The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-21
zee o . o 0 Q Q 0 o

friendly that we trusted to the guidance
of the foreigners and now find ourselves
ruined and life here untenable."
81 do not see what you could have
done to prevent annexation" I said.
Said he: "Oh, you don't know the DOW
er of money; we could have raised large
sums of money if we had realized that
J the effect of annexation would be to ex-
clude US from a 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, 'T 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 1898, and aft
erwards the fear of the action of the
Japanese government clinched the mat
ter
Il like the country he said, "and
| 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 mag
ined that a 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" I answered, land although
every country has the power to treat
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 pauperisln.
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
this day and it is unfortunate to see
America taking a backward step.
Once they were so anxious to have
numbers of aliens that they kidnapped
negroes in Africa and brought them
in nolens volens We paid 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 a 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
flour from Canada, lumber from Siberia
and of developing their own mineral
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.
tieed that when they were urging the
digging of the Panama Canal it was
said that Cinnamon could do the work
as they were 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 and the Philippines. I came
from Shanghai and know our people
have gone back and forth to- the Phil
ippines for thousand years and their
descendant are the only reliable in
habitants Of that group. Surely your
people are as wise as the English"
I was not surprised to hear the old
man talk so well as I have frequently
talked with educated Chinese through
the medium of the Hawaiian language,
which they learn so quickly.
well, Tong Foo I said, '1et 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 II, 1903.