The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-06-25

vandal hosts. But Lthcy had pro-
gressed too far. They had accumu-
lated too much force. Several
scenes in the same ugly drama have
already been enacted here. The
performance goes on, and the peo-
pie view it with an almost stolid in
difference. The invasion cannot
overcome the defences of the nation,
for there are no defenccs. The road
is wide open for the incursion of
Asiatic barbarism without even a
sentry at the gate, except the port
physician.
1t would be a fair question, by
the way, for this nation to ask itself
whether it has been brought within
the circle of civilized kingdoms by
influences from the east or from the
west. What piece of the social
fabric has been brought over from
China or Japan? What part of the
present improved organization is it
that did not originate in America OF
Europe? True, the vices of civil
lized society have been imported as
well as the virtues. But the virtues,
so far as they go, have certainly not
been introduced or promulgated by
| the Asiatics. That all the institu-
tions of civilized society are threat
ened with extinction, every one who
reads, hears or sees, knows already,
in a general way, as well as any
newspaper article can tell him. But
| general information is not sufficient
to bring the facts forward in all
their keen angular outlines. Com
mon observation may be at fault.
Newspapers and politicians may
lie. But figures will not lie to
please Caucasian or Mongolian. And
figures are bold on this question.
They demonstrate the danger threat
ening society on these islands beyond
the possibility of doubt. The
statistics of arrivals and departures,
as given in the Gazette yesterday
morning, are doubtless compiled
from authentic sources. We accept
them as correct. And being there,
we take the liberty of not going to
the trouble Of hunting them up for
ourselves. The arrivals, at this
port, of Chinese since the beginning
of the year, in excess of departures,
are 2,040, which, added to the
census numbers of last year, bring
the Asiatic population up to 2O,O95.
The European and American popu-
lation has diminished by excess of
departures over arrivals to the num-
Der Of 56S, which, deducted from
the census returns, 1880, leaves q
present count of 6,612. With few
exceptions, the 10000 Asiatics re-
ported above have little or no con-
Germ in the institutions of the western
world. The churches, the schools,
the moral and social organizations,
the politics, the courts, the hygiene,
the refinements and all public enter
tainments Of the better sort, are
severally and collectively and Sc
verely let alone by 10000 out of
10000 of the foreign population! :!
And that is but the beginning of
the end. The army of 10000 is
being periodically reinforced, while
the little garrison of 5000 is monthly
growing weaker by loss of numbers.
Paganism stands three to one against
progressive civilization in respect of
numbers. When it prevails and
sweeps away all the landmarks of
religion and philanthropy, historians
and reporters of the press will not
need to puzzle their brains much to
find the cause of so terrible fate
having befallen the nation that
emerged from darkness to light and
suffered the lamp of its existence to
be extinguished again in a deeper
and dcnser darkness than overland
all within the revolution of the few
years that 60 to make up single
century. The progress of Hawaii
towards that goal is steady and not
slower than the growth of some of
it's vegetation. If any one halts he