The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-08

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SeYenty-tive years ago and since and
built up this work, claiming that Ha-
! Waii would be found to have played q
large part III producing the leaven
which is working in the effete East.
civihzing Japan and awakening China
Ola account of the fair treatment these
people who came to Hawaii received
at the hands of the Hawaiian govern
: ment and the Hawaiian commercial
men. He admitted that it might have
been even better, but he desired to
have Hawaii claim credit that it is as
good as it is.
The Governor repeated his previous
statement about the effect upon a
community like Rhode Island and Con-
necticut Approximately the area of
HawaiD if they We're required to con-
tribute 100000 a year to the United
States Government. with only a popu-
lation of 100000, saying to have done
so for five years as Hawaii has done
would have bankrupted the New Eng
land community. He declared that Ha-
waits soil was rich and she had stood
it for five years and as loyal Amer
leans the people of Hawaii We're ready
to stand it indefinitely, if necessary.
FORWARD NOT BACKWARD.
Uncle Sam never turns back said
the Governor, He is never willing to
make a failure. The President of the
United States will not permit a failure
upon the part of the United States in
their policy in regard to Hawaii. 1t
would not do to permit financial
failure here. There are those who
would say the cockey Yankees with his
representative form of government has
done what we always said he would,
he has failed. The United States is not
going to do anything OF that sort. The
President of the United States will not
permit it and it is our duty to help
to prevent it and to help the American
government to prevent it and we are
going to do our duty. (Applause).
The Governor then dwelt upon the
difficulty of getting appropriations for
Hawaii from men who wanted appro-
priations themselves, when every APP
preparation admitted to a bill cut down
the chances for somebody else's appro-
priation. He spoke of the great school
land grants which all the western states
and territories. but Hawaii had with
which to educate their children. He
loosely referred to towns in the west
with magnificent cut stone, tWo-story
schoolhouses and the rest of the town
little better than hutS and compared
them with Hawaiian schoolhouses, one
Of which, at Hookena, he thought must
have been constructed for the purpose
Of studying astronomy, on account of
lack of roof. Also of another where
the clapboards were off, near the floor,
which said the Governor, was great
assistance in ventilation, no doubt.
Almost all of the buildings built for
educational purposes in Hawaii since
annexation" he continued, have been
built on borrowed money. The present
generation has been looking to the next
to pay the bills for our new school
houses. If we could only make the peo-
pie of the United States understand
how we are lacking in school buildings,
they would say at once, why take the
whole of that paltry million and spend
every cent of it on the schools. Keep
three-fourthS of it anyway. Keep
spending it until your people are on a
par with the rest of our family" Cap
plause).
The governor advocated a sort of
travelling salesman or drummer at SO
much per day to go around and lee
ture to the people of the United States
SO that they might understand our con-
ditions. The President of the United
States responded promptly, and the
sixty million people of the United
States would eventually devise finan-
cial relief. He declared that the Con-
gress of the United States was the
greatest and best law-making body in
the world, but that it represented such
enormous interests that Hawaii was
likely to be forgotten in the big fights
on bills Just see how small we look
on the map" said he, but we will play
our part like men. Let it be understood
that we have no regret over annexa-
ton (Applause).
THE President of the United States
is showing an interest in Hawaii and
Hawaiian legislation. The people of
the United States want this country
prosperous. The United States wants
this country to go ahead. And then
the President goes on and says that
he does not want Hawaii to be an ex-
clusively rich mans country where the
poor man is trodden down. And Meth
er do we. Hawaii is probably the only
community in the world where the cor
porations have souls. 1t is our corpor-
ations that subscribe to our charities,
to our churches, to our philanthropies.
1t is right that they should and we
want our country to continue to grow
in wealth. We want also that every
plantation villager shall be interested
in the government that is over him
and we want him to help with his vote
to make this land what it should be.
(ApplauSe). We want our $4,000 peo-
pie to increase to 500, 900. We have the
room for them. We have the work for
them and we have the land for them.
We hear kicks about the land system.
The land system is all right. Only
about one-third of the land now be-
longs to the government and a great
deal of this waste land The best
land is in private ownership. But we
want men who will help us. We do not
want those who think the world owes
them living. Let them stay on the
mainland. We want those who are in
dependent and propose to earn their
living We want them TO share with
the plantations. We want them to
work their farms, perhaps on shares.
Not alone shares in the profits but
some share also in the losses