Austin's Hawaiian weekly. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1899-190?, 1899-07-22
AUSTIN'S HAWAIIAN WEEKLY.

er Witllut reference to congress HUI Is IL ~ ooaDN
that the people of the United States would con-
sent to the comforting OF such power upon the
President and administration.
Under these circumstances. with cheap labor
in the East on the other side of the Atlantic me-
nacing American institutions and with still cheap
er labor in the West on the other side OF the
Pacific. which in few years will become great
er menace, what is the solution to the problem
the Capitalization of industry and commerce;
the conservation of industrial energy without the
possibility of loss through internal competition.
If Armour succeeds in his great scheme for COM
bining the fruit and cereal interests OF the
United States in gigantic combine the good
work will have been completed. for. every tar
mer then will practically be a member of the
trust. Internal competition will have ceased and
the commercial see-saw broken forever. The
most ingenious nation in the world will thus,
by its concentrated energy, become the most sue
cessful competitor in the worlds market in all
the diversified industries and in time achieve the
commercial supremacy of the world.
Until these principles become throughly un-
derstood bv the people, there will surely be great
excitement in the United States over the recent
industrial revolution; but the trusts have come to
stav for thev are the distinct evolution OF natural
law. There will doubtless be some very wild
trust legislation before the masses come fully to
realize their utility in pushing commerce anil
therefore, an instrument OF internal prosperity.
The power and value of the ballot is now increas
ed many fold. Capital is proverbialv timid and
trusts must eventually become the servants of the
people and not their oppressors 1t is not at all
unlikely that the future outcome of antitrust
legislation will result in fixing their profits to
certain percentage on the capital invested and d
provision that, all commodities shall be sold as
cheaply as is consistant with this prescribed
profit.
A recent issue of the Japan Mail has a very
we'll written article on
Jananese IN the treatment of Japan
H...,, ese in Hawaii. The
condition of the Japan
eSe abOrer on planta-
tions is described as being superior to that at
home. although the crowding of laborers quart
ers is deplored. In speaking of the Hawaiian
system of education the Mail SAYS
"The children of all the laborers have free ed
ucation in the public schools. These are supple
mented by kndergartens for the younger child
ren which are in operation or planned for on sew
eral of the plantations These are supported bv
the Gree kindergarten and Children's Aid AS
sociation.' Christian institution composed of
the ladies of Hawaii. manv of them being the
wives or daughters of the planters. Tn Honolulu
this society has kindergartens for the Chinese
Japanese, Portuguese. and Hawaiian children.
doubt very much whether there is another COM
munity of equal size anywhere in the world where
so much is being done for alien races
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1t is very important that the coming election
should score a victory
The Coming United for the republican party
c.... c,., and that largely deDends