The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-08-16

knows about it, and says it can be
done. When our people are well over
the sugar drunk and are willing to
look at small but profitable things,
they will see money in this. This
cotton is a cash article, cash at the
door if necessary, and is prepared with
any intelligent skill, as Mr.. Whitney
says. 1t can reach Japan in ten days
with cheap freight rates. There is a
moderate market now for good butter
in the treaty ports. Why should it be
brought in tins from France and Italy,
when it could be brought from Ha-
waii? 1t brings now eighty cents per
pound in silver, or forty cents in gold.
Japan Is not dairying country. The
grasses are inferior and the people
drink no milk. But the foreign popu-
lation consume considerable Quanti-
ties, and the natives would use it if
they could afford to buy it. Here iS
the want, but the present means are
insufficient to obtain it.
However strongly prejudiced our
planters and merchants are in favor of
Increasing the trade with the United
States, for the best of political rea-
sons, no mere sentiment will prevent
them or any one of them from max
ing trades with Japan if there is any
money in it. If our white merchants
do not take it in hand, the Japanese
will, and are now doing it.
Japan has abundant vessels, and
proposes to become a commercial
nation. Hawaii lies between her and
the American continents, north and
south. She will take in Hawaii as a
mere incident to this trade, without
any political veins. She will soon be
able to supply the Hawaiian market
with variety of goods, at cheaper
rates than Europe or America can do
it. She is looking up trade with
Chile and Peru, so that she can en-
ploy her steamers, and Hawaii is the
halfway house.
The reasons for the existence of the
singularly progressive government of
Japan, with much crudeness III it,
some savagery, and with bold de-
parture away from traditions, has not
yeS been written. 1t is fascinating
study. Even the English colonies of
Australia, progressive as they are, are
notin advance of the japanese in some
things. The government regards in
dustrial development along European
lines as political necessity, and
stands behind it in many ways.
The monarchy in Hawaii saw
nothing, beyond the Hale Naua. 1t
remains to be seen whether the lead
ers of the Republic and the white COM
munity will touch the industrial but
ton; sing "Star Spangled Banner
and expect God to do the rest, or will
they take hold and do the great and
imperative work needed and push il
to the end.
It is perfectly feasible to use the
cheap labor of Japan on our sugar
plantations and put the planters at
ease on this point, and at the same
time, make the Japanese aid in build
ing up Occidental civilization here,
which is the supreme need of the hour.
We can use the Japanese labOrer to
aid the planters, sugar and coffee, and
the mechanics. without competition.
But it requires q we'll thought out
policy, and then the enforcement of
that policy.
The building up of institutions here
by ofsetting one race against the
other, of mingling Portuguese, Japan
ese and Chinese together, is only a
comical makeshift, so far as statesmen
ship is concerned. We need the Cau-
cassian race here, and if we have not
sense enough to bring it, we may as
we'll give up the business, The Amer
lean flag won't help US. Go to Santa
Fe, New Mexico, where the American
flag has been triumphantly waving
since the territory was wrested from
Mexico, and the police will tell you
not to walk in the side streets at night
or Mexican greaser will put knife
in you. There is something to be
done besides putting up the flag so
many of us love. It must be put on
something that is decent and respect
able. The flag is not civilizer. An
nexation may easily make US a polit-
ical hell. Any one can see, who
chooses to see, that the Asiatics can
not be kept out of these islands by
resolutions and laws any more than
opium can. Our safety is in so regu-
Iating the matter that immigration
from the Asiatic countries will aid
us and not hinder US.