The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-06-14
A Most Interesting Article Written
BY w. N. Armstrong.
THEIR EFFECT on THE CONS TITUTIoN.
The Explosive Material That Is stored
mp In the Forty Thousand Asiatics
Living on Hawaiian Land-How the
Constitution should Deal with Aliens

Many OF as are interested in the max
ing of q new Cor st tuition, ard it is a
very serious mat er, because it is, when
looked at from any standpoint, COM
plieaied affair.
We have before US this grave and ex-
traordinary proposition, that we, about
thousand Anglo-Saxons and Teutons,
shall govern, and govern wisely If we
can do go, about so 600 ''aliens" in blood.
We ara driven to it by "a necessity
which is not chosen, but chooses" It
eompels US to do so, in order to secure
good government. The sooner we work
ont our e.rrect latitude and longitude
the better it will be.
Experience, however, teaches US that
it is generally useless for writer's on POI
lilical matters to sound any alarm, or to
expect that the average citizen will look
ahead much beyond his nose. Nations,
Ike individuals, live from hand to Ia oush,
and don't like to be irritated with warn
ings. In the United States, a vast,
dark war-cloud slowly gathered over the
land, before 1860, and was entirely un-
noticed by a great and intelligent people,
and, even when it began TO burst, many
wise men smiled and said, "It Will
amount TO nothing" National calan-
illes are always unexpected. In this
small community here has always been
living from hand 10 mouth politically.
Thai "A war cloud did not burst upon u
In 1893 Vas not due To any forethought
of ours, but almost wholly to the fact that
there was nc explosive material Ia our
POLITICAL air.
We know, but do not realize it, that
nearly all Constitutions have been sea-
soned OF stained with blooi, amt II ours
Is not it will be due TO some marvellous
affairs. Our great danger Is that We
shall be betras ei, by our sense of Sc
curity, into yielding some of our advant-
ages
In distributing over our soil some 40 =
600 Asiatics and 5000 Latins, through
the ne essities of our labor markets, we
have placed about US material for great
political influence In the future, and
invoIuntari5y stored Mp much explosive
material Ii is quite harmless just now,
and may remain so for awhile, but 1t
will be heard from some day, and its
voice may DE very peremptory and
threatening. The 65,00a,000 people in
the United Stares are much alarmed at
the presence IF 100 900 Asiatics in their
vast domain. If there were $50 NiO 600
Asiatics there. which Won be about
the same ratio of population that exists
here, they might, indeed, be DISTURBED.
Ii does not follow, however, that this
inroad of aliens means for moment that
we shall | sc our dominance over, or
control of the land This we need not
do 4 we have pluck and understanding
IL we do main ain this dominance 1t will
be one of the most remarkable achit-ve-
ments CT the Anglo-Saxon III npdern
times. Every one hopes that the
United States will do This for Ia, ami
ey may but we are just now compelled
to act as il they would not and never
would.
Even those who try to think deeply
on the suriect can hardly estimate the
value and strength of the unknown
forces concealed in these aliens; gradual
development and penetration into our
social life. In Scouts novel, one looked
at the peaceful and siient valley, occu-
pied by herds and shepherds. At the
sound of the ciausu ans horn legion OF
men sprung rom The earth and marched
to the plains. 10 IN every alien IN blood
there is possible enemy, and race hos
tility may cali them - Their feet.
IL is OF necessary that the Asiatics or
other aliens should have the voting fran
chise 10 erier TO yet political hold here.
Colonel Spreckels, wlthouJ pa lot, may
control hun.treds OF votes. So may every
planter, If he chooses. M are reached
In ths,-,, da through their wants, and
men want money. Whoever has the
money. power will control The ballot box,
because IN modern times food an luxu-
ries give more personal comfort than the
possession oil pure, but dry. principles.
Men stand arouni our street corners
and bitterly denounce Aslatic cheap
labor, and then employ it then Selves.
Ask the tailJrs and the groceryEen If
this is not true The mechanic, bite ~
opposed TO this cheap labor, will not give
his own countryman ten cents TOR vegrt-
ables If he can get them OF the alien Tor
FIVE. Mercantile firms stand daily In
fear of a Chinese boycott We are
PLAYING a game of fast and loose with
These people, shouting TO them TO stand
back, and at the same time pushing
them to the front Every man Says Sc
cretly TO himself, after me the deluge y
The planter must have eh Up labor, and,
If he don't get It, the nation will become
Bankrupt But neither planter nor me'-
chant can always control or direct the
moral aud men,al forces which I've be-
hiod cheap labr, nor can they estimate
It's strength in any o5-hand way
In maaing up new Constitution. we
nave gotten rome clear ideas regardit
the way the native Hawaii N should be
treated. because, for twenty years 4 ~
ally, with the native behind it, rlhbeo
our noses in "a film Of heathenlsin al d
misrule Insteat OF b 'ildiDg up o
Institutions here, the whites have simply
become expert Witnesses In the evolu
ton OF paganism, aud have 'earne.i
something Tue native has gone wrong
through Ignorance, and he has no sand
But in making up aCoussisu ion winch
must direct control aliens, or A@iatlcs,
We find that we have no xierlence
whatever and are too much inf1ues ced
hx.t ...h Il. Al. Tar