The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-06-14

population, although some of these are
undoubtedly well qualified for the du-
ties of citizenship.
The arbitrary denial of the franchise |
and consequent representation to these, |
places upon the rest of the community, !
whether as voters, legislators, the
courts or the executive the considera- |
/ tion of the interests of these unrepre- |
sented persons. Neglect of this obliga- !
tion would not only be an injustice to
them, but would inevitably menace the
welfare of all.
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.
As n corrective to race prejudice, our
educational system reaches all children
of whatever nationality. The Chinese
child may pursue Chinese studies at
some part of the day or night but he
must take up his English lessons in
regular school hours. AS a result the
| boys of our public schools of all ma
! tionalities, compete with each other i'm
their school room work and play ball
together on the playground BY the
time they are grown up their race jeal-
ousies have substantially melted away.
The pressing demands of agricultural
| corporations for cheap field labor to-
gether with their great influence, will
continue as in the past to be an obstacle
to the development of such citizen
population as shall safeguard the politi-
cal future of Hawaii. The two enter
prises are mutually hostile. The one
is interested in men as machines, the
other as factors in the development of
the State
CONTROL OF CORPORATIONS.
AS the control of such corporations
gradually passes into the hands of those
who are without the restraining influ-
ence of local and traditional associa-
tions, and are not interested in the So
cial growth of the Hawaiian commun-
ity, this danger may become more
threatening than heretofore
Everyone who is resident here not
merely to amass wealth, but to live a
home life and perhaps to bring up chill
dren who will necessarily become at
tached to the country, it's climate and
its social life, is most vitality interested
in having this matter rightly solved.
This means that it shall not only be
possible but settled beyond all question,
that no moneyed interest shall be al
lowed to stand in the way of the devel-
opment of a pure family life in any part
of the Territory of Hawaii, either by
the enforcement of unfaVorable condi-
tions upon the field laborer, whereby
family life is made morally impossible
or only immorally possible, or by op-
posing the settlement of the small pro-
prietor. Indifference of government or
employers to the inalienable rights of
men, women and children to an ideal
home environment must result, sooner
or later, in the reprisals of natural JUS
tice.
STATEHOOD IN DUE TIME.
Our shores and mountain slopes offer
fertile soil and an infinite variety of
landscape, sufficient and suitable for
the homes of such citizens and enough
of them as shall assure honest and cap
able government and statehood in due
time.
The land policy of the Republic of
Hawaii Xyharahy r11hIin nHS apa
ed for settlement in small holdings.
should be continued by the Territory
with such changes as experience has
shown to be necessary, and carried on
with vigor and earnestness in the hope
that many Americans may be led to
transfer their homes from the Mainland
to Hawaii.
7 This future is something to work for,
) wisely and persistently. Business is
: shortsighted and will not strive for the
= ideal result unless it pays to do so. Let
us convince it that it will pay to do this,
in dollars and in the higher values also:
I and in the meantime, let the citizen and
his representative aim to prevent enter
prise from doing the least thing against
the interests of the body polite.
Two other great enterprises will es-
pecially enlist the thought and energy
, of the Territory,-the Improvement and
extension of highways in measure
cOnsonant with prospective needs; and
lle CItdllOi VI IlulllClpdllllGos inns
will require the profoundest study and
an honest public spirit, that such gov
| ernmentS may perform useful service
: and not become sources of civil cor
ruption and thereby oppressive to those
l within their jurisdictions.
happy feature of our late period Of
= civil dissention was the usual survival
: of friendly relations between indivi-
/ duals of divergent political opinions
and consequent public action. Few
D friendships were broken on this account
4 or social relations disturbed. Mlndtul
j of this, l feel the utmost confidence in
calling upon all of whatever name or
opinion, to allow the political irrita-
e tions of recent years to disappear in
- the shadows of the past; and, turning
= to the futue, to join hands in the crea-
U tion of an ideal commonwealth out OF
/ our complex conditions.
+ Our outlook is most auspicious. The
shores and islands of the great Pacific
, ocean have already become the theatre
of a drama, the successive acts or
! which will affect the mutual relations
a of the nations of the world.
The great powers are maSsing their
: forces in this ocean for the protection
= and development of commerce ard the
promotion of national prestige.
Hawaii is to be the mid~ocean refuge
= of the north Pacific a halfway house
= where all passers by must stop for re-
freshment.
:, A stately procession of SHIPS carries
our products around the stormy cape
q to the Atlantic shores Of the United
= | States; another to the Pacific Coast.
- Our harbors are already inadequate !oT
: our commerce. Hawaiian agricultural
= enterprise, easily leading the world In
=, the relative production of our main
:. crop, is as yet far from its climax. our
= climate the joint production OF the sun
:, and the trade wind acting over a thOus-
and leagues Of sea, and the loVelincss
of our mountain scenery, are a perbt /
ual invitation to the deniZcus uf all lau-
J. tudes.
y Hawaii is forcarmnd hy It's past eX-
= perience for this new essay in govern
- ment The honorable competition OF
= sister territories, the hope of statehood
and the glorious history Cf America
e must inspire her.
u Let us take up this work with entnu-
. siasm, and be worthy of the confidence
y which Congress has In us.