Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 315, 3 November 1891 — Plantation Labor and Permanent Population. [ARTICLE]

Plantation Labor and Permanent Population.

\\ hile the sblfishness of ourmoneyed people who look out only for their immediate profit« dtreet from eheap labor, they oyerloofc, (in their desire to help their own interests). the crv of the eoui try for rcpopulation. They were actnally doir»g an injury to themselveg by Rtopping Portuguese inimigratio'n. thc onlv people that actuallv fittfd- theuecdH of the country and was satisfactory to all clnsscs, anel Wi>uld hiivfe heen, us thi»y are to-day, iIk 1 very tneans of l»elping to cr«atc a ]-ojmlation that would niak« g<Kxi our prtfS 'nt aud fufuro nanl for lub(»r aml ir<^i eit!Z<nis. l>ut the Ofttholio v;»tc that c:imc io, as thry Ci.l our pxv{ peopl.. Thaiwas bngb('-ir l!nt <']os ••{ ; V.' d»or vf>ry nici?ij iii »t to-day wnul»!' <'o;tbh' l hōftt l > ' i<tv v'V**r tlit* tiuru avarict* f >r " monev n;ui tho'

fear of losing the governmental power of the Goiintry and the eontinuance of a rotten system of governing §o upset the usurpers of 1887, that'they in their blindnes» shut the door to the .very people that t€hday wonld be a present as well as a per9Hinent help to them, and the oountry at large. Rat apparently they preferred eheap heathen labor to the Koman Catholic Portuguese for tear 6f disturbing the old established order of thiiigs.