The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-02-03
Hawaii Present and Future
Republican.


No very reassurng picture conditions in the Hawaiian ISL
ands be found in the report OF the United States Senate sub
committee the Pacific Islands Enough time has already
elapsed since the annexation the of 1893 that
the most enthusiastic hopes of the anneXaonss both the ISL
ands and III this country are fading away before the realities OF
the stuaton and altogether probable that nine Americans in
10 at the present day would admit that Hawaii of vaue
the United States except far desirable control the
military possibilities arising from the peculiar geographical posi-
ton of the little archipelago And that control might have been
secured in way not involving annexation.
In industrial Hawaii has not propered since
ton much it did before that Nothing in the Senate
committees report striking the declaration by Sena
Burton of Kansas concerning the economic condition of the
territory Although the senator's language has already been
ported in news columns worth considering again. 1T
weknown fact he writes that the country there
very prosperous when kingdom and continued very
under the provisional and under the republic
Its period of decline began with annexation and matters have
gone under annexation from bad until today the spec
ter OF hard times is found everywhere throughout the islands
Senator Burtons object prove the necessity for Chinese
labor the islands, but whatever his object he undoubtedly
correct as to the facts in awans economic condition. The ma
tive population may be well off years ago. but
the white planter who the whole of Hawaii in the economic
has be bitterly disappointed in the results of his
campaign for annexation to the United States.
Nor the economic future promising might have been
anticipated Iii agreeable emphasize facts of pessmistc
nature the situation may well be examined with the single
desire reach the truth The labor question remain in Ha
wall very troublesome and without an abundant supply eff
cien field labor Hawaii cannot hope compete big papta
ton with many other tropical subopca communities The
islands are unfortunate in an industrial sense that native supply
of labor be depended upon The native Hawaiian
struck by when civilization forced up
it. The introduction of wooden houses place OF the ancient
the traditional emnud was responsible tor the destruction OF
than half the people, whose delicate physique had been fine
y adjusted by natural selection semiopcal mdocean condi
tons The vices of the white sailor have completed the ruin OF
the native stock their steadily diminishing numbers point
their early extinction The labor problem in Hawaii therefore,
different from that in the Philippines in that alien labor of
has be sheer necessity to the high degree eco
nomic cultivation which modern sugar planting involves The
Portuguese japanese and Chinese had been indeed much
employed the time of annexation that the islands had come to
be Enthusiastically dpendent upon other countries in this particulars
and the only practical question remaining whether the i'm
Orted bOr lOuld be of or RAJ O
TIL cry is for Chinese labor such employed in the
DAYS before annexation However necessary or desirable such
labor may be in deormed and abnormal community like Ha-
wall the difficulty in the way OF securing is formidable II Chi
labor be granted Hawaii must be against the desires OF
the Pacific of America Then too such concession
the Hawaiian capitalists would probably involve the same con-
ession the capitalists the Philippines and the introduction
of Chinese labor into the distant archipelago should be
strongly opposed because IS our moral duty to save to the
harder Filipino people their labor market and thus afford
them the fullest opportunity to develop naturally and completely
racial stock and distinct nationality Yet Chinese
labor, obtained would insure Hawaii against adversely in
the The good old days, when practically alone Of all
tropical lands Hawaii enjoyed special avor the markets OF
the United States apparently gone forever The Hawaiian
planter compete with the Porto Rcan and greater
degree than before with the Cuban The West Indian planter
will have the advantage the Hawaiian freight rates. for
Cuba 5000 miles from this country The economic distress
of Jamaica during the period when England importing the
cheap 4Ounyed beet sugar continental Europe and the
product OF various tropical countries be reserved for Hawaii
Cuba with its sugargrowing capacity secures abb
soutely free entrance to the American market
While this economic question is, perhaps, the important
the Hawaiian estimation the annexation has had its
which much interest
ourselves The dangers of white rule alien
sharply illustrated in the surprising series of recent defacaons
by eight different Hawaiian ofcasdescribed by the
Senate committee perfect satunaia The defaute
not native Hawaians Of Spanish Portuguese half
breed stock They apparently OF American extraction and
they held office under excellent Gov Dole The
whole form OF Hawaiian government appears dspeases the
senatorial nqustor who condemn scarcely different i'll its
high degree of Capitalization from that of the old monarchy it
self At this point be observed the sharp anagonsm of two
schools OF political thought The white OF Hawaii repre-
senng at least generation of residence in the islands favor
form OF absolute centralized government very similar to- the
British colony system On the other hand those who
demand that the shall be popular than Con-
gress made enactng the territorial law The Senate sub
committee evidently its influence with the class last
toned for declares that the people revolt they not
granted real power the OF the islands Out
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