The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-24

lication. Success, has at least three
hundred and sixty Chinese subscribers
/ in Honolulu.
Continuing, the Rev. Doremus in
forms the world through the columns
of the Outlook that - the Chinese is the
most law abiding immigrant We have;
EHe is a good taxpayer; ninety
two per cent of his children attend
school, and throughout the schools of
the Territory they are ranked as the
best pupils;' the Rev. Doremus quotes
the Governor of the Territory as say
ing that the Chinese as public servants
are five hundred per cent. better
than public servants of other nation
alities. This includes Americans.
Furthermore, we are told that the
Chinese is patient, saving, industri-
Gus. temperate and thoroughly relia-
ble.'' The president of the bank is
quoted as saying that young Chinese
taken into his bank learn quickly and
prove reliable, "while it takes white
young man much longer, and he will
make many more Mistakes
This about completes the list of the
virtues of the Hawaiian Chinese as
seen by the Rev. Doremus Scudder.
And his conclusion from these premises
follows naturally: Since the Chinese
is such fine product of evolution, su-
perior to US in so many respects, why
not marry one of our tail daughters
Helen or Margaret or Isabel-to a nice
Chinese youth-Pow Sing or Sing Fat
or Lee Quoy-and improve the stock?
Well, why not? Why not? Why
not?
And our suave friend, the Rev.
Doremus Scudder, argues on this point
not only a priority but a posteriori-ly.
1T is conceded by everybody he says,
that the cross between the Chinese
and Hawaiian gives to the territory
it's best elements be-
yond compare above the half white.
Match the Anglo-SaXon and
the Polynesian; the white hereditary
goes to pieces. The result is a crea-
ture weaker, less reliable, and more
tickle than either parent. But the Chi
nese tones up the Hawaiian into
stable, keen-witted, Industrious ma
ture upon which the best sort of char
acter can be built. So marked
is this contrast that thoughtful men
have been led to ponder seriously the
problem presented. Hawaii's
the Chinese immigrant laborer may
prove valuable asset to the Union
in the problem of racial amalgamation
it seems true, that the Chi
nese has, through his centuries of de-
velopment, reached a far more stable
plane of development than the Anglo
Saxon. The Chinaman is real
ly needed by us in our preparation for
the great industrial future now dawn
ing upon the world. The next great
one is to be one of industrial struggle.
The man whom the past has made in
dustrially fit is bound to be the sur
vivor here. No one can study the Chi
naman without realizing that nature
has expended her ingenuity in fashion,
ing him into a consummate economic
fighter. In some respects he represents
the summit of the evolutionary process
He can give all other nationalfties odds
and yet win. Who is to train
America to survive in the inevitable
encounter? Who but, the man whom
nature has so rarely equipped with
industrial powers. Not exclusion, not
isolation, but closer association, is the
demand of the exigency facing Anglo
Careful language, that of the Rev. J
Doremus Scudder, but unmistakable
the meaning. Let us encourage Chi
nese immigration, marry our daughters
to the immigrants, and thus improve
the white race SO that America can
still maintain her supremacy in the
struggle for the Industrial supremacy
Of the world-that's the meaning.
And we'll. why not? Why not, in
deed? Maybe that's the solution of the
problem. Maybe the Rev. Doremus
IS right? But personally we must con-
TESS to a real feeling of gladness, a
1eep sense Of satisfaction in the
thought that. before the day dawns
when the American people will be a
composite OF the white and yellow
aces, we shall be very dead, and nice
y buried so deep we can not see
No, we do not believe we should like
o see a thin yellow stream trickle in
o veins whose blood goes back to
Norman kings, to Teuton lords, to vi
,ings bold We do not think we should
are to live a day when slender sway
ng girls. with blue eyes and yellow
AIR, would up the church aisle white
eiled go, there to promise to "love,
onor, and obey a yellow man whose
yes God set as sign aslant In their
ockets. We would not care to see the .
agoda replace the church spire We
couldn't like to see Homer and Virgil
'ante and Shakespeare-nen of whose
ace we are-struggIing for supremacy
s classics with Lao-Tse and Mencius
nd Tsang-Ts'an. We wouldn't trade
hrist for Confucius We wouldn't
rade a Beethoven or a Bach for the
IAN who made the music that the
hinese know Yes. we shall be glad
, be dead when-and if-oh, yes, and
the day ever dawns when the white
ace to which you and I belong "amaI-
with the yellow according to
ne plans and anticipations of the Rev.
'oremus Scudder, of Hawaii.-Argo-
aut