe that the Royal
Commissioner emtertains an inferior opin-
ion in regard to them, because, whilst he
say that "a large immigration (of POrtu-
guese) may be obtained" and it is impor-
taut to send a special plenipotentiary to
procure them in large numbers, he farther
on he says i'll his report, that cit will be
difficult, if not impossible to bring into
these islands emigrants belonging to the
best races.'r We consider the Portuguese
as belonging to the best races of immigrants
for these islands. But at the same time,
considering the question of the repopula-
ton of this Hawaiian Kingdom, we do not
wish to regard any one race as our only
hope of repopulation, or have this Kingdom
"entirely DEPENDENT" as the Royal Com
missioner says, "upon Portuguese immi-
grafton for labOrers, who bring women with
them" We think that the aim of the
Government should be to build up this in
sular state very largely with a c%Osmopoli-
tan variety of people, and not allow too
great a prepOnderence of any one immigra-
ting race. Every race will have its advo-
Gates and opponents, and some of the oh
j~ectiOns which the Royal COMMISSIONS has
urged against HindOOs as immigrants, he
might also urge against Portuguese, as
when he says, "These people (the TTindoos)
are protected by British laws in the exer-
else of their religious rites, however revolt
ing they are, they would have t0 be pro-
tected here" And as the religion of the
worthy Portuguese who come here, has
been regarded and spoken of by many in
this community as q" idolatrous and degrad-
ing" and it has been stated in recent pub
LEGATION by certain religious parties, that it
was desirable to avoid immigration from
Roman Catholic countries, it is evident that
there might be objections urged by certain
narrOw-minded parties against Portuguese
on account of their religion as well as against
HindoOs. But our plenipOtentiary now
proceeding to Portugal will, whatever the
opinion in regard to the religion of the POr-
tuguese, have to guarantee in his negOtia-
ton, that they would be protected in its
exercise. And shall not a young, aspiring
free state like this, protect every immi-
grant in the exercise of his religion? Does
not it protect the Chinaman in the idola-
trous ceremonial of his New Year? And
could it deny the erection of his Joss house?
Such an event, however, has been happily
prevented in these islands 10y the activity
of earnest Christian men who have provid-
ed other and higher and purer religious OPP
portunities for the enquiring Chinese mind,