Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-09-18

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among the white men here. Still
lif an earnest demand is made
thew will come and in a short
while one bali Of the population
Of Hawaii will be japanese, and
nearly. all males in the prime OF
manhood Can any country
look with indifference at such an
invasion and such a condition
for the nationl
/ The mission Of Mr.. Thurston
viii be fruitless. He viii not
succeed in getting one single la
borer here. We understand that
Colonel Spalding will join him
and We all know the ColoneFs
preference for Italian and Portu-
CUES, laborers.
Their first attack will be made
in Portugal. The commissioners
will unfold a most glowing pict-
ure Of Hawaii and persuade the
ignorant citizens of the Azores
and Madeira that gold can be
picked in the streets of the ever
sunny Paradise of the Pacific.
They will not tell the truth.
They will deny that the fact to-
day is that hundred. of Portu-
guese families are starving from
want of work. That the men
have to idle because what little
work is going on is being per-
formed by japanese. That the
women find nothing to do for
their thrifty hands because the
Portuguese nurse-girl and work
ing woman have been replaced
by a still cheaper Japanese wo-
man who has the advantage of
being-the wife of the cook. Mr.
Thurston will not go in to the
market place in st. Miguel and
explain to the people how their
countrymen in Hawaii go to bed
many a night with cup of COT
fee and a piece of bread as their
sole food; or how the plantation
managers and other employers
hunt them from place to place if
they do not sacrifice principle
and independence and become
obedient slaves and foreswear
their allegiance to their country
for the sake of helping a repub-
lie which used them and then
kicked them overbo8d, disfran-
chised them like criminals, and
scorned them. Oh, no; Mr..
Thurston will tell them nothing
of the kind. But their friends
will and for that reason his mis-
sion to Portugal will be failure
and he exposed as gigantic
fraud, a blackbirder and sw ind
Ter.
Then he will proceed to Bel
GUM. Of all countries in the
world we should imagine Belgium
the most unlikely place to which
an immigration agent would go.
1t simply shows the astonishing
ignorance Of the men who con-
duct the government. The Bel
gians are not and immigrating
people and il they do leave their
country they prefer to go to Afri-
ca where they will find themsel-
yes under the immediate protect
ion of their home-government
and their flag. The majority of
Belgians are engaged in mining
and manufacturingIwork. The far
mer who would be only suit
able to plantation work is pros
porous and satisfied and will
never immigrate even if Thurs
ton promises gold and land in
abundance.
BE will then skim the seaports
in Germany and Scandinavia.
The people of those countries
have been there before and burnt
their fingers. A man named
Lorange at one time went to
Norway and brought number of
laborers. They found themselves
swindled and cheated and they
would have killed their false
,empter if he hadn't made himself
scarce. The eventual mission of
Mr.. Grip on behalf of the Nor
wegian government is a matter
of history. Wherever Thurston