The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-01-14


instead of being a case of self graft
fication baulkcd it is case of pre-
scrvation menaced, then do under
stand you, Mr. Iartwell, that you
will still say to your own flesh and |
blood nothing can be done to save |
you, or does this present TO you al
together q new case that you will
answer for differently? For that is
our case, one of our sclt-preserva-
ton, rs the newspaper articles have
clearly set forth, and you must
either disprove that case and no
other, or beg the question. If you
deny that such is the case, then it is
useless to spend time talking about
what the remedy should be until we
know what the evil is. If you adj
nit that the evil does raise the qucs-
tion of self preservation as claimed
by this side, then to adequately
describe your position on the ques-
tion of relief, requires, it seems TO
me, resort to some of the forcible
language you have used in your own
letter. You say of my position,
however magnificent this attack on
| Queen street, and the wealth pro-
| ducing interest of the country, which,
by the way, l deny, it is not, as it
seems to me, either craftsmanship
or common sense, to use your own
language. Now, 1t seems to me
that TO offer in the way of comfort
and relief to men confronted by this
issue of self preservation what you
suggest, is neither craftsmanship
nor is it common sense. There prob
ably will come time, let us hope,
when the Chinese can with safety be
given equal rights in the same fold
with their Western brethren, not
only in the acquisition of property
but also of political rights, juts as a
time will probably come when the
lion and the lamb shall lie down To-
gether and little child shall lead
them. But until that time comes,
common sense suggests in one case
that the child be kept at home and
the animals in separate paddocks,
and in the other that we give the
Chinese every right that we can with
safety to ourselves, but no more ;
or in either case the result will be
about the same unless indeed the
whites quit theorizing and bring
the matter to stop whether or no.
The reason that l compare the
,,,hit tn ln ie hot
naturally represent the lamb either
in spirit or strength, but because
they are so hobbled and strapped
down by laws and conditions made
for them by others, that the odds
, | are heavy against them.
, While Mr.. Hartwell seems TO have
a very inadequate and vague con-
ception of the evils menacing the
whites, no such charge can bt
brought against his conceptions ot
the evils that would result from the
: proposed legislation. He heaps OF
the agony there there until, until even We; tn th'
and in very discriminating editor
al, steps in and after quoting Mr.
, Hartwelrs charge that we were
making "outlaws' of the Chinese
, says ''we do not understand that i
, is proposed to make outlaws of an.
one. The gentlemen's languag
| seems to us to involve one of thos,
, overstatements which are very mucl
, to be deprecated in discussions of thi
, kind" After Mr.. Hartwell had go
through this pen and ink sketch o
+ Chinese misery, L could not hell
, thinking of the hundreds of thou
, sands of poor wretches toiling il
r the rice swamps of China and Indi
who would like to have a chance a
s some of it. To exchange a bar
4 existence varied by an occasiona
n drouth and famine for plenty of goo
q food such as even many of the labor
q ing classes in England and Europ
f would fain have, with the additiont
O certainty by s or 10 years labor c
e saving from his plantation wage
j, sufficient to enable him to return
e his native village, which be probabl
,e left with no more than the clothe
n on his back, to live in ease for lift
f. OF as the story book would have
Is to marry the belle of the village {
Ie the sweetheart of his boyhood day:
,r and live happily ever afterwards
Il To exchange the oppression of de'
l. potic government and arbitrary
n Justice for kind treatment, trial b
If jury, the habeas corpus and person;
e liberty, peace and security which Il
o one proposes shall be taken frol
It him. Such outlawry it seems to II
n would be at premium.
f. And as to the Chinese now at ii
l. Islands if after the proposition
is honestly made to them, by whic
their established business houses al
h left alone and every one anon
$ them having a regular plant an
D business is allowed to continue in i
'e and the rice and sugar industries
sc all their branches are open to then
er and labor under conditions and
lie prices which are infinitely superiC
il to anything they can get at home
ye freely offered them, they are NJ
e. content but are going to have IL
I'd whole loaf or else rs Mr.. Hartwell