The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-15

one Of the wealthiest and most power
the present day. Let US rather pu
forth renewed effort.
There is no inconsistency, as is Of
ten charged, in the position maintained
by the administration toward the ne
groes of the South and the inhabitants
! of the Philippine Islands. When the
latter are as far advanced as the coll
ored people, they win certainly have
the same opportunities and response
bilities; likewise the Indians of the
Western plains and also the Aleuts and
Esquimaux of Alaska.
There has been no sudden departure
from our national traditions. The
signers of the declaration of indepen-
dence and the founders of our Consti-
tuition did not contemplate f-govesrn-
ment for all the inhabitants of the
United States. The large negro popu-
lation was for the most part retained
in slavery and the Indians in a con-
dition even less tolerable With the
growth of a hundred years a broader
spirit has developed and, we trust a
spirit still broader will yet prevail.
Governor Taft, in his last annual re-
port, declares that the Moros do not
understand popular government and do
not desire it. and that the control by
dattoS or native chiefs may cease far
in the future but at present it is nee
essary to provide "a paterual, strong,
but sympathetic government for these
followers of Mahomet''
We need not be afraid of "paternal"
government. Parents do not leave
their children to work out their own
salvation" but by wise guidance fit
them to govern themselves. Our youth
with the heritage of a hundred years
of our national life and the centuries
of the growth of English freedom back
Of them,-are withheld from suffrage
until a certain age arbitrarily fixed by
law. So should peoples, as yet incapa-
bic of self-government, be wisely cared
for until the time shall come when they
too can assume the duties of full MEM
bership in the community of nations.
A few years since Lord Charles Beres-
ford paid a brief visit to Honolulu. At
a banquet rendered TO him in that CRY.
he declared that the world recognizes
the United States as a powerful fac
tor for advancing civilization in the |
Orient. But you Americans do not yet |
fully appreciate your responsibilities. |
You are about to construct canal
through Nicaragua or through Panama, |
perhaps in time through both. You are
not going to allow any petty republic |
periodical revolutions to interfere with
he commerce of the world. You will |
soon have those republics on your
hands. The Monroe doctrine lays upon |
you further responsibilities in Central
and South America"
The daily papers have recently an
lounced the threatened outbreak be- |
tween Honduras Nicaragua and Sal
and Costa Rica on the other. War ac-
-ually exists in the first mentioned |
state Personal ambitions on the part |
If presidential candidates seem to be
state department has been engaged in
sitting this tempest in a teapot.
A recent editorial in the Outlook
'eads:
THE time may come when it will be
wise to extend a broader protectorate
,ver certain of the Central and South
American republics; to do for them
What the United States has begun to
citations with the United States which
will enable the United States to control
heir foreign policy and restrain them
rom mourning debts which they can
citations with the United States such
Is will extend over them the Ameri-
an protective system and remove be-
ween them and America all tariff bar
iers; guarantee them as the Union
guarantees the individual States and
las guaranteed Cuba, from foreign war
nd from domestic revolution
Throughout the complications in
;hina, resulting from the Boxer insur-
ection. civilized nations have been i'm
ressed by the magnanimous attitude of
he United States toward the Celestial
Empire. Secretary Hays note to the
covers last autumn in regard to the