The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-08
JOHN gMGUIRE HEARD FROM
. ON A CUBAN PLANTATION
Former Merchant Street Hackman Gives His
Views on the Comparative Merits OF Cuba
and Hawaii Laborers and Settlers.


mixture; when cool, it resembles very
much the raw sugar 1 saw in Hawai-
In riding through this country, one
would almost think he was in Hawaii
with the Royal palms, banyans and
algaroba trees, the sugar cane and
grass houses. But when he fails to
hear the rasp of the japanese slipper
and the click-clock of the wooden stools
the japanese women wear, or fails to
see a pigtail floating behind a long
stick with a basket suspended from
either end he surely knows he is not
in Hawaii. for you couldn't travel far
in Hawaii without coming across such
scenes. And yet this country gets
along without them and still raises
sugar cane, despite the fact there are
some people in Hawaii who seem to
think that if they can not have ORR
entail abor sugar can not be grown.
But it. can and will be grown without
Asiatics. 1t would be a great miss
fortune to this island if it could not.
And the sooner the planters of Hawaii
realize this, the better it will be for
themselves
1t is too bad that Mr.. Castle spent
good money on those counterfefts who
called themselves Molokans.
1 hope Mr. Stackable and Mr.. Fra
zier will be successful in their quest
for Portuguese. But would it not have
been better to have had some Portu-
guese who had improved his condition
in Hawaii accompany them? The
planters are a good deal like Tomph-
sons colt, who swan across the stream
to get drink. They are allowing the
Portuguese who are now there to leave
by not employing them. Mr.. Editor,
if there is any place on Gods green
earth fairer than Hawaii no man has
ever seen or heard of it; and if there
is any part of the United States or
their Territories that is more in need
of infusion of new blood-more of the
Teuton, Celt and Saxon energy-than
also no man knows of it. Those
are the races that would make Ha-
wall what it should be-American in
sentiment and reality, and not an Ash
attic colony under the American flag,
as it actually is today. But to bring
about this change, the control of the
sugar plantations must pass into other
hands. The writer we'll knows, as do
many others both in and outside of
Hawaii, that the planters, as a whole,
nave never made an honest effort to
procure white labor or to Amercanize
he Territory. Individually, some Of
hem have, but the majority are
against it. Each set of them have
heir own reasons: Some fear the loss
If political control; some won't be sat
SIZED if all the people don't say their
prayers in the same house of worship
With them; others think their dividends
will be smaller; and the foreigners
lon't want the Territory to be Amer
can under any condition. BAH What
lot of people to call themselves Amer
cans Where is the patriotism they
Ill showed the day the American flag
vas hoisted for good and for aye over
Hawaii? The writer was on the island
f Maui that day and we'll remembers
eading in the Advertiser of the scenes
hat took place in Honolulu. Their
'atriotism must have been eaten up
y the leaf hopper. Their latest move
n trying to get Portuguese goes to
rove one of my statements. They !
now these people cannot or will not
ote-a fact which is evidAnced by the :
lrge number of Portuguese who have
cen in the Territory for many years
nd yet do not vote. Would it not {
e better for the planters to abolish
heir highly-pafd lobby in Washington
nd establish instead a labor bureau
/ New York to procure immigrants
1ere and send them to Hawaii. That
the place where they will find the
euton, the Celt, the Saxon and other I