Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 332, 26 November 1891 — POPULATION. [ARTICLE]

POPULATION.

)VUh tbe Portegue»e then. we 00ald btUld Vp gOreA pwple, adopt«)t<>

our cl mate and more or iess liar with the cultivation of the various semi-tropical products which[ will constituteour futnre industries; and as we have before sbown they $re indu l Btrious and thrifty and j?nll readily assimiiate themselves to our methods of civilization and! government. From information at h&nd we are assured that at the present time it would be possible to obtain at least 50,000 Portuguese if wanted.! Portugal is practlcally bankrupt and oa the verge of revolution. She J is so intimately connected with her eoloniea that they suffer from the same bankrupt condition as the mother eountiy, and there is distress everywhere. The tide of emigration whieh sta»ted for Bra«il hās stopped and began to return home again, for tfaey fouud*theconditions oflife in that cour)try too hard. The emigration to Africa haa.. ceased for those colonies are sufFering lrom stagnation and paralyzed trade caused by the recsnt treatment of the English. Such a prolific people as the Portuguese cannot all stay home; some must push out, and we could have no better opportunity than the present to secure an iminigration hitherward. But we are told that the planters don't want them. That's diperent! aa the Hon. Brother Lucas wouīd say. They are two expensive to obtain and we ean no longer pay such high wages as heretofore; they are «pot as tractable as "oriental cooiies; are good workers, biit inclined to be independent of cdutrol after the hours of labor; they resent the whip and the driving proe<MS whieh it is necessary fcr our lnnas and viding boses, to use with fieid hands; when their | contract term i<? up, they refuse to recontract and i]eman(l higher wages or a p?ot <it'hiud to eultiv!i(ō ■on sh«irf.s, whieh ive wiil not give thcm. s:\y Iho plinlw. The iccuntry.needs, a:?.i to be prosper(.ous,- o'jght to have,-an agncuitural popu!ation. The p!anter needs eheap anel servile labor. And this brings us to the Bcylla and Oha!ribdis of the situation. where wē Bhall leave it for the prese» t, hoping to returu soine day and attempt to diecover a passage throngh these frowning rocks of necessity.