The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-09-10
Shs Jailg g 'llstin.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 10, 1855.
the CHINESE QUESTION.


system, and one in your issue of the
9th, treating on the Chinese bust
ness enterprises, declare undoubt-
edly the most important questions
which are awakening the slumbers
of many a Hawaiian citizen at the
present time, and also attracting the
attention of many of our worthy and
even learned writers throughout the
Islands. believe that it will be
maintained by able writer's hereafter
that this contract system has been u
perfect failure and the main cause
of our political divisions; brought
about by flooding our limited shores
with large and unnecessary numbers
OF inferior, unskilled, unprincipled
Asiatic coolies; immigrants pouring
on our soil by nearly every incoming
vessel from the East and from the
West: their presence here has
caused our citizens to sell off their
once valuable property of many
years accumulation and take their
departures by every available oppor-
tunity for the Coast of America or
that of Europe, leaving the cou ntry.
without even saying aloha! to our
statesmen, whom they considered
ungrateful and unworthy to rule
leaving all business enterprises on
the decline and in a very unsats-
!, factory and precarious state of de-
preston, with no future prospects
of a revival, especially on the part
of the Hawaiian or foreign popula-
ton. 1t must be clear to an intelli-
gent mind that these Asiatic coolie
immigrants are now being imported
here for the benefit of the few, and
to the detriment and against the
will of an overwhelming majority of
the people, but more than probable
in order to supersede and drive
from the Kingdom the first founders
of our institutions, the old and once
honored puritanical stock of mis-
sionaries which has, for some I'M
known cause, become exceedingly
obnoxious to our statesmen, and in
order to eXpel the white laborer
whom the Hawaiian rulers consider
to be an impeachment in the way of
holding their independence and
their immigrants in serfdom, has
shared a like fate, and unwillingly
leave a once flourishing kingdom
and beautiful group of islands,
which are to pass at no distant day
into the hands of Eastern pagans,
who at some future day will make
an effort to command the commerce
of the north Pacific ocean. The
Hawaiian officials, by allowing and
encouraging a steady and continue
GUS influx of these Eastern hordes,
are knowingly crippling our white
mercantile pursuits as well as other
business enterprises. Their pres
ence is driving from the country the
white labor and citizens, their
former patrons, leaving the Chinese
merchants in nearly absolute control
of the retail business and most
other branches of trade. Even our
internal commerce, except sugar,
is fast passing under their control.
The Hawaiian Government has been
flooding our kingdom with cheap
labor immigrants, in order to crafty
an Unsuitable desire of small num-
Der of planters to accumulate wealth
and notoriety, and after term of con-
tract expired they, these immigrants,
were let loose to do business in our
kingdom, and others were sought
and brought here, and this process
has continued without interruption,
until now we are on the point of a
notional crisis and awake to the dam
ger of our situation to find them
firmly established in every branch
of trade, invading and selling Ha-
waiian rights, encouraging immoral
ity, establishing heather temples,
worshipping heather doctrines I'M
known to the Hawaiians since
shortly after they came in contact
with western civilization. They
now own nearly all the stores in
the immediate vicinity of planta-
tons, and receive a very large
and considerable portion of the
money paid by the planters to
laborers. To this amount add the
native patronage and the whole rice
productions which are. under their
(Chinese) control and it will be
plainly seen that there is only
small portion of our circulating
medium left to pereolate through
the hands of white or Hawaiian
merchants. 1t is noted and indis-
putable fact that the business of
this country is fast passing under
Asiatic or pagan control, and that,
by the consent of this Government
and with the assistance and protec-
ton of our1 leading statesmen, the
Chinese have succeeded in driving
out, as l said before, many of the