Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-03-14
THE NEU CENsus


'ndtf TWO aspctl't tIt HaNlNt anu NHt iS' |
sign That the Hawaiian race IS rapidly |
becoming extinct will no longer be denied. no
mote than it seems beyond human hopes that
anything could stop that decrease otherwise
than Temporarily, and by extending the fatal
term a few years later. However, let it be |
said for truths sake. this decrease is not
special, peculiar to the amiable Hawaiian
nation. All "cogna,e' races are similarly
affected. wherever they come in contact with |
the white race. The negro and the yellow
skin will thrive by the side Of the caucasian,
not the red skin. Furthermore it is indis-
putabc that the "white' race-whch isl
making 'uch gigantic strides in mastering the
whole world and discriminating itself every
where, owes It's vitality its rapid multiplication,
and is extraordinary powers to its Christianity.
Red skins, on the contrary, would seem to
thrive, numerically only in heathenism, and
civilization seems to mark the starting
point OF their physical decline. Red
skins are doomed everywhere and the
Bnhmins would say that, as law OF
God, from their having been created first, they
must be the first to end. Let US take the
Indians Of America where are those sturdy
races who so valiantly battled against Corez,
Pillarro and others, in spite Of the infcriority
Of their means and who were afterwards so
violently and cruelty Christianized Their
miserable degenerate descendants only still exist
to-day because Of their being all "metis, half
castles. Where are all those tribes who so i'm
placably failed to stop the white invasion Of
the Far West through the prairies The abort.
gines-a cognatc race to the IIawaiian--of the
Ladrones have left all their beautiful islands,
save one, totally deserted, and what
are left Of them are all halfcastes. Where are
those once powerful, warlike New Caledon.
ians In FIJI. Samoa. Tonga, and New Zea-
| land, where the natives are civilized
the annual decrease is signalized and
| probably as patent as in Hawaii. The only red
and brown skins still thriving in the Pacific now,
are the most rebellious to civilization, the
Marquesans and all those ferocious tribes run.
ming from the New Hebrides to New Guinea
but their decrease will probably be noticed as
soon as the white man gets hold on their ter.
riturics. This consequently seems to be uni
versal, provdential, inevitable decree and
those of this race who manage to survive, only
succeed through amagamaton with white
races, as we see it clearly here /; for that is the
reason why the half.castes in Hawaii are SC
steadily increasing, contributing quite cheer.
ing promise for the future. Also, for this
reason the government ought 10 favor the anal
gamation of the different races here, instead o.
breeding luminosity, antogonism and distrus
between them.
However ,if the ultimate result concerning tn,
full native Hawaiians canno, be averted it is still
our duty to do anything that may prolong til,
delay. In this light, one striking result of tn,
census is the glazing difference of sexes, Their,
being about 5000 males in excess of the mum
Der of females, the reverse Of what occurs il
England and in so many other countries. II
with this peculiarly, is connected the fact tina
so many native women are married to China
men, Portuguese, and other foreigners-tha
is to say. taken away from the native male
The result must be an astounding number o
Hawaiian men of manageable ages who ar
doomed to ''single blessedness," or to increas
the evils Of promiscuity
have been unable to obtain from tn
Superintendent of the Census the exact mum
Der of married kanakas and the positive mum
Der Of the surplus who cannot find their mates
bat the necessary researches are going to b
made, andthose interesting points will probab
very soon be published, in much as the,
are obtainabe through the actual document
Of the new census. However, this undeniabl
fact OF a considerable number of Hawaiian
not being able to have families of their ow
may account for great proportion of tn
rapid and lamented decrease of the race
Now, at this stage, ii would seem that yer
V good and practical measure for staying th
= decrease-in as much as government intel
c ference could succeed--would be to do
c much for the natives as for the foreigners, an
o to promote femah immigration, as well 9
. enticng families and recruiting laborers.
II The government were right in attending
: this last question, as what they have done (,
IS it was the only means of increasing Ii
y national wealth. Now for helping to stop Il
r depopulation, they ought TO attend 10 tn
l. female question, in similar way to what h
a been repeatedly done in many new countrie.
e and, as very few "white" women, il any, ha'
:. ever married kanakas, here would be the occ
in sion ofapplying to some OF the "cognate race
ID about which so much has been said Of lat
d. And II any are known TO possess a super
ne bundance of females with which they would
or willing to part, this suggestion 'of mine wou
MT procure an imperious, timely, and plausib
ar pretext for another South Sea Island embass
in unless, like a modern Romulus, the COVER
re ment preferred fitting out man-of.war for
&c repetition Of the Grape of the Sabines."
e. But, apart from the joke, if the kanak
eh were willing TO marry some cognate siste
III there would be more sense in such a scher
lie than in the sending out for "royal"() m,
of sage from the King"t) OF Butaratari or sor
ny other equally majestic potentate OF "atoli
ng domains. In similar way the governme
he ough, to encourage by all means in their pow
the importation of Chinese females, or he
nd Chinese settlers to send for wives.
cy Other means also might be tried by /
n, government for encouraging repopulati
A. among the natives; they might among 9TH
S. follow the examples Of nations in antiqui
$. repeated with SO much success by the form
ed kings OF Prussia, viz, instiiuting prizes, p
ar NUNS for the heal,hest children, pnxes
nd the largest families, and exempting all faith
I'D blessed with several children, from paym,
r Of taxes, etc.
sr, Another question connected with the p
N, sible striving agains, the decrease OF the mai
&c population, is that Of health. Though mt