Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-05-06
The Native Press.
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Some time since, we mentioned the sub.
lect of tho naturalization Of immigrants:
and now, seeing that new corners are on
the increase, and likely still moro to be SO,
we deem it fit that tho law on naturaliza.
lion should be reviewed We remember
the recent talk, to the effect that when the
first lot Of Norwegians arrived, the attempt
was made to have them all naturalzed at
once, and which would have boon done,
but for the opposition of tho Heir Appar.
ont.
Now, to allow ndiscriminate naturaliza.
ton, is to squander the right Of the ballot
upon every stranger that comes along, and
the result will BIO trouble and danger. Tho
privileges OF n subject are not to be lightly
valued, and should not be bestowed upon
any but those who are worthy. For human
rights and privileges do not como without
effort; they must be valued and sought for
to be understood and properly enioyed.
Shall we then lightly bcstow our sacred
rights upon others without stopping to con-
slider whether tho recipient has any proper
appreciation Of them, or will regard them
III anything like the same light as we do
ourselves And what right has the
stranger to become naturalized here, unless
he first demonstrates by his conduct that
he is proper person? When man takes
tho oath OF allegiance here, we don't want
him to put merely his head in with us,
while all the other parts remain outside. We
see some who have become naturalized and
have families born to them here, whose
solo object it would seem is the making of
money in Hawaii mel; while all their feel.
ings and desires are fixed upon their own
country, the land Of their ancestors. This
can be observed every day.
AT present the Minister Of the Interior
has full powers in the matter of naturaiza-
ton, and he may authorize clerk to ad.
minister the oath. Now, we consider the
matter of naturalization to be of so much
Importance that the power should not bs
entrusted to any one official, or to his clerk.
And IN view of the increased immigration
of late, has increased the Importance of
amending the law in regard to naturaliza.
ton. We do not doubt that moneyed men
here may be found who would like to have
tho newly arrived laborers naturalized, so
that they might thereby get the control of
the ballot box; tho very thing which we
should carefully and jealously watch our
selves Every nation regards with watch.
full solicitude the preservation of it's own
rights and shall we recklessly surrender
ours into the hands of newly-arrived stran-
gers, and thus enable them to crowd us to
the wall
In view of these considerations and OF
existing facts, it would appear that the law
should be amended, in the interests of the
government and of the Hawaiian people; and
the authority to grant naturalizatons
should be vested in the King in Privy
Council.
From the hUoIoa:l
One trouble in this country, is the lack
of those who have any real love of the land
and the race. The fault is that men arc
concerned only for their own personal in.
terests, their reputation, and the getting OF
wealth, and not for the race, or for those
who are to come after US. Eat and drink
and oarouse, and let tho coming generation
look out for itself, appears to DO the
thought and the desire of some. If the
control of our affairs shall fall into the
hands of such people, ruin will not be far
of. Our government can be SO carried on
with wisdom that tue national life will be
perpetuated and on the other hand, it can
be so managed that we shall DO upset, and
the namo of Hawaii disappeared. In the
hands of man il his own destiny.