The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-05-05
Judge Estee's Paper.

below.
Judge Estee's Paper.
| The ambition of all people living in
American territories Is to be admit
| ted into the Union as a state, at the
earliest possible moment, for then each
citizen becomes an American sovereign
and thereafter selects his own rulers,
makes all laws for his government and
does all things which a free and inde-
pendent man living in free country
can do. But before this can be ac-
complished, the people living in such
territory must learn many things.
They must learn the principles of free
government. They must remember
that they are only admitted into the
Union by the favor of the people liv-
ing in the other American states. They
must learn economy in public affairs.
They must seek for American immi-
grants to settle up their territory, men
who speak the English language and
men who are either American citizens
or who can soon become such,
CHEAP LABOR NOT EVERYTHING.
1t will not do to settle up this ter
ritory with Asiatics alone; cheap labor
is not the only thing we need. We
most need American citizens, men who
can build up and maintain a state,
those who will govern it wisely. To
do this, we must hold out inducements
to good people elsewhere to come and
settle here.
Our present population is a mixture
of all races, but we are now a part of
the great American family, and it is
folly for us to be toying with more
than one flag or regretting annexation.
That fact cannot be changed. and in
the near future annexation will prove
of inestimable value to these Islands.
1t is to our interest to be faithful to
the mother country. The general gov
ernment has been most generous with
this territory. But we must be able
and willing to maintain here our pub
lie schools and public roads, and all
other utilities for the public, so that
our children, as they grow up, may be
prepared for intelligent self govern
ment We must seek more free labor
and less Asiatic labor. We should
build up our home life by inducing
European and American families to
come here. We must bear in mind
that our government, in and out of this
territory, must be maintained by intel
ligent people. We should have a pa
triotic pride in the United States be-
cause it Is our country and we have
every reason to love this country and
to love the American people. Patri-
otism should be the aspiration of all
the people living here. We are situa-
ted so far from the main land, out in
the great ocean, that we must neces-
sarily in war depend on the people of
the main land for defense, and in peace
our markets will be with the same peo-
pie.
NEED OF SMALL FARMERS.
1t Is n mistake to think we do not
need white immigrants, or that this Is
not good place for them to come to
or to settle in. Whatever may be said
to the contrary, there can be built no
American free state on anything but
American citizenship. This territory
can never be admitted into the Union, |
with eighty thousand AsiaticS, who
cannot under our laws, become Ameri !
can citizens and with comparatively few
Americans who speak the English lam |
guage or who are familiar with Re-
publican institutions.
The future of this territory depends |
on the character of the people who !
come here as immigrants, and the !
surest way to induce white settlers to
come here is to give to each of them /
small home from the public domain.
Small farms in a small territory are
the right kind of farms. AS l have
heretofore said, it takes men to make
a state; men are valuable in any coun-
try, but especially so in a new country: |
and these men must be either citizens
or capable of becoming such. And
men are more valuable in free countries
than in other countries as they form
an important part of the government
itself, And again: they are the pro-
iucers and as such have n financial and
political value. The community is
benetitted by every good citizen who
comes here to live. 1t has been said
hat every American citizen going into
new territory, is worth one thousand
iollars in money to that territory.
Remember that American citizens
.orm American society and make
american government, and remember,
also, that American law is just such
avs as the American people make for
he government of themselves. This
5 government made by American cit
zens and should be the only govern
nent that the people OF these Islands
viii accept.
GIVE NEWCOMERS A CHANCE.
In this territory we must not con-
'lude that the old settlers are the only
rood men in the world. We must give
he young and the poor man a chance ,
o come here and to get on; and we
must encourage that class OF people TO ,
ome and grow up with the country.
very few men begin life rich in this