The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-06-19
Preliminary Reflections.

Preliminary Reflections.
Curing the legislative session of 1873
| the project of introducing East Indian
coolies into these islands was warmly
| discussed. The member from Hamakua
| advocated the N liking of Asiatic races
with the Hawaiians to improve the
| stock. 'Look at my native island,
Great Britain" said he, ''Ihe original
Britons mingled with the Saxons and
the Danes and the Normans and the re
suit was the world -conquering English
race" At this point Pilipo of North
Kona asked and was granted leave to
put a question. He eaid, ''Will the
| member IRON Hamakua please to inform
| US whether the BritOns appropriated
| money to import the Saxons and the
Danes and the Normans? A general
| laugh ensued and the reply is not re-
corced. If Pilipo were now living he
would see his patriotic forebodings fully
justified.
To growing state, IN the formative
period of its existence, immigration is a
matter of vital importance. To old and
overpopulated countries, emigration to
relieve the pressure of a cOngested labor
market, may become an imperative ne
cessity. A compact and homogeneous
nation, stationary in numbers, like
France, may afford to be indiffer rent to
the subject. But to the growing COM
nunities of America, Australia and Ha-
waii, the character as we'll as the amount
of their immigration are matters OF su-
preme Importance.
Even the Great Republic with her un-
equalled power of assimilating foreign
elements has been compelled to close
her Western gate against the Chinese,
and is striving too late to regulate the
human tide that is pouring through
her Eastern gate. 1t is not mere
ly the large proportion of paupers
and criminals in this recent imm gra-
ton that is alarming, but also the fact
that it is imbued with set of ideas that
are Numerically opposed to the funda-
mental principles OF Anglo-Saxon lib
erty. Every steamer dumping its mot
ley herd of immigrants at New York,
swells the ranks of socialistic anarchy.
If such a nation with half continent at
it's disposal, cannot stand indiscriminate
immigration, much less can this "pin-
head' Republic at the CROSSROADS of
the Pacific.
Fortunate indeed was the United
States in the character of the early i'm
migration, which so firmly laid the
foundations of the Republic. The Puri-
tan and the Scotch-Irish settlers were
not land spectators or gold hunters or,
in the main, operatives from the tOaOnS,
but hardy, self-rehant, God-fearing
farmers. They did not hang around the
seaports, demanding employment of the
State, but pushed into the heart OF the
forest with the axe and the rifle, to hew
out homes for themselves and their
children. Nor were they spoiled by too |
rapid material prosperity. On the con- |
trary, they were hardened by perseCu- |
ton, by cold and famine, and by the |!
cruel wars, which compelled them to |
"unite or perish" 1t is by centuries Of
such stern discipline, and by the neces- |
sity of making sacrifices for principle, |
that great people is formed.
Australia, If in some respects model, |
is in others warning for olher young !
countries. Her recent troubles seem to |
be owing not only to a vicious land sys-
TEN but also to the fact that majority |
of her emigrants have been townspeople !
and artisans, imbued with strong caste !
prejudices and socialistiC theories.
Those who have studied the subject, say
that the English middle class, the farm
ers with small capital, have preferred TO
emgrate to the United States and Canada.
Other causes have concurred to bring
about the present unhealthy state or
affairs in those colonies. How could
there be stability in an ultra-democratic
state, exempt from the burdens ana re-
sponsibilties of national govern Ement,
with nearly four-ffths OF the adult popu-
lation dependent on wages, with one
half of the private lands held by less
than one. e.sixteen-hundredth of the peO-
pie, and majority OF the total popula-
ton crowded into the great cities; with
tha governments the chief employer and
the laborer the ward of the nation, and
with the resulting lack Of self-Teliance
visible everywhere? Nowhere. it Is
said. ere class lines more strongly drawn.
These remarks apply specially TO New
South Wales, and not 10 New Zealand,
where more healthy conditions prevail.
1 beg pardon for the depression.
1t is truism IS old as the Greek poet
Alc@ns, that it is not land, nor climate,
nor wealth that constitute a state, but
men ''whO know their rights" but
know their duties" toe.
II Is one thing to "explcit" 4 country.
70 extract from it its latent wealth, an d
another to build up in it a civi lied state.
Holland and Venice are well known eZ-
amples Of these truths, especially tie