The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-03-30

"I0ey won't all get rIc0, DHt they
| can do we'll enough. Every one OF
ZIONIST. The United States will not in
the end reject it's own. The Arab
proverb is, 'One hour of charity is
worth seventy years of prayer So one
good white settler is worth seventy
resolutions of annexation. But there
is dark cloud over the business. The
land is mainly held by leasehold, and
that is a fence at which the Anglo
Saxon stops. He will not accept lease
hold. Men with money will refuse to
settle on that tenure.
SIT must be changed, or the Asiatic
will get hold and keep the white man
out. The Government must put the
knife in and cut out the cancer of
leasehold, aud, as the land is costly to
clear off, it must be cheap. We can
afford to give away 10000 acres to the
right kind of settlers. On political
grounds we can offer premium to
good settlers, who are not bummers,
and bring some money. Already 8
number of men with money have
turned their backs on the coffee in
dustry and left because they will not
take leaseholds.
''This coffee industry will, believe,
determine whether the nation will be
American or Aslatic. It is a great
chance for US.
"The Government should take hold
and manage the business. We want
vigorous men at work building up
the new nation. Great Britain is pa
ternal, and settles up her colonies.
We want the United States to be pa
ternal and give us cable, although it
won't pay. Why can't our Govern
ment be paternal too, and instead of
letting this new industry drift about,
take hold and bring in the English
speaking people? The fight for Anglo
Saxon institutions must be made on
the slopes of Mauna Loa and Huala-
lai, and not on the sugar plantations.
."WheneVer you ask man about
our future, he shakes his head and
looks sad, because we must have cheap
labor, and that means Asiatics. Now
we have a chance to bring in white
laborers, all working for themselves,
and they will control the Asiatics on
in history, wonderful things have been
done by prompt action. We have
been so long fed by Uncle Sam's reei-
procity spoon we have lost our grit
and energy, with the monarchy sit
ting down on US besides. We need
some of the push and energy of the
men who create new states and grap-
pie new problems. We have a con-
tract to make these islands American,
and it is simply our fault if we do not
put the American flag over five hun
flag near it. If there is no anDexa-
ton, we shall through American and
English settlers, get stable govern
ment, and that is something. We
have brought in about $4,000 aliens;
let us get in q few hundred white
men and hold the fort.
'The island of Hawaii is the coming
great political factor here, and her in
terests must be carefully watched or
she will make trouble of some kind if
she feels that she is neglected.
''The town of HilO ought to be |
out, and streets and parks |
provided for, and law passed forbid |
ding any one from building within |
the lines of a proposed street. The |
people here can do nothing, because
there is no local rule. Even the cocoa !
nut trees are dying out on COcoanut |
Island which is Government land, |
and there is. no authority to replace |
them.
"Of couIse, the Republic can't do |
everything at once. But it always |
happens that interests are neglected |
il the governing power is absent or at !
a distance. The Conservative Club of |
HilO will become in time a powerful |
political factor. It's members are |
strong men and seem to be remark !
ably devoted to the interests of the |
Republic and of Hawaii. It num-
Oers now nearly fifty members and is
increasing rapidly. 1t will serve as
kind of local self government and |
make third estate which will COM
nand respect.
"Hilo needs company of good po-
itical artillery which can throw
shells over the channels and into the
camp in Honolulu. It
will keep it awake if it goes off in
loZe.
Altogether, when one looks around
hat great island, with its immense
sugar estates, managed by shrewd and
lble men, and the remarkable advan-
ages of the coffee industry, he feels
hat there will be determined the
supremacy of races and that the fight
9 already on. Many curious and
Iuiet changes are going on owing to
he abolition of the monarchy. If the
Government doesn't keep the reins
veil in hand events will catch the
,its in their mouths and run away
With them, and unhorse them, good
iders as they are"