The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-07-02

inactivity and unite ourselves to
save this country, unless indeed it
may be considered the correct idea
for all foreigners other than Asiatics
to dispose of their property and
leave a degenerative country. The
Chinese to-day have the country to
all intents and purposes, and judg-
ing from the past and present it
would appear TO an intelligent mind
that His Majesty's ministers were
cndeavoring TO trade away the in
dependence of the islands and act
ing in defiance of the laws of our
mother country, the United States
of America, the first one to protect
Hawaiian Independence, and her
subtscts being the first ones COM
PEELED to leave the country. To
repair damages and protect our
selves in future | agree with Mr..
Squires, that trading licenses gener-
ally should be refused to the Chi
nese, who have no sympathy in
common or treaty with the people
of this country. Keep them as
coolies and compel them to work or
GO out of the kingdom, instead of
allowing a continual state of vagran-
cy disgusting to every civilized
member of the community, arrest
further immigration, and allow no
Chinaman to return here after once
leaving.
In order to check retrogression
and regain the goodwill and sup
port of civilized nations we should
hire shipping at government expense
TO deport say ten or fifteen thousand
to Panama or elsewhere as soon as
possible. We are frequently told
that all this Chinese trouble has been
brought about by the people who
sent members to the Legislature who
have been entirely in sympathy with
our rulers, who it appears are in
favor of bartering away the rights
and the independence of this king
dom to Asiatics, in the direction
which that has for several years past
been drifting. But when we find
from past experience that the duties
of legislators have been so tempered
with and controlled, as to make
election a complete farce and an alb
solute nomination, think the Leg
islature under existing circumstances
must pass for nothing. The whole
business seems to be run by His
Majesty and his advisers, the people
having no say in the conducting of
public affairs. Perhaps many will
conclude that an existence in this
kingdom is not worth fighting for,
and that as the Government, with
its pauperdom and nomination, ought
to be allowed to pursue the even
tenor Of its way and drive out all
except their favored Mongols and
the remainder of the once powerful,
energetic and noble Hawaiians.
Well, if so, all right; let us 60 and
leave the country and its rulers.
But stay little and ponder over
IllC SlltuOlOIl illtt lCllcCU W OuISClNSS
if it would not be wise and judi
cious policy to insist most forcibly
and combat the enemy before taking
our departure, endeavoring to save
the independence of these islands in
such a manner as to prevent the
future influx of these Objectionable
aliens and reorganized coolies, stop
their business licenses, put in force
the Vagrant Act now dormant, also
abrogate the Labor Contract Act,
liberate laborers from bondage as
soon as out of debt, encourage free
labor on the plantations, and by all
means attract and encourage civilized
laborers who will settle on the soil
and help to build up kingdom that
pcsterity may be proud Of, instead
of standing by consenting and seeing
it run under by Asiatic preponder-
ounn of I,pciviliuo1 l,o ria IN ~; N hordo,