. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . hen the rush did not begin. This came compara-tively a few years since^ when the fright over theflood of the Japanese caused the authorities tocompel the planters and seekers after cheap labourto look to China for their help. This of coursebrought an influx of the lower class^ but the betterelement had gained a footing and a higher stand-ing than the natives of Japan have yet acquired,or will for a long time to come. In the grave perils of the eighties, when immi-gration was overruning the islands to the menaceof its c
. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . hen the rush did not begin. This came compara-tively a few years since^ when the fright over theflood of the Japanese caused the authorities tocompel the planters and seekers after cheap labourto look to China for their help. This of coursebrought an influx of the lower class^ but the betterelement had gained a footing and a higher stand-ing than the natives of Japan have yet acquired,or will for a long time to come. In the grave perils of the eighties, when immi-gration was overruning the islands to the menaceof its civil liberties, this class joined with otherszealous for the good of the government to mini-mise the common evil by weeding out as much aspossible the masses of those who, their term ofbondage over, tended to become hangers-on of thecountry, — paupers and criminals. The conse-quence was that a large percentage of the Chinese,who had no tie to bind them longer to the islands,were sent home as soon as their time of contractservice had expired. The end of the century will. rT I I I 1 ff TT I ■ I 1 f^-^^nm TBE CHINESE IN PARADISE. 159 find the last contract closed^ and but a few of theselabourers in the country. It is true fewer Chinese women come to theislands than of the other races^ yet they do comein considerable numbers, and the homes of thepeople, from the humble huts of the plantationtoilers on the mountainsides to the luxuriousdwellings in the centres of population, are foundin all parts of the seven isles. The followingstatistics will give a good idea of the situation:According to the census of 1896 there were21,616 Chinese on the islands,—19,167 malesand 2,449 females. There were 2,234 who hadbeen born in Hawaii, and of 19,317 Chinese oversix years of age, per cent, can read Englishor Hawaiian or both. Of 665 Chinese childrenwithin school age, per cent, attend Hawaiian-born Chinese are per cent,of the population born of foreign parents. O
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