The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-01

bTlClSn COMMERCIAL Stbiclii IL
spite of the natural monopoly which
tie Southern States have in the cottol
industry, and its large value, thos
States are not prosperous. 1t is agree
by Southern statesmen that the caus
OF it lies in the vicious practice of cot
ton planters of importing their supple
from other States; it enhances tn
&C st of production. The danger from
this practice here will develope whel
the legal protection of the sugar in
dustry no longer exists.
There is another important consider
alton. During the next thirty year
and more, there will be many thou
So nds of native born American sub
jects of Asiatic and Latin ancestr,
here. These are now, and will be il
the future, educated away from the
cane fields. This is conceded. They
cannot depend upon the single industry
OF sugar. But they must live. The
Americans are morally responsible fol-
the education which takes them out
of the cane fields. Industries must be
opened for them, or they must go up
on the soil and become tillers of it
This problem will, like all other socia
problems, find some solution, though
friction may take place. AS The prin-
c.ples of democracy underlie our Ter
ritoriaI government, the solution will
not come from State interference, but
through social forces. These new
Americans will know of no other po-
l:tieal institutions than American, and
their racial inheritances may, within
constitutional limits, ALLEVIATE them from
the purely American part of the in
habitants in social and political affairs,
but their common birthright will con-
stantly and powerfully tend to obllt-
c: ate race distinctions. The loyal
American immigrants from the very
ht tbeds of patriotism on the Mainland
will marry with alacrity attractive ma
tive born Latin and Asiatic women, es-
pc cially if they have fortunes, and the
blue blood of the native American will
gov thin with new alliances; the
children of All Wong, Esq, hundred
years from now, will boast of their an.
oestors who We're of the first mission
airy band that landed her in 1920.
There is, in this Territory, the most
III ique, mixed-up, and racially 1ncon-
sruous, community that can be found
within the bounds of the great repub-
lie, excepting the people of the Phil
irpines. 1t presents an extraordinary
cCnglomeration of humanity. Here,
five races are cast into a small politi-
cal pot, placed on some volcanic peaks
rising in a distant sea; in this they
must stew in their own juice. Over 1t,
however. is the Federal arm using the
strong fingers of an Occidental race Of
inferior numbers to prevent it from
boiling over; casting into the stirring
rncss the spices, salt, and quickening
using its ideas and senu-
ments. At the end of fifty or more
years, when the juice of the ingredients
s drawn off and tasted, it will be
found to be richly favored with the
aste of creditable civilization.
Though there be even a half million
If people living here, there will be no
Irusual pressure for subsistence, for
nth the increase of the people will
equally develop the agricultural re-
Gurces of the land, the limits of which
10 one can foretell.
The scheme of human evolution is
lot concerned in giving to individuals,
o Jones, Smith, and Robinson, great ,
crtunes, but it involves the broader
esultS of securing and maintaining
ere prosperous community under it's
wn self government and "the great
IT good to the greatest number" This
' olution, divine as it must be, will be
trongly opposed by many, as all evo-
Ition is opposed, but. it is needless to
ay. the Almighty will survive all OPP
cSition, and execute His own pur-
oses. Here. as in New England, the
alive American may finally disappear,
ut his institutions will live. The new
mericans will. among other things, s
Till their own farms" Hawaii at the
I'd of fifty years will only be what
-rercans have made it. and there is
o apparent reason why they should
OF he r,rOu6 of their work