The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-06-27


by statute or moral laws);
have we not the right and under
these existing circumstances is it not
our duty, for the benefit of the well
fare of Hawaiians, as well as all
foreigners to awake from q lethargi-
cal state of inactivity, and place
restrictions, lawful of course, upon
those who have been conducting the
affairs of this nation? And is il not
also duty which we owe to our
fellow men, especially those now
laboring in bondage, to see that no
more deluded human creatures are
enticed to come here to be bound |
under Hawaiian contracts solely for |
the benefit of few individuals, and |
TO crafty an Unsuitable ambition
known to exist amongst our rulers
who are daily enriching themselves
under the already mentioned treaty,
and a Hawaiian labor contract system
which has been bone of contention
for several years and the direct
cause of expelling nearly the whole
of the nglo.Saxon laborers from
our soil?
Now to rectify these existing evils,
we must use our endeavors to raise
by assistance and encouragement
our laboring classes from state of
degradation now existing, to one of
self-respect and self-support, and
place them in position and on the
road that eventually will lead them
to higher standard of morality and
prosperity. In order successfully
to accomplish this object it will be
first necessary for our plantation
owners to adopt free labor system.
This can be accomplished and be
beneficial to the planters by estab-
fishing his laborers with their fami-
lies on small pieces of land or farms,
with houses and agricultural imple-
ments sufficient for their convenience
and accommodation, the holder
agreeing with the planter TO cultivate
the soil and raise cane to supply the
planters mill upon shares or at some
stipulated price which will bring both
master and tenant-holder in fair
compensation. This will lead
the better and more enlightened class
of immigrants families to change
any intention, previously formed,
perhaps, of leaving the Kingdom, and
to remain here permanently. But
in order to carry out successfully
this cooperative system so that it
may hereafter become beneficial to
the whole community it will first be
necessary to supersede those Chinese
merchants who are holding nearly
all stores in the immediate vicinity
of the plantation, who are absolutely
controlling our circulating capital
which is now paid by the planter
into the hands of his laborers, thence
directly into the Chinese storekeeper
Cor take-alls). Restricting these
Chinese stores, if adopted, will allow
our fellow-citizens, American, Euro
pean, or Hawaiian, to step to the
front with their hitherto dormant
capital, and at the expiration of one
year from the adoption of this policy
the laborer would of necessity pur-
chase his goods so as to benefit alike
the storekeeper, purchaser, and the
country, because this money would
circulate trough the hands of our
foreign merchants (not Chinese) and
Hawaiians. Such policy if adopted
would take the trade and our circu.
lating medium out of the hands OF
Asiatic merchants and place it ir
those under the control of the Anglo.
Saxon race who have been the main
protectors and supporters for many
years past of Hawaiian enterprises
and foreign capitalists would sec
here a sure and safe market fol
, investment and would be induced tc
return the whole or major portion
: of the capital which they were actu
: ally compelled to Withdraw from thu
kingdom on account of the Asiatic
{ combining and securing control O
5 our trade. Immediately after a law
, modelled on this policy, being passet
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laborers or coolies now lying abou
the kingdom, encouraged in thei
, idleness by receiving more or les
: support and protection from thei
, wealthy merchants and secret socie
8 ties, would be obliged to work il
} our cane fields, for fair compensa
, ton, as their leading men would n
: longer be in situation to encourag
S them in unreasonable demands upo
4? the planter willing to employ them
n and l believe these laborers @
:, coolies would then freely accept tn
a new state of things and work for th
s planter as freely and willingly a
: for the Chinese rice grower, thei
i own countryman.
It The Hawaiian constitution allow
$ us the freedom of speech and hold
II us answerable for the abuse of ths