The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-09-02


mite policy as to how, when or where
this shall stop, it certainly looks as
il the prospects OF the native even as
a plantation laborer are not as rosy
colored as one might suppose from
casual reading of Mr.. Horner's let
ter, and that the SOC kanaka stands
the chance at no very distant day of
finding the SO man in his boots. We
admit, however, that this is aside
from the issue and if the natives seek
employment on plantations as com-
mon laborers, they must root hog or
die, unuided in competition with the
cheap labor that this industry re-
quircs.
Mr.. Horner says the natives are idle
and won't work. This is true of too
many of them and we propose 10 say
nothing for them except to apply the
scriptural injunction that if man
will not work neither shall he eat.
But this charge is only half the truth.
Every race has its gifts and failings
and should be judged accordingly.
There is place in our industrial
system for the native. In fact it
would bc hard to get along without
him. For instance he shoulders
100000 tons OF sugar year, to say
nothing of other freight, at the plan
tation landings throughout the coun-
try and brings them safely into the
ports of entry ready for foreign ex-
port, and this when there is but one
harbor where vessels can dock in the
kingdom. Often have we seen them
at all hours OF the night wet through
to the skin in binding wind and
spray receiving freight and passen-'
gers from heaving, plunging vessel
and forcing their way safely through
surf and darkness to a still more in
hospitable landing where Chinese,
,Japs and the average white would
have been Us helpless as so many
sheep. They also do very well at
trades and to-day are anxious and
ready to put their children into them
ii they can get show. The poi and
fishing industries IRE naturally theirs
and they should he protected in
them.
Mr.. Horner's position that the
question of European or Irish immi-
grafton to America and Chinese i'm
migration here are identical needs no
answer. The verdict of the times
backed up by such commonwealth as
America and Australia not TO men
ton others is that the difference be-
tween the European immigrant and
his American cousin 10 enc OF degree
brought about by oppression, crowd
ed populations and hard times. The
| difference between Chinaman and
white man is one of kind and means
collision of Incompatible civiliza-
tons, and this verdict is not likely to
be disturbed for the present. Judging
from Mr.. Horner's contention that
European immigration is like Chi
| nesc immigration and that European
immigration has been a bless
| ing, and that the more cheap labor
YOU have the more skilled labor you
will need, one would be led to believe
that Mr.. Horner would not only flood
this country but his own fair land
with coolies ii he had his say-a
position as quixotic as his well-known
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limited amount of paper money.
Mr.. Horner proposes that we wait
till next November to consider the
ACCESSIBILITY of calling the Legisla-
ture together to submit constitu-
tional amendment, forgetting that
the first Wednesday in November is
the last day III which the legislature
could possibly pass an amendment
as such an amendment has to be adj
vertised three months before the en-
suing election which takes place the
first Wednesday in February. The
truth is unless an amendment is sub.
mitted within the next 80 days il
cannot become law until 1892 and an
anti-Chinese legislature in 1880, il
the people get one, can do nothing
except vote TO submit an amendment
to be passed upon in the succeeding
legislature. The constitution now
stands in the way Of any practical
legislation ON the subject.
The attention of the Ministry has
been called to this and the duty oil
calling the legislature together has
been urged upon them. 1t is to be
hoped that the Ministers will see
their way clear to do so, and that
the legislature by that time will have
grace enough to recognize the right
of the people to have the amendment
submitted to them tor acceptance Oh
rejection.
There are difficulties in the way o.
calling the legislature together, bu
greater difficulties in not doing so
With band of sore-headed and de
termined native leaders in the mex
legislature, which they did not have
in the last, and king who evidently
is bent on slashing right and lef
with his veto power, the session pro
misses to be a stormy one. Nothing
but steady physical force back of thu
Ministry will be of much avail, anC
there is but one source OF supply TO
such enterprise, and that is among
the men in this town, who, If thei
request to the legislature for submis
sion OF an amendment is now re
fused, have the right to conclude
that it is the secret purpose OF thu
Pro-Chinese party to sacrifice thei
fellow whites to the Chinese.
The postponement of the Chimes,
question to 1892, which the Pro
Chinese party will secure by holdinI