The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-16

+ lave 80. 10 De American or they
can not remain part of thu United
suites And II the sugar plantations
are going 10 hopelessly block the
Understanding OF the islands. then II
Is tue Plantations that have IN 90 and
chaer these circumstances many in
teIilge1r plantation men are honestly
1idlng the plan TO set European labor.
They may not all be as liberal as they
niSht he; il is matter OF education.
they are developing, and 1 believe the
tendency Is towards widening of their
appreciation of the necessity of getting
INFO line with the sentiments ON ne
mainland.
SIMS IS answered by what I have
already said
81 believe it is sheer nonsense to
talk of getting Americans of Anglo
Saxon descent to work on sugar plan
tation as laborers; but there is no
reason why the Latin can not be as
simulated here. and there is no reason
why he can not work on the planta-
I ons. The answer on that point is
that lie has come here; there is
colony of eighteen or nineteen thou
sand Portuguese in this country who
love the country, who have made the
best possible labor on the pianta-
items in all branches. and who have
largely drifted away from the plan
tatfons simply because of the influx
of japanese labor here. which, for a
while. worked for very cheap wages.
and under that pressure the Portu-
guese have naturally drifted to the
cities though a great many still re-
main on the plantations. generally att
some special job: but they are well
fitted to handle the sugar industry
from A to z. And if We had been
wise enough to keep on importing
those people we could have had an |
hundred thousand of them here today !
ard there would have been no Asiatic !
question here to deal with.
10.-As to whether the islands are
of value 10 the United States in time
of peace is hard to say I think that
the main reason for annexing the !
islands was and always will be that .
they would have been a downright :
menace to the whole Pacific coast in |
the hands of a powerful maritime ma
ton. II you could blow the islands |
~ and move the people to the main
land, perhaps it would be in the inter-
ests of the United States that it {
should be done. but they are here to
stay, and the United States has to
deal with them from that standpoint.
Ill certainly believe that the is
lands should be fortified and a navA
base established a Pearl Harbor. I
do not believe at all that the islands
will be an additional burden to the
United States in time of war; that
the United States has got just that
much more to take care of in time of
"a Gn
to ravage the Pacific coast until it has
driven the United States out of the
islands. that is. no concrete attack
on the coast could be made Some
fast cruiser might slip across and
raise the mischief for the time being,
but any vital serious attack upon the
Pacific coast can not be made without
first prying the United States out of
these islands. With a powerful Amer
lean feet in the Islands, it would be
absolutely foolhardy to attempt an at
tack upon the coast with their rear
subject to attack from that fleet
FL have no opinion on this ques-
ton. one way or the other
13.-I certainly believe the Tehuan-
tepec railway will bring US CONNER
cial advantage Our sugars are I'M
der contract to be shipped by that
railroad at reduced rates.
14-As to the transportation of tour
lists problem, L have not much to say.
| believe that if people realized what
a restful climate we have and a beau
tifuI country, many thousands would
come here who now go elsewhere The
fact that tourists who come here are
pleased. and in many, many
Instances return time and again, shows
that we have something here to offer.
think the transportation question will
solve Itself a. the different lines con-
lect up between the Asiatic coast and
he Pacific coast, and make Honolulu
4 port of call. A great deal, of course,
can be done by concerted action of our
own people. aided by railroads and
other transportation companies on the
Ito be continued)
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