Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-11-03
those once filled are becom

churches; those once filled are becom.
ing empty.
I'VE have our problems, and they
are crying for solution. | am not
afraid of Chinese immigration. For the
sake of the planters, should like to
see 1t there. We have no American
mechanics. have seen the exodus of
more than two hundred American me.
chanics from the Central Union
Church They had come to the islands
determined to make their homes there.
and they were making the backbone of
what | call true American commu.
nifty, but they have been crowded out"
DR.. Doremus Scudder who is in
charge of the evangelical missions
there formerly minister Of the Con
gregational Church at weburn. Mass,
takes a considerably more hopeful
view of the attitude of the natives to
American Christianity. He believes
that they are coming back. DR.. Scud.
der followed DR.. Kincaid, making q
spirited appeal for more American
sympathy and cooperation with those
who are graphing with the problems
of the archipelago. The Buddhists, he
acknowledges, are more active than
the Christians in maintaining schools
for the promotion Of the faith. In
short, there "is dainty little mix.up"
In the religious forces there.
The sugar industry of the archipeia.
60, DR.. Scudder believes, is threatened
by free trade with the Philippines on
one side and by closer commercial re.
lations with Cuba on the other Trop.
lcal fruits, for Pacific Coast markets,
will prove an important industry, as
the concentration of energies on the
sugar crop shows a decline. The par.
ceiling out of more than a million
acres of government land, in small
holdings to the people will contribute
to this tendency towards diversified
agriculture. The efforts which are
steadily made to induce laborers to
come there. including Russians and
Doukhobors. and all other kinds Of Eu.
ropeans, were again alluded to. But
China and Japan really furnish the
most effective workers for the cane.
fields, and hence the strength of the
demand for them. They want to come.
The Chinese of Honolulu contributed
toward the Chinese boycott OF Ameri
IAN goods by liberal subscriptions for
carrying on that movement at home
DR.. Scudder says that the American
element is still moving back toward
the mainland. The irrigation areas at
tract them, as do the fertile acres Of
Western Canada. The electorate IL
highly complex, and with, 1t must be
acknowledged, a large bribable elc
nent. The small American colony hat
even suffered a division of its owl
ranks on lines Of principle. A rea
backbone of public conscience the Isl
fnds lack, such as the hard.headeC
IA, mers and mechanics Of the hom'
republic furnish. Americanizatiol
comes slowly; still DR.. Scudder spok'
glowingly of the future Of the islands
commercially and strategically In tn
midst of the new Pacific ocean, witt
its American interests on both sides
: and with the Panama Canal ready L
bring to 1t, for trans.shipping. tn
commerce of half the world. No on
could. In any flight Of fancy, see tn
l. Honolulu of the future, In the unfolt
Ing of the world policies OF this grea
J. republic and the spread of our civil
ration. Its place is bound to be In
J. portant; It should be stated and mali
tained on the lines that lead to tru
y success, moral as well as material.
u Other speakers on Hawaiian affair
: deplored the application of our coas
wise shipping laws to the islands, r,
stricting the population to the fe'
Y vessels flying American flags, in ge
= ting back and forth from the mail
: land-the most restrictive measures {
, this kind which carries its own ec'
:, nomic loss. Fewer people visit tn
Islands because OF this complication
:. and the traffic between British Colun
;" bIan ports and Honolulu is growing I
y the expense of American ports, b
- cause OF this restraint.
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