The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-09-10


white merchant will be compelled
to retire from business at great
sacrifice and bid lasting farewell
to this his adopted country. With
the equal rights granted them and
their combining into societies, it has
been allowed them to command
a formidable financial position send
our gold from the kingdom and OBJ
struct and prevent our gold law
being successfully put in force;
real estate either by purchase or
lease is being fast converted by
them into rice farms, hog, chicken
and duck ranches; thereon they
erect structures of the most ordi-
nary kind, containing filth and cor
ruption which is allowed by the
Government to become the adopted
home of many native until he and
his daughter are considered by the
ruling authorities fit subjects for
the leper settlement or the insane
asylum. Such is very faint picture
of our present situation brought
about by incompetent and unworthy
statesmen, all the time well knowing
that the native subject has daily
been becoming poorer even to
state of starvation and restitution,
and at the same time unable to OBJ
tain employment to appease his
| hunger unless he be willing to bind
himself to work under a Hawaiian
labor contract. While flooding this
kingdom with eastern pagans, the
Hawaiian Ministers have been en-
deavoring to blind the people and
justify their policy under a pretense
of supplying the wants of a small
minority of now silent planters, who
undoubtedly have more genuine
respect and sympathy for q planta-
ton mule than a Hawaiian official.
In the editorial column of the
Government journal of August 2Sth
the following appears, evidently
written for a political purpose to
secure support at the next coming
election and prepare the public for
the reception of q large number
more of Asiatic paupers. l quote:
"Chinese labor exists in these Is
lands as in California, with this
difference, that here the Cinnamon
have got astride the country, while
they are not so securely fixed in the
Golden States. 1t will take very
judicious management and a pat
riotic and enlightened policy on the
part of the Legislature and land
owners of the kingdom if this Chi
nese incubus is to be removed" 1
certainly quite agree with the learned
writer's opinion that it will require
Il firm and determined stand to be
made hereafter by the people, and
if / rightly sum up public opinion
they will have more use for Win
chester rifles in future than they
will have for a legislature to check
and settle this "Chinese incubus"
especially knowing at this present
time that Hawaiian agents and
brokers in Hongkong are selling re-
turn certificates at thirty and forty
dollars apiece, allowing Chinese to
land here under the protection of
Hawaiian laws. Sir, the question now
arises, what course are we to pursue
in future, and in what manner are
we to rectify the existing evil, pro-
tect ourselves, unite a disunited
people, regain our lost prestige and
goodwill and support of capitalists
here and in foreign nations, and
hold our treaty with America, our
acknowledged benefactor, and once
more raise the Hawaiian from a
state of lethargy which now exists
and place the Islands in a state of
prosperity, and hereafter repopulate
the Kingdom with race of intelli-
gent people who in future will be-
come beneficial to the country, use.
full as small farmers, useful as plan
tation laborers, capable of becoming
good artisans or statesmen? If l do
not mistake the general tone of pub
lie opinion an overwhelming majority
favor putting an entire check to this
inhuman traffic in coolies being
landed here by the Government and
bound into bondage, or more pro-
perly termed Hawaiian slavery, in
order to fill the Golfers of leading
statesmen and crafty the desire of
a very small number of planters
who are encouraging this traffic in
order to enrich themselves so as to
leave to their posterity large landed
estates and property, they well
knowing that this cheap coolie labor
has driven from the soil their own
countrymen, thereby causing a
serious depression in all business
enterprises save their own. Now in
order to clear away cloud that
threatens to burst and engulf the
nation regain, the good will and sup
port of capitalists and retain the