Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1893-09-23

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/ brought in slso illiterste P.,rtagu-
csc But these Porsugurs. insisted
on bringing their wives and child
r-n with them. aud they soon ceas-
ed to be favorites with the mis-
sionary children.
In the report of the Bureau OF
Immigration for 1856, | find it
stated that over ten thousand
Portuguese have been brought
here as iaborers. The men are
all that can be desired. bu.
great drawback to their popular
iiy among planters Is tie tact Of
their coming here aUifh ,eiyes olld
eli 'idren, sch;ch pIcnters nctt ally
consider Il a hardship 10 Support .
Again, the census report COR
1890, discussing the causes of
loss of population in certain dis
tricts, remarks: The heaviest
loss, both relatively and abso-
lutely, is In Kau This is due
partly to consolidation of
plantations, Ia: chiefy to tie poll
ca Of the picnters IL Substituting
japanese 'otih small or no fami-
lies a ell lor Portuguese tcih
,eiues and many children. .
Now. the planters who are thus
reported of, are largely the peo-
Pile who call themselves mis-
sionary children. stockholders
in sugar corporations, where they
were then making all the way
f.om p to IS per cent. on their
investments. Nor Is this all.
Under their advice and by their
continuance, the native legisla-
lures We r after year appropriat-
ed public money to bring in this
degrading labo-; and the mis-
sionary planters TINS spent over
million of dollars Of public
money for their own private ad-
vantage.
For years before the sugar
treaty was made with the United
States the white laborers of Ho-
noIulu protested in public meet
Jugs against the introduction of
Chinese and other Asiatic labor,
bat they protested in vain, for
the missionary children We're
bent on money making
and would not be denied.
The result is that to-day
the Chinese, japanese and Por
tuglese monopolize every calling
on the island. They are cloth
! ing makers end sellers, house
| painters, carpenters. shoemakers,
general contractors; they do
most of the retail business. they
make furniture and are gardeners
and servant, &c An American
merchanic sid to me. They
leave mighty poor picking for
white merchanic or trader !"
What is the net result of the
policy and greed of these missi-
onary children2 The hideous
and degrading vice of polyandry
is established as system on the
island. 1t takes more than one
or two men to support that
woman you see there" said one
| of the missionary children work
ing about his plantation to a
friend. Second, there is no en-
ployment left for American
merchanics or workingmen-un-
less, indeed. they will enter as
contract laborers. There are
over fifteen thousand Chinese on
on the islands, but the census
reports that only 303 of them are
contract labores; the great mass
| of them Eli the various trades
and avocations and leave no
room for white Americans. Third
the census states that in six
years, from 1856 to 1890 inclusive
the exports from the islands
have been in round numbers
sol. $50 900, and the imports
$50. 500 900. leaving balance in
f,vor of the islands OF over
s37 900 900, which has gone
largely into the hands OF the
missionary children. and out of
their hands. in some conspicuous
cases. into the hands OF Wall
street and California street
brokers and sharpers.
II the Sun would get the names
of the missionary children who
/ have dror,ned from 81 Ol)0 tn $50 :