The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-12-05

balances that go with those rights
and make them possible.
To my mind the Chinese are and
have been for some years exerting
far greater influence in moulding
native character than are the whites,
who for many years have withdrawn
themselves from the social life of
the natives-not for lack of aloha,
but principally for sanitary reasons.
This is a loss to the whites, but, more
than all, to the natives. The result
is that the Chinese touch a natives
life at twenty points, where the
whites do at one, and with cores
ponding results. The oriental edu-
cation in perjury and official corrup-
tion that the natives have received
at the hands of the Chinese, parti-
cularly in the little villages over the
country, and near the rice planta-
tions, has been particularly effect
ive-not that / believe the China
man a bad fellow. He has his vir-
tues, wonderful in their way, but
truth-telling and official integrity
are not ON his list.
The acceptance of $50 bribe by
(among others) Luhiau and Nawa-
hine, two leading Hawaiian clergy
man in the Legislature, is but
sample of the way things are going
with the remnant of the Hawaiian
race.
The crying need of the Islands is
fresh infusion of white blood.
The value of one decent white family
in a native village, mingling with
villagers cannot be over es-
timated. The influence of the old
mission families planted among the
natives in the early days was all
powerful while it lasted and almost
entirely for good. The best natives
to-day to my mind are to be found
in Kauai, where a goodly vestige of
that influence remains. III it is true
that with our climate we must have
cheap labor for field work, that we
cannot have whites for that, then it
becomes all the more imperative
that we should keep clean, for white
families, occupations that can sup
port them there. L voted for that
half million for permanent improve
ments in the appropriation bill with
| the idea that whites, natives and
Portuguese should do the work that
that money calls for, and l certainly
hope it will not be paid out to Chi
nese labor, however cheap. For a
planter or anybody else to insist
that he must have cheap labor for
field work, and then refuse to see
the converse of the proposition that
outside of field work his own race
must have standard wages, is SO
utterly one sided and selfish that it
will breed bad blood ; and l certainly
think fair minded planters will not
on reflection sustain the Legislature
in what it has done. 1t was the
necessities of the planter-nothing
else--that led the people, through
their successive Legislatures and
other wise, to introduce into the
Kingdom the cheap labor that has
made the trouble. 1t was introduced
for one specific purpose; i. e. to
help out the sugar industry; and it
should be confined to that, except
where it can be assimlated and
made part of the people at large.
1t is said that many of the whites
at the Islands are as bad as any
Chinaman. That may be so but let
me say that it is just by letting
white men be crowded by the Chi
nese that such state of things is
intensified, driving out, as it does,
decent white families who must set
tie here they have something
permanent to look forward to, and
substituting in their place the float
ing unmarried white man, sometimes
with bad habits and inferior ability,
who can easily get out when neces-
sary, and who therefore is the last
10 go.
What the outcome of all this will
be it is hard to say, but / feel a
hope that the good sense of some of
the leading planters will come to
the aid of the question, which may
thus be adjusted in such way that
the white race, instead of the Mon
golian, may settle at the Islands,
and under a wise public policy may
there increase and prosper, and
lead the inhabitants of all nationali-
ties in the direction of Western
civilization. But if this cannot be
done the anti-Chinese element among
the whites though it may not be
able to carry its point in Parliament,
will still have large enough share
of the political power there to en-
able them as last resort to wind
their arms around the pillars of the
temple, as Samson did, and bring
the whole fabric laundering to the
ground.
To my mind the proposed legisla-
ton in protection of our own ciyiliz-
alton Cor against Chinese as some
would put it) was not only not
wrong, but it was righteous be-
lieve it comes within the scriptural
injunction "if thy right hand offend
thee cut it off," If letting the Chi
nese have equal rights with us