The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-10-16
JACK AND THE
YELLOW YERIL
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has thousands of acres of splendid
Government land lying idle. She has
the finest and largest sugar mills in
the world and vast cane field watered
by some of the largest pumps ever in
stalled by man. On the single island
of Oahu there is pumped from the soil
by this vast machinery the incredible
total of $50, 100000 gallons every twenty
four hours. In these great mills and
pumping plants there is employment
for a small army of skilled engineers
and machinists. HawaiPs uncultivated
acres can produce tons upon tons of
valuable tropical staples for which the
United States every year pays millions
of dollars more than She need Spay if
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
laborers' places and little has been done
to encourage the Amrican homeseeker.
But start has been made.
THE Legislature has just created a
Board OF immigration, which, in CO.
operation with the sugar planters and
others, is laying plans for securing a
supply of white labor consisting of men
with families who will found homes and
become American citizens, and for en-
couraging the immigration of the AM
erican settler. The mistake of encour-
aging the Asiatic skilled laborer at the
expense Of the American is now realiz-
ed, and I believe that a few years will
see a marked return of white skilled la
borers 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 emploS
ment 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 theil
ancestors in the islands, achieved fan
more in the development of an Ameri-
can community than the average Amer
lean is aware of. They have made q
success of the scientific agricultural an6
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 bes
scientific talent to be had in both lines
Nowhere is there more scientific farm
ing than on the sugar plantations o.
= 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 saccharne matter extracted witt
equal skill or perfection of machinery
1 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 anC
VI McNllleN DeIOre MIN, JnaI the Isl
, ands be developed along traditional
American lines. In doing this the!
, have to meet a concentration of wha
! is known as the yellow peril such al
: has never before been met by an AmeF
can community The other yellow
peril which is just beginning to b
talked about, but which, let us hope
will never be a real peril-that of tn
utter defenselessness of the island
against naval Attacks one that ma.
be left to the statesmen at Washington
who are in charge of such matters"