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

of Bunker's Hill may call himself an
American. The native born Asiaucs
and Latins already far outnumber the
la tive born Americans. Even the ma
tive born Chinese children exceed IN
rumber The American children. These
American subjects, born of alien par
ents, are being educated by our excel
lent school system, and already I'LL
with much credit our higher schools,
and before long will be in the MAORI
ty in our local college. In capacity
for learning they are the peers OF the
Americans, and in mathematical stud
les, are often their superiors Under
the Territorial laws all children are
compelled to attend the schools, ana
as the condition of the immigrant la
borers improve, the education of the
children will improve and be enlarged
Under a school system which is prob
ably not surpassed by any school sys-
tenn of the civilized nations, excepting
only in industrial education; and in
dustrial education will soon be pushed
with vigor within the limits imposed
by the deficiency of varied industries.
These Latin-American and AS!atlc-
American children rise with bound
above the condition of their parents,
who are generally of the poorest class
eS of the lands from which they i'm
II igrate. Their environment is new
and American. They cease to believe
in the traditions, customs and habits
Of lands which are in fact foreign to
them. They are daily confronted with
Occidental thought, business, habits
and laws. They know of no other.
Their constant use of the English lam
gUage, more than all other methods
of education, tends to Up-root their
racial inhcritances, though it may be
for several generations that their racial
sentiments will partially guide their
social and political sentiments. In this
respect they will not differ from the
Americans, who still manifest strong
racial antagonisms in their interna-
ticnal relations. With them the love
of the place of birth will be dominant
as it is with all races, irrespective Of
ancestry, and unless driven out by
some superior force they will prefer
to live here. They will discover the
value of government by democracy,
and will find all other government in
toIerable. Whatever the industrial
vicissitudeS of these Islands may be,
they will find here better chances of
a comfortable living than elsewhere.
They may even experience many
hardships in the gradual establishment
of new Industries here, but they will
il: a large measure cling to the soil of
their birth.
If a calculation is made, according
to the normal growth of populations,
under favorable circumstances, and
there are no pestilences, famines, and
distress to stay the increase, there
should be in this Territory at the end
of fifty years, about $4,000 native born
Asiatics, exclusive of the fiuctuating
Asiatic immigrant class; also, about
10000 native born Portuguese who are
Increasing with unusual rapidity, and
in a much greater ratio than the
Americans of the Mainland. The part
Hawaiians will number $4,000 more AS
race factors their power and stamina
is yet unknown. There should be,
therefore, at the end of that period
nearly 100000 of native born Latins,
Asiatics and part Hawaiians, all of
them Americans under the constitu-
ton, and Americans in sentiment,
thought and living; all of them abso-
lutely loyal to the flag of their coun-
try, and some thousands of miles away
fl ON influences which might modify
their Americanism. The native Ha-
waiians by that time will either be ex-
tinct, or will count only as a rem
nant.
Judging from the past ard the pres
ent, the Americans, or those of Occi-
dental origin, will at the end of fifty
years, form only a small part of the
people. Although Americans swarmed
ever these Islands as sailors and
traders seventy years ago, and al
though American merchants have been
dominant in trade and in all kinds OF
business, and have been, and are, the