The Hawaiian gazette., 1881-12-07

may that these people would absorbed
assimiated here and their heathensh practices would
disappear do not know where the power Of assimlaon
lies Certainly the Hawaiian for is generally admitted
that be needs aid and support himself Nor there power
the foreign race the European reconstruct the Hndoo until
has greatly increased its numbers In the American States
the great vgor of the AngoSaxon stock and the large popu
aon working through long settled and well defined organ
ism has assinlated partially the emgants from
alien states but has not been without danger Here there
little conservative power and large influx of foreigners
race would time establish controlling influence
which would necessarily modify and revoutonze
political institutions Especially would this be the if the
population received the right of suffrage aud held
majority of votes.
The character of the women who should emgrae of the
utmost Importance. Now it would hardly be expected that
the women of the who do emgrae from India would be
very desirable the mothers of future nation Respect
able women the Hnoo class do appear public except
ing only those belonging to the mental class Their religion
forbds them to the and the public exposure
shipboard would be deemed gross act of ndecacy The
present emigration laws of India require forty to
every one hundred men, 1t does not require that
MARRIAGE soud exist The recruiters meet with very great
difficulty in obtaining the required number of In
several instances the law relaxed in order to permit
large number of leave The late Protector of Emil
grants in India says his official report 1S79) 1.-THE class
of willing to emigrate young widows married
single who have gone asay and therefore most
anxious avoid their homes and conceal their anteceden
Those familiar with Hndoo customs know that widows
outcasts women lead miserable lives and hardly toll
Grated in Hndoo society asked the present Protector of
Emgrants how many of the forty who emgrated
decent respectable He said ''hardly ten
While few do accompany their husbands the larger
depots and turned loose with the and herd together like
cattle 1t would hardly be possible to predict very brilliant
future for population coming from such women
1t appears Also by the official reports India that next to
the Hndoos the Mohammedens rank next i'll numbers
emrants While their religious ceremonies revolt
inc as those of the Hndoos they are Objectionable to US
Besides this they aggressive their tendencies and might
they well united make dangerous element the State
repeatedly asked this question of Europeans who have long
resided in India, I better class of Hndoos and Muham
medens should be willing to emgrae to foreign country, and
they frankly told that idol worship and poygnmy would
not tolerated in the countries to which they proposed to
90 what would be the effect 1 told in reply that
hardly one person would emgrae" No doubt they might
be euced trapped into emigratng but any desirable
scheme Of populatng the Islands must start with giving the
proposed emigant correct statement of the political and
social condition of the country which invites them is we'll
known that the extravagant inducements held
out invite emigration of the most being that
the cooie marry white with large fortune.
In addition to the above statements desire to copy
tract from document presented to the Governor in Chief of
jamaica and by him submitted to the Imperial Government
England being part of the memorial of the North Corn
wall Association of Baptist Churches the Island of jamaica
representing sixteen congregations numbering about 10000
persons 1t says Your memoriaists have repeatedly
expressed and published their with the opinion
of the Hon. c. c. Bravo that before country receive
general material benefit from the introduction of popua
ton the bulk of the individuals emgrang to that country
must have the other Of the following qualifications
religious and moral education, industry energy enterprise
manufacturing skill educated intelligence money capital and
your memorias positively affirm that the coolies who have
been introduced wear after year into these Islands do not
fulfill any of these important conditions" These men
specializing what the cooe may be. They are
who face to face with the cooe aborer 1t would
hardly be wise to cast aside this positive testimony especially
from who from religious standpoint have no
selfish ends to
As you have not defined the term population" in your
instructions have allowed myself latitude in discussing
the question The standard by which the moral intellectual
and physical character of the proposed population be
determined has not been fixed The geographical position of
energetic and relentless civilizations the American and tho
Chinese 1t would be political blunder to initiate the
lo1l 4I,o;r
every way against these forces pushing hard from the East
and the West No nation ont of barbarsm with less
friction than the Hawaiian no people ever received such
tender from the fierce powerful and often brutal races
which mainly rule the world But III spite of giving it
the best political wisdom of the world and in spite of the
most intelligent Christian attention and wachuness the
feels itself in hard struggle for existence To put beside
this another that hold its would be to
against light and would involve those who did it in gross
bunder Only those should become the basis of population
here who are may become capable of fronting and stand
ng eecuay before the stronger which here.
bearing the East Indian emigration DO not hesitate to
report that the East Indians not suitable desirable
emigrants. -
The JAPANESE. ~
The Japanese are not an emgratng Although Japan
is nearer to California than China and the Japanese not only
have none of the preudices against foreigners which the
Chinese have but also have great admiration and respect
for them, there still disposition into Caor
MA other States large numbers Nor 1t from want OF
knowledge of the opportunities offered foreign countries
The high of wages paid in California and in Australia
are well known to them The people make effort to emil
CRATE Japan not overpopuated onetenth of the soil
under cultivation On the island of Yezzo
of land lying idle There is Colonial Department in the
Japanese Government and considerable inducements
offered people living in the crowded parts to
upon these waste lands but far there has been little
cess in getting emigran The Japanese are not thrifty
people In spite the fine climate and rich soil they
poor No doubt that political conditions have had much to
do with their poverty but it still that they
thriving people spite of the great of the country
Dr. J. G. Hepburn and for many years resident mis-
sonay Yokohama and the author of the English japanese
dictionary told that he preferred and employed Chinese
labor He said that there industrious Japanese but