Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-10-27

bonus on nee, No there Is not only sugar
but rice bonanza there. We kick lohn
Chinaman ont Of the Pacific coast and then
give him SSoo,ooo year in the Hawaiian Isl
nnds. so that he can complete with our own rice
cultiva,or in the southern States. This
amount Is increasing each year. They find
the culture 50 profitable thn, they pay as high
as $50 and $50 per acre yearly rental for rice
lands Notwithstanding all this. the planters
and merchants Of the islands will insist on il
that American interests are growing up The
Chinese occupy entire valleys and get hold Of
many Of the most fertile spots. Twenty thou.
sand men without wives are a dangerous Gle.
mcnt in any community was told tha, the
Chinese got the wives OF the natives away from
their husbands and that they corrupted the
younger girls. The natives are greatly inferior
to them. The consequence is social condi.
tion which is perfectly abominablc. The
planters want the Chinese laborers whether
bringing wives or not. The Chinese put M
their josshuuscs all over the country and the,
are banded together in secret societies. An
official statement shows that they areall armed.
Whenever they choose to take possession oi
the islands they can do so. King kaiakaua
has q standing army Of siSty.6ve men, all lazy
kanakas, to hold in check these 10000 armed
Cinnamon"
PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH.
"liow are the Portuguese doing 2"
1.-The Portuguese are all poor laborers from
the Azores islands. They take their families
with them and are very prolific. When their
time Of service with the planters expires many
Of them become small farmers. They largely
outnumber the Americans and il the Chinese do
not get possession they will be the dominant
| race there.
"Why don't Americans 20 there1"
"Because there are plenty OF chances for
business at home. Sugar planting, besides,
requires large capital. Young Engishmen
are getting into the country very fast. The
treaty encourages Chinese and English immi.
grafton as much as it docs American. We
made the treaty to keep the English out, but
so framed it that they have the same advan.
tages as the Americans. English merchants
supply the greater part Of the sugar machinery
and English capital is very active there. The
dominance. Many Of them have already made
small fortunes out Of the treaty and they are
very anxious to have il continued"
"What is the character Of the Hawaiian
Government p
"Well, the government consists mainly OF
King Kalakaua and a man named Gibson,
who is prime minister--a sort Of opera bouiic
affair. The king has lost the confidence
and respect Of the majority of the best
people of the islands. Gibson's life is par.
TALLY told in the Congressional Record OF
1886 1t seems tha, thirty years ago he was
arrested in Java by the Dutch government on
the charge of stirring up treason and was con-
demned TO death He escaped and on his re-
turn to the United States our government de-
mandcd Of the Dutch large sum for his arrest,
but the state department soon abandoned his
claim. He next turned up in the Hawaiian
Islands as an agent, | am told Of Brigham
Young and he established the Mormon Church
there, but Brigham Young finally dropped him.
Then he became editor OF a newspaper which
always took the ground that Kalakaua was the
most enlightened poten,ate OF modern times,
and SO he is now chief adviser and right hand
man of kalakaua. am fully satisfied that
the Hawaiian Government docs not favor the
increase Of American influence in Hawaiian
affairs. |, is heartily in favor of the present
treaty so long as it brings such fine revenues to
be spent IN coronations and in junketing, but
il the government can make better bargain
with any other nation it will close out our
treaty at once The king and prime minister
Of this insignificant nation are holding the
whips over the American people. They are
saying to us: If you withdraw this bonanza
we shall make trade somewhere else"
FoREsHADowING THE END.
"What will be the end Of all this ?" in.
qured the reporter.
81 canno, say,' said Mr. Searles; "you
can judge for yourself. have by no means
exhausted the subject. l think there will be
anarchy there before long. AS the Chinese
sc, better hold and the Portuguese increase
the Americans will step out. So long as the
planters can make money they will let things
drift along. II the Chinese offer to buy out
the plantations, much the better for the
planters. II the treaty is terminated by our
government the foreigners will then invite Ka-
lakaua to step down and form new govern
ment. But they will do nothing so long as the
bonanza lasts"
"Do you believe that we need the islands
Tor the protection Of our commerce. Z"
II am at loss to see how we can possibly
utilize them. The present treaty gives us no
advantage over any other nation. II We had
them it would cost millions to fouify them.
Our policy is to keep on the continent. 1t
might be Of some advantage to hold them, so
as to keep the Chinese out, but We have al
ready spent SIG 1000, 900 in bounties there and
we have only filled the islands with Chinese
the very obiec, we wished to prevent. The
treaty was an experiment. We have had
seven years Of il and il works out Just the very
opposite Of what we expected. The fact is
the United States are the natural market for
the islands and we shall have some Of their
trade, treaty OF no treaty. Before this treaty
they took 81 per cent Of their goods hom us
and with the treaty they take only 70 per cent.
For every dollar of goods they take from US
We give them dollar in bonus. As an Amcri-