The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-12-18
FROM The PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

testing their capacity for self-gOvernment
by summoning the first Filipino legisa-
tive assembly, and the way in which they
stand this test will largely determine
whether the self-government thus grant
ed will be increased or decreased; tor
if we have erred at all in the Philip
pines it has been in proceeding too ra-
pidly in the direction of granting a large
measure of self-government We are
building roads. We have, for the inn
measurable good Of the people, arranged
for the building of railroads. Let us also1
see to it THAT they are given free access
to our markets. This nation owes no
more imperative duty to itself and man
kind than the duty of managing the af-
fairs Of all the islands under the Ameri-
nan fiag-thc Philippines. Porto Rico and
| Hawaii-so as to make it evident that if
is in every way TO their advantage that
the flag should fly over them
MAKE PORTO RICANS
AMERICAN CITIZENS.
American citizenship should be con
| ferred on the citizens of Porto Rico !
| The harbor of San Juan in Porto Rico |
should be dredged and improved. The |
expenses of the federal court of Porto !
Rico should be met from the Federal !
| treasury. The administration of the af- |
| fairs of Porto Rico together with those /
of the Philippines. Hawaii and our other
insular possessions, should al be direct
ed under one executive department; by
preference the Department of State or
the Department of War.
The needs of Hawaii are peculiar
every aid should be given the islands
y and our efforts should be unceasing to
develop them along the lines of a com
munity of small freeholders, not of great
planters with etiled estates. Situa
ted as this Territory is, i'm the middle
e of the Pacific there are duties imposed
1 upon this small community which do
not fall in like degree or manner uDon
any other American community. This
warrants our treating it differently from
: the way in which we treat territories
r contiguous to or surrounded by sister ter
ritories or other States, and justifes
the setting aside of a portion of our rev.
e enues to be expended for educational and
i internal improvements therein. Hawaii
= is now making an effort to secure imTni-
grafton fit in the end to assume the du-
% ties and burdens of full American citi-
r izenship. and whenever the leaders in tho
various industries of those islands final
s. " adopt our ideals and heartily join our
administration in endeavOring to develop
y middle class of substantial citizens. n
J. way will tlren be found to deal with the
D. commercial and industrial problems which
b, Inow appear to them so serious The
W best Americanism is that which aims for
L stability and pnrmancncy of prosperous
Id citizenship. rather than immediate re-
A. turns on large masses Of capital
. REORGANIZE ALASKAN
N GOVERNMENT PLAN
II Alaskas needs have been partially met
in but there must be a complete reOrganza
n ton of the governmental system, as
- ;vJ tod 20 IL
S. your especial attention to this. Our fe
IS low citizens who dwell on the shores OF
ID Puget Sound with characteristic energy
in are arranging to hold in Seattle the
70 Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition. it,
l. special aims include the building of Alas
IS ka and the development of American
k commerce on the Pacific Ocean. This
70 exposition in its purpose and scope, should
&c appeal not only to the people of the Pac
as fic slope, but to tire people of the United
m States Mt large. Alaska, since it was
10 bought has yielded to the Government
or eleven million OF dollars of revenue anC
n lras produced nearly three hundred mil
h lions of dollars in gold ,furs and fish
I, When properly developed it will become
- in large degree a land of homes. All tn
=, countries bordering the Pacific Oceal
~ have a population more numerous than
~ that of all the countries of Europe; thei
L, annual foreign commerce AMOUNTS 10 owe
three billions of dollars, of which tn
share of the United States is some sever
e hundred millions of dollars. If this
ca trade were thoroly understood an push
by ed by our manufacturers and producers
Us the industries not only of the Pacifi
" slope, but of all our country, and par
81 ticularly of our cotton growing States
10 would be greatly benefited. OF course
en- in order to get these benefits we mus
IS treat fairly the countries with which W
II trade.