The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-06

Garter of Hawaii is of such public in
terest and 50 clearly reveals Hawaii's
unfortunate condition that it is pub
lished in full:
MY Dear Sir-You ask me to state
what the United States owes Hawaii.
If you mean by that to strike a balance
between what the United States have
given and what they have received
from Hawaii, then Uncle Sam certain
ly owes nothing.
There is no one thing of greater adj
vantage to a community than the sta
bility of its government and the safety
of it's future. The ordinary American
of today lives in an atmosphere of such
implicit confidence in the great strength
of his own Government that he cannot
appreciate such a situation as former
ly existed in these islands.
IT, however, you mean to ask, What
should the United States do to insure
the progress and development of these
islands, and thus prove to the world
that Americans have the sagacity and
ability to successfully direct and con-
troll the affairs of non-contiguous ter
ritory and its people, then there is
much that can be said.
To my mind, the two most important
problems in relation to Hawaii are
connected with immigration and fl
nance.
SO far as immigration is concerned, l
EAm not yet convinced but that there
may be a solution of it without the
Necessity of congressional action. There
are few here who are making every
] off TO g III mt in
This would be far more simple if only
our immigration laws were construed
TO permit the Territory itself to assist
In securing people from some foreign
country who could become citizens.
How can we increase the population of
these islands and thus develop them,
isolated as they are in the middle of
the Pacific Ocean, without providing
the means of transportation?
There are those who express the OPT
Mon that it was a mistake to make
Hawaii a Territory-an integral part of
the Union. They claim she was an
neXed too soon; that the idsa of a pos
session had not then been developed by
the Supreme Court decisions.
BE that as it may there is no method
of undoing what has been done. Ha-
waits situation today is therefore uni
que. In the minds of many she is
ciassed as a possession" along with
Porto Rico and the Philippines. At the
last Republican National convention
that great political party cut down
Hawaii's representation from six to
two delegates classifying her with the
possessions of the United States, i'm
the face of regulation which allowed
all Territories six delegates and which
was construed to admit that number
from the so called Indian Territory,
which is an area of land simply under
the direction of the Secretary of the
Interior, and from Alaska which has
not even a Legislative body.
Congress gave to Hawaii a form of
Government with greater powers than
any other Territory, probably recog-
nizing how entirely untitled the usual
form of territorial government, Great
ed for sparsely settled frontiers, would
be for community with seventy-five
years of history, during which, as an
independent kingdom, they had strug-
gled with not only the problems con-
nected with their own internal affairs
but complicated and intricate foreign
relations.
However, as thesa islands are an in
tegral part of the Union they are sub
iect to all laws passed by Congress, and
our Federal legislative machinery is Of
such magnitude that it is almost i'm
possible TO make Congress realize that
tropical conditions i'm Hawaii require
that she be excepted and exempted
from the operation of many laws which
are passed, with sound reason, to meet
conditions which exist on the MAIN
land And if success is to crown Anne
rican control of Hawaii, these facts
, must not be lost sight Of, and as she
cannot for some time be admitted as a
, state, then she must have because of
her unique position special legislation
! from time to time.
Hawaii's main industry and her prin-
cipal source Of wealth is the production
of sugar, and from the wealth so OBJ
= tanned she has in the past secured the
means for her progress and advance
ment. Whether wisely or not, she bull
{ up an industrial system by using the
l machinery, brains and capital Of thu
9 | Occident i'm combination with labOl
from the Orient, and she justiies sucl
a course by pointing to the fact tina
no other tropical country in so short {
period of time has made such a re
: cord.
, Coming under the full operation o
i the laws of the United States, Uncl
Sam has practically said that the in
dustrial system in Hawaii is wrong
that it has produced no middle elias
but has created wealth at the eXpens
of citizenship. Our intelligent citizen
are willing to admit that It would hav
been far better if the fifty or siXt,
thousand laborers in Hawaiis can
fields had been citizens. But they claim
some credit for what has been accom-
plished
Thus since annexation immigration
to the islands has been practically Gu