The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-10-17

add maChinists. Hawalrs pncultlvate6
r,te~ cun produce tons upon tons "
vi'tabie tropical staples for witch the
u lied states every year pays millions
OF dollars more than she need pay Il
hawaii were her tropical garden. Yet
the past TWO years have seen the Amer
lean. in fact all the white. population
actually decrease. The Japanese or
else the Chinese have taken the skilled
laboters places and little has been
done to encourage the American home
seeker But start has been made.
The Legislature has Just created a
Board OF Immigration. which. In CO.
operation with the sugar planter, and
others. is laying plans for securing a
supply OF white labor consisting OF men
with families who will found homes and
he me American citizens, and for en-
couraging the Immigration Of the Amer
lean settler. The mistake OF encour-
aging the Asiatic skilled laborer Mt the
expense of the American is now realiz-
ee and believe that n few years will
see marked return of white skilled
laborers TO these Islands
The first missionary work will have
to be done here. We shall have to put
our own house in order. Our large en-
ployers must be brought to realize their
responsibility. Hence, we are asking
the plantations and other large employ
ers what they are willing TO do. We
want them to offer the whites employ
nent and we expect them to do so. We
can supply the homes. Give them work
and give them homes. and whites will
settle this country. Hawaii has the
work to be done and at good wages, and
she wants the right kind of citizens to,
according to latest advices.
The citizens who, have made Homo
lulu and Hawaii what they are, includ-
ing the present generation and their
ancestors In the islands. achieved far
more in the development of an Ameri-
can community than the average Amer
lean is aware Of They have made a
success of the scientific agricultural and
mechanical features of sugar producing
far beyond anything else in the world
There are no sugar mills, no fields OF
| cane, In the world which are compare.
BILE to those of Hawaii This result has
been won by the application of the best
scientific talent to be had in both lines
@'o"h'iN IL ehtlt lilpTt SCltilIlnC
ing than on the sugar plantations OF
these islands, where twelve tons of SUI
gar to the acre are produced, as COM
pared to>the three or four tons regarded
as satisfactory elsewhere; and nowhere
else. after the cane has been harvested
is its saccharine matter extracted with
equal skill or perfection of machinery
| believe that the people of the islands
who have achieved these great CONNER
cial results are also capable of solving
their political problems and of carry
Ing out the wish of our President and
of Mckinley before him, that the is
lands be developed along traditional
American lines. In doing this they
nave to meet a concentration OF what
is known as the yellow peril such as
has never before been met by an Amer
lean community. The other yellow
peril which is just beginning to be
talked about, but which. let us hope,
VIII never be real peril-that of the
utter defenselessness of the islands
against naval Attacks one that may
be left to the statesmen at Washington
who are In charge of such matters"