The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-10-24

to be regulated and supported, would
he increased. Men will live, espe-
cially in a country like this, and if
they are not given chance, or
made, to earn their living they will
get it by preying upon the substance
of others. We want the planters to
prosper, for theirs is the first pro-
ducing industry in the country, but
it is hardly worth while for the rest
of the people to make such sacri-
fees for their prosperity rs will des-
troy the country as q desirable habi-
tation for respectable and civilized
people. In the Planters meeting
yesterday, one Of the members said
the trouble was not so much a lack
of laborers in the country as the
high wages they were standing for,
owing to the supply and demand
being so nearly balanced so far as
numbers went This expression
being seconded, some of the men,
bers took alarm at the drift the dis
cussion was taking, as tending to
stultify them by the appearance of
confession that their urgent appeal
to the Government for more labor
was not justified. 1t was therefore
explained that the labor supply was
sufficiently bare to make the laborers
on the plantations lazy and entirely
too Independent, having their en-
ployers at n serious disadvantage in
every respect. To bring the loaf
ing and saucy vagabonds to their
senses, it was the apparent opinion
of the meeting that nothing would
be more effectual than sudden and
large influx of laborers, and the only
source ofsuch relierin view was China.
The promised shipment of japanese
would be only drop in the bucket,
and an adequate supply could not
be obtained within short enough
period to be very useful. 1t is very
much to be regretted if the best
hope of the planting interest is
bound up with the admittance of
fresh hordes of Chinese. The prob
ability is that the experiment now
advocated would have to be repeated
| over and over until there would
be nothing in the country but
planters and Chinese, and the num-
bers Of the former not Chinese
growing "small by degrees and
beautifully less" From the planta-
tions there would undoubtedly be
constant accession of Chinese to in
| dependent employment outside,
monopolizing the industry and sub
/ iugating the trade of our freemen
adding nothing to the moral stamina
or the political soul of the country !;
skimming in heavy percentages the
interest of the country's natural
wealth; overcrowding large quarters
of our towns and villages, and help
ing largely to fill our prisons and
lazarettos. Could the planters not,
I rather than embark their interests
upon such perilous chances, cooper
ate with the Government and pro-
cure the requisite quota of Japan
csc labor more expeditiously than
can be done with the present re-
sources of the treasury. Blamable
as the Government may be for
the paucity Of funds which pre-
vents it from carrying out the in
tention of the Legislature with re-
gard to immigration, as speedily as
the planting guild requires, yet we
are compelled to say Amen to Mr.,
Gibson's words: II hope that il
will not be found necessary to re-
treat from policy which has been
viewed with so much satisfaction by
the people generally, and also cordi-
ally approved by friendly Powers
and I am persuaded that it will not
be necessary if the immigration OF
japanese can be carried out with
the spirit with which it has been
initiated"