The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-09-29

and good will to our neighbors have
been our watchwards all the long
years that we have been living in
Hawaii and, helping it to prosper.
But, most sure it is, that if through
the evil counsels of such as he some
one should suffer, it will not be he
and people of his kind, for they
have not enough ut stake to be hurt.
One more question of II. G. Ms
is "Do you think that the lands you
are paying rent for now would be
idle if you.go oaway?' This he answers
himself very glibly, and tells us
there are plenty of people here who
are ready to take our places. This
/ do not think he will find any one
else ready to believe. If these linen
and families" are prepared to be-
come cultivators if we give up, why
are they not at work now? There
are plenty of places where they can
90 and take the wild lands, or the
Undiscovered swamps and reclaim
them and make them yield wealth as
the Chinaman has done and is every
day doing. Or is it our civilizations
that have cost us so much labor that
they are waiting for? If this is so
| can begin to understand the meanN
inc of the "Chinese Question" Up
to now | have all along been puzzled
why so many haoles get up an agi-
tation against my countrymen who
do so much to make the country so
ahead But if for envy and greed
they want to drive us away to get
the lands we are cultivating, that
may be reason, (can l call it a
Christian reason?) for what they are
doing. But then this is all nonsense,
the people are not here who could
carry on the agriculture of the Chinese
and make it pay, and if we should
| be driven away, rents would go
down very low, and half the land
now being worked would soon be
swamp again, or covered with weeds
and useless scrub as we found it.
There is always much talk in the
newspapers about settlement. While
the white man has been talking we
Chinese have been at work and have
settled the country wherever there
seemed to be a chance of getting
from the soil q return for our labor.
Chinese have and whitemen have
not, the endurance to conquer the
difficulties of settling country like
this. Both these facts, what We
have actually done, and why we sue
ceeded in doing it, need to be
thought about, by people who wish
to rule this country, and to be talk
ed about as statesmen. There are
two foundation stones on which the
welfare of Hawaii rests at present.
One is a solid substantial block that
can be relied upon. That is the in
dustry of the Chinaman and his
power of producing. The other
may, just now, look larger, stronger
and better, and any moment it may
from its very nature, crumble away
and let the building of Hawaii
prosperity fall down on that side
This is the sugar-planting enterprise
Even now it has to be braced al
about with q subsidy from the Anne
rican Government in the way of
remission of sugar duties, to keep i
from falling to pieces of itself. [
would be very short sighted polio.
to get rid of the sound foundation
and trust the welfare of Hawaii t,
the sugar alone. If my white felloy
citizens would think a little NOR
about the practical part of the mat
ter, | believe we should soon hea
the last of the loud talk against tn
Chinaman. Yours,
: S. II. CHUN SING
| Honolulu, September % 1883.