The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-11-23
JUDGE HATCH
TAKES ISSUE
WITH kINCAID
The former Supreme Court Justice
PIumpIy Disputes the Charges
Made at Mohonk Conference.

United States demand that the Japa-
nese shall be excluded from Hawaii.
These men, themselves, decline to go
to Hawaii at any price; they decline
to accept the homeSteadS which are
freely offered to them under the Ra-
waiian land law; they refuse to do
farm work in Hawaii, and insist that
no Oriental shall be allowed to do it.
Truly if their plans are fulfilled, Ha-
waii will be in a desperate strait. The
Japanese in Hawaii are leaving in
great numbers for the mainland, being
tempted by the high wages offered dur
ing the harvest season. But in Ha-
wall they get steady work the year
around. In addition to the SIS or 500 a
month Cmany of them earn 800 which
they earn in Hawaii they receive
houses, fuel and medical attendance
without charge, and have garden
patches which they can cultivate for
their own use if they choose. They,
as q general rule, do not better their
conditions in California.
The Japanese Government in it's
great desire to comply with the wishes
of the American Government in respect
to emigra ton of their people, have re-
fused to allow more than very linn
tied number to leave Japan in any one
month for Hawaii. or any part of the
United States. Hence the scarcity of
labor. In two branches of industry
the Japanese easily excel the whites
as carpenters and as BARRIERS. I admit
that for ordinary jobs and repairing
japanese carpenters are preferred to
American; because the Japanese do a
superior quality of work at a smaller
price. They seem unable to bungle
with tools. In other branches of in
dustry the Japanese in Hawaii COM
pete little, if at all, with whites. They
are poor painters. and can not touch
Hawaiians in the foundries and ma
chine shops.
Again, Mr.. Kincaid says that Hawaii
is suffering from the capitaliza-
ton of the new plantations We have
suffered from over-speculation in plan
tation shares, not from over-ca pitaliza-
ton. The new plantations have all re-
quired to borrow from one to two mil
lion dollars in order to complete their
development. Surely that is not a
sign of over-capitaliZation.
Again, Mr.. kincaid states that the
race problem is intense in Hawaii and
that the HawaiianS are a dying people.
There never has been a race problem
in Hawaii in the sense those words are
commonly understood There has never
been a color line drawn in our happy
islands. The Hawaiians are received
on terms of social equality with the
whites, and always have been. For a
dying race they have at present a very
strong hold on the political situation.
The Hawaiian vote controls a majority
in the lower house of the Legislature
and has IA strong representation in the
Senate. The truth is that a very large
number of the native Hawaiians appre-
ciate fully what it is to be an Amer
lean citizen.
Sentimentality, mawkish or other, ap-
peals only to their lower instincts.
When an appeal is made to their man
hood the HawaiianS are capable Of
it and responding. They
have in them the making of American
citizens of the type of which none need
be ashamed.
FRANCIS NJ. HATCH
ST. Johnsbury, VT, Oct. %.