The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-06-09
POPULATION QUESTIONS.

able publication has given the pub
lie the benefit of two wcll-digested
articles on the important and "burn-
ing" question of immigration, labor
and settlement to which | have de-
voted for months Il good deal of
study, and on which three cNhaus-
tive letters of mine have been pub
lished by the Gazette. | hope you
will continue to devote some atten-
tion to this vital problem, but | wish
YOU to allow me to state here all my
Indebtedness to the II. c. Adrer-
tiSc, for kindly corroborating, and
authenticating with all its official
authority, in its Saturdays editorial.
the statements published by myself
in connection with the mpossibility
of the Government carrying out at
once the provisions Of the Home
stead Law. said the Government
could not probably dispose of any
public lands for settlement before
years "a great deal, however, will
remain TO be done. - says the
.I1ccrtiScr, 'beforc this territory
Government lands) can be thrown
open to settlement. Consequently
the intending settlers must make up
their minds to be contented and
''wait until the Government Is in
q position of throwing open lands,'
as it "cannot perform impossible
ties, 3" unless-as said--thc planters,
seeing the danger of the situation,
realize that it is their interest to do
what the administration cannot do,
and offer private inducements to
intending settlers.
The general weakness and awk-
wardness of the A0certiSer's argu-
mentation on Immigration and
settlement" brings indeed to my
mind. for the second time, that its
patrons must realize it would be
! better for them to have n wise enemy
rather than such an imprudent friend
or defender. But where this paper
is either deeply ignorant or tries to
deceive itself, as well as the public,
is when /. it says: ''touching the
Portuguese, of whom our contempO-
raries arc 50 very solicitous, we do
not apprehcnd any general exodus
of them from this Kingdom: they
know where they are well off and
will doubtless be content to watt
until this government can help them.
AS / have given the public some
very precise and indisputable in
formation about the intentions of the
majority of our Portuguese contract
laborcrs, to leave c1t DeaSSe as soon
as able to do so, unless kept here
by proper measures of the planters
or of the Government ! wish
the BULLETIN TO lend me the
facilities of its columns for abso-
lutely confirming my previous
statements. | am sorry for destroy
ing the 1dUertiSer'S placid security,
but "apprchcnd" it must be sacri-
feed, whether it likes or not. OF
course the Portuguese ''know when
they'arc well off, all fools do that.
But where Portuguese are no fools,
is when they do not feel well off or
satisfied with contract labor and with
seeing no future open before them.
And when they realize that no avail
able lands exist within their reach,
they do not feel content to wait J"
until this Government is Sin posi-
tion" of offering them facilities for
settling, but begin to feel their way
towards leaving this country. |
have stated that when the next
batch of contracts expires, in n few
months, they will, if not properly
induced to stay here, either accept
the proposition made to them from
New Zealand or Tahiti, or follow the
indications of the agents they have
sent to Mexico, or call upon their
own government for war transport
to carry them over TO the present
Eldorado of Portuguese cmigra-
ton, Loanda in Africa = they would
also gladly 90 to Chile or Peru, if
only the passage was paid for them.
The possibility of their taking either
of these courses is based on facts
and knowledge which the 1dUertiSer,
any more than its official patrons.
can neither destroy nor deny.
Therefore, at the risk Of repeat
ing myself, we must accept the situ-
alton as ii is: lst-Thc marrow of
our white population, laborers and