The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-09
rooms on tomorrow, Tuesday, Septem-
Der 8, at 10 o'clock a. m.
We are, with great respect,
JOHN H. MITCHELL,
J. r. BURTON,
A O. FOSTER

A. G. FOSTER.
Several memorials were received.
One letter from Bishop & Company
calls attention to the fact that the sill
yer currency of Hawaii has not yet
been redeemed by the Federal Govern
ment and another from the Builders
and Traders Exchange, going into sew
eral subjects, all affecting the present
condition of the Territory and setting
forth the various subjects which if dis
posed of in the proper form would, in
the opinion of the writer's, tend TO re-
adjust the affairs of the country. The
memorial reads as follows
To the Honorable Committee of the
United States Senate, Honorable
John H. Mitchell, Chairman:
Gentlemen:-The present deplorable
condition of the affairs of the Territory
of Hawaii, in it's relation to the general
government of the United States. rem
ders it incumbent upon representative
local business organizations to call
your attention to matters Of public well
fare.
ISOLATION
The Hawaiian Islands are SO distant
from the mainland-in fact the most
distant large insuiar body in the world
that there is necessarily multiplica-
ton of governmental, social and busi-
ness institutions, and attendant ex-
pense out of all proportion to the char
acter and number of inhabitants as
compared with continental United
States.
EXPOSURE.
Situated directly in the highway of
the Pacific, with frequent. often almost
daily, steamship communication with
Oriental and Australian ports, en- route
to and from the Pacific coast, Honolulu
and Hawaii are extremely exposed to
the violent epidemic diseases such as
create public apprehension and terror.
This occasions public expenditure be-
wealth of this community. This ex--
penditure is ceaseless, as by vigilance
only is the safety of health secured.
Hawaii, at it's present sole expense,
stands as guard and quarantine be-
tween the Orient and United States
ports.
EXPENSE OF LEPER MAINTE-
NANCE.
While the number Of these unfortu-
nate beings the lepers, is gradually de-
creasing, yet at the present they and
their children and attendants, public
charges, segregated on the Island Of
AIO!Okal,
ritorial government to maintain, $13S,
annually.
To comprehend what charge this
special misfortune imposes on this
small community, let your committee
realize this charge is equal to the peo-
pie of the continental United States
maintaining 507 900 persons in complete
idleness, at an annual cost of S70,O95,S 800.
Such a burden would seem to the people
of the United States as too onerous to
be borne.
In addition, Hawaii is obliged to
maintain all other enlightened institu-
tions, prison.. reform, charity, hospital,
and educational establishments.
This unusual condition and phenome-
nal burden should make profound and
lasting impression on your minds and
recommendations.
RACE AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
In Hawaii Occidental and Oriental
civilization meet in a contest paralleled
in no other country on the globe.
When the time comes that the Orien-
tai aliens as body insist on corre-
spending standard of living and family
status to that of the white man, the
danger of the overthrow of Caucasian
civilization will cease. To attempt to
regulate by law these differences, is
well nigh impossible. 1t is in the pow
er of the national legislature. and par
ticularly in the power of the national
Executive Department, the Army and
Navy, to throw their government pat
ronage in support of the civilization
they embrace and expect to have pre-
served for them and their successors.
LABOR SITUATION.
1t is not in the province of this COM
mittee to attempt recommendations as
to the labor problem confronting our
main and almost exclusive industry, the
raising of sugar. We do request your
keen attention to the fact that skilled
labor is being driven from employment,
from the Islands, or to a lower, meaner
and almost intolerable scale of living,
through the competition of alien labor.
Private selfishness cannot be controll-
ed. We, however, most emphatically
protest against any action of the Unit
ed States government, through it's local
and official representatives, in employ
ing, directly or indirectly, through con-
tracts, cL.tractors, or otherwise, alien
labor.
So far as Hawaii is concerned, such
action by United States officials or con-
tractors undermines the body polite.
and must react on the general welfare,
social and political.
We believe all United States contracts
or enterprises requiring nominal skilled
labor should, by law if possible, or by
Executive instruction, be confined to
labor other than alien, and on a scale
of compensation permitting American
civilized standards of living.
POLITICS AS RELATED TO BUSI-
NESS.
The peculiar political and specially
legalized economic conditions existing
for many years in the Hawaiian Islands
produced d bias, and expectation of con-
tinued special privileges that many,
even of our most intelligent and inter-
ested citizens, could not overcome dur
ing the earlier periods of annexation.
On their support and patriotism this
Territory must rely for sound economic
Their better Judgment will
prevail. and a campaign of
education and more elevated politics be
1t is doubtful if a peace
full community can be secured by dis
elimination in suffrage.
Business has been unfavorably af-
fected by many apprehensions as to the
course of general and local government,
and the misgiving still exists. How
ever. there are enough good, intelligent
citizens WIN by SOuDd uuSetfiSh maaS