Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-07-29
Mr. Hoffnung on Portuguese Immigration
Extracts from private letters received from A i.
HoiInunG ESD. relative to Portuguese Iminigra.

Extracts from private letters received from A .
fioilnung, Esd relative to Portuguese Iminigra-
ton.
LONDON, May Is, 1882.
Mr. Carter has succeeded in making n
favorable convention with the Portuguese Gov
ornmcnt which recognizes our right TO contract
and recruit aborcrs iii the Kingdom and its islands
which will give safety and permanently to business
| shall now be able to go ahead with less appro-
hension of being stopped than formerly, and If
tho Government and the new Labor Supply AssO
citation Will send mo their orders l soon have
an extensive flow Of immigration atloat from
Portugal and the Azores. | am only afraid that
the new association will be tempted away by all
sorts OF plausible schemes 10 try new fields and
got disappointment and unsuitable people, Tho
Portuguese may not DC all that the planters could
wish for; but neither are the Chinese or Japanese,
or East Indian Coole, or American Negro, or the
Now Hebrides People-thoy all have their faults
and drawbacks l contend, however that tho
Portuguese is a fairly good laborer and they are
people that make n satisfactory basis of popula-
ton, and i can lay them down AZ fast and nv
cheap as any other They will stay in the Islands
and there Is no need to spend money to send th0m
back, and no embarrassing agreements with their
government are nccessar,-so hope the Board
of Immigration and tho new Planters Association
Will support me iii my efforts to send them. II
has cost me vast amount of trouble and labor To
perfect the system whicE l now propose to do
moro rapidly by steam and | hope your people
will do me justice and recognize my efforts, and
not only support mo thoroughly but will not per.
init others, who are jealous and who want to
avail themselves of tho lines have laid down aud
the road have made to cut the ground from
under my feet by unfair competition. l under.
stand that this has been proposed but am sure
your people are too Just 10 Icrnit 1t; II they do
they viii have reason TO regret it. You will 800
the steamer Monarch, expect, before this reaches
youths is the first trial by steam, and | hope
soon to send one or two more and perhaps larror
steamers, and 80 continue in the same way.
LONDON, June IA, 1882
You know by this timo that wo have 90
this Portuguese Immigration on its proper foot
efforts of MIR. Carter, wo have every hope that
We can keep up supply by steamers equal TO any
reasonable demand on the part Of your planters
noticed by the Kings speech ON the opening Of
tho Legislature that no WAS much in favor of Portu
gueso and | am sure lac is wise, IA they arc the
best and cheapest laborers your people can get. I
hope, therefore, that arrangements will DO made
70 second my Efforts to keep the business going
Tho value OF tho Portuguese as laborcrs il being
recognized by other countries as we'll as yours. j
have had offers from the Government OF Queens.
land and British Guiana to recruit and send them
laborcrs from tue Azores aud only last week tho
Consul for Venezuela caino to INC and offered "a
each for laborers recruited through the machinery
aud organization have established in Portugal
need not tell you that this Is far more than am
getting from the business am doing, but am
determined 10 stand by tho Hawaiian hoard Of
stand their wants thoroughly and have got per
feet organization IN the country for recruiting
laborcrs, aud am loyalty bound both by interest
and feeling TO the Hawaiian Islands; aIn nov
fitting out splendid steamer named the Aaass,
which will sail "a week and will call both ut
Lisbon and st. Michaols. Sho is fitted aud pro
vsloned for 100 people and hope 70 got as many
az boths ports. IL Ii q very heavy operation, Tut
have Mr. Carriers authority for II, and although
learn that therc has been d change of 0inistSy In
Honolulu, have doth. but that thoy viii CON
firm and maintain the aets of their pso6noeanoss