Nuhou, Volume II, Number 5, 29 July 1873 — The Hawaiian Needs [ARTICLE]

The Hawaiian Needs

i{ A īenewal of his life, v aud \vitLout itj , the perpetuatlon of his ruce h a!most hopekss,' * j j Tbis ietev?ai of his.phyeical life is to be promotecl. j hj u jaddUionai laeeDti£ive?- to industij;"" f?ay ■ | higliev wages; and reciproeity. ou the basis of lbe | jjeessiou' of the Pearl Harbor will bring all thie : about. .Sj sajs the ehampion anel espouent ofi |eesgioM ; the \vorthj h?. N, C. And then liegocSj . on to 6a,y that thcre weie 300,000 lla\vaiiaiit in ■ i the days of Capt Cook, We prcsnmc theie \vere i abont 130,000 %vheu ihe first missionaries eame in' | 1820; aod when S. N. C. arrivcd in 1836, there j ; vvere 108,579; iu 1850, just after the U flushi ! time v of Calilbrn|a gold diseoveries, the population had fallen to /3,137- In 1860, when the ® : whaling interest was in its ,glory } there \vas a ■! aeeline to 84,i65; in 1860 after ten year* of the whaling harvest, \vc have ouly 00,700, and in 1873, aftcr some yeart of good war priees fur ' »ugar we onlv fovtv-nine thou»sand and u fe\y 1 hundrods, j "\Vhen 11;<- llawaiiau- weie perhaps lialf a million f stroug, t!ioy had on!j their poi and a | malo; w.hen light brokc in upon the kanakas and ; darkaes?s was dispersed, and they got the waiiuai j , of a tcnpe.uuy nail for a day*s work they showed j ; a rapid deelinc \vith increasc of wealih. 'l'hen they | eame down to about one hundred thousand when chey had the ince*tive of one real a day—about i the uiue ol the arrival of brother S. N. C. The i ealiioinia stimulus anel a quarter a day for work . at tijat time t.hinned. tliem out to 80,000; and now i whentiierek less than 50,000, and a dollar a I day very often an u incentivcto the |comtqrtable heathen } who wears garments of j diverß colors and fcumptuoudy every day; ; what will become of him when we get reeiprocity | with three ccnts more on sugar, cver so many j millions to be spent at Pearl llarbor and two,! d6Jia-re" to the kanakas ? The inevit-1 | able result of such an incentive " to promotc a j "renewal of his physical life," will bc if he followi the manifest progrc£Mon uf allpreviousexperienee. ttiat five dollars a day will just about eieau out the last kanaka from thc lanel. Ile cou!d noi stand it. No; mcrease of wages will not save thc Ilawaiiun. nor help tu " rene\v his physieal life. But mark now, we are not going tu argue from all...thif, that.it is bettcr to go back to thepoiandthe malo. Not at ali. We are as mueh opposcd ( to the maio-and-poi-panaeea, as to thc inerease-' of-wage-eure for llawaiiau deeay. A renewal of, physieal iife is needed; but it must be witli blood ! &nd not with goid. We know thai gold will! bdng blood; but let us get gold iu \vays tluit dont J trammel onfepolit-icai aetion or barter away our independenee, wheu its mainteiuinee will answer! our pnrpose far better ; besides satisfying svnse df honor and patrlot!<m that must exist some\vhere lu the*c Isle^> Uaik you t -we are fvr tia " advaueemeat of, the maUilai iuteies;s of this ai\hij»elagv.'' We J desire to imp:>rt l> ineeuftvesand more hope-! fuliu>s to nawoiiau life, Wo wouhl have Ameriea hcar and giwut tl-r market to whieh we J arc natural!y entkled ? or we would seek it, ;vudj we would fmd it c!sewheiv We woukl get tno£cy on sueh tmns that tl;e :uda?tvsal interests of the<,euntry now undev the loi\d of, uebt on sliort time, heavy īntcre>tloug delays iu. getting piuee?ds and heavv elu\vges woulo l>e iv!ieved H tx !eng evedit, :vn rate.< liome nnd immen?e vcdnetion tn eharg< v > We w.n\ld

i:i thc of Indepcc«dence ;«nd ity get access to th*> labor inarkcts of īndia wel! as of other parts of Asia. Wc woukl frcsh recni!t? to the*c iblcs 5 whose hlooel with t!ie partlally he:i!t!hy lemnanl of onr inir scorbutic =toci, wl>uld brlng aboat tL'tt ī,ip - | -- - o newal c»f physleal llfe of llie Hawāi, whieh no meie ineieaEo of wagr pro=p -r> condition of the !uitd will ever do.