Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-10

are better paid and better fed than mos,
laborers elsewhere. 1, 5A Of them were
Japanese, of whom 6602 were under con-
islands, less than half Of whom worked on
the plantations.
Wild Statements. s.t,,4
T. Every great power in Europe and
Japan has refused hatiy to even consider
a proposition to, annex the islands" This
Is a conspicuously wild statement, since
during the past twenty years every other
group and island in the Pacific has been
greedily appropriated by England. France.
Germany, Spain and Japan Hawaii has
been serupulously left by common consent
to become the wealthy prize of the United
States. Put Hawaii up at public AUCTION
and see what a scramble there would be
for it! A scramble Is on the tapis now, per-
haps before Congress has made up It's
mind to improve the present opportunity.
& The only hope OF the present gov
eminent is annexation to the United States.
which would thereby guarantee the ruling
class in the lands 1T has stolen, and give
it fresh and larger opportunities Tor thiev-
ing" The only considerable land grabbers
we ever had here were Kalakaua and Claus
Spreckels. The former used to cheat ma
tives out of small tracts. Spreckels once
secured the great Spreckelsville tract from
the government by a nice trick he
became our enemy from the time that we
foiled his attempt to establish bank with
a sort of universal monopoly OF business,
some ffteer years ago. The crown iah1s'
which the ex-queen claims as being stolen
from her, were always government prop
erty. held formerly for the temporary use
OF the incumbent of the throne, ana now
held for the public benefit.
Annexation to the United States, or 1a1l-
ing that, to England as dernier resort Is
a necessity in order to the permanent sta
bility and security of any government
whatever here among the diverse and het-
eIogeneouS populations N the ISLANDS. to-
gether with the pressure from rival pow
outside menacing our independence.
With annexation, homogeneous popula-
tion of whites will flow in. and soon con-
stitute a stable basis for republican gov
eminent.
The American Colony.
8. There are less than 5000 men. wo-
men and children of American birth or
ancestry" Nearly year ago there were
1875 American males and 1 Ill American
females, in all, 3,OS6 persons of American
ancestry. This makes a splendid American
colony, the only one on the globe. This
colony has completely Americanized the
islands, SO that in tone, institutions, civili-
cation and character, Hawaii is American.
Our three eight-page dailies are wholly
American. Our leading churches are Amer
lean. Our grand system of schools Is thor
oughly American. English and German in
fuences are only subsidiary. Americanism
dominates and pervades government and
society. Every American coming from ia
pan, Australia, or Vancouver, feels, when
he lands at Honolulu, that he is in an
American community.
The above allegation of, the World is in
tended to deny Hawaiian Americanism be-
cause Americans are in a, small numerical
minority But they own most of the
wealth of the country. which their intelli-
tod md
most of Its affairs. AS well say of one of
these noble British steamers calling every
week from Hongkong and Yokohama.
This 'Coptic' is not British. Five-sixths Of
the people on board are Asiatics: the stew
ard, the crew, the firemen, the steerage
passengers, are all Chinese or Japanese ;"
Yes, but the officers, the engineers. the
men who rule and run her are British; the
British through and through. Just so. Ha.
wall Is American! ..s. = ...... -.
Contract Laborers.
III. There are more than $4,000 Chinese
and japanese contract laborers, the only
scrt OF labor that can be induced to work
on the plantations" How often figures are
made to lie. especially the Worlds Our
statistics above showed that there were
Only $3.50 contract laborers out of a total
of 20,12O. The remaining 10000 people are
commercial, mechanical agricultural, &C.
IL. The islands have reached the height
of their deve :opmcnt. There is no room for
co'onists and no opportunity for them as
everything worth having has been gobbled
up" This is the craziest assertion the
w GRID has made. Hawaii has 10000 popu-
lation and room for 100000 Capt Cook
found 4oO.Uoc natives living here, well fed
for savages. Half a million would easily
find subsistence in agriculture and occu-
psions subsidiary thereto. Not one-third
OF the available farming lands are yet oc-
cupied, except for pasturage. One hundred
and fifty Thousand people can easily be
supported on the yet unopened $50. 900
acres of coffee lands on the island of Ha-
wall, which are now inaccessible forest ard
Jungle awaiting the roads which are slowly
being constructed through them. Then
there is the commercial prospect when our
present dozer of ocean steamers a month
shall In the next forty years be multiplied
by five or ten. Such a commerce alone
will employ large local population in
Supplying its wants. i1-sDH5 L. tr,-'.
New Resources Developing.
As yet Hawaii has barely scratched the
surface of its resources. Every year is dis
closing new opportunities for development
Twenty years ago no one believed 1t pos
sible to bring the sugar crop up to 100000
tons. Last year we exported $4,000 short
tons, half of which is due to new and i'm
proved methods of Irrigation which are
not yet half exploited. 1t is entirely rea-
sonable to expect Hawaii half a century
herce to be the home of million pros
porous whites of English speech. 1t is
futile for our enemies to belittle our future
With last weary effort, the World al
leges:
Il. eff the United States takes the
islands. appropriation bills expanding hun
dreds of millions Will be run through Con-
gress; and all this money will be wasted"
1t is difficult to see where very large ap-
preparations need be called for. With or
without annexation, American naval neces-
stiles require a cable to Honolulu: also the
opening of Pearl Harbor and it's improve
ment as a naval station with the neces-
sary fertilization. Annexation. would call
for some fertilization at the port of Hon.
olulu. A very few millions would suffice
for the whole. The present 100000 year
of customs revenue. with its great natural
increase, would probably cover all OUTLAWS.
The World reasons in the same line as the
San Francisco Argonaut, which lately al
legged that some tw enty ports here would
need protection by over forty forts. and
garrisons of ten thousand soldiersi A
couple of good batteries at the mouth of
Pearl Harbor and one at Honolulu, with
single company of soldiers. would be all
the defense needed, in addition to small
naval force on the station. Old Glory with
one hundred million people on the CONT
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