The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-05-11
THE IMMIGRATION FLOOD.
Certain to Fill up the Hawaiian Hollow.
lie Lesson


Its Lesson.
EDITOR STAR - This Hawaiian
group is located just where it will soon
inevitably receive a great tide OF white
immigration from the natural overflow
of the growing states of the Pacific
Coast. Not that they are beginning to
be full, or will be so for a long time.
California, Oregon and Washington
already have a restless people, who
are rapidly increasing They are active,
enterprising and largely inclined to seek
new homes. This population accelerates
its growth as the crowded East multi
plies its lines of travel to the Pacific,
There is sure soon to be a considerable
overflow from the Pacific States. Some
will work towards Alaska, and a str, ny
current will naturally set towards g NAL
Hawaii. In the natural course of things
Hawaii is certain, at no distant period
to be flooded by wholesale white i'm.
migration from the Pacific Coast.
Nothing can long arrest such move.
ment. If it is not fastened by i'm
mediate annexation, it will certainly be
precipitated by the opening OF the
Nicaragua canal, and the rush of trans
Pacific commerce following that event.
Hawaii is like little hollow lying near
the course of an increasing flood OF
water The lakes above 1.-THE Pacific
States-are fast rising to a level where
some overflow will begin to come from
them. When it does come, our little
Hawaiian pool will fill up in trice.
1t would seem difficult for any intel
lgent person in Hawaii not to see that
such a flood of white immigration i'm
ponds over us in the near future. Ha-
wall has great undeveloped agricultural
resources. 1t has also an immense
commercial future, as the only and
central halting place in the North
Pacific. The Americans are soon
going to pour in and occupy the land.
1t behooves all parties to look forward
and act upon this probability, What
then should be the course taken by
every sincere friend of this weak and
wasting remnant Of the native Ha-
waiians2
1t would seem to be the boldest
faulty for the natives to cherish the
dream of their own sovereign rights
on these islands, inevitably destined in
a few years to TEEN with busy driving
nyriads of white men. 1t seems any
thing but friendship to encourage them
in the sentiment of inherent right to
supremacy in the government If they
do not yet see that to be a lost cause,
it is time that every friend of theirs
was at work to make them see it, and
get under shelter from the coming
food "The prudent man forseeth the
evil and hideth himself" If Hawaii.
ans and their friends have a spark OF
foresight left they must see that unless
they make prompt and wise arrange
ments their feeble remnant of thirty
odd thousand natives are liable to be
mercilessly trampled down under the
new conditions Of the food of white
immigration and ocean commerce. Ii
therefore behooves them promptly tc
make the best terms possible now with
the American people. The one thing
for them to do is unitedly to beg ad
mittance now to the privileges of Amer
lean citizens and to betake themselves
with all haste to the shelter of the
American constitution. They have nc
time to lose.
Hardly any binder man can be con-
Ceived than one who continues to adj
here to the fallen fortunes of the mon
archy of that dwindled Hawaiian race
He certainly has not "hltched his
wagon to star" Strange is the in
fatuation of the man who can see any
thing left in that decayed institution
for him to tie to. There are men OF
intelligence who keep stirring up these
poor natives with royalist hopes.
will not undertake to define theil
motives. They are certainly most
pernicious decelvers of the people. II
is simple madness for the natives to neg
lect the present favorable opportunity
to secure the privileges of citizens o
the United States Should their oppo
sition secure the delay of annexation
which l do not believe-their probable
alternative will be the loss of such priv
lege when the inevitable flood of popu
lation comes. S. E. BISHOP.