The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-10-23
A CHINESE PHILOSOPHER

BY JAMES W. GlRVIN.

er of money: we could have raised large
sums of money IL we had realized that
the effect of annexation would be to ex-
clude us from country whose freedom
we have enjoyed for upwards Of CEN
fury. But we had such confidence in
the leading foreigners that we kept
perfectly quiet"
well" I answered, IT am sure you
are right. Those who urged annexa-
| ton did not themselves see all the
concomitant results. Many saw the
danger of continuing the monarchy
after what took place in 1885, and aft
erwards the fear OF the action of the
Japanese government clinched the mat
ter"
II like the country" he said, land
| have so many children and grandchil-
dren here that am sorry to feel COM
PEELED to leave It, The American mis-
sionaries have always been so kind to
us and treated us on an apparent
equality that we could not have imag-
| ined that country which has sent
out such noble men could have made
laws so narrow as to exclude people
on account of their race" You are
quite right" l answered, land although
'NtIS 'oulllS mas lllt DoNtl W llfdl
the alien as it chooses it was not ex-
pected of America that she would ex-
clude aliens for other reasons than
their crimes, Diseases or pauperism.
Self protection you know is the first
law of nature The treatment Of ship
wrecked persons and aliens by the
different nations has been slowly i'm
proving from the birth of Christ until
n dow ic ,f,,t To 10
America taking backward step.
Once they were so anxious to have
numbers of aliens that they kidnapped
negroes in Africa and brought them
in noens volens. We paid a high pen
atty for that crime, we may have to
pay high for this crime of excluding
an industrious and economic people
whose services we need for the develop
ment of our land. We are seeking our
share of the trade of China and the
Chinese are people who appreciate
reciprocal commercial relation. AL
ready some of them talk of boycotting
American goods and are making in
quiries as to the feasibility of buying
-four from Canada, lumber from Siberia
OIL the three greatest exports from the
United States to China"
"All that is true" he said, "but it
will take a long time to make the
naturalized Europeans of the west, who
are the laboring element and control
the ballot box, to see it," Continuing
he said, 1T appears to me that the
wise men who are sent to Congress
should see that different parts of the
globe require different laws. I no
l. cd that when uara ,,rpipcr tho
digging of the Panama Canal it was
said that Cinnamon could do the work
as they We're Injured to laboring in the
swamps of the tropics. Germany adj
mits them to Samoa, England welcomes
them to all her Asiatic dependencies,
the Dutch in Java and Sumatra utilize
their services, surely America, in her
wisdom can see the utility of admitting
them to the tropical insular possessions
of Hawaii cnd the Philippines. I came
from Shanghai and I know our people |
have gone back and forth to the Phil
descendant are the only reliable in
habitants of that group. Surely your
people are as wise as the English"
l was not surprised to hear the old |
man talk so we'll as I have frequently
talked with educated Chinese through |
the medium of the Hawaiian language,
which they learn so quickly.
We'll, Tong Foo" l said, "let us have ,
patience and the wrongs will be righted |
and some day we will see the motto,
Put only Americans on guard carried |
out and from them much may be ex-
pected."
Honolulu, October Il, 1908