Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-05-02

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in Bates street last night. Judge Morris
NJ. Estee Of the Federal court addressed
the CLUB on the subject Future Of Ha-
wait" Percy NJ Pond presided and
there was a good attendance.
Judge Estee put his audience 'n,o
cheerful countenance with some hum
orous remarks delivered orally. then
proceeded to read his address. II was
both able and interesting. Among the
good things 1t contained were the fol-
lowing passages:
The ambition of all people living in
American territories is to be admitted
into the Union as a state at the ear
hest possible moment. But before this
can be accomplished the people living
in such territory must learn many
things. They must learn the principles
Of free government. They must re-
member that they are only admitted
into the Union by the favor of the peo.
pie living in the other American states,
They must learn economy In public
affairs. They must seek for American
immigrants to settle up their territory.
men who speak the English language
and men who are either American cit
liens or who can soon become such.
It will not do to settle up this terri
tory with AsiatiCs alone: cheap labor Is
not the only thing We need We most
need American citizens, men who can
build up and maintain state, those
who will govern It wisely. The gener-
al government has been most generous
with this territory. But we must be
able and willing to maintain here our
public schools and public roads, and all
other utilities for the public. We must
seek more free labor and less Asiatic
labor. We should build up our homo
life by Inducing European and Ameri.
can families to come here.
The future Of this territory depends
on the character of the people who
come here as immigrants. and the sur
est way to induce white settlers to como
here is to give to each of them a small
home from the public domain. Small
farms in a small territory are the right
kind of farms.
In this territory we must not con-
clude that the old settlers are the only
good men in the world. We must give
the young and the poor man a chance
to come here and to get on; and we
must encourage that class of people to
come and grow up with the country.
Very few men begin life rich in this
worlds goods. II is happy incident
that they do not. Very few boys are
born here or elsewhere with sugar
! plantation ready for their use when
they are grown up. Labor makes more
good men that inherited wealth. Moth
ing IS SO useful to young men as to be
compelled to work
American civilization Is adapted to
the wants of the American people.
Originally America was settled by inn
migrants from Europe, all poor and all
laboring men. They were chiefly Eng
1 fish, Irish, German, French and Sean
dinavians, but their children soon
/ learned to speak our language. II the
parents did not, and finally helped to
create here a new civilization.
But we are told that this territory
must bN hlilNlNhNlg IMAM
other territory. l cannot believe that
this is so, or that the people here are
different from the people elsewhere.
with the exception of the AsiatiC ele-
ment. Asiatics do not assimilate with
our American people, and under the
laws of our country they cannot become
American citizens. They possess none
of the attributes of American citizen
ship or of American freemen. for once
an Asiatic, always an AsiatiCs.
! We should cultivate the friendship
Of the American people. II we are al
ways opposing the people on the main
land, we will soon prejudice them
against us and we can gain no near or
remote benefit for ourselves by being a
part of the American republic. We
must bear In mind that this is an Amer
/ lean territory and we must be Ameri
cans in spirit. Only few months ago
the National Congress appropriated
one million OF dollars to pay the So
called fire claims of this territory.
Every dollar OF this goes to our own
people, unless our AsiatiC population.
in accordance with time honored GUS
tom, sends its share to China and
Japan.
Judge Estee in this connection urged
that we should encourage American cit
liens from all over the Union to come
here and help us with their labor, going
on to mention the climate, thus:
/ Referring to our Climate-any eli.
mate which was good enough for the
old and early settlers of three quarters
of a century back ought to be good
enough for new corners. 1t is too COM
mon an idea however, that there IL
something wrong with the Hawaiian
climate or with the Hawaiian Islands.
While 1t is true that in certain locali-
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