The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-26
TERRITORIAL PROSPERITY.

influx of American population, the de
veioprneElt of enterprise. the Increase
productive capacity, and growth Il
commercial importance. Our advan
tages of situation and climate are ap
parent and are well understood
throughout the world. 1t is grea
mistake to suppose that Hawaii is al
unknown quantity The Ignorance o.
individuals, occasionally met with or
the mainland or in Europe. is no indl-
cation of any general lack of knowl-
edge on the subject. For nearly CEN
fury the archives OF all existing gov
ernnents have contained full and def
Mite information of the resources and
the condition of the Islands. which have
been and are accessible to the privileged
and learned few, and that Information
has been popularized in more than one
hundred and sixty different books,
many of them ably and accurately
written and of wide circulation Some
of the greatest travellers and observers
of modern times have paid special and
detailed attention to Hawaii.
It is a wise saying that, Sod helps
those who. help themselves" and while
o,,r population, old and new, could not
ultimately retard. it is within their
power greatly to accelerate, the prog
ress of the Territory. Americanization
is the prime necessity to bring IL INTO
harmony and substantial correspond
ence with the communities of the main
land, which are now expanding IN num-
hers and in wealth beyond all former
experience The process of American
fzation is necessarily slow. Much OF
the past has to be forgotten or it's re-
suits greatly modified. The enormous
preponderance of Asiatic population,
while unavoidable and to great ex-
tent desirable, is material obstruc-
tions The existence in g. free state OF
an pnassimilating element, which Is
here essential to supply the demand forl
labor is always a factor, to be fairly
and fully estimated in the work of de-
yeIopment. In matters of expediency,
that Is matters not governed by consti-
futional or fundamental law, theories,
however abstractly correct. frequently
have to yield to facts. The Asiatic fact
is locally OF vast import and conse- /
quence How to meet the labor neces-
stiles of the Islands and at the same
time to keep the higher spheres of
wage-earning and business open to
s.merican citizens, is a problem that
calls for a high order Of statesmanship. /
1t cannot be disputed that the en-
largement of our population, by the ac-
cession of American citizens or of peo-
pie aspiring to and qualified for that
dignity, is essential Atayism means |
retrogression instead of advancement. |
and the existence of this backward ele-I
ment In all countries, which have risen
from despotic to liberalized institutions,
is an observed and often repeated truth. |
The terms eatavistic force" and ire
versive aptitude" or the danger of go
ing back TO antecedent forms, have be-
come fixed in the discussion of evoln-
ton, as applied to civilization France,
for example, in adapting herself to her
present government, which is not who'll /
ly republican, has been retarded by the /
obstinate adherence of many of her cit-l
liens to ancient and exploded concep-
tions. The same difficulty is expert
enced IN Hawaii. and it is not to be
condemned. for it exists. but to be prac-l
tfcal1y surmounted.
Mierocephaly or abnormal sInaIfness
of the head is a form of disease that is /
apt TO become chronic. In France or I
here. the narrow-headed adherents to
forms OF government that are fast
passing out OF existence everywherel
through the educational success of
American institutions, and that have /
been loclIly and deliberately abandoned, /
are inclined to revel In the past and
to keep all progress outside OF Chi
nese wall of exclusion. The cosmopo-
lite, who believes in individuality, in I
Independence in energy and IN scien-
fific industry. is an unwelcorne dis
turber OF stolidity and of placid content
ment with isolated and luxurious idle-
ness. The waking of men from sleep
and arousing them to systenatized ac-
fivity, by stimulating their minds and +
detnroning the supremacy of their
bodies, is the peculiar mission OF /
Anericanis1n, which has produced fifty
one states and territories. if the Dis
trict of Columbia and Alaska be in
cluded, has secured and trained a pop
ulation of eighty millions. has spread
every advanced form and institution of
learning and civilization over 8 con-
tfnent and into far OF seas, has beaten
Europe in her own markets, and is now
not far from the domination OF the
Pacific.
1t is up to Hawaii to welcome tour
lists of the right quality and to charm
them with its hospitality, and, when
they choose to remain and to engage in
farming or in any other branch of in
o~fx-e, thorn fIe n hard AMI