The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-27
HAWAII AS SEEN BY REV. DR.. JONES:
Missionary to Koreans
impressed by What
He Sees Here.
By Rev. DIR. Heber C. Jones.

the glorious climate of California
stretches like a great mantle over these
Pacific Island wards of hers and on
Hawaii her winter sunshine reaches its
ultimate perfection" AS DR.. Jordan is
a Californian that may be a good way
it is the glorious climate of Hawaii
that beneficently extends it's gentle in
nuence over California. 1t is useless
for me to give my Impressions of the
climate and scenery of the islands for
the English language is already bank
rupt from the efforts of my predeces-
sors. Such expressions as summer
seas, emerald isles, pink and purple
sunsets. pulsing surfbeat. garland
craigs, Ieaping cascades, plumy palms,
remote SUBMITS and cloud rack, have
been compelled to do such yeoman ser
vice they are threadbare. Mark Twain
stole all my thunder in regard to seen
cry and climate and 1 can only ex-
claim in the classic phrase of Senator
Thomas Plat, Me too!''
WHERE EAST AND WEST MEET.
The first impression I received as L
walked the streets of Honolulu was
that here is the rest point of contact
between the Occident and the Orient.
The people of America have come two
thousand miles into midocean and met
the stream of humanity from Asia's
golden shores called upon it to have
pause and get acquainted. The flag
floats over no spot more American in it's
than Hawaii, at the same time no
where else does the Asiatic bulk so
largely into view as here. What
testimony it is to the silent irresistible
sway of American thought and instl-
tutions that in order to preserve some
traces of their ancestry in the younger
generation of these people it is nee
essary to parallel the public school
with national schools of their own Ian
guage and literature. AS a result OF
this contact Hawaii is working out one
of the gigantic social problems of our
time-the Fellowship of the races 1t
is inevitable that when two races OF
differing institutions and origin live
together there should be friction and
attrition, and the coming of our neigh
bors from beyond the seas has precip-
itated some intricate problems. but SO
far as L can see, the basal principle
he SOlV-
ed-namely that of good will and
fair chance for all men-has been dis
covered and is being applied.
FAIR TREATMENT.
There is a total absence of what is
called on the mainland the Jim Crow
spirit which is in a degree responsible
for the peaceful situation in Hawaii.
This was true of the relations of
Americans with the Hawaiian people,
and, now that they have become our
brothers in the great republics seen
in dealing with Asiatics. 1t is delight
full to find no trace in public thought
and public conduct of the jingoism or
the Kearneyites, the Murphyites, the
Gomperites and the sandlot-ites, when
in another region has marred our re-
Iations with friendly nations and
which mobbed a distinguished sclen-
tis+ like DR.. Mort because he was
Japanese. In saying this L am not
decrying that fair and inevitable dlner-
ence of opinion which is the privilege
of intelligent men, but refer 10 thaC
shirt of violence toward men of anoth-
or race which all law abiding citizens
deprecate There is an honest diner
ence OF opinion on the As1at1c ques-
ton here as elsewhere but 1t has not
found expression in a branh or the
Jananese-Korean Exclusion League and
am very sure that if our Asiat1c
friends realized fully how friendly is
the spirit and helpful are the condi-
lions here fewer of them would con-
tinue on to the mainland. /
SOLVING GREAT PROBLEMS.
am not unaware that the Asiat1c
has been introduced into the Islands
for economic. not benevolent purposes.
They We're Heeueo ~ hi0SI '
of the chief industry. There are many
nhases of this I am not competent 10
discuss. On thing that has impressed
me is that this pause of the Aslatlcs
hero has given US chance to study
them and learn their possibilities and
a snirations. Thus Hawaii in solving
ono of her own problems is also in a
more remote sense making real con-
+ribution to the solution of a very
intricate and embarrassing race prob
Low and is putting the nation at
large in her debt. These ISLANDS nave
been a great school of experimental
tion and the residents here have be-
come in a remarkable degree experts
J., dealing with AsiaticS and it would