The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-14

the Presidents declared policy for
another independent government in
Cuba. Hence the added importance of
such pleas as eX-Secretary Foster
makes. Secretary Taft is credited in
inside official circles with being luke
warm toward the Presidents plan for
the reason that he does not believe
it possible of execution. His sympa-
thies are rather with a large contin-
gent of Congress that would establish
strong protectorate or take the is
land over Immediately and have no
further ado about it.
Big debates are in prospect, for the
Cuban question will be threshed out
when it comes to deciding whether the
cost of Intervention, now mounting up
to $2,000,OO0, shall be saddled upon
Cuba. The profiigate Cuban Congress
has plunged the island in debt for
about all the people can stand. The
American Congress will have to delib-
crate carefully before placing an ad
ditional burden upon their wards
While the race phase of the situation
will be kept in the background as
much as possible, it is none the less
a fact that the attitude OF the Cuban
negroes and their utter shiftlessness
are very discouraging to the friends of
Cuban independence. The president is
aware of all these things, disclosures
regarding which have by no means
heartened him for carrying out his
plans.
OTHER RACE TROUBLES.
The race question is coming to plague
the administration from still other
quarters The Brownsville trouble and
the Cuban trouble ought to suffice, but
the Japanese trouble on the Pacific
Coast is essentially a race question and
the President has his hands full in
finding a solution for it. Secretary of
Commerce and Labor Metcalf is back
here and has told what he found at
San Francisco. Japanese Ambassador
Aoki is going to San Francisco to find
out a few things for himself. The Cal
ifornia delegation in Congress is now
speeding toward Washington. clamor
ing with one voice, for a japanese
exclusion act.
CALIFORNIANS DETERMINED.
They refuse to take no for an an
swer. Bills for Japanese exclusion VIII
be introduced and pressed this winter.
OF course, they have no chance of pass
ing, but the Californians are terribly
in earnest and are planning long !
campaign. lHeN Will De CoIIIllIS Win
the same determination a year from |
row and will show the Republican |
leaders how California will go over to |
the Democracy bag and baggage-as it |
did about the time of the agitation for |
Chinese exclusion-unless the Federal |
acts. 1t is claimed that |
after campaign of education. Con-
gress Will exclude the Japanese. The |
clusion was scoffed at in official circles
here, when first broached, and that
wise men declared the enactment of
such a law impossible and absurd.
REAPING THE WHIRLWIND.
1t remains to be seen what a Repub
l;can Congress and a Republican Pres
ident can do in the course of the next
eighteen months, before another gen
aral election, under the argument of po-
iticaI expediency. enforced by the de-
mands of organized labor. 1t seems
that the Republicans of the North,
after making political capital out of
-ace problems in the South for a quar-
ter of a century, must reap as they
nave sown. The South and the Far
West have come into accord on race
questions and their stand in the dis
eussion of Brownsville, Cuba and San ;
Francisco NAV contribute something to
he edification OF the country. A flood
If European immigrants has begun to
,our into the South within a few
weeks. which makes the negro less de- ]
irable as a laborer in that section. !
This viii accentuate race feeling in the I
curse Of few years, unless the ne
.roes tegin to hustle more for them
elves and become more useful in the
ommunity. !
THE PHILIPPINES. t
The intense ambition of Cubans to I
-et on The government rolls, Secretary $
aft finds is shared by the Philippine
Yards. in whose welfare he has much |
oncern. The past week the Secretary
ad an afternoon or two with former c
Governor General Ide, who explained I
O him a lot about what the Philip {
inc Commission has been doing since I
he Secretary last visited Manila.
4 popular assembly, is to be set up in I
he islands next year. although not as i
ar,v as generally supposed. 1t can y
.erdlv meet before next September. '
Ne Secretary plans 10 be on hand for {
hat eventful gathering But he Is f
considerably exercised lest the assem- {
1v he comrosed of carpetbaggers from
JaniIa. When the act creating the as Y
emily was passed. the legislative dis Y
riots for the many islands were care I
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