The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-14
PRESIDENTS
MESSAGE
(Continued from Page One.)
REFERENCE TO HAWAII

Continued from Page One)
REFERENCE TO HAWAII
The needs of HAWAII are peculiar;
every aid should be given the islands;
and our efforts should be unceasing to
develop them along the lines of COM
munity of small freeholders, not Of
great planters with coolie-tilled es-
tates
Situated as this Territory is in the
| middle of the Pacific, there are duties
imposed upon this small community
which do not fall in like degree OF
| manner upon any other american
community.
| This warrants our treating it diff
ferently from the way in which we
treat Territories contiguous to or sur
rounded by sister Territories or other
States, and justifies the setting aside
of a portion of our revenues to be ex-
pended for educational and internal
| improvements therein
| Hawaii is now making an effort to
| secure immigration fit in the end to as
| sumo the duties and burdens of full
| American citizenship, and whenever
| the leaders in the various industries
Of those islands finally adopt our
| ideals and heartily join our admins
tration in endeaVoring to develop
middle class of substantial citizens,
| way will then be found to deal with
| the commercial and Industrial problems
which now appear to them so serious.
| 1.-The best Americanism is that which
aims for stability and permanency of
prosperous citizenship, rather than inn
mediate returns on large masses of cap
ital.'
ON THE JAPANESE.
After pronouncing a eulogy upon the
Japanese nation and people the Pres
ident says:
Through the Red Cross the japanese
people sent over 100000 to the sufferers
of San Francisco, and the gift was &C
cepted with gratitude by our people.
The courtesy of the Japanese nation
ally and individually, has become pro-
verbal. To no other country has there
been such an increasing number of Wis
itors from this land as to Japan. In
return Japanese have come here in
great numbers. They are welcome, So
ciaIly and intellectually, in all our col
leges and institutions of higher learn
bodies. The japanese have won in
single generation the right to stand
abreast of the foremost and most en-
frightened peoples of Europe and Amer
lea; they have won on their own merits
and by their own exertionS the right
to treatment on a basis of full and
frank equality.
THE overwhelming mass of our peo-
pie cherish a lively regard and respect
for the people of Japan, and in almost
every quarter of the Union the stranger
from Japan is treated as he deserves
that is, he is treated as the stranger
from any part of civilized Europe is
and deserves to be treated. But here
and there a most unworthy feeling has
manifested itself toward the japanese
the feeling that has been shown in
shutting them out from the common
schools in San Francisco, and in NUT
terings against them in one two
other places because of their efficiency
as workers.
A WICKED ABSURDITY.
ITO shut them out from the public
schools is a wicked absurdity, when
there are no frst-class colleges in the
land, including the universities and
colleges of California, which do not
on which japanese students do not re-
fleet credit. We have as much to learn
from Japan as Japan has to learn from
US, and no nation is fit to teach unless
it is also willing to learn. Throughout
Japan Americans are we'll treated, and
any failure on the part of Americans
at home to treat the Japanese with a
like courtesy and consideration is by
Just so much confession of inferiority
in our own civilization.
Our nation fronts on the Pacific, just
as it fronts on the Atlantic. We hope
to play a constantly growing part in
the great ocean of the Orient. We
wish. as we ought to wish, for a great
commercial development in our deal
ings with Asia, and it is out of the
question that we should permanently
have such development unless We free
ly and gladly extend to other nations
the same measure of justice and good
treatment which we expect to receive
in return. 1t is only a very small body
of our citizens that act badly. Where
the Federal government has power it
will deal Summarily with any such.
Where the several States have power
1 earnestly ask that they also deal
wisely and promptly with such con-
duct, or else this small body of wrong
doors may bring shame upon the great
mass of their innocent and right-think-
ing fellows-that is, upon our nation as
whole. Good manners should be an
international no less than an individual
attribute. I ask fair treatment for the
Japanese as I would ask fair treatment
for Germans or Englishmen, French
+ men, Russians or Italians. / ask it as
due to humanity and civilization. 1
. ask it as due to ourselves because we