The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-06-09

tho INV WIS NScihi w IiNNchAihB WIZ
ploseyles Uf a. peculiar sect, OF
whom there were sone IN his dis
lrict, from being taken away. There
were very few people of that class
WHO wished TO leave these islands, If
there were any of them who had not
love If their land that they would
want 10 come back TO it. lie thought
that the motion to indefinitely post
pone this till would have come much
better from a native of these islands
than from foreigner. Every man
should be allowed to leave any
country without any restrictions
whatever. On the second reading
of this bill the law was mentioned
as being effective in preventing peo-
pie from leaving the kingdom to
practise what was not right. But it
might have been that their absence
would have been for the country's
good. Bot this was only an excep-
ton, and another argument was that
the law may he used TO prevent
others who have right to go. 1t
was in the hands of the natives If they
chose not to keep that chain around
their necks now that they had the
power to undo it. If they wished
to have Hawaiians privileged in their
own country let them do it. But if
they wanted to go back to the old
days of 80 or 40 years ago then let
them maintain this restrictive law.
Rep. Pahia was in favor of indie
finitely postponing the bill. There
were now in this kingdom $4,000
about 10000 of whom were Hawai-
ians. He thought that the Hawaiian
race would gradually diminish and
become extinct unless conserved,
therefore they should maintain re-
strictions to keep them there and
not let them go abroad.
Rep. Dole said it was clear the
member for Hilo (Pahia) had never
been abroad, and he fancied he had
no wish to go abroad, or he would
not oppose this hill. But he was
glad that many lIawaiians there had
been abroad and knew the benefit
travel had been to them. He was
sure not one of those would vote to
keep the paddock closed and keep
the key in that Assembly. Travel
did not enfeeble nation. 1t was
staying at home, cooping people up,
that enfeebled them. There was a
slang expression that was used q
great deal, "Does your mother know
you're out?" and could they ina
gine without feelings of humiliation
the hon. Noble from Lahaina at
Louisiana being asked if the gov
ernor gave him permission to leave
home? (Laughter).
Minister Neumann asked where
the hon. member got his information
that the hon. Noble had to get a
permit.
Rep. Dole said he either got q
permit or ran away illegally. Their
cOunirymen went abroad and met
the President of the United States,
the Queen of England, and leading
men of the world, and must they
ask permission to go abroad to meet
those great people? Were they be-
low the standard of the Portuguese
or the Chinese? Must Hawaiians
he cooped up ke-chickens and only
allowed to 60 out when governors
permitted them? The hon. member
said the Hawaiian race must be pre-
served, but he had seen animals
abroad penned up in menageries and
they were pining aud dying. The
hest preservation of any nation was
freedom, liberty to go where and
when they liked. To lock them up
was to place them at disadvantage
with every other community. Ii
meant death. Every member of the
Hawaiian race who went away, un.
less he was i'll, came back with in.
creased health, strength, intelligence
and ability. If they went into the
museum upstairs, they would sec
snakes and other creatures preserved
in alcohol, but they were dead.
Minister Gibson did not see the
slightest occasion for any expression
of warmth on question of this
kind. 1t was a question to bt
calmly considered by native mem
bers of the Assembly with the
aid of foreign members. All the
rhetoric and strong expressions OF
the hon. member had no bearing
whatever, but were mere ad cap
tandum remarks. All the remarks
about freedom were perfectly just
yet there were peculiarities in the
conditions of people and circum
stances that made great deal o
difference with regard to those mat
ters. How well those remarks woult
apply to the fifty millions of America
or the thirty or forty millions o,
Great Britain, or the millions O
Germany or France. The hon
member for Hilo had properly callet
attention to the small numbers of hi
people, but yet they were not to b'
preserved by being cooped up, be
cause such was not the case. AS TO
permits, chains, and that sort o
thing, they were all bound by law
The hon. member for Lihue coult
not leave this kingdom without get
ting a permit. He knew the hon
member would saw that the Hawai-