The Hawaiian gazette., 1885-07-01
Tho Population Qnestion Again.

The long-winded article by which the Adre,fise,
pretends TO answer your unanswerable documents
about the present drifting tendencies of popu.
lation, is not only verbose and prolix in details
foreign to the point; If is nothing else but quib
BILE about the number, the ciphers of Chinese ar
rivals and their excess over departures since a
given time. Of course the GaSette will doubtless
refute the official organ much better than could,
but there is thing want to state, and that Is
that the main point of tile actual population ques-
ton has not been touched by it at all. Aud as
plain words cannot at any time, and specially now,
be too often presented TO the public, wish to
dense the situation into one sentence:
Since the beginning of this year, the foreign
white population, formerly constantly increasing,
has been rapidly leaving the Islands, a large per
centage going away by each vessel, whilst the
Asiatlc element is steadily augmenting tenfolds,
50 that at the present rates the time might be
supposed when the Aslatic would be the only ele-
ment found here.
This the 4drerfiSey-, however willing TO distort
facts in view of suiting its peculiar ends will not
dare contest.
Further / can PREDICT your figures continue
to agree well for the future with mine, as they
have done during the past that when the GAZETTE
is ready to publish the statement of departures
and arrivals for June, they will be found again
constituting steady percentage of loss of whites
and gain OF ASlatlcs; and all trustworthy symp-
toms show that the same will happen in July.
Now challenge the Adrertiser to give us the
trde reasons irhy our white people, principally
lhbOrers-which 1 term the marrow of the popu-
lation, and the best supporters of home trade
thus find themselves compelled TO leave these
shores suddenly growing unacceptable TO them,
and irhy the Asiatics are allowed TO pour in?
And as / am on this subject, must add that
the departure of white labOrers is only the in
cipient example of what the times to come will
bring US, if We don't look out In my studies ON
the population, to which the GAZETTE has offered
such a kind hospitality, whenever l referred TO
the Portuguese immigrants now here, l have never
failed TO lay as much stress as possible on the
positive fact that they are only waiting for the
occasion and the power of leaving us also eH Dasse
unless retained by proper measures.
The 4drertiseT replied, ''it did not dpprehcHd
any general exodus of them from this kingdom
Events are already answering the 4drertise,'s
twaddle One of my correspondents on Kauai
writing before the departure of last mail, said:
by this mail lose several of my Portuguese
laboTers whose time is just out, and amongst
them some of my best workers. have tried every
inducemont TO make them remain; but think
might have offered them more than 80 dollars
month, and they would not have accepted. They
are bound TO go, at present, TO California, and
every one of them carries away with him at least
500 dollars, saved in their three years contract
and besides some have sent money home Thus
one can realize what loss their departure and the
exodus of those who follow them, must be 10 the
country
Again another correspondent from Kohala.
writing few days ago, says: "We have here
good many Portuguese who will be free from theif
contracts IN a month or two. The poor devils
talk unanimously of n general exodus from Ha.
wai and 90 they probably will, if they do not get
scared Of spending for travelling their hard earned
saFingsi'
Now then, when all white people, including Por-
iuguese, are gone, what paradise these Islands
will constitute for their happy rulers And how
civilization, morality and progress will rejoice at
the disappearance of those disagTeeable Anglo
Ie1ionic devils who only revel in opposition,
and in making the government remain all the
time IN hot wateri
But What Tho sfnla If tbinrr triII thew t,oro
can be toretold by the analysis of another state
ment of one of my kohala correspondents; half
the population here, be says, are Chinese, nearly
al single men, nifty per cent OF which are not en-
gagged at any hard work. but lazily keep stores and
make unfair competition to honest traders by SELL
ing cheaper than they buy for, and failing after
while. We have seen four of such failures in the
last Two weeks those who keep aoat, sell liquors,
ana gambling houses are cropping up like mush-
rooms; the police are said to be afraid of pene-
uating into those dens, though some say they
are bribed not to, and every week one hears about
robberies If 10 all this we add the consideration
OF the drain of money from here to China viii anr
one be able to deny that the Chinese labor is curse
10 this country? Now the Japanese, when they
come to be numerous, will ley not prove TO be
pretty nearly the same as the Chinese2 Are they
no; Asiatics as wellg As for the natives, leprosy
Is working on them in a frightful manner, and no
body cares; lots of lepers run here in perfect
freedom. .''--- -
Now, as this letter was written on the 1lth of
\ , -, : -Se - booaADic 70 say tnAt II mas
oeen Nr1tten TO suit our present augmentation on
a subject which grows cut of the GAzETTR,s latest
revelations But it was singuarly prophetic and re-
Yeais an awful state of things. And if already
such, at time when the country is still supposed
q be under the influence of Western civilization.
Wnat VIII lt be when il will be Governed by a pir
tailed delegate of the Chinese Son of Heaven. or
a princuiy scion of the japanese Mikado? And
might one not suppose that tho poor natives are
allowed to be eaten up without restriction BY fear
iul disease IN order to obtain more nrompflv such
a change Of govenmentl a MipcurS.