The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-02-25

Ignorant suffering people. Mere profess
sional men, however skilled, who awaken
no sympathy or confidence, are of no value
in our health administration. Now we are
assured that at the time of the late small
pox outbreak, when a Minister of the Crown
was discussing with government physi-
clans of that time, the question of treat
ment and management OF the epidemic, he
was advised To let it run its course, tina il
would thus burn itself out more quickly
1t might perhaps result in Il thousand more
deaths-but it would save a great deal of
time, money and official worry. Now if
the spirit which dictated amy such atrocious
medical advice is the inspiration of the op-
position to the present dispensary physi-
clan, we trust that the Government of this
country will sternly rebuke the jealous pro-
fessiomal opposition.
WE have before us a letter written bv the
Minister of Interior, Oh the subject of
japanese immigration to this country-a
subject about which His Excellency appears
to entertain some doubts. The letter i'm
question calls upon Professor Scott, a gen
tleman who has been resident i'm japan
for ten years, to give his views on the
immigration question. The Professor i'm
his reply, expresses himself as decidedly
adverse to any effort On the part of this
Government, to seek in the japanese EN-
plre for recruits for Hawaii, whether of
laborers or of population merely. He SAYS,
that the people are so small in stature, so
shlftless and thriftless, so lOath to emil
CRATE and have such an ample unoccu-
pied and uncultivated domain at home,
that there1s no inducement for them to 90
from home to find work, and no reason
why we should look to that quarter for
recruits. With all due Difference to the
Professors Japanese experience, many
here, although they nave not been in
Japan, will entirely dissent from the views
he has expressed, and will not accept the
conclusions he has arrived at. Ifthey have
not been in Japan they have had expert
ence of japanese laborers, and that too
under precisely the conditions which are at
the base of that question which was exer-
cising the mind of the Minister when he
thus ELECTED the Professors views.
In 1868 the ship Scioto brought to these
shores Jas japanese immigrants and it is
well known that's further large number were
anxious at the time to come forward in tina
ship, but the authorities in Japan inter-
fered and would not permit any further
emigration from the country. The editor
of this journal, with many others, employed
these Japanese laborers, and we are well
assured that every one of their employers
was particularly well satisfied with the
Japanese as a laborer. We venture to say
that if, at this time, there were "A vote of all
employers in this Kingdom to decide which
of all the Asiatic and Polynesian races, of
whom we have had aXnarianna bara %
laborers, should be chosen for future immi-
grants, (on the suppOsition that we were
obliged by some circumstance to %confine
ourselves to one race only a large majority
would manifest their preference for the
Japanese as the most suitable for laborers
and as settlers amongst the Hawaiian
population. We nav found the Japanese
docile, attentive to duty, readily adapting
to the ways of the country, and,
in many instances, establishing warm
friendships with thtir employers. Quite a
have remained in the country,
holding respectable positions and being
comfortably of.
Now when we consider the noble and
reception of our King by the
Emperor of Japan, and that we are well
of His Imperial Majesty's cordial
good will toward this little state, extending
ven to a Willingness to allow his subjects
to emigrate to Hawaii, (the japanese En-
pire having laid aside, at least so far as this
is concerned, its former official
as 10 emigration) we cannot but
express the hope that our Government will
be deferred from looking to Japan as a
field for recruiting, and must still trust that
ere long n new opportunity will be pro-
vided to enable us to test more fully the
capability and suitability of the japanese
immigrant.
On the wharf on Thursday night, and
throughout the town yesterday, there was a
great deal of talk OccasiOned by the report
Of cases of measles on board the Australia,
md by the manner in which that circum-
stance was dealt with by our Health author
ties. II was noted and spoken of that San
has been proclaimed an infected
port by orr Board of Health and that the
PROCLAMATION in that regard has never been
cancelled, but is, nevertheless, treated as a
lead letter by the Board of Health and its
,fficers. When hrlf hOuI after half hour
passed by, and the Australia still lay drift
ng about outside the harbor, speculation
became rife as to what had happened to
Ter, or pilot Shepherd, to account for the
There was recalled to mind the fact
her sister ship came in to our port a
of months ago with two men sick
ming of smallpox on board, and it was
onjectured that the Australia had been
qually unlucky, only that we were to be
aved from the risk we had run in the pre-
ious case by the earlier detection on board
hip of the scourge we dread. When. near
the ship arrived off the wharf,
nd it was found that she was not to come
carer until the Port Physician had been
ent for and given his orders on the subject,
was recollected and freely talked of that
n all other ports of the civilized world such
fu~nctionary is always on hand, when a
essel arrives from a distant port, to satisfy
imself that alls right aboard before any
ne is allowed to visit or leave the ship.
he fact that the mails so long overdue