The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-12-29
CARRIERS VIEWS
OF THE FUTURE
CONTINUED from mage one.

ed is a further development of it, and |
may solve the question of how some of
the present loan appropriations shall !
be carried out, as well as making a bas- !
is for future legislative action.
In a financial way" the governor !
added, eve are very much improved. |
/ am very pleased at the prospect that |
we shall no longer have to register
warrants and take two per cent from !
the salaries of our employees and two !
per cent from the sums we pay those !
who sell us goods.
The light opened ahead by the work
Secretary Atkinson has done should
encourage our business interests more
/ by far than has been expressed. at
| least. 1t solidifies our future prospects
much more than is generally appreciate
/ ed or at least more than has been stat
/ ed. Without the surety that We could
secure imm grants there was an ele-
ment of uncertainty i'm the future which
was affecting us all more or less. 1t
has been removed now and | believe
our leading business men feel greatly
encouraged. Jack has opened a light
ahead.
ITO a large extent I believe the pres
ent period will be looked back to as a
turning point in our history. beginning
movements which lead us to a grand
future. The aim must be that our plan
tations shall grow into small, self-gov-
erning villages or communities, i'm
which are populations of citizens pros
perng together and working for the
upbuilding of the islands. When the
day comes when Hawaiian plantations
, hapnrr,a
own public afA IRIS as do other Ameri-
can villages, 81 shall indeed have a glo-
rious country. In a purely business
way we shall be on a more solid and
enduring foundation. The big plan
I manufacturer Os sugar will have a
more steady and certain dividend"
The governor opposed the expression
that Hawaii needs a more desirable
class of population and expressed the
utmost confidence in the proper devel-
opment of the present inhabitants I'VE
cannot nave more desirable popula-
tion,' he said. 1T is our duty to see
that those the people we have are edu-
Gated in the American way l am thor
oughly in accord with the conclusions
reached by Professor Scott in his drti-
Gle in my annual report, that the vari-
Gus elements in our pOpula ton can be
made into good citizens. 1t has been
done and is being done, under our
school system, and it is to do this prin-
cipally that we are going to Washing
ton to ask for financial assistance.
In this respect l believe that Hawaii
is furnishing an example for the whole
United States. Teachers passing
\ through here from the Philippines have
, expressed the utmost amazement at
what we have done,-they say we have
reached stage that it will take a gen.
Grafton to reach in the Philippines. We
nave not had the trouble America had
with Chinese in the west for example.
t because we have not treated Chinese as
t the west did. The westerners treated
: the Chinese in a manner i'm which they
would not stand themselves and the
result has been only a natural one. In
Hawaii we have acted upon the prin-
! cipal of human equality. of following
the Golden Rule, which is the very
4 foundation of our government. We
e have acted on the idea that all men
= are equal, and it has produced "A result
ahead of any other of the kind any,
where.
t If we ask Washington for money. it
is to keep up this work, to get rid of a
- financial milestone. BY gifts of school
t lands throughout the west, the United
{ states took the burden of education off
- that section. We ask her that the same
be done here. If we don't get it. we
, are not going to throw up our hands
and quit but we claim that the work
that is to be done here calls for the
assistance We a SIX "
b The governor referred to the estab-
lishment of Japanese schools, with the
assistance of plantations in many cas-
es. He said that if the children were
there merely taught the Japanese Ian
guage and educated in the elementals,
such as arithmetic, I'm japanese as they
are in English, the plan was good.
But if they are taught the patriotism
of Dai Nippon it is a great error" he
said. 1T is the same with the estab-
lshment of German or other foreign
. schools. We do not want to assist in
the teaching of any patriotism except
that of America"