The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-04-15
couRrEsY AND THE STRANGER.


Hawaii is not alone in the western
United states in attempting TO attrac
the favorable notice of home seekers
The communities OF the mainland wesi
work harmoniously and more as a
whole toward this end, however, recog-
mixing that with new men come new
rnethods-and that new methods are
sometimes better for a land than the old.
For there are other merits besides age.
Also. the communities of the mainland
west have powerful aids to their up
building in the great transcontinental
railways and the officers Of them, each
recognizing that in bringing new peo-
pie TO the country and Inducing their
settlement he is building future trade
for his particular line. and so making
his place more secure by making his
own services more valuable to the com
pany he represents One of these rail-
way officials. general passenger agent
OF one of the northern railways, speak
ing at a dinner in a great Oregon city
not very long ago, used these words:
IF the present residents OF Oregon
wiz look after the newcomer a bit and
give some evidence of desire to have
him remain, 1t will go a long way to-
ward making the immigrant stay with
us. A pleasant word and a friendly
greeting to the stranger is worth much
&c. him and costs the giver little. He
perhaps knows almost no one and is
lonesome, and If allowed to drift along
without attention from his neighbors
he Is very apt to become dissatisfied
and return Encourage him, however,
until he has established himself and
made new friends and become one Of
us, and he Will not be apt to regret the |
move"
Now, what is good advice to Oregon
is good advice to people in these ISL
ands. Nobody will dispute the open
hospitality of the people of Honolulu
and of the islands generally. The Ha-
waIians. and the white people who
have come after them, have always been
noted for their hospitality. No man
has ever needed to go without food and
a bed, anywhere on the islands, though
there are many places where there are
no hotels and where there never have 6
been hotels. But more is meant, in
this, than hospitality to the stranger.
THERE'S a tendency on the part of the $
people here, quickly perceived by the II
stranger, to look upon the newcomer. 1
not as a man who has lost caste-for q
the new conner has no caste-but as c
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single test OF long residence before he g
Is accepted at anything like full value. II
We an honor the pioneers. OF course &
The men who open country are men d
who have stern stuff In them. They e
must have. or they would not adven- u
lure into strange lands. But for that u
very reason they and their descendants II
should accord a welcome, and some u
thing of more honorable status than
s the rule to strangers that adventure
INTO the land now. For il is possible
hat the stranger has ideas. That is
hough he may have some monopolies. =
Any land is the better for the infusion -
Il new blood. and IL we are to build
ID a state here after the American -
manner there must be many changes in %
conditions that only the stranger in -
he land can bring about-the stranger
With new ideas, and the courage to
ut them into practice. Perhaps such 90
stranger would stay and overcome
is handicap OF newness. in time, if he
ad the right stun in him. but he would
e very much more apt to stay, and TO =. =.
10 his best If he were made to feel =
hat his new neighbors were glad to 81
ave him and did not sneer at him for nc
be fact that he had not cared TO be
orn in the land No man, however &c
rave. IS less courageous for a friendly 1e'
at on the back-and every man is the -
etter for it in all those qualities in "a
Inn which make for good. Let US make
he stranger feel. not only that our %
ONES are open to him as guest, as 20
II island homes are to the stranger
no comes well recommended, but that ~
III land is open to him to make his ~
ONE in, that our hearts are open to
i'm as fellow man, that if he will be- -
ome one of US we viii be glad to let 10
Inn, In fact as we'll as in name. All '"'
onor to the kamaafna, but honor in so
ood measure. too. to the man who :
as not chosen to come until he can nm
ome equipped with ideas that will 9u'
uild up the common home of both 90
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