Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-03-12

than any TacaI Whatever II nry BE- the fsc Is here.
and makes tbs exception q hsIfaseS hs kore OF
oar fusurs1 all The valuable this elss being hs ouy
one n which the about e9usiy divided With
even regular slight IN favor Of the females In
What the Natives segarstelv be admitted
very striking that after allowance for aezta
ordinary diseases ard emigration the ordinary
Of decrease smong them foIloxs closely their ratio of
Of males thus proving that this dprOpOron
Of sexes hss been unmpoan factor the pas; decline
Of the Furthermore the influence Of this facsr
aggravated by every marriage Of Hawaiian vouen to For
eigners Thus, the last Censa reports abont 600 Of such
marriages This means per cent Of the number OF
manageable Hawaiian By sneh marriages, says
the Census Report. foreigners have been Supplied with
wives from who has women spare 10 the
detriment Of the males of that same race The only
remedy to this woud be Importation OF
such as advocated far back 1856. and which hsd
been seriously contemplated by the late King Kalakaus
292 would be necessary balance the Hawaiian
males, and 42S for the Hawaiiau-born Foreigners
The factor intimately connected with above
the proporonae ewness Of births and large mortality of
infants among remnants Of full Hawsans in other
words the tendency of their females to barren
and eareesness rearing These circumstances
already recorded by Jarvis and confirmed in 1860 when
superintendent Fuller of the Census noticed that the
decrease of the native population mot owing any
unusual great degree OF mortality among the people but
the pauciy of births This probably due the debau-
cherry RIGHTEOUSNESS, promscuous living and prostitution
all times prevalent among the people, and only natural
and to be expected in population whom moral ideas
formerly very different and the present
time only the male aborignes in excess but no
less than 90 600 single of other natonaIities
aborers, have been introduced consequence OF the
Reciprocity Treaty pander the rapacity of the white
settlers aud all this without taking into account the passing
Of numerous ships.
Aud here it must be said that there is erroneous
estimate the last Census about the number of Native
married and the proportion of children they
supposed to bear of l35 native women of age $50
1850 per cent? reported married OF these 049
mot quite sevenths reported have borne children
thus giving of Al osprings for each mother 81 OF
per cent OF these surviving If this correct it would
leave nearly surviving children to each mother and
sequeny ought to keep the population nearly stationary
instead of allowing the present decrease of l3 per cent
But must remember that owing the loose habits of
the land out OF the remaining % 81 cant of unmarried
four fths live IN coneubinage this proportion
even be larger, because girls of the common people
especially in the towns and sugarsrcts with large labor
ing classes of aliens frequently begin that kind of life at
fourteen earlier and rendered barren
That this state of things not revealed by the Census
extraordinary for 1st that children of
unmarried women generally recorded belonging to
married relations 2nd that it is also covered
by the fashion at all times prevalent among Hawaiians
adopt and call theirs children their friends and rea
tves 1t therefore quite safe say the census ratio
of children to each married full native is absolutely
misleading 1t would be much correct to consider 90
95 per cent of all the of physiological age as
actually married and, by dividing among them number
of children actually born and surviving would give for
the fertility of the present Hawaiian mother only
to children less than half OF whom survive proportion
more in accord with the rate of decrease of population
This of decrease might perhaps be greatly reduced
by rational practical laws prostitntoninstead of the
absurd legislation due to missionary prushnessand by
Legislative encouragemens to large families Such sup.
position coroboated by the fact that large families are
vet among the full Natives who lead pnrer lives
few examples will illustrate the assertion all which
relate to families whose parents full on both
descendants in two generations fact commemorated in
the of the born Kahananu the big family
Kailihiwa has SO living descendants Kahiki % Bia
Ga native from RArotonga married pure native has q
living in Hilo kaelemakule through two daughters has
- descendants living Keaoha has children and IL
grandchildren all young aud healthy In Kauai, young
native lady, Mrs l. opeka, with full native husband
has already had 10 children Is of whom living Twins
also uncommon among the Natives. All
this further confirmed by the of leading Natives
that in the most remote inaccessible districts principally
IN kons and Puma of Hawaii. kalalau Of Kauai etc
where the foreign white Asia residents sborers
nearly absent reduced TO minmum.-the number OF
young native children quite noticeable and evidently
the increase in other words where the ewd influence
white and Asssc elements IS less felt the native
prolific and keep the population up fact full of
meaning for reported fatally dying out This
practically confirmed by TIE Census which notes that
South kona the total decrease Of Natives years
onfy been Of ~ Individuals or } rsr cant