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THE PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER: HONOLULU, SEPTKMl'.EK 1, 1899. TH PACIFIC Commercial Advertiser. W. N. ARMSTRONG EDITOR. FRIDAY SEPTEMBKK 1 IMMIGRATION. A correspondent in. another column asks some searching questions about the importation of laborers from Italy. TJio planters may be able to answer them with more or less satisfaction. It is said that the theory upon which Italian immigration is encouraged is, that the first few hundred immigrants will be so kindly treated, that they will encourage their friends to join them here; that each well satisfied immi grant will become an agent for the plantations in securing other immi grants, and then the business of the Jabor supply will take care of itself without the interference or direct aid of the planters. This i3 now the course of affairs in the United States and else where. Out of the 15,000 Portuguese now living on. these Islands, over 8000 of them are natives of Portugal and its dependencies, and their friends and relatives must number many thous ands. Why are not these Portuguese immigration missionaries, urging and calling their friends and relatives to join them here? It is absurd to say that the Italians will be better laborers and citizens than the Portuguese. It is stated on excel lent auChority that out of the 10,000 and more Portuguese immigrants, not one of them has been charged or con victed of murder. Out of about fifteen Italian immigrants, carefully selected one ds now under charge of murder. TJiis indicates the difference in tem perament of the people of the two na tions. At the same time, this unfor tunate crime by an Italian cannot be .held to be conclusive as to the general character of Italian laborers, for it is not. The Italians are more resentful thian the Portuguese, but that is an excellent quality when the resentment is within bounds. We understand that the employment of Italians will not be lone in the interests of civilization and humanity, but because they are, or may be, the most available laborers .now to be secured. The plantations are in the hands of Protestants, and they do not propose to fill the land with lapists. in the interest of Christ ianity. The reasons why the Portuguese, -who are on the whole, a quiet and industrious people, are not supplying the plantations with labor, will oper ate to prevent the Italians, or any other class, from keeping up the labor supply. If the conditions of the labor era are now changed in order to secure Italians, why are they not changed -so as to secure the Portuguese who are living here? If the inducements are strong enough to move the Italans, why are they not strong enough to operate on the Portuguese, and encourage them to send for their friends and relatives? There is not any reason whatever offer ed to convince us that the Italians will be more accommodating and less ex acting, or be more pliable than the Portuguese. After twenty years of experience with the Portuguese laborers, which has been, on the whole, satisfactory, it seems to be unbusinesslike to go off at a tangent in pursuit of Italians, on a general guess that they will be more desirable than the Portuguese. There can be no more unscientific, or imprac ticable theory of dealing with the labor supply. Moreover, the Italian immigrants would not, for some time to come', per haps three or four years, . become, satisfied with their success so as to call their friends over in large numbers. The Portuguese, numbering some thousands, should be in a position to urge their countrymen to immigrate and accept the liberal terms made by the planters. INJUSTICE TO TilK CHINESE. ing for the loss of time and humilia tion. The Secretary replies that he will pay him nothing because the detention was caused by the Hawaiian government and not by the Federal government. Evangelist sits down ou church music. ! The easiest disposition of the matter is j to allow him to sit there. j Mood's SOB-DIVISION OF' THE BICKERTON HOMESTEAD. THAT AWFUL SEASICKNESS. ! W'th tide of summer travel still This conclusion of the Secretary may i turning oceanward, and the question ! not be in accordance with the facts of the case. It was understood, at the time, that the Federal government, though its Special Agents here, direct ed the arrest and return. It was also understood at the time, that if the Ha waiian government stood aside and let the Special Agents adopt and enforce their own measures in the case, it would be reported to Washington as "Are you seasick?" becoming the all engrossing question or the day, the ob servations of an Atlantic sea captain are timely and of interest. "A great many passengers." pays this man who knows, "tome aboard loaded with medicines for the preven tion of seasickness, but I never knew anything succeed yet except careful db ting. Women are more subject to Favorite Cathartic Pills an unfriendly act. So that government j seasickness than men but, on the furnished the physical force to accom-j other hand, they stand it better. A woman isn't so much tortured by the pangs as she is worried by the prospect of becoming dishevelled haggard and draggled. She fights to keep up appearances as long as she can hold up her head, but a man gives up at once and makes a great rumpus and takes to his berth. There he grumbles and groans until he is well enough to go on deck again. "When a woman finally takfs to bet room she invariably" asks thre ques tions. First, whether people ever die of seasickness, then how many miles we are from shore, and. lastly, when shall we get there." plish this illegal act. It was made a cat's paw in committing an outrage. The only honorable and ju-5t course for our local government to take is, to pay the expenses of thesf Chinese who have been falsely imprisoned. The Flag is only honored when every citi zen sees to it that 't covers no in justice and under its shadows the poor est man is protected in his rights, about which there is no dispute. KKY1VAL1ST MOODY. In another column is published some interesting correspondence b?tween SMr. How Duck and Secretary of the Treasury Gage. Mr. How Duck was a passenger from China on the Coptic in January last, and held a permit from the Hawaiian government which gave him the right to return to Hawaii. On arrival here, he, with other Chinese, were refused permission to land by United States Special Agent Brown, with the ap proval of Special Agent Sewall as it was then said. He with the others who were refused permission to land, were not informed of their right to appeal to the Secretary of the Treasury, and .were forcibly sent back to China. The Secretary oi the Treasury on hearing uppeals from the decision of Special Agent Brown, made in similar cases, reversed his judgment and permitted the holders of permits to land. Mr. How Duck returned to China, and on being informed of this deci sion, again took passage to this port and was allowed to land. He, appealed to the Secretary, asking to be reim bursed for the expenses incurred by this forcible detention. He asks noth- Itevivalist Moody has set himself up as a final judge in the matter of church music. He is so confident of his own opinion as a teacher and interpreter, he feels that he may speak with authority on the subject of music. He said a few days ago in the North field Conference, "If God is going to give us a revival he will break up the sing ing that we have in the churches now. You go into most of the churches now and you will find them having 3 choir for which they pay a high salary and they either go up so high or down so low that you can't understand what they are singing about." Mr. Moody is disposed to take pes simistic views of many aspects of man's moral nature. We are all of the opinion that the church music of the present day is seraphic in comparison with the music of the ancient choirs, with a fiddle accompaniment. Some( may remember the congregational singing in churches which formerly re fused to allow choir singing. It was a sort of "go as you please" affair, and the singing of the hymns ended, much like a horse race, in which the different animals crossed the line at the close, at their leisure and according to their speed. There is no evidence that the Creator does or does not prevent re vivals, owing to the quality of the music. Many of the deacons whose "election" was almost guaranteed, dis played voices in comparison with which the vocal efforts of a bull were rapturous notes. If revivals hung upon their efficiency and grace as musicians, the gates of Heaven would never on golden hinges turn, and the deacons would inevitably be consigned to the "lost." What would Mr. Moody say if he entered one of our Chinese churches and listened to Old Hundred rendered in a Mongolian symphony? Would he bar out revivals because it did not suit him? Evangelist Moody has become ex ceedingly fat during the last ten years. 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