The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-04-01
Mr. Gibson at Pauoa.

III
ment there was an ~assemblage of the people
at Pauoa in their Church on Thursday even.
ing to listen to Mr.. Gibson on some of the
topics of the day. The little Church build.
ing was crowded with people, who gave an
earnest attention to the speaker. Mr.. Gibson
spoke in the Hawaiian language, substan.
TALLY as follows
FELLOW CITIZENS, AND FRIENDS,-I re-
member the cordial support given me al
the late election, by the electors of Pauoa.
1t was q generous support, without any
promises, or bargain: and come to thank
you, and to discuss with you some topics
pertaining to our country's welfare.
L made no promises as / have said, before
the election, II shall not make any now;
but come here to submit some of my views
and purposes for our common good,
There is a prevalent opinion that we APP
proach a period of crisis, when our little
state is to be affected very gravely: either to
have its independence imperiiled, or placed
upon a more enduring basis; and the next
Legislative Assembly is credited with n
paramount influence in determining this
result.
Whatever that may be, I, as a member
of the Assembly-chOsen Il representative
by no patronage, but by the good will of
the ~people-am determined to do my duty
as II Hawaiian commoner, to King and
People, and to serve the best interests of
the whole country without fear or favor.
The questions that chiefly affect our State
at this time, and demand our grave con-
sideration, are =
1. The sanitary care of the people.
,. The increase of people by Immigration.
8. The regulation of our labor system.
T.. The license, or prohibition of alcoholic
beverages.
). The more effective administration of
Government.
The first is a question which concerns
you Hawaiian people more than any other
race in this kinOIOm Won ira nttaoLaJ
by a terrible disease which you call mai
PdEe, or the Chinese disease and vet
among a thousand afflicted, there are not
one dozen Cinnamon, and there are nine nun
dred and ninety Hawaiians. There is no
foundation for naming it theC Chinese dis
ease. You HawaiianS, and all P~olynesians,
and your kindred in the great Malay
Islands, have had this or some similar
disease from time immemorial. You had
your mai Hi, or chiefs disease, attended
by swellings and su~ppurations, and you had
elephantiaSiS, or mOnStrOuS wOllen limbs,
and then with the incoming of syphilis,
and the excuses and exposures resulting
from your ignorance of your new artificial
life attendant upOn the influx of foreigners,
you have had more affective forms of dis
ease developed, and have become the vic
Tins of a complicated series of evils which
waste YOU as u race. And now the opinion
is prevalent, and apparently well founded,
that you are radically diseased and doomed
as n race, and must, within the period
allotted TO two or three generations, utterly
pass away. l do not, and never did, o
Hawaiians entertain this despair of your
continued e~Xistencefor long ages to come as
aliving race upOnthe face ofthe earth. do,
with all my soul, hope in the enduring vital
ity and race preservation of the Hawaiian
people, firmly believing that a judicious
and thorough system of sanitary i~nstruc-
ton and administration, and of mingling
with cOguate stocks will stem the tide of
decline, and develop an increase of people,
and prove to the world that you, as Il Ha-
waiian people, were not doomed to al UNI
timely close of race existence. / intend to
declare this continued faith and hope in
the next Legislature, with a view to pro-
mote such action in the way of more
thorough sanitary administration in behalf
of all sick people as may be consistent with
our spirit of enlightenment and philan-
thTOpy, and the resources of the country.
And o Hawaiians must aid in promoting
your own welfare, by cooperating faith
fully with the authorities that are charged
with the care of the public health. | do
not know of any country whose Govern
ment undertakes to doctor the whole people
gratuitously. The admirable hospitals of
enlightened States are mainly the cOntri-
buttons of private benevOlence but | re-
gard the state of you, Hawaiians, as eXcep-
tional, having had Il wholly new and arti-
fetal life substituted for the quite recent
natural race life of you fnreiathers, and
your ignorance and helpleSsness under the
circumstances calls for the Intervention of a
Government,
The second question | now present-in-
crease of people by immigration-is one
deserving of the hearty approval and CO.
of you Hawaiians. Ten years
your stout working men supplied the
labor required for the cultivation of the
of the kingdom and now your race
only provide about One-fourth of the
required. You might say, let there
be no increase of tillage beyond hat our
people can manage and let the stranger
seek his opportunity for wealth elsewhere.
10 would, no doubt, be we'll and patriotic
to carry out a system of seclusiGn if new
3omers We're only hostile invaders; but
the stranger comes with money or
skill, or both in hi hands, his presence is a
blessing and, moreover, the sentiment of
he civilized world now forbids any national
Therefore it is we'll, not only to
in the coming of, but to welcome
new people. So far, the recent large immi-
of new people has taken nothing
from the resources of Hawaiians, but
las rather added to their means Of living
I is not many years ago, when a Hawaiian
vas content to labor all day for "a cents,