The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-12-11

"'N"" oS"poiS are giving W llaWdila0
boys. To extend the same privileges
to boys of other nationalities, and
also, rs far as may be, to girls, will
l hope be the aim of our next Legis-
lature.
II is true that Chinese were
brought here for no other purpose
than to work on sugar plantations.
They have developed the cultivation
of rice and vegetables and are likely
to work up other industries, like
coffee production for instance. But
here they are, and in large numbers.
Their labor, directed by capital and
skill, has served to enrich this coun-
try, and to make it possible to sus-
tain considerable number of skill
ed white mechanics, for whom there
would otherwise have been no en-
ployment. The stores and tene-
ments of that portion of Honolulu
known as Chinatown, rebuilt since
the fire of 1886, were built by white
mechanics and with Chinese money,
or only for Chinese purposes. A
large portion of money made in this
country by the whites from the en-
ployment of Chinese agricultural
labor is expended with white trad
ers and mechanics.
If Chinese are to remain for cult
vating sugar, rice and vegetables,
and as domestic servants, and all
agree that they are essential for
such purposes. and that the material
prosperity of these islands depends
on sugar production mainly, can
they, under constitutional govern
ment, be kept as hewers of wood
and drawers of water, or must the
same opportunity be open to them
as TO white men, to acquire, possess
and enjoy property, with all the re-
sulting inducements and ambitions?
Can men born under free repre-
sentative institutions see large
class i'll their midst who however
ignorant and debased, are not to be
treated as equals before the law?
In civil equality, l do not include
the voting privilege, for that is not
a natural right, it was not even one
of the inalenable rights of the Am
erican freemen who carried English
civil liberty to a new world. For
myself, and l say it without fear
that single white mechanic
whom / ever had the pleas
ure of knowing will doubt my
sincerity, or mistrust my motives,
| could not advocate any legislation
which would destroy the free insti
tutions under which L hope to live
and die. The law of might is not
the law of right. Man is not re-
quired by the necessities of life to
regard his fellow man as one savage
regards another, to be made way
with if he interferes with ones COM
fort. 1t is one thing for our Cali
fornia nelghbors, with their temper
ate climate in which white men can
till the land, to exclude all Chinese,
but it is a different thing to say in
Hawaii, that we will have Chinese
proletariat for agricultural neces-
sities, but will keep them right
there. To do so would as l deem
it, not only be subversive of free in
stitutions, it would be fraught
with untold danger to the entire
body polite, for it would create
hostile and dangerous class, kept
down by force only, to whom in
Df f,,l l.,
allowed, and who would soon make
of this country a place where no
honorable men would care to live,
or could live in security,
The great protection of the law
is about and around US all alike. No
man is so humble or so mean or so
wicked, as TO be free from its obli-
cations or beyond its reach. Make
outlaws of any class Of men, and
what may one expect of them, but
that they will resort to illegal
methods?
These be plain words, perhaps,
but they are meant to be honest and
sincere words. Remove hope of
advancement, the possibility of get
ting on in life from man, and what
in the name of sense and of univer-
sal experience will be the result?
For myself, think that 1 know
something about intelligent, free
mechanics, a good deal more than
know or care about politicians or
politics. l do not believe that
sensible, practical, every day people
in this country will be misled on
this subject, do not think they will
be led at all, but that they will look
at it in its practical bearings, and
will come TO the safe and conserva-
tive opinion, that the law must in
future, as in the past treat all
alike.
do not believe that legislature
will ever be elected in Hawaii, which
will undertake to enact laws by
which third of the male population
are to be kept down by main force.
The evils of bribery, of official and
private dishonesty, of corruption of
any kind, will not be remedied by
such legislation. The men at the
last session, not including any who
were bribed, who withheld their