The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-12
W. N. ARMSTRONG ON THE
HAWAIIAN MISSIONARIES
(SPeech at AIohonk Conference
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dren native born anil all American citizens reach man
nod the voting majority Territory will sa.v ,as, pt tr
ahos hese Asiatic children educated IN public schools
d0 Ielsh literature sing English songs ard live within an
American environment They know little of ASIA and I f he
customs and traditions ancestors aa : their nov,
Dung their school days they daily salute
nag In business matters they only American methods
1t IS probable that the will gradually bn1 N c
islands Benjamin Kidd that it is blunder 10
me "le man Iii the tropics Charles H work titled
National Life says: Europeans cannot flourish
under the Tropics and will with the hand where the in
terror race works. accept these conclusions only
tons tie farmer the backbone nation or of an isolated
community the Americans will furnish backbone
Inc Asatlcs, well as the Portuguese
ontnmber the Americans farmers Hawaii When the Aner
can farmer comes with the Asatc farmer has
ne Will withdraw, fail The American in Ha
Wa will maintain the supremacy until the
haVeDorn Asales greatly outnumbe him.
deo III american Methods strong enough form
I've social body which will compete with him as
they do IN the British colonies and take away Engsmen
We shall have within half century large Asatc commun-
ty IN Hawaii partially isolated from ocean barriers
put dominating IN political and probably commercial life
Will this population when raised
1ons reply positively American population thoughts
and ways 1t is generally said that there radical difference
tween the Occidental ablest writer on
the character of the Japanese Sidney Guck Hawaiian
Dorm out resident Tor many in Japan in his remarkable
book tilted the Evolution of the Japanese differ
ence between the Occdenta and the Oenas biological
purely social He claims that has been able specifically
show that this difference other than that
only social difference to
hold their own in industrial and commercial life will alate their
civilizations great Assuming the truth
American Asa1cs born citizens OF America in beautiful but $50
lated section of territory They may hall
million people They will be trained they being
Cd according to the very best methods OF national of
education They will speak the Aatic language
They will be assimiated the alien which
of New England being assmi1ated
Moreover and is matter of Importance
wodconact which this nation is making that this Aac
the of the Pacific
all Asia brilliant headlight OF the American civilization.
The permanent forms institutions Hawaii of such
esti1abe in
zaon is the work of the quiet small and jealous Mission Ha
by only five of the white inhabitants of the Territory
GLIDING missionaries and their allies there behind them the
supreme power of the Federal Government.
before the Federal power reached
Reinforced these institutions there times
King Kaaua attempted exercise dspoc power this mission
airy exQueen g
instincts abrogae Constitution
rebellion abolished Monarchy
of fathers But they abolished their
the mainland the British from the Con-
nent in 775 and for the same reasons and no others
About twenty years large and desirable immigration Of
Portuguese Islands abandoned of
cheaper Japan. The prevailing commercial
md public sentiment of Hawaii took account OF the 1t
naturally looked only a its bank
The phantIopists will regard this political shogtedness
peerring japanese the Lans indeed fortunate It threw
large Asatc Immigration and to the contest OF
great uninentionav established the way
planting American soil large body OF natveborn Asiatics The
political condition OF the Islands nguay favorable
Occidental and Oriental
+1 - ~ sifayernren+ b1 Asiatc citizens for there are
prejudces insult the
Dung scope school grand that of any
University and its pupils will number the entire Aac population
)ut of this great industrial school in practical politics. supplement-
with very best public school education which the Americans
suggest will within several generations of ma
Asatcs vino will indirectly all that is best in Aeri
an life o the very heart OF the Orient. ~
deeply planted i'll Hawaii by the P
United
place territory the Federal Constitution
suffering social legal conditions If the
removing the political disabilities which prevent
intelligent wealthy Asatics from sharing the
1t1yfa o
policy present Aatic be good
tizen it would be useless overwhelming