The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-04-01

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take care Of his wife and children on
plantation wages, we simply give IN re
icinder the comment ofe Portuguese
made yesterday on his letter: so can
Mr. LOwrie take care of his wife and
children on plantation wages, and 50
can Mr.. Davies or Mr.. Anterior, if they
are forced to-
Mr.. Lowrie asks if we are engaged in
high politics" Yes exactly so, very
high politics.
The Eva plantation with its $1,000 |
600 of capital, and the other planta-
ton with s2O,OO0,OOo must be protected
by some body of men. Who will pass
the laws, both domestic and interna-
ItionaI. that make or break plantations.
Some Of us here are asking the ques-
ton. who viii protect this capital? VINO
will make these laws? who will elect
LEGISLATORS? who will maintain law and
order?
Mr. I,owrie knows that the dominant
marty here has earnestly asked the
T-nifed States to annex the Islands, on
1.-The ground that we. the Anglo-SaXons'
cannot stand alone" As the united
States seems unwilling to annex at pre-
cont and we must find assistance
among our own people, if it is possible
We turn to the better class OF Portu-
guesa among us, because they are near
Iara tn us. on the racial lines, and be-
Icause we have, so far, not brought INTO
these Islands any large number OF our
OWN race. But of the 10000 males on
the Islands. there are less than three
MOI, cent. of them who on racial INES
r believe in American civilization mere
The eshigh politics" that Mr.. Louvre
, sneers at. is the politics which snail II
nossibIe increase the small percentage
2 Inv adding men, who will so sympa
/, +biza with this civilization that it vii
0 ioin in making good government Ioi
= the country. If Mr.. Lowrie beIleVeS
s can be sucured from Portuguese OF an
i other labores who are merely tehahl'
= on plantations, homeless with no sIah'
e in the soil. he has got to find out Una
= il is this very class in the United STATE
- that creates disturbances, and bred
" oornmunists and anarchists, and Strlk
ID es at capital The Government now Il
l. mower. and it's friends eagerly desire I
= do away with the cold steel that nov
- stands behind it. It must have farm
ct or class. a class owning the land ain
e, loving it, who will be large enough
I'd maintain stability when the 81 per cen
III ondanger it. The Government know
- that the Eva plantation can only [
no protected from destructive legislatlo
y. by such a class.
at We know that the prevailing feeli1
Sc among the intelligent Portuguese is tn;
I+bev cannot compete with the Asiatlc
o1. in any pursuit, and that the AslaU
VI standard of wages in the cane field WI
m he the standard in general.
vn II is the purpose of ''high politics
-e IN nreyent this growing discontel
- among, the Portuguese and America
a 1aborers, by creating conditions Whl'
ct will if possible, avoid undue frictlo
Ter ssHigh politics. bangs, not on what NJ
ID, Towrie thinks, but on what the lhle
a. 'Iigent Portuguese think, because VIII
nd they will do here is their affair al
lite not Mr.. Uowrie's evidently, so far' I'll
am do NOT follow the example Of Mr. Lo
7,ia,s nine men and we cannot ma
80 them. But the three per cents.
Ang10-Saxons must in some way brl
rou them into line, or they will line up
ace the other side, and make the laws a.
.ou taxes which govern all plantations We
'n' undesirable. This case of the three I
NV cents. against the 81 per cents. exl'
Iict without. as Mr. Lowrie says, being O
ent "self-made difficulty" Facts are stu
I'M born things, as he says, and the Il
on that only 1852 free Portuguese lahore
49,. ont of a total of Is, Isl Portuguese Pr
ers pie are on the plantations are especia
igh stubborn things, and the reasons "
for they are not there are equally stubbc
WIZ facts. We need not only 'Fhigh pc
40 ties but the highest politics in ore
bie to get out of a state of things VIII.
ses, American Senators who oppose us s
can is the very reason the United Sta
les. must not handle this Hawaiian afr
anu THE EDITORl.
talk
CA word 10 the wise is sufficient" {