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

81 uon take much stock In the
proposition that we should get three
quarters OF the Federal revenue TO b:
expended for improvements within the
Territory. In the first place 1 believs
that the great bulk of that viii be
| FEDERAL Improvements that will CONS
here sooner or later anyhow 1 do not
believe it wise fer US to put ourselves
as a Territory in special class OF
category. I think it is enough if we
have all the rights and privileges OF
other Territories. I fear that when we
/ want something from Congress it will
be thrown up to us that we should not
have it because we have already got
this provision whereby three-quarters
of the Federal revenues are expended
! within the Territory. In the long run l
don't think we shall gain much by it.;
and I believe that the Territorial end
| IF it viii be rather small
Al certainly believe there is a fine
opening for other agricultural indus
| tries besides sugar but they nave 10
| be tropical or semi-tropical industries.
/ We never can compete with the west
ern states in raising corn, wheat etc.
! We even buy eggs and butter from the
| coast now and it will continue, to do it
more or less; and that is simply a
sample of the clear line of denmark
alton between industries that will pay
/ in this territory and those that will
not
! In my opinion there is a great open
F.! ing for tropical and semi-tropical
agricultural industries which come
/ within the protection of the tariff. For
| instance. pineapples are protected, as
also canned fruits. What is the result?
/ The pineapple business has got a fair
start now in the Territory. and inside
! of ten years we shall be producing
and canning quantity of this fruit
j that will be a revelation. There is
! great opening for tobacco; that is
protected. But the minute you get on
to tropical industry which is not
| protected so that it has to be raised in
competition with the hordes of cheap
| labor found in most tropical countries,
that minute you make it impossible for
that industry to thrive in Hawaii.
When we were annexed we took uD-
on ourselves the obligation to main
tain wages and conditions on Ameri
can lines. We do not want to do it,
hut we have to do it. and it is best for
us that we should. But the corollary
of that is if our industries are to be
conducted on these lines the protec
ton of the tariff is absolutely indis-
pensable; far more so than in the in
dustries in the states which do not
come into competition with cheap Ia
Dor of Asiatic countries. In the Unit
cd States the tariff was created large
~ to head off competition with the
European labor market, but that COM
petition is Heaven alongside of the
to meet in raising products in direct
competition with Asiatic countries
where they have labor and vast sup
ply Of if. which can be had at wage
upon which our people cannot even
existl If states like Ohio. New York
and PENNSYLVANIA need protection in
such industries as the iron industry
against European labor, what do you
subpose Hawaii will need in the way
of protection in carrying on agricul-
+'lro1 in3r,stroe where the competition
is not with white men, but with Asia
abr, where competition is i'm
possible?
I am a Democrat. but figures can
not lie in this matter. l believe that
one white man can compete with an
other white man living practically TN
der the same Industrial system and
the same civilization, but when it
comes to white men against Asiatics,
or any man, white or dark, who lives
as an American and wants to live as an
American. there has to be protection
of some kind or it cannot be done.
And it is for that reason that I was
strongly opposed 70 this Philippine
free trade bill If they want to make
the Philippines a territory and sub
Jet them to the conditions to which
Hawaii is subjected then they have
the privilege of free trade and protec-
tian. too. But as I understand it !
Hawaii is expected to be American :,
through and through. She is to give
up Asiatic cheap labor and create
scale of wages here and conditions
that will permit people living as +
Americans should. to come in here;
and that means that we have got to
have the benefit of the American in /
dustrial institutions to meet the de- /
1nand put upon us by the very fact
that we were annexed.
81 believe our land laws are Well
suited to the advancement of Ameri-
cans in the Territory 1t would be alb
surd to attempt to extend the land
laws of the United States to Hawaii.
II you Will ~ vest ctli IIlt idIiI It1J
in the sugar plantations and other
the surest and quickest
way to do it is to extend the Ameri-
can land laws here whereby people
can go in and get patent to their lands
and sell out to the plantations at a
figure that will make it pay Ia stool
pigeon to take a hand. One cannot
read our land laws without being i'm
pressed with the idea that they are
drawn honestly and squarely to pre-
serve the small settler. if there is any
hope or chance to do il.
6.-The japanese certainly do take
kindly to American ideas. They are
L great people: great enough to alb
sorb Hawaii in spite of annexation,
Unless the United States keeps her
yes open. and very wide open. This
s said without disparaging the Japa- :
lese: they are doing simply what our
ace has done from time immemorial. =