The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-21
think your points are these:

| think your points are these:
! 1st. That Asiatic immigration drives
the native needle women to the wall.
I'd. That the decrease of opportu-
mites for native women to obtain oc-
| cupation. is due to "the unwise policy
obtaining in later years, and sanction
ed by the sons of the missionaries,
and in some cases brought about by
their own action" l do not quite un-
derstand your language, but presume
you refer TO their approval of Asiatic
labor.
3D. You believe that conditions
would have been different, if the
"sons" had followed in the footsteps
of their fathers, and that they have
not done their Christian duty, because
some of them employ imported vas
sails" Here, again, you do not point
| out clearly what their Christian duty
was, unless it was to prevent Asiatic
immigration.
4th. And so you believe that by the
action of the sons" the natives find
themselves bearing burdens that are
not of their own creating, etc. You
dlSO charge Ll1C ndOt0 StuGIdilys do
we'll as the sons" of falling to OBJ
serve the admonitions of Christ. And
you, with much cleverness, cite the
strong feeling in the United States
against the competition of the Asia
tics
You say nothing about the struggle
for existence all over the world, and
in which very many of the sons and
daughters of the missionaries are
deeply involved, as well as the natives,
but seem, honestly / am sure, to be-
lieve that the "sons" are especially
responsible for the hardships of the
natives know that the ma
tives believe with you in this, to
some extent. 1t is precisely the same
belief that thousands of people have
all over the world, that their unfor-
tunate condition is entirely due to
some body else, and not to their own
errors and failures. I have seen some
serious 'Fbread riots in other places
owing to their feeling. do not be-
lieVe that you have carefully studied
out all of the facts in this case, when
you make this charge against the
sons"
The visits of Capt Cook, the greed
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sandal wood, during the early days,
the annual visits of thousands of
reckless whalemen, the crowds of ma
tive women flocking to this port for
immoral purposes during the whaling
season, the thriftless habits of the ma
tives regarding their lands, the volun
tary giving up of fishing, and tarO
planting to the Asiatics, the wide
spread use of gin, and, above all, the
foolish desire of the natives to aban-
don their lands, and live in the city,
have done more to make the condition
of the natives unfortunate that any
failure of duty on the part of the sons
of missionaries Your own rulers, in
time past, have repeatedly told the
people that unless they were indus
trious, and thrifty, and abandoned gin,
they would go to the wall Now,
when they are at the wall, as you say,
do you think it fair to charge the
sons" with responsibility for it?
There is not a native today, who is
capable of working, that cannot get
it somewhere on the Islands if he real
ly desires to. Mr.. w. G.. Irwin tells
me, and he has much aloha for the
native that he directs that natives
shall be employed in the loading and
of sugars, in preference TO
all others, and he says, further, that
he is not able as rule to get all the
men he wishes. But generally the ma
tive will not leave the city. He does
not wish to cultivate land. He can find
of it on Hawaii, now, but
he will not take it. He prefers Ho-
nolulu. The sons living here make
it a point to give him employment, but
you would not like to see in print