The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-01-13
rouLlNG ONES OWN NrsI.

fOUliNI ONc'S OWN Nro,.
Every state in the American Union
small farming which affords a living
while the farmer is growing tropical
crops for export. appears In the last
statement made by the Kona Orphan
age. or course. II is ignored In the
is urging its claims upon the investor
and homeseeler with a zeal which Is
only eauaied by It's loyalty to its own
best interests Every State welcomes
the newcomer and gives him chance
and advances any sort OF legislation
which tends TO increase its own popula-
ton ana people its vacant acres. All
the States together, acting through the
Federal government, are promoting the
immigration, even of the poor, in every
legitimate and effective way; and
where they have public lands, the prop
erty is almost given to any one who
will build homes upon 1t.
All the Territories of the United
States but one are doing their best to
obtain farmers and other settlers. Ari-
IONA, New Mexico and Oklahoma are
constantly in the field for the acqui-
sitlon of new inhabitants and fresh
capital. They boom themselves from
one years end to another. Gradually,
but surely, they are building up their
opportunities for Statehood and be-
coming richer, stronger and more
American. In both States and Terri
tories-all but one-there can be no
meaner treachery than to decry the
resources and deny the opportunities
and oppose the settlement of the com
monwealth.
The exceptional Territory is Hawaii,
one of the most fertile and favored
spots under the flag, with the richest
of soil, the most equable of climates
and the one most profitable, acre by
acre, in the form of agriculture which
1t has developed. II is Territory,
moreover, which the President has
said should "be developed on tradi-
tional American lines" But strangely
enough 1t Is one which deliberately ad-
vertises itself, with the sanction Of the
Governor, as one where the opportuni-
planters and to a few hundred me-
chancs. who may be permitted to enter
and earn wages. And all this where
there are thousands upon thousands
of acres of vacant public land as full
of latent possibilities as the soil of
California or Cuba or Yucatan.
No citizen of any other Territory, let
alone an official, would dare to get on
his feet and say that his Territory was
no place for white settlers and was in
capable of the civilization enjoyed by
every other part of his common coun-
try: that it was too ill-favored of ma
ture to sustain more than one agricul-
tural industry. No paper, even though
drawing its mental inspiration from a
diet of veal. would venture to defame
its own locality and try to bind it hand
and foot to conditions which would, so
/ long as they existed, interrupt it's pro-
gress and limit its hope. Imagine an
official of Arizona going to Washing
ton and saying: our Territory has
but one industry, mining. All we want
for that is Mexican peon labor. There
is no room for white settlers even in
| our ITCH. irrigated Valleys, ana Wnul
you see there of agriculture is mir
age. Give us our poems and We will
let in few hundred mechanics to work
with them. but no others. Refuse oui
poems and even the mechanics need not
apply. Please consider Arizona a close
corporation. Americanism be id
Fellow citizens. man who went be-
| fore Congress with that plea would be
kicked out of Washington and when
he returned home, If he ever dared to,
he would be tarred and feathered.
For Heavens sake, let us put Hawaii
before the world as place capable OF
holding its position in the American
system and willing as well as able to
develop in the American way and
sometime be a State. Let us show
that We care for its future and that we
are not ready to let 1t be overwhelmed
by Asia, but that, whatever the Mon
gol numbers may necessarily be, there
will yet be enough Americans left as
owners of the soil to guard the ark OF
the American covenant and make this
something better than the old South
was before the war.