The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-13
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION.


do about white labor? What does the
Government intend to do about it?
What has the American Union Party
done about it? Where are the Earnest
Patriots who declared in their politi-
cal platform an abiding horror of the
Asiatic, and a deep love for the Anglo
Saxcp?
All of these political bodies act as II
they had been quietly taken around
the corner and spoken to- in con-
fdential way on the subject. What
really are the lions in the pathway?
Or is it simply a case of Spanish ma
nana?" or is it only a repetition Of the
old story "let us eat and drink for to-
morrow we die?' The voice of the E,
P.'s organ shouting to the hosts that
''coats must come off, is now only that
of a sucking dove. The platform OF the
A U. p. seems to be thrown into the
rubbish heap and very suspicious
silence on the white immigration sub
ject prevails.
We have never believed that general
white immigration from America was
practicable, unless it was done Win
extraordinary care and energy, because
no movements of the kind succeed un-
less there is deep enthusiasm and COM
handing talent engaged in it.
The interest taken in it by some OF
the planters has been of the kind that
had no ring in it, a general willing
ness to let some one do the hard WORK
of getting the planters and the COM
munitv out of a labor difficulty. 1t has
been only languid interest which &C
complishes nothing. 1t has nothing
in it of the faith that moves noun
tains.
Some very good annexationists, some
intelligent travellers, with the gift OF
political insight declare that we are
bevond the parting of the ways, and
are travelling along the Asiatic high
way for all time, and that any attempt
made to reverse our steps would be
idle. and more than that, impossible;
that we have made our election, and
are bound by it.
The acts of the political bodies we
have mentioned, and they speak louder
than words, strongly endorse this view
of the situation. They have, appar-
emily abandoned the Islands to the
Asiatics. They have silently admitted
into the country within few months
more Asiatic males than the entire
American, German and English able
bodied male population. That fact has
no very small voice.
We say most distinctly that we are
not making any complaint about It,
If the Government and the Legislature
and the community behind them are
after all, practicable believers in Asia
tic civilization, though they may de-
nounce it openly, we shall not com
Dlain. but proceed to make the very
hest of the Asiatic civilization. Only
we shall be consistent. We shall no.
danounce Asiatic invasion, and at the
same time, admit it in torrents.
The prosperity of the sugar industr!
&c of supreme Importance. Many o
those interested in it, put that pros
Deritv above all questions of civiliza
+ion This is natural enough, and tn
way of the world, though it hasn
much of christian civilization in II
Now to preserve this prosperity, and
the same time square it with Christian
civilization is such difficult job, n
one cares to tackle it. On the whole
it is much easier to drift along tn
stream of prosperity even if it carrie
us into the Asiatic sea.
The little community has ALREADY
perhaps, made its choice ana any urs
-. o,-tnndnd white immigratlO