The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-05-27
TERRITORIAL PROSPERITY.

| Even IT IL desired 10 90 So tnis ief
| ritory could not successfully resist th'
influx of American population, the de-
velopment of enterprise, the increase o.
| productive capacity, ana CROWN III
| commercial Importance. our advan'
| tages of situation and climate are ap'
parent and are well understood
| throughout the world. 1t Is great
| mistake to suppose that Hawaii Is an
unknown quantity. The ignorance o'
| individuals, occa asionally met with on
the mainland or in Europe. is no indi-
, cation of any general lack of knowl-
edge on the subject. For nearly CEN
tury the archives of all existing gov
ernments have contained full and def
mite information of the resources ana
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.
1t is a wise saying that, God helps
those who help themselves and while
our population, old and new, could not
ultimately retard, II Is within their
power greatly to accelerate, the prog
ress of the Territory. Americanization
is the prime necessity to bring it into
harmony and substantial correspond
ence with the communities of the main
land, which are now expanding in num-
bers and in wealth beyond all former
experience. The process of American
ization 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 q great ex-.
tent desirable, is a material obstruc-
ton. The existence in free state of
an unassimilating element, which Is
here essential to supply the demand for
labor Is always a factor, to be fairly
and fully estimated in the work of de-
velopment. In matters OF eXpediency'
that is matters not governed by consti-
tutional 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-
sites of the Islands and at the same
time to keep the higher spheres of
wage earning and business open to
American citizens, Is a problem that
calls for a high order of craftsmanship.
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. Atavism means
retrogression instead of advancement,
and the existence of this backward ele-
ment in all countries, which have risen
from despotic to lberalzed institutions,
is an observed and often repeated truth.
The terms "atavistic force" and re
versive aptitude" or the danger of go
ing back to antecedent forms, have be-
come fixed in the discussion of evolu-
ton. as applied to civilization. France,
Tor 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
izens 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-
tically surmOunted.
Microcephaly or abnormal smallness
of the head is a form of disease thai is
apt 10 DeCOIle ShIoIilN' III -
here, the narrow headed adherents to
forms of government that are fast
passing out of existence everywhere
through the educational success of
American institutions, and that have
been locally 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
independence, in energy and in scien-
tihc industry, is an unwelcome 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 systematized ac-
tivity, by stimulating their minds and
the supremacy of their
bodies, is the peculiar mission OF
Americanism, which has produced fifty-
one states and territories, II the DIS
trict of Columbia and Alaska be in
cluded. has secured and trained pop
ulation of eighty millions, has spread
every advanced form and institution of
learning and civilization over a con-
tinent and into far off 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
dustry to give them the glad hand and
to invest them with the still finer charm
of American fraternity. This is the
genuine touchstone to Territorial pros
perity.
Exception is taken by the Garden Is
land to Governor Carter's reported
finding of fault with the local road
Inn ri fn,. tho I.lstnd condition of the