The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-14

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Interior, printed at the Government
Printing Office, Washington, were re-
ceived by the Advertiser in yesterday s
mail. The following letter of transmit
tai indicates the general scope of the
report, but it's comprehensive character
will be more fully understood when it
is stated that the Governor deals with
matters of the Territory under twenty
nine heads, many of which are further
subdivided to treat .ramifications of
main topics:
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
Executive Chamber, Territory of
Hawaii,
Honolulu. September 2S, 1903.
Sir: In response to your letter of
June 27, requesting me to forward to
your Department a report of the af-
waii during the fiscal year ending June
80, 1903, l have the honor to transmit
the Following statement
Very respectfully,
SANFORD B. DOLE,
Governor of the Territory of Hawaii.
The Secretary of the Interior,
Washington, D. C.
LIST OF TOPICS.
Following are the heads of topics in
the report: l, Social Conditions: 2,
Finances; 8, Fire Claims Commission:
4, Chinese Fund; S, Hawaiian Coinage;
6, Commerce; Z, Public Works; 8, Pub
lie Survey; 9, Public Lands; 10, Agri-
culture; II, Forestry; II, Fertilizers; i3,
Labor; IA, Second General Election;
Is, The Legislature; 16, The County
Act; II, The Judiciary; IS, Department
of the Attorney General; 1ss, Military;
20, Education; 81, Health; %, Insane
Asylum; %, Leprosy: "a, Vital Statis-
tics; 25, Fisheries; 26, Corporations; q,
Railway Enterprise; 2S, Franchises; 80,
recommendations.
Altogether as in former years, the
Governors Report constitutes an ex-
cellent year book of the Territory,
which, besides being invaluable for ref
erence, possesses an interest attaching
to Governor 'Dole's personal views up
on affairs and, on this occasion, spe-
cial interest as the last important pub
lie document from the hands of the
man who has been the chief executive
of Hawaii for nearly eleven years
critical and stormy years many of them
in the history of the Hawaiian Islands.
Through the courtesy of Governor
Dole, Superintendent Atkinson and
Colonel Jones, the Advertiser has in
previous issues been enabled to give
much Of the information and statistics
relating to commerce, education and
military which appear in the report.
SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
Under this head Governor Dole begins
his report, the following being what he
says:
The statistics of our schools and
courts show that the population of the
Territory is made up of the following
races: Hawaiian, Portuguese, jap
anese. Chinese, Scandinavian, Spanish,
and Teuton, which includes British.
German, and American.
The school children OF the Hawai-
ian, Portuguese. japanese, and Chinese
races number 1929, being an increase
of 945 over the previous year Almost
all of the boys will be voting citizens
when they reach voting age.
The school children of European
descent other than Portuguese and of
American descent other than Porto
Rlcan, number 1,505 an increase of IS
over the previous year
At this rate, unless there should be a
larger immigration of American settlers
than now seems proba BILE the present
numerical inferiority of those which
may be classed as belonging to the
Teutonic race as compared with the
Hawaiians, will, in few years, become
d still greater inferiority as compared
with the then American citizens of the
Hawaiian, Portuguese, japanese, and
Chinese races.
This prospect emphasizes the impor-
tance of giving to all children who are
American citizens good common
school education. The association of
pupils of the different races with each
other in school work and the recrea-
tions of the playground go far toward
breaking down race prejudicas and
tends to prepare them for intelligent
political action in the future.
There are many marriages between
Hawaiian women and white men and a
few between Hawaiian women and
Cinnamon. The offspring of both
classes Of marriages are an inarove-