The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-10-03
Writes an Interesting Commull-
cation on the Lator On stion.
WHAT MISS HAWAII HAS TO SAY
Colonel Whyte Thinks Minister Da-
OF America instead Of italy.
Tacoma Wash, Sept. IS, 1899.

Il.
ands last June, l have watched with |
the greatest interest the outcome of the |
labor question, and, to the American |
on the Mainland, the action of the Ha-
waiian authorities in the matter is in |
comprehensive. They have practically |
made Miss Hawaii say to her brothers |
and sisters of the Union, "'Tis trne |
joined your family, but it was for what |
there was in it. There's no sentiment |
about me; I'm out for the dollars. If
stocks or to risk in determining what
sections of my domain are best adapt
ed for coffee, will be glad to see you;
otherwise, / prefer Chinese, Japanese,
Italians, Portuguese, or most any old
thing" In an editorial of the Adver-
tiser, August %, is the following:
This community is substantially, so
far as the dominant class is concerned,
under self-government, and the Execu-
tive, in throwing open the doors to
Asiatic immigration really executes
the will of the people,
that the above sentiments are just to
the people of Hawaii. From an eight
months contact with the various
classes on the various Islands, / feel
thoroughly justified in saying that the
large majority of the citizens of Ha-
waii, native and foreign-borp, are de-
cidedly in favor of English-speaking
Protestant laborers and settlers The
sentiment exhibited by the action of
the authorities is that of a very few,
and, strange to relate, the very few
who have up to the present been most
benefited by the relationship with the
United States.
Suppose, instead of making a grand
tour to Italy for a people who have not
made good American citizens-on the
contrary, have made a record for law
lersness and left trail of blood from
Buffalo to New Orleans and from
New York to San Francisco and have
scarcely set foot on Hawaii before they
leave their characteristic, indelible
stain upon fair Moanalua-suppose
that instead of crossing two oceans
and two continents for this class Min
lister Damon had visited the present
harvest fields of America, as i have.
He would know, as l do, that Hawaii
can get all the laborers she needs,
twice over, within the borders of the
land he now calls his own.
To be sure there are those who say
that the Anglo-Saxon cannot stand the
Hawaiian climate and do manual Ia
Dor, but there are those who say he
can. Generally speaking, the former
are theorists; the latter, practical men.
In letter to me, dated Spreckelsville
March 81 last, w. j. Lowrie, former
manager of Eva, wrote me as follows:
LAS for white men standing the eli
mate and doing the actual work, there
is not, in my mind, the slightest doubt
that they can do SO. / can do it my
self and would rather attempt it to-
day than go back to California and
work tie hours and the class OF work
l have done on California ranch"
Mr. John NJ. Horner of the Island of
Hawaii, whom I found a hale, hearty
old gentleman, IS years of age, wrote
me as follows: Il have lived twenty
years on these Islands. 1 have per-
formed hard physical labor, chiefly
farming in New Jersey, Illinois, Cali
fornia and Hawaii, and / find the cli-
mate here (HawaiD compares favor
ably with the best have tried for Ia
boring in. 1 have employed Ameri-
cans and europeans mere ana In Cail-
fornia as mechanics and farm labor
ers, and I see no difference as TO the
amount of labor they perform a day in
either place and remain equally heal
thy"
1 could quote similar passages from
a score of letters, some OF the writer's
now welding the hoe and mattock. L
have quoted from Mr.. Lowrie's and
Mr.. Horner's letters because of their
long residence and prominent stand
ing.
/ will undertake to send to Hawaii
10 900 of the best of the English
speaking race within two years at a
cost of less than one-twentieth of the
millions already spent in bringing in
people who never will be intelligent
citizens of the American republic.
Such labor may cost more to begin
with. but will cost less to end with;
and It might need kindly welcome
tact. Judgment and business methods