The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-05-02
JUDGE ESTES ADDRESS
ON FUTURE Of
HAWAII
tcontinued from page -

tContinued from page -
can never be admitted into the Union.
with eighty thousand Aslatics, who
cannot under our laws. become Ameri-
can citizens and with comparatively few
Americans who speak the English Ian
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
a small home from the public domain.
Small farms in a small territory are
the right kind of farms. AS I have
heretofore said, ii takes men to make
a state; men are valuable in any coun-
try, but especially so in 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-
ducers and as such have a financial and
political value. The community is
benefited by every good citizen who
comes here to live. 1t has beeh said
that every American citizen going into
a new territory, is worth one thousand
dollars in money to that territory.
Remember that American citizens
form American society and make
American government, and remember.
also, that American law Is just such
laws as the American people make for
the government of themselves. This
is a government made by American cit
liens and should be the only govern
ment that the people of these Islands
Will accept.
GIVE NEWCOMERS A CHANCE.
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. 1t is a 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 than inherited wealth.
Nothing is so useful to young men as
to be compelled to work. 1t is said
that one of Henry Clay's friends in
Kentucky, asked him what he could do
that would best promote the welfare of
a son of his. Clay responded, Dis
inherit him, sir, then he will be the
equal of poor boys and be compelled to
earn his living"
EDUCATE THE PEOPLE.
The public mind here as elsewhere,
must be educated on ali public ques-
lions before the people are prepared to
act wisely on any important subject of
government, and before we can hope
to be admitted as a state into the
American Union. Love of country is
either Unborn in a man or it is a matter
of education. In either case a citizen
must realize that he belongs to some
country and that he had better be
member of a great and a free country
like the United States than of small,
weak and tyrannical country like many
If he lives in any part of
the United States, he must realize
keenly that that is his country and
that it is the best government known
to mankind. American civilization is
adapted to the wants of the American
people. Originally America was set
tied by immigrants from Europe, al
poor and all laborins; men. They were
chiefly English, Irish, German. French
and Scandinavians. but their children
soon learned to speak our language II
the parents did not, and finally helped
But we are told that this territory
must be differently handled than any
other territory. I cannot believe that
this is so, or that the people here ara
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 be-
come American citizens. They pos
sess none of the attributes of Ameri-
can citizenship or of American freemen,
for once an Asiatic, always an Asiatfc.
This is the result of the experience of
the majority of the people who have
had dealings with Asiatics.
FRIENDLY WITH THE MAINLAND. :
We should cultivate the friendship of
the American people. If we are al |
ways opposing the people on the main i
land, we viii 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
territory and we must be
in spirit. Only a few
ago the National Congress ap-
one million of dollars to pay
the so-called fire claims of this terri
tory. Every dollar of this goes to our
own people. Unless our Asiatic popu-
alton, in accordance with time honored
custom, sends its share to China and
Japan. We should not attempt to
kill the goose that lays the golden
egg. or attempt to ignore the great
republic of which we form very in
significant part.
Let us rather encourage American
citizens from all over the Union to
come here and help us with their labor
md their capital and their wisdom
And let us not tell them what is not
rue. namely, that white men cannot
work here or that Americans living
mere cannot govern themselves.
hink the people of this territory would
be pursuing a policy of wisdom by
ioing all things possible to encourage
people to come here to live and work
md help in the government of his ter
'itory.