The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-01-09

cry raised all overIthe United States
of America: "Thc Cinnamon must
60" has re-echoed in these islands,
and if you will allow my voice in the
chorus, l will present few con-
siderations on the subject.
Let us first examine what Hawaii
can win or lose from o moral and
financial standpoint, by the influx
of Aslatics. And secondly what is
the remedy for the situation.
1t is well known fact that a
Christian country can nothing but
lose by the presence in her bosom
of heathens, who without mention
ing their lesser faults, as gambling,
opium smoking, lying, cheating, and
robbing, are addicted to the grossest
of immortalities, yes even to muir
der In fact, don't the Chinese, in
their country, when they have too
many offsprings, throw them by
hundreds to pigs or rivers?
We are too prone to forget that
in the Flowery Kingdom, according
to the most reliable statistics, more
than 100000 Christians were for
conscience's sake, massacred in less
than 10 years. ask kind hearted
people, can we permit, can we suf-
fer those morals, those crimes TO be
planted in the Hawaiian soil! Can
we sec with Indifference flourish
opium dens and secret societies
where the initiated can with impun-
ity conspirc against kings and ma
tions, kanaka and fanquai? (foreign
deviD No, we cannot! it is i'm
possible! AS for conspiracy, no.
body can deny, the possibility of the
fact, when he thinks that according
to the last census the male Chinese
numbered l7,06S against 81, ,504
native males including children.
Now considering that the former are
steadily increasing, while the latter
are decreasing rapidly we can
safely state that the Chinese out
number at present the native males.
When one considers these figures, is
it not high time to put up dam
against the overwhelming flow
Society is in danger.
But let us now consider, if the
Chinese are such boon to the
country as to counterbalance so
great an evil. 1t would be a curious
census, to make up the number of
Chinese working on the plantations,
and l dare say that not one half of
those swarming celestials are con-
tract field laborers. But will one
say what they are living on or
gambling, stealing, tradino in q
shanty with . h'r,ncb of bananas %
oranges and half dozen bottles OF
IA water, waiting patiently till
they can open Il more substantial
store, and make competition to
honest trade. Others, and there
are the most manly among them
those who do not shun work
rush as soon as they have earned 6
few dollars to the poor kanaka, who
cannot resist the temptation of ;
few bright Kalakauas, lease or buy
his taro patches, and the native
from proprietor turns out a laborer
depending for the support of hi'
family on salary, having nothing
to fall back on in rainy days, ant
his hard earned money he has t.
spend for pai-ai with the very same
Pake who controls his land.
But what becomes of all th'
money they heap up? 1t all goes L
China. The gold imported at grea
expense is sent home by John, whit
lives on starvation diet in order tt
accumulate coin enough to return a
soon as possible to his tiowery coun
try, (very often leaving behind hn
poor kanalla wife and children)
He is the leech, sucking Hawaii
best blood. In fact, suppose tina
there are 10000 Chinese in th
country, and that the average MAJ
sends or takes home S25 year, an,
this is far from being over-estimated
and we reach the enormous sum o
$500, 900. Can Hawaii stand sue
a drain? Nol 1t is high time t
look seriously into the matter. Th
only remedy to this ruinous situa
ton is the stopping of all Asiati
immigration. The welfare of Ha
waii is at stake. PHILo-HAwAu.