The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-03-12
THE RACES HERE
Research Club Talks On Prospects
Of Colonies.
SEVERAL PAPERS PRESENTED
Verdict Rather Against Strength of
the Anglo-Saxon Japanese.
Portuguese Natives.

The racial question had quite thor
ough discussion and close attention
for an hour and a half at the home of
Rev. D. P. Birnie and Mrs. Birnie last
evening. The subject was taken up
by the Young Mems Research Club
about three weeks ago and several
members had prepared papers as feat
ures of the handling of the topic.
''The Japanese in Hawaii was the
subject of the remarks by the first
speaker after Rev. Mr. Birnie had stat
ed the question. 1t was held under
this head that the so-called Anglo
Saxons were not anywhere living up to
their reputation. Instead Of being as
a body the advance guard and dissent
nators of the tenets of civilization.
they were, in their capacity as pio-
neers, merely mOney-makers. 1t had
been claimed for the Anglo-Saxons
that Hawaii was a land for them
try, its climate, its resources and it's
labor needs, the speaker claimed that
instead of the japanese or the other
Orientals being the invaders, the real
immigrants were the Anglo-Saxons. 1t
was but natural that the orientals
would become predominant in a coun-
adapted and where every physical
fo /
towards the goal of triumph The An
glo-Saxon body is but speck and the
small amount Of work it is doing can
be carried on as we'll by advanced ori-
entails.
Speaking Of the Portuguese, Robt
w. Shingle presented the colony as
people liberal in both political and re-
ligious ideas, thrifty. industrious and
law-abiding. They have the smallest
percentage of criminality, are we'll re-
presented in the Postal Savings Bank
and the rising generation is taking
kindly to such education as the school
system here affords. That the Por-
tuguese are progressive is shown by
their constant claim that they do not
receive full consideration at the hands
of the Government or other extensive
employers of labor. They like very
much to acquire property and as Por-
tugal herself is rather going to pieces
under debt, any of her people coloniz-
ed anywhere will be permanent resi-
dents of their new homes. The Por-
tuguese, on the whole, seem to have
a very bright future in Hawaii
In the absence of another speaker,
it fell to the lot of Mr.. Hendrick of
Mills Institute to speak of the Chinese
He was warm in praise of their de-
sire to learn and of their remarkable
balance. One can depend upon a we'll
trained Chinese to a nicely. You
measure him and he never fails you.
The Chinese in Hawaii are a worthy
people and by their application and
tenacity should be able to hold their
own in the struggle Chas. A. Bon,
of Bishop & Co., spoke of the careful
and correct business methods of the
Chinese and Frank G. Atherton paid
a tribute to the morality and indus
try of the Chinese
An exhaustive paper by Prof. J. T.
Crawley, who had been assigned to
speak of the Hawaiians, closed the dis
cussion. Mr. Crawley gave several
pieces of data in figures and spoke of
the native as all know him. Refer
ence was made to numerous cases of
invaders of a country gaining sway
beyond the authority of the aborigin-
les. In conclusion, Mr.. CraWley said:
THE brief history of attempts at set
tlement within the tropics might be
summarized as follows:
Mercantile establishment for the
purpose Of trading with the natives.
Military occupation and annexation
to the mother country.
'tSubjugation of the native popula-
tiOn and practical enslavement of them
or determination of the natives and in
PRODUCTION either of negro slaves
or coOlie contract Japanese, Chinese
or Japanese labor.
'Insurrection of the laboring classes,
with the decline Of agriculture.
I'm none Of the tropical countries
thus mentioned do we find education
so essential to Anglo-Saxon success.
promoted to any great degree, and in
none do those arts and sciences that
work for the best development Of the
people flourish to any encouraging de-
gree.
Can Hawaii furnish an example diff
ferent in kind from these?
Should Hawaii be annexed to the
United States and immigration of COO
lie labor cease, | believe that a Repub-
lican form of Government with the
DredOminance of whites woTId he as