The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-04-08

the Chinese have come. The plantations
have taken the place Of the ships: ana
whilst the latter sailed away for ever; the
former are likely to remain,-aud they need
Chinese rs well As other races To carry on
their work. So we hardly can initiate
America in her wall of exclusion. She has
six millions of the African race, and several
millions of Irish, Germans, and other
European labOrers within her borders To
help do her work; so that she does not need
the Chinese help, although it was 50 accept
able at one time 10 construct her trans
continental railway. But we have no vol
unteer migrating help except the Chinese.
In 1872 there were about three thousand
Hawaiians NJ work, producing our sugar
export, about all the hands that were then
needed; AMI in 1852, there are still three
thousand Kanakas at work,-a large recruit
of labOring force indeed from this poor de-
Ginning race; but we have occasion to en-
p,oy at this time about seven thousand
more; and of these the Chinese supply a
quota of about five thousand; or one half
the working population of our plantations.
has our production, export, aud revenue
would be cut down one half without the
Chinese. The Americans, the English, the
Germans, and other European races don't
want to come to settle and labor here. The
few people from Norway who have been
imported, are dissatisfied, and will not re-
main; though they ge better pay than
they could in Norway, and enjoy here a
pleasanter climate and II more genial land
than in their own home,-yet are averse to
our plantation life and association. And so
we have no hope of laboring help from
Europe or America. We must look TO Asia;
although warned by Mr.. PiXley and others
that eve shall not be " Asiaticized." Yet
we are semi-Asiutic as it is. Our Poly
nesiap King was recognized as a cognate
prince by his royal brethren of Japan, Siam,
and Malaysia. TIE aboriginal Hawaiians
came from Asia, and consequently this
archipelago has always been very largely
Asiatic. Thus it is needless to deprecate
our becoming what we are and We must
still look to the cradle of nations for recruits
of people. However,, we are limited in the
direction of Asia. Our immigration enter
prise is indeed circumscribed on all sides.
We are warned against the possible British
influence of n HindOo immigration. An
American President has expressed his "con-
Germ" about our large Chinese immigration.
We are assured that we cannot bring about
a Japanese immigration. If we trust only
to Portuguese immigration, it is reasonably
feared that the country will become a
Catholic colony. And whilst it is now pro-
posed, that we look to the Greek island of
Scios, recently destroyed by earthquake,
and welcome its impoverished people, who
are fleeing from their ruined homes; we
are warned that there would be danger in
the establishment of a Greek church in
iuence and of our becoming Russianized.
So. what are we to do? If we cannot
readily, or advisedly get any large recruits
of new people, whom we need, we certainly
ought to take the best of care of the people,
of the working strangers whom we have
with us, and induce them more and more
to do our work. We must not set up any
Chinese or Portuguese, or other wall OF
race-exclusion. We must rather strive to
build a common temple of peace and race
brotherhood, where all may unite in har-
mony together. This idea is Knocked in
California, and elsewhere in America. "rhe
supremacy of the bamboo" is asserted, and
it is quasi officially stated that all Gin
eradicable hatred exists" (between Chinese
and Americans and that any appeal
= across this barrier, either of sympathy OIL
i. gratitude, is utterly idle" This may be
the relation of races i'm California, and
elsewhere OH the Pacific Coast. In San
Francisco Il Chinaman of wealth dare moi
build a handsOme house in a fashionable
quarter of the city; he dare not sport 8
span of fine horses nor move about tc
, enjoy himself on a public occasion among
the people of the country. His position in
California is almost like that of the Jew in
England under the Piantagenets or ir
Russia at this day. 1t is not so here.
, In these islands, here in Honolulu, Mr.
Along, Mr.. Wong Quay, and other success
full Chinese build handsome houses, adorned
in the best of taste, i'm our most fashionabl,
quarters. Cinnamon invest here in fin,
: horses, and mingle with the best of peopl,
on all public occasions. They are to be me
in the cabins of our and in all on
I public conveyances. And very cordial ant
Kindly relations exist between the Chinese
; and their fellow citizens of Hawaiian anC
u European race. Many pleasant friendship
Z are known to exist here between European
Z and Asiatics. Some Chinese coolies Ell
gagged here twelve years ago, still cOntinu,
in the service of a kindly attached EN-
ployer. Gifts and interchange of kind
nesses are frequent between these "antagon
istic" races here. And Chinese young mel
and children, readily responding to the ap
peal of generous and faithful teachers, ar
coming forward to be instructed, to assimi
late with us, ana 10 prove tIat there Is III
"ineradicable hatred" except such q
exists in the hearts of hard, narrow-Iuinded
> official men like n Commodore Shufeldt
who in a recent letter about the Chinese
. one much lauded at the Coast, says: 9Th
policy of the United States towards tn
Chinese in America, should be with us, a
d it is with them, purely selfish, by no mean
e governed by the failacious idea of inter
national friendship, or even the broade
ground of a common brotherhood" An,
the San Francisco Bulletin commenting OIL
= this letter says: Between people so diane
e trically opposite, our naval officer wisel.
concludes, that there never can be here an,
assimilation. What he has said on tn
n subject cannot be too widely disseminated.
G Never any assimilation Only "inera
dicable hatred - Then throw away tn
DILL DrannnnAa liz nai..inn-Ac lM.ia.