The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1884-10-14
Whole No. 1894.

these arrangements for Japanese i'm
migration mark most important
era in the history of the agricultural
enterprise of this country. The sue
cess of the movement we undoubt ted
ly owe to the cordial personal rela-
tions which have been establis he'd
between King Kalakaua and the
and influential officials of the EN-
pire. There has been conceded to us
in our weakness as q State what has
been denied to many powerful ma
tions. And this has not been through
a mere outburst OF friendship and
kindly condescension. Our Japanese
friends dn not do things in that way.
The japanese Government seldom
makes u move without knowing
exactly what it is doing. However
superior to il i'll physical strength
and for warlike purposes the
governments of great western ma
tIons may be they have ever found
a match in the diplomatic ability of
the statesmen of tie Empire of the
Rising Sun. The Japanese Govern
ment has taken nothing for granted
about us, and before listening to the
persuasions which Col. Iaukea and
Mr.. Irwin had authority TO use, they
knew from the evidence of their own
had to tell them was in accordance
with facts and that what they under
took to promise on behalf of the Ha-
waiian Government was sure to be
fulfilled. The day will surely come
when the pains that has been taken
by the King and by his recent Minis
ters 6o cultivate close relations of
friendship with the Emperor of Japan
and his great officers of State will no
longer be sneered at as a vain show
of diplomacy or cavilled at because it
cost a few thousand dollars.
Among our planters the first ques-
ton that will present itself when they
hear that number of Japanese inn
will arrive here within a
few weeks from this time will be
what is this class of labor likely to
cost. To this the reply may safely
De made that it will be the cheapest
N point of money cost per head per
annum that they have had the
benefit of for long time past. Then
arises the inquiry-what about the
quality We are assured that the
abOrers who are coming are all
rained agricultural laborers from the
Interior of JapaD-none of the loafers
Ibout big towns who know nothing
If country work. We are informed
hat MIR. Irwin himself speaks of
hem as " first-class sugar-planting
aborers.O Now Mr.. Irwin has been
lere himself, and did not lose any of
lis time while he was here, neither
id the men interested in planting
whom he met here fail to give him
reely the benefit of their own ideas
s to what is wanted. We further
earn that Mr.. Irwin expects to be
able to send us five hundred immi
rants per month all through 1885 if
nc 0OfcIAluSIC NC pI0pdIcO 10 au-
horize him to arrange for such an
nfiux. OF these immigrants he finds
aat the proportion which will best
hit the people and the Government
ill be four-fifths men, and one-fifth
'omen. With these are likely to
ONE about ten per cent. of children.
hese proportions will please the
lanters, who are always groaning
bout the large proportion of women
nd children they have to take along
ith their Portuguese laborers. To
lie country at large they will hardly
e so acceptable. One-fifth of women
of course a great improvement COM
ared with the Chinese immigration
hich was so long tolerated here, a
of which eur planters
,em disposed to sigh for. But it is
ally not large enough proportion
r the good of the country. We need
fact large immigration of women
of all questions of labor.
nything, however, is better than re-
,ening the country to the immigra-
On of Chinese males-a doom which
e had begun to fear might b e force,
Jon US by the necessities OF out
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