The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-10-29
THE OPPORTUNITIES HERE.

THE OPPORTUNITIES HERE.
Those who read the information,
given in this issue of the paper, re-
garding the resources Of these Islands,
should closely read the final remarks
made regarding the limited opportu-
mites for engaging in business, or Sc
curing employment here. The enthu-
siastic reader may make up his mind
that he will, in spite of warnings, come
here, and take his chances" Let him
feel that lot of other readers will
take the same view and are also will
ing to take their chances. A large
who concluded to take their chances"
and they immigrated here, and are
stranded. A country, that after seven
ty years intercourse with Europe and
America, contains only 1000 Anglo
Saxons including men, women and
children, cannot offer many business
openings of the kind usually desired
The States TEEN with restless men,
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is for sudden fortune. The result is
a generation OF gamblers, with the
usual fate of gamblers, that one sue
ceeds and hundred fail. The desire
of the unsuccessful-the restless, is to
move on, and make a fresh start be-
yond the horizon. This Paradise of
the Pacific is an enchanting place the
: correspondents say, and they become
castles in Spain" to the unfortunate.
Anyone who believes that a fortune
or a competence cannot be acquired in
the States is ignorant, indolent and
unpatriotic. The opportunities for
success in intelligent brain work were
never so many, for those who have
sense enough to work and wait. At
the same time the opportunities for the
lazy, the indolent and restless are de-
creasing.
Moses Taylor of New York City,
poor boy in the beginning who left
a fortune of $40,000,000 acquired by
simply intelligent work, said ''compe
tition among thoroughly trained and
Industrious men is decreasing, because
there is not enough of them, but COM
petition among the indolent, restless,
and among those who have neglected
their chances for manual education is
increasing"
Hawaii can support much larger
population than now exists on her
lands. But only by a slow process can
it be done. Owing to her unfortunate
land system. and the limited amount
of land on several of the Islands, it is
not easy to secure homes in the most
desirable places. AS this system is
modified, the conditions will change.
There are many thousands of people
in the States, who desire a mild CHM
ate They will find it here. But they
must understand the conditions.
Owing to much trashy literature
about the tropics, published in past
years, the idea is fixed in the heads of
many that Nature is more kindly to
man near the equator than towards the
poles. So far as climate is concern
ed, it is true, but people who have
wants" find that Nature does not
supply them for the asking in any part
of the earth. People with the limited
wants of the tropical savage, can sup
ply such wants as readily in any part
of the States. A man consumes about
five bushels of wheat per annum in
America. That quantity is easily rails
ed. In truth, so far, living in the tro-
pics is more costly than elsewhere, be-
cause the people of the tropics import
all manufactured goods. Until con-
ditions change the tropics will remain
agricultural Therefore the opportu-
mites for business are mainly in agri-
culture, and not in manufacturing or
in trade.
These considerations need not dis
courage one who proposes to emigrate,
provided he has forethought, is prud-
ent, and will not gamble in taking
chances.