The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-06-21
HONOLULU
PROSPECTS
From a Commercial Business
Standpoint.
T. F. DAVIDSON TALKS

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Danger of Racial Troubles on
the Island-Natives Will Split
Up in Politics.
The familiar face Of t. f. David
son, who was at one time a leading
merchant and business man Of this
city, but who has been absent from
the city for the past two years, has
been seen about the streets and ho-
tells for the past week. Mr.. Davidson
will be remembered as having acted
as receiver for the q. c.. Miles Co.
some years ago, and as also being one
of the head men of the Going-North-
up Co., hardware dealers of this city:
Il am now a resident of HOnolu-
lu," said he, when interrogated by a
representative of this paper as to his
present abode, "and | am connected
with one Of the largest business con-
Germs in Honolulu, and am delighted
with my prospects and with the
country in general. l am in the
states at present to attend to some
business in connection with my
house, and while here I could not re
sist the temptation Of running by
and paying Seattle a brief visit. As
most everybody else who goes away
from the city and stays any length OF
time, | am astonished beyond meas
ure at the rapid growth that Seattle
is making. While the city in which
| now live may never be a Seattle in
thrift and energy, yet it is destined
TO be great commercial port, and
one from which the United States
will draw an immense revenue at no
very distant day.
TO be sure, persons leaving the
states and going to those islands suf-
fer intensely from the heat at first,
but such conditions do not last long,
or no longer than person becomes
acclimated, when he can stand the
heat just as well as the natives. Per-
sons leaving the islands and going to
the states suffer from cold just as in
tensely as those leaving the states
and going to the islands suffer from
heat. After one has become accli-
mated on the islands and his blood
thoroughly thinned and he dons
clothes suitable to the climate, he
seems to ejoy just as good health, if
not better than he did in the states.
All in all it is a most pleasant and
delightful climate, and both my fam
lily and myself have learned to love
it beyond measure. We have been
there now for two years, and from
what | know at present we are there
for all time to come.
Eyes, there is quite a contention
and strife between the white men
and the natives on the islands, and
while it may appear to those far re-
mote from the scene that there is
eminent danger of a fatal clash be-
tween the two, yet | do not think
that such will ever come. The ma
tlves, OF course, are largely in the
majority, and they will as long as
they hold together out-vote the
whites and elect whoever they decide
upon, but this is not probable, be-
cause, as they get better educated
and more enlightened they natural
ly divide up among themselves, the
same as any other people, and | am
inclined to think that within the
next five years that they will be di-
vlded between the Republican and
Democratic parties, just the same as
the whites themselves.
Il cannot say that the natives are
a progressive people and capable Of
any great amount of mental expan-
sion, but they are learning many
things by coming in contact
with the-whites, and the breeds
among them are taking the lead in
most everything in which the natives
are interested. For example, though
Representative Wilcox is a native,
and was elected to congress because
he was native, nevertheless he is
not very much more native than the
candidate the Republicans had nom
mated for the same position. Mr..
Parker, who, by the way, is one Of
the biggest-hearted fellows whom
ever met, is the son of white man
and a native Hawaiian, and had not
the natives worked a most peculiar