Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume IX, Number 4, 22 January 1870 — Emigration versus Immigration. [ARTICLE]

Emigration versus Immigration.

A fe\v \veeks .-iru'e*there arrived on our *hores »n EmUjssy t'rom Japan, the .special, nu&ion of whieh seeins to have l>een to look nfter thc tnterests of Jap»nese !aborors upon oor vnrious p!antation?. The Japa»ese Embns-sadors out !ast week in corn[>any svith the Mim\sterof Foreign K' laiion? and the Mintster of Finance for a tour of this island, visiting the plnntations upon whie-h their countrymen are engaged. It is said that there has been some sad make in regard to the terms of the contrtcts, or ihe fulf»llment of the same, on somc body's pnrt, and tbat such of the ia-' panese ns svere masters of ceruin trades in = their osvn country, are to be returned at onee.; The Embassadors has'e taken seven of. their couutrymen froin thc Waialua Planta- ! tion and three from the Kaalaea, Koolau, }'lnntation, are to be returned to Japan ! ! Mr. Parko, the Marshall, occompained by i un Intcrpreter, has gone to see the J.».panese| o» the i.s}at)d o( Mnui. How niany of them | nre to be returned to Japan remnins to be j sccn. I Thus ilawaii's fjrst nttempt to initiate the j unsophisticnted Jnpancs« into the blessingsj of the eoolie system, seems to has'e met an | unc.xpectcd and ludicrous turn. A part of, thosc upon svhotn o«r philanthropy svas be-! ing so lavishly bestowed, imported by a free ! fxpcnditurc of the taxes levied upon Hasvaii-1 ans, are, it seems, too vaiuabie nt home as < artis.ms or inechanics to permit of their re- j maining ahroad even to bo engaged in the r!evi«ting and enobling labor of hoeing eane t'or thc sons of the Saxon race. j Kumor says something of the high tone ; assumed by thc Embassadors of his Imperial! Mighness thc Mikado, and that some sur»niscd that a si«it from the ram Stonesvall, coinmanded by those of like temfK?r and sen- j timcnts, might not be a pleasont ailair to 1 ihmk o( just now thut the eoolie tnule is not! fully csUblisbed. The Amenean Ministcr's kind oniccs, nre reporte<i to have been quite opportune at this j juncture—exoctly for svhat purpose, rumorj does not sav. lf the Court Journal svere to ; make a full stntement of what has tmnspired in the interviesvs with the Japanese Embassy the puhlie svou!d have to do lcssguesi:itig. But at ali cvents, suoh of the Japanese as' the Emlmssi*dors shall srlect are to l>eprompt!y .n?turnvd to their natjve isles, and this little dilhcu!ty it is hopeU, svill ond there. Do the Pianters pay for the cost of this cminigration to the ishtnd of Niphon, or nre | ihe t3X pave» to meet tbc bilis for this cx-! pensive iitt!e expedition of m:in-honting t \ IVponent said not. Really, it scems to be a iess dangerou&' business to import lesss\uitivated peopie frs>m D*nger l»land, and from Manihiki ! Wiii the next LegisUture l>e pledged to thc support of the expcnsive eoolie system. I or sviil ihev s:it ihe troubies of this Japanese ! eoolie and see how the matter has • bevn ?fttlcd. What becomes ef the statement th*t the v*ontracts ar« fuliy anderstood and ssgned in ; irood fnth by the high contraeting parties ;; and \hnt nothing remains to the eoolie but the i;\ithiul ss*orking out of the term of ser-; vicc K>r svh:ch he has contr;»cted, oracertain ; iucarvcration io ihe Suite* Prison f I