Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-01-06
Chinese VS.. Natives

EDIroR DAILY Honolulu Press
Sir: In a document which has been
around town, and purports
to give the public the political views
of the National (why national p candi-
dates, ! notice the following paragraph,
No 4, which, translated literally. from
the native, reads as follows: "We
approve the policy of the Government
in restricting the immigration of Chi
nese laborers."
What this restriction, on the part ofthe
Administration, has been really, we all
know, and we do not ignore how very
elastic the law has been made but as
certain good things cannot betoo often
demonstrated, it may be well to en-
phasize it more clearly by the means of
some brutal statistical figures.
The last census of 1885, which we
must accept as officially correct, in
spite OF its undeniable faults, counted
here nearly 1900 Cinnamon, against
49, 400 foreigners Of all other nation
alitles. Since then, the official docu-
ments show that the excess of Chinese
arrivals over departures, for the year
1885-I886, has really been of over
1900, in spite of the late heavy de-
partures. Consequently, at the present
day, we count total of over 10000
Cinnamon, in general population OF
only 81, 900, whilst the other foreigners,
of which we have seen such notable
exodus, have decreased by 65o, who
have left the country, leaving the num-
Der of foreigners to be less than 1900.
Thus the Cinnamon, in spite of the
restriction, number now one to every
t0Hr persons in the Kingdom, whilst in
1873 they were less than one to every
ten persons.
This is the way the present Govern
ment has restricted the Mongolian inva-
sion, and if the ever increasing number
Of Chinese is surely sending away oul
best foreign laborers, more surely still
does it displace all native laborers. Thus
we see Chinese everywhere, not onl5
in trades and store-keeping, in which
they beat all other nationalitles, but
also in all favorite occupations formerly
reserved to the natives of the land. 1t is
the Chinese who now make nearly all
the poi consumed by the Kanakas; they
monopolize the fisheries, through which
formerly natives alone got their living
they displace the Kanakas in plantation
work, and monopolize rice, vegetables
taro and banana culture. 1t was only
last week that the fertile valley of Wal
pio, on Hawaii, was leased to China
men, and the poor Kanakas living or
the place have been ordered to cleal
away Immediately, this being done by
wealthy Hawaiian landowner. Even
the sale of fruit, curios and Hawaiian
trinkets on the wharves, to the passen
gers Of the through steamers, is now
taken up by celestials.
The Chinese are this everywhere
consummating the ruin of the natives
materially, as well as theydo it morally,
by Introducing opium smoking, and by
monopolizing the Kanaka women, and
debauching the young girls, and al
this, in spite of the wonted Government
restriction" which seems to act as i
it were kind of protection and favorit
ism. The only safeguard for the
natives now lies in the white element
for it is only the white employer who
gives work to the Kanaka, and the
greater the number of whites in this
country, the greater will be the assur
ance of the Kanakas having constant
occupations for supporting their fami
lies. But as the whites themselves,
traders as we'll as laborers, are being
driven away by the Chinese, the pros
poets Of starvation for the natives
grows daily more certain, and, thanks tc
the restriction" policy Of the present
Government, the near future seems to
be that our dear Hawaiian Islands will
belong to the Asiatic races, unless, as
| have already said elsewhere, our peo
pie, natives, and foreigners, unite in
taking a resolute stand against the
Chinese invasion, in the same way al
people are doing in America. But this
requires real restriction, and not tha
kind which was to bring unto some one
in office, five dollars for each China
man landed here. A. MARQUES,