The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-10-30
the GREAT COMPETITION,

lity. But place Chinese man for
man against the renegades from
Christian nations, and they are
equally desirable as inhabitants.
Their loose morals was generally
what worked against white laborers
from Christian countries Are we
prepared to say we do not want any
more Cinnamon? They produce
three-fourths of all the wealth of
these islands. 1t is said that the
white men are being driven out by
the Chinese. If he, with his Chris
tian schooling and training, could
not compete with heather he de-
served to go under. 1t was integ-
rity, ingenuity and skill that gave
the Caucasian the advantage. If
the Chinaman could live on rice at
five cents pound, white men could
compete with them with beef at two
and half cents pound.
The above remarks made by Mr..
j. M. Horner in the Planters meet
ing, on Tuesday, are important, as
conveying probably the first formal
defence of Chinese immigration
hitherto given to the public, and as
expressing anti-restriction opinions
in the boldest and at the same time.
most fallacious terms imaginable.
We have no personal attack to make
upon Mr.. Horner, whom we esteem
rs gentleman of intelligence and
public enterprise; but we would not
be performing the duties of journal
ism, if the opinions expressed by
that gentleman were allowed to
pass uncriticised. The objections
made to Mongolian immigration on
the grounds of Christianity and
morality, have been reiterated from
time to time by every writer and
speaker on these islands who has
hitherto given any attention to the
questions affecting the future well
fare of the Kingdom, and these OBJ
jections have never been met, but
stand to-day in bolder relief on the
face of our social system than ever
they did at any former period.
These objections remain unanswered
and unanswerable. That Mongolian
immigration on the one hand and
Christianity and morality % on the
other, are two diametrically opposite
elements in society, has long since
ceased to be a matter of opinion and
become matter of fact. "Chris-
tianity and morality" have been
demonstrated by experience to be
the greatest factors in the best
development of enlightened civiliza-
ton, and Mongolianism has been
proven with no less force and clear
ness to be the destruction of every
thing better than Mongolianism itself.
With reference to the second SEN
tence in the above quotation, no
comparison is needed between the
Chinese and the renegades from
Christian nations. The ruinous re-
suits of the large immigrations of
Chinese in the past are not claimed
to have fallen upon renegades, but
on the respectable, industrious trans
plants from Christian nations. The
condition of the white mechanics of
Honolulu in the face of Chinese
competition, was ably stated by q
respectable mechanic speaking for a
respectable class of citizens, through
the columns of this paper on the
2nd of this month. The " Christian
schooling and training" of the
mechanic referred to and hundreds
of others with him, are the very
qualifications that render them in
caple of competing with the
"heathen.' As to whether that
feat is possible Or not, the "if" is
wholly supertiuous. There is no
"if" in the business at all. The
workmen of Christian schooling
and training" never did, and never
will compete with the heather. 4"
Hence, according to the doctrine
enunciated by Mr.. Horner, they
deserve to go under. They deserve
nothing of the kind. When they go
under, they sink with them every
nation and every institution consti-
tuting what is known as modern
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