The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-05-02

different climate at an elevation of
three thousand feet on these Islands.
and a great deal OF the territory lies
\ above three thousand feet. The tenn
perature is uniform and equable
! We do not need TO send to China and
japan for laborers. if we viii only en-
courage Americans to come. The
wealthy people OF the world never
make the pioneers To new countries or
! blaze the trees for the first paths
through the wilderness A pioneers
, life is not promoted by wealth or lux
ury.
The American Republic from the be-
ginning slowly grew TO its present po-
sition as a world power, solely by rea-
son of our foreign immigration, COM
posed mainly of workers and of men
who could and did become American
citizens. And these same people help
ed to gain American independence, to
create the republic and establish lib
eral government here The great
American nation was |. !. poor mans
country, and this territory is such to-
day, although so many rich people live
here. 1t is the home for toilers and
these same toilers can make this ter
ritory prosperous and share in its
prosperity, by their labor and unfailing
multiply, they create home market
a constant and endless flow of immi-
grants into the United States and
many of the poor who came to toll be-
came rich and prosperous
THE NEED OF CITIZENS.
1t is doubtless true that all Ameri-
can Immigration whether to the main
land or coming here is composed largely
of a mixture of nationalities, but hap
PLY, our constitution makes all people
born in the United States American
citizens. This is upon the theory that
a child born here will grow up with an
abiding attachment to the country of
it's birth. Immigrants came to the
United States originally because they
could do better here than elsewhere
and after children had been born to
them, they became attached to the
country. They observed that the peo-
pie here voted for their own rulers;
that they had free schools and enjoy
ed religious and civil liberty. They
learned that the people of the United
States are alone responsible for the
character of the civilization and for the
character of the government, and very
soon they adopted American ways and
became interested in American politics.
1t was then but a step towards pride IN
the great country of their adoption
and will to aid in making it prosper
Gus. These American strangers always
vote They want to know more of
the principles of our free government
by actual experience. The foreign i'm
migrants thus represent one of the
best elements of American citizenship
as they easily learn the value of the
elective franchise, and they possess our
chief capital, labor They are the
workers and producers of the nation
and together with our native born
American workers, they are the bone
and sinew of the country and in time
they will become the brains of the
country.
FREE LABOR A NECESSITY.
1t will be seen that the United States
government was buiided upon the
foundation of free labor and on an
unlimited American citizenship The
American people possessed not only the
industry but the genius of American
progress. They cultivated the arts and
sciences; they We're inventors; they es-
tablished the American system of tree
public schools, colleges and universities.
They soon found among their numbers,
men of rare attachments who became
teachers. 1t was an American who in
vented the steamboat, the cotton gin,
the telegraph and the telephone. And
it was Americans who first invented
most of the labor saving agricultural
indictments America thus became
a new and a broad field for the genius
of the world to experiment in Indeed
the genius of the world seemed to
come to America. Here mems brains
as well as their muscles were busy. In
49, 10 ri We
a new opportunity for action. The
natural resources of this new land were
so exhaustless that all men who were
willing to york discovered something
to do. The fact that all men who were
able to become American citizens be- !
came such and that all American citl-
zens we're part of the government |
made the United States peculiarly at
tractive to all peoples. All men were
thus free, and equal in the commence
ment; all men had an even start Inc !
last generation of men sowed the ma
tionaI seed which formed the harvest i
for the next generation and today the !,
United States is the most prosperous
nation on the earth, made so entirely !
by the people who live here. Our /
fathers early learned it was labor that |
made a nation great; that labor, Ia
Dor, work was prayer"
MEN MORE THAN CLIMATE.
1t is plain to be seen that it is men
more than the soil or climate that
makes a state great. To succeed, the
inha bitants of state in the Union I
should be American citizens; they /
should belong to the thinking and the
working classes. They should know /
a great deal about free government and I
take an active part in it; and the more !
intelligent they are the better workers
they are and the better citizens they