The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-05-27

ing interest This il is the duty Of the
G9yernment and the planters TO attend to,
for without the planters the prosperity OF
the nation would cease, and the Govern
ment would sink along with them.
Now, we cannot expect any one class IN
the community TO sacrifice themselves for
the general good. They may do so OF their
own free viii ana get little thanks for 1t,
but we have no right to demand it OF them.
The planters pay their taxes regularly, pay
probably a larger proportion than any
other class in the community, and why
should the burden of keeping population
be cast upon them onlyl The sugar IN
dustry keeps the whole of us alive, with
ont II these islands would be very poor
country indeed We all need population,
and we must be content to pay our qnota
towards ii. As fact We have done so.
Here. however comes in the duty of the
Government. They are, or ought to be,
unfortunately Just now they are not, the
guardians Of the public interests. 1t Is
the duty Of the Government, IL 1t Is the an
tsresf Of the planter, to keep population
here. The Government say they have no
land We reply that is fiction, they have
land We believe they have lands about
which they know very little; lands which
are not even surveyed; they have never
gore into the land question thoroughly.
Bun the true inwareineSs of the case Is,
that they would rather have Asiatlcs on
their lands than people of European on
gin. The present Cabinet desire Asiancs,
are happier when they note by every
steamer and sailing vessel the etiuI OF
free born Europeans than ever they would
be to see such population pouring IN.
What we wish to see, what every true
lover of human progress wishes to see, Is
that the Hawaiian Islands shoula-be set
tied from the West: that the Hawaiian
race should gradually amalgamate with
the West What the present rulers OF the
nation seem to desire Is that the Hawaiian
race should be swamped by the teemlng
East
The Portuguese are bulwark against
the Chinese. Ii they stay here and null
tiply, they viii supply our labor market;
they will adopt our system of education,
they will assume our manners, they Will
make good citizens. But from the East
we can expect nothing of this Who ever
heard of Chinese, educated as he might
be. on the best European and American
plans. being anything else than thorough
Chinese. Scratch the Russian and you
find the Tartar said Talleyrand. Veneer
the Chinese never so much and the Chi
nese viii show through all educational
DISCUSSES.
The remedy is of course to put up a bull
wark of non Asiatics The only bulwark
is the Portuguese. Forewarned is fore
armed. Seeing that what these people
propose to do is now definitely stated a
vigorous effort should be made TO keep
them. There was no difficulty about find
ing few million acres Of Crown Land,
which Is really public land, for Mr. Spreck-
els, but poor Pedro and Gomez may go
hang before they can get half an acre to
put up small cottage on. Let the Por
tuguese have chance at the unOccupied
lands, they can be found easy
enough.
II the idea of providing homesteads. on
easy terms, to the Portuguese, We're prop
erly met, the labor in question of the future
would be in fair way of being solved.
A few years Of struggle would come, but in
the end we should have stock of sturdy.
home made laborers, of whom we would
be proud
Let the Government lands, then be I'M
locked. and let the Government take up the
settling of families on small lots and Wig
orously help. Let the planter do his fair
and Just proportion, nay, even let him do
a little more. The question has to be met,
that it has not been met is fairly the fault
Of our present NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. The
planter has no business TO be asked TO do
all You might Just as well ask house
holders TO provide annuities for servants,
because they happen to need them and
they are difficult to get What is good for
the whole body polite should be provided
by those who are supposed to look after its
interests