The Hawaiian gazette., 1894-03-06


opposed 10 Mr.. Msrsisn'S opinions.
II is said that he is good
orator who eOnvincSS himself. l
doubt il the last speaker has done 50.
| He has argued in one groove only,
and | think he believes what he
| denies. Ii is true thar almost every
thing here depends upon the sugar iu-
dustry. But the same thing has been
seen in the United States The great
plains were, only shoCt time ago,
devoted entirely TO the grazing indus
| try, sud people said that if the cattle
were driven away those states would
De ruined. But after time, when the
small farmer began 10 come in they
changed their minds. You are Sfraid
OF the japanese, Snd you all know il.
Their Government sSlys that il they
cannot have the franchise they shall
not come here. The Chinese are not
quite 80 aggressive IS the Japanese per-
haps, but they have patient Flooding
way that leads them where they want
20 be If they are given time.
In 1851 they worked for s. or SIS
month. Now they get enough 10 sat-
i>fy them \ few weeks ago they
held mass meeting and passed \ SET
Ot resolutions that were wholly with
in the lSw, but which contained one
clause that read: we will have no
respect for any law that does not put
u on the same level IS any other res
ijeut of Hawaii This Is not gues-
ton OF preserving the plantations,
which Sre good enough in their way,
but OF preserving men \ few men
are worth good deal more than few
plantations. Ii must be humiliStiug
10 man OF Mr.. MSrsdeu's intelligence
10 say that he introduced = law 10 the
Legislature for the restriction Of Chi
nsse, when you cannot move ten feet
in Honolulu without finding China-
mSn doing work that I white man
should De doing. He drew = picture
OF desolStiOu in the event NJ not bring
ing more Chinese here. There would
De scene Of greater dsSOlatiOn il We
acknowledge that We cannot get along
without them. l would draw better
picture than this / would portray
hundreds sni hundreds % small
farms, each with their own small cane
field, when the farmer and his SOUS
would work As to white men no.
being able 10 work here, this l. not
tropical country. Your summers are
not IS hot IS those Of lows Sni
Illinois, and yet white men work
there You eAn get men from Amer
les almost s. eheaply Is you can the
Chinese You cannot make citizen
out OF ChinSusn- Let them
get 5000 ahead and back they
90 to China You can make sQ Amer
lean out Of Portuguese, but never
out OF ; ChinSusn- No man with
sny liver in him will say that thing
cannot be done because it Is hard
They will cast about and find some
way out OF their difficulty, and 1 be-
lieve thst will be done here"
Mr.. Msrsden, in reply 10 Mr. Towse,
said.
"Mr. Towse Is new 70 this country,
very, very new, and lie does not
know anything about this question.
He does not like the Chinese. No
more do /, and l should not advise
getting them If they would conflict
with white labor. He spoke Of white
men and small farms. I want to see
them here as well As he. But can you
get = white man TO work and board
himself for SIS month"; l never said
that 3 Chiuamau would make : good
citizen He will not; but he does make
q good Iaborer If you keep him there.
4 number Of you think you know |
how 10 run i plantation, but I tOu't l
think you do, unless you have been on /
one for long time. - [ have. You
must look this problem square in the
face The law a. It nov stands i Z 4
good one, if it i carried into effect, |
AMI the only way to do that Is by 4
-s.--- ID a
vOcate Chinese, but any labor that |
viii not hurt white meu- Mr.. TOwse |
does not know the first thing about
this subject He could not, for he has
not been here long enough. You /
cannot crush our maiuStay, the sugar
industry, unless you crush Us all st /
the same time
Mr.. B z Dillingham; next spoke on
The Development OF Hawaii He
said:
MY subject Is certainly an interest
ing one, bat IL l. so comprehensive {
that even the Sblest statesman might |
shrink from sounding the depths Of its
present aud prospective possibilities
We are standing today upon 4 provis-
iouAI bridge spanning the gulf that
separates u from the historic past and |
4 glorious future We cannot 20
back, even If We would, for all the
bridges We have thus far crossed are
burned behind U.s. The voice Of the
future Is calling loudly 70 every citi-
zen Of this fair land 10 turn away from
the dead past and look with conf
ienes TO happy future We have
'u=t come 70 feel proud Of oar progress
ia the past In less than three
quarters Of = century the Hawaiian
people have been Transformed
rom condition OF barbar-
sm % Al enlightened civiIIZa-
ion The agricQI u raj an commercial
Development OF this country from IsT5
% 1881 ELs something rEulaF kabI=. In [ ]
SIS about $1,000, 900 was invested In |
he sugar business, and about L 900 Z
Ous were exported In IsgI SO 600 I
90 was invested IN sugar.. Diversified
industries are now receiving aCrrn [ ;
loo and Outside capital l. beginning
% seek Investment here The open
ng Up OF homesteads Will have a df-
eeE bearing upon our permanent vel
are Millions Of dollars were sent out