The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-12
FoULING ONES OWN NEST.

and homeseeker with a zeal which
only equaIed by it's loyalty to its ow
best interests. Every State welcome
the newcomer and gives him a chanc
and advances any sort of legislato
which tends to increase its own popula
tion and people its vacant acres. Al
the States together, acting through tn
Federal government, are promoting tn
immigration, even of the poor, in ever!
legitimate and effective way; anC
where they have public lands, the prop
erty is almost given to any one who
will build homes upon it.
All the Territories of the United
States but one are doing their best tc
obtain farmers and other settlers. Ari-
iona, New Mexico and Oklahoma are
constantly in the field for the acqui-
sition 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
tories-aI but one-there can be no
meaner treachery than to decry the
resources and deny the opportunities
and oppose the settlement of the COM
Inonwealth.
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 |
it has developed. It is a Territory, |
moreover, which the President has
said should s'be developed on tradi-
tionaI American lines" But strangely |
enough it is one which deliberately ad-
yertises itself, with the sanction of the
Governor, as one where the opportuni-
ties for white men are confined to
planters and to a few hundred me-
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
40 place for white settlers and was in
of the civilization enjoyed by
every other part of his common coun-
try; that it was too ill-favored of ma
lure to sustain more than one agricul-
.uraI industry. No paper, even though
drawing it's mental inspiration from
iiet of veal, would venture to defame
It's own locality and try tc bind it hand
md foot to conditions which would, so
ong as they existed, interrupt it's pro-
yress and limit its hope. Imagine an
official of Arizona going to Washing
ton and saying: Our Territory has
put one industry, mining. All we want
Tor that is Mexican peon labor. There
s no room for white settlers even in
our rich. irrigated valleys, and what ,
you see there of agriculture is a mir I
age. Give US our poems and we will
ct in few hundred mechanics to work
with them, but no others. Refuse our
oeons and even the mechanics need not
corporation. Americanism be ID"
Fellow citizens, a 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 a place capable of
holding its position in the American
system and willing as we'll as able to
develop in the American way and
sometime be a State. Let US show
that We care for it's future and that we
are not ready to let it be overwhelmed
by Asia. but that, whatever the Mon
goI numbers may necessarily be, there
will yet be enough Americans left as l
owners of the soil to guard the ark of