The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-20
ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW.

The encroachment of Chinese is not
confined to labor That is the lowest
round in the ladder and is first occu-
pied. They have encroached upon
trade and manufactures until they
practically control everything except
the import trade from the States and
Europe, the carrying trade and the
heavier kinds of manufactures in iron,
steel and wood. Indeed, the Homo
lulu Iron Works and the three plan
ing Llills are the only important
manufacturing establishments in the
Kingdom outside sugar mills, which
the Chinese do not successfully COM
pete against. In the lighter branches
of the iron trade, the, building, boot
and shoe, Matchmaking, tailoring
and other industries, they are grad
ually squeezing out white Compel
itors, and it is only a question of
time, unless their progress be
checked, when they will have ex-
elusive hold of the retail trade of this
city, as they have absorbed it practi-
cally outside of Honolulu.
How to check their progress with
out doing violence to international
comfy, or infiieting an injustice upon
individuals, is the prime factor in our
politics to-day. The new regulations
issued by His Excellency Mr.. Glib
son, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will
go some way towards checking the
influx of Chinese in the future, but
they are now numerically the DOM
inant race in the country, if male in
habitants of the military age be
reckoned. This is fact of pregnant
Importance which should not be over
looked in this connection, for it may
have very important bearing upon
the status of Europeans and natives
alike in the not distant future. But
this wise and polite measure of the
Premier has been condemned by a
section of the Press, and the Planters
Labor and Supply Company is con-
stantly bringing pressure to bear upon
the Government to remove the re-
strictions upon Chinese immigration,
SO that the country may be flooded
with Stree labor" and thus compel
men to seek work at "fair wages, "
that is from ten cents to twenty-five
cents day, as is paid in Java and
the West Indies respectively, accord
ing to a statement made in the late
meeting of that organization.
This is the labor policy of the "In-
dependent Opposition" also, the
leaders of which are enrolled upon the
share list OF the Planters Labsr and
Supply Company, and are its most
active members. And this fact is
doubIy significant because they are
also the party of moral pretense. 1t
is as clear as nOOn-day, however, that
if they succeed in this matter
the white race will be compelled 10
abandon these Islands except a few
suffers, physicians, plantation man
ayers and agents with their families.
In that case what is to become of the
native race? Is the result of mis-
sienary effort of over sixty years to
be obfiteratei in an hour by the fiat
of the worshippers of Mammon, whe
are willing that Christian civilization
should disappear from these Islands,
and that Joss should supersede JehO-
yah as the national deity, provided
they can fill their Golfers with dollars
wrung from debased and servile la
Dor? We appeal to those who have
ia a measure the direction Of the
moral and intellectual forces of this
country not to surrender without a
struggle. Whether the white race is
moral or immoral, vicious or virtuous,
is not the question. 1t is whether
Western, that is, Christian civiliZa-
ton, can be maintained among the
remnant of the Hawaiian people after
the bulk OF the men and women of
the European race have been forced
to withdraw from this country and
their places have been taken by
heather people, whose civilization,
religion and code of morals are en-
tirelv different. This is vital issue,
and It cannot be shirked by the rep