The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-28
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pendent on the whaling industry anc
many of the working kanakas had en-
| gagged in that there was friction be-
tween it and employers who needed
hands on shore.
When natives wanted TO go abroad
to better their condition there was al
ways some maudlin sentimentalist
ready with plausible reason for pass
ing a law to prevent them, urging thai
| they would be lost to their native
| country and would get into great dis
tress among foreigners in other lands
| In reality they were as well able 10
care for themselves abroad as any
other classes, and many of them did
! so well in other lands that they never
| cared to come back. AS a matter OF
| fact they had been nursed TO death by
their alleged friends at home.
| Foreign imported rum, vices and
| diseases have decimated them, buc
| those of them who made homes abroad
| became acclimated and succeeded as
| well as the people among whom they
mixed.
The sugar industry gradually grew
as the whaling industry died out and
more agricultural hands were wanted
than could be found amongst the Ha-
| waiians. as quite a number of them
were unwilling to work at delving in
the soil and felt sea life more agree
whaling than planters We're willing TO
pay, or felt they could afford to pay,
not having yet learned to economic
in the art of sugar making.
In this emergency recourse was had
to the teeming population of China
Away back in 1852 few, $50, had been
brought who proved to be very accept
able and apt field hands. They We're
well treated, and although they Were
paid but $500 per month and found in
food, lodgings and medical attendance
this was equal to $500 when turned
into the money of their country. and
as this was fifty times as much as
they had been accustomed to they
were very we'll contented.
John Chinaman is a frugal and eco
nonical individual and he quickly rec
ognized that he was in a fair way to
pile up fortune or at least accumu-
late enough to make a fair start in
business at home. He found that to
labor in the tropics he required a rest,
and twelve months continuous work
will wear out anything human, even
If it or he has the incentive OF amass
ing wealth. Besides he had left mis-
wife and little ones a home and had
the natural call we all have TO see them
and enjoy with them his earnings.
Thus the laborers had to be renewed
and they had proved SO profitable that
requisition was sent for a larger
number.
Then arose some wiseacre ard sug-
gested the fear of the deleterious effect
Of the company of the immoral China
man on the aborigine and also of the
crowding out of the poor native in
his own country. Not that the native
thought that way, for he himself en-
ployed the Celestial at all kinds OF
work, as fishing, washing, cultivating
his lands, etc. But there always was
a class of people in the country who
assumed to take on themselves the
thinking for the poor native.
Then when it was seen that Dennis
Kearney had passed a law to exclude
the Chinaman from the United States
these wiseacres felt that if SO great
and wise a country as America could
undertake to assume an attribute
which belonged solely to the Creator
(but which in His wisdom He never
usedD, then it could not be wrong for
little Hawaii to follow suit and ex-
clude a branch of the human family
for racial reasons.
Then the biting pangs Of lack of
laborers for the increasing cane fields
was felt and Immediately there arose
one who knew exactly the proper
remedy. In his country were thou
sands of people who would be glad to
improve their condition by removing
to the Sandwich Islands, notwithstand-
ing that their habitat was well up to
the Arctic circle. The hungry planters
snatched at the idea and Captain
L'Orange started off with a stocking
full of gold prepared to bring ship
loads of magnificent, hardy, Norwe-
gfan farmers.
We will give him credit for honesty
of intent, but he found that the honest
hardy tillers of the soil of Norway
were unwilling to unseat themselves
He had to bring something, however,
and we note the arrival of two ship
loads of the wharf rats of the large
towns, a class who were willing to go
anywhere for a change and whom their
government was glad to have go.
Needless to say they melted off as
quickly in the tropics as the whale
blubber on which they had been
brought would have done.
Then another wiseacre puts q flea in
the Kings ear and shows him how 70
hooulu lahui increase the nation) by
bringing in a cognate race and the
south Seas are raked with a FIRE
toothed comb and a few Iewalewas are
brought in who neither amalgamated
With the Hawaiians nor filed the bill
as agricultural laborers.
Then approaches We're made to the
willy Emperor of Japan and after ne
had got Hawaii well tied up with a
convention he permitted some of his
people to come and view the landscape !
DER
Still another Wiseacre knew of the !