The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-11-20

have been long IN contact with these
people hold
Upon the sugar question Congress-
man Green is certainly not sound.
Philippine sugar. or az II was known
Manila sugar. has been a strong factor
In the worlds markets. II could be
raised and exported by spain In spite
of arbitrary taxes, In spite Of duties
In spite of chronic Instructions and in
spite OF the most primitive methods OF
cultivation and manufacture. What
could be accomplished under Spain mis-
rule can certainly be bettered under
American rule. There can be no doubt
of that. the proposition is self evident.
with regard to the mining, that there
are rich deposits in the mountainous
back land is not only probable but has
been demonstrated by the specimens
brought from the there. Apply Ameri-
can mining law to the Philippines and
you will very quickly have an army of
men fiocking in, who win explore, To-
cate, work, and finally civilize. II men
would eagerly go to the cold Of the
Klondike and Cape Nome for the sake
of the precious metal they will still
more eagerly flock to the Philippines.
AS to the forests, because the railway
contractors under Spanish misrule
found it easier to import railways ties
from Australia, it by no means follows
that under American rule there would
be like results. The American has devel-
oped the forests of his own country.
He did not find good roads and every
thing in his favor when he first started
into the trackless west. He had to
make Them but he has succeeded in
making them. What he could do in
South and West he can now do in the
Philippines, The American knows how
to develop a country as few nations
know how to do the work, and it is not
the geographical features of the coun-
try, nor it's inhabitants that are going
to daunt him.
Representative Green's estimate of
the Filipino seems on the other hand
too high. He has met some well educat-
by their apparent knowledge and their
grace of manner. Anyone who has had
to deal with races like the Filipino
knows how, in the majority of cases,
all this is but skin deep. If the Philip
pine Islands were left to themselves
there would be condition of anarchy
in six months. But not only on humane
grounds could not the United States
leave the islands to their fate, there
are other grounds. Let the United
States abandon the Philippines and
some European power would in a very
short time take her place. The power
most likely to take her place would be
Germany, and under the rule of the
Kaiser there would be no talk of no
sugar crop, no mines, no development
of forests, or of giving absolute indie
pendence to the Filipino.
The United States is in the Philip
pines to stay. The commercial policy
of the United States needs the Philip
pines which give her the requisite power
in the East. That the Philippines may
not be a pleasant residence at present
may be true. but there were many parts
of the United States which were by no
means pleasant for residence when the
pioneers first planted their homes
there. The Philippines probably are
not desirable for single women, but
that is a mistake easily rectified. Let
the women school teachers be returned,
they never should have been urged to
go there. But If the Spaniards could
maintain themselves in the Philippines,
the Americans surely can, and can do
in twenty years more than the Span
iards did in four hundred.