The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-08

races-the kind of people to build VI
| d state or Territory. Let them be as
| particular about choosing their field
| hands as they are in choosing a man
! aSer; get the best to be found. even
| though 1t does cost a little more. and
| II VIII be the cheapes in the end
! Until an honest effort is made to Sc
cure this kind of labor. the writer.
among many others, cannot be made
| 10 believe their efforts are sincere to
| change existing conditions in Hawaii
1t is too bad that the land of Hearts
| Desire should be closed to the eau
caslan race. It is also too bad to
thlnh that few men, through greed
ana narrow-mindedness, should be
| willing to bring about such conditions
mere is no denying the fact that Ha-
wan today is not a place for white
working people, and in the writer's
| mind 1t will take some unforeseen in
cldent to make it such, something
which the planters do not even dream
OF at the present time. But so surely
as slavery was abolished, as the white
man oVercame in the struggles against
! the Indians, as the Mexicans were
w
Hawaii be one day peopled with white
men and be just as American as any
other State or Territoy under the
Stars and Stripes This will have the
attention of the President and Con-
gress, no matter what party is in
power, whether Democratic or Repub-
lican. That is Americanism, and that
is what has been accomplished in ey-
cry foot of territory that has been
either fought for, purchased or annex
ed since the time of Washington. The
planters of Hawaii may buck against
1t, but it will avail them nothing. Ha-
wall needs the United States more than
the United States needs Hawaii. What
would those little speckS out in the |
Pacific amount to We're they not an
nexed to the great and glorious nation |
of America? 1t is true they furnish |
America with the fifteenth part of the |
sugar it consumes, but Hawaii is not |
the only sugar producing country in |
the world; there are others, and more |
acoming. Watch out for them. for |
then Hawaii will have to hustle. She
won't have any advantage, it will be /
an even break, with the advantage, if |
any, on the other side.
Now. Mr.. Editor, 1 do not class all |
the planters of Hawaii as being un-
just Or unamerican. Some of them,
to the writer's knowledge, are good
Godfearing, just men and also good
but the pity IS they are
SO few
1 need not say anything to you about
the scrap we had here in Cuba. They
called it a revolution 1t was moth
ing more nor less than a lot of disap
pointed grafters that were and are
hungry for office who started it. 1 did
not see any of it; there was no dis
turbance in this part of the island.
No doubt, you know more about it
yourself than 1 do. When Uncle Sam
came down here, L believe it stopped
quickly. How long the Americans are
going to remain is a mystery.
1 am pleased to know that the Ad-
vertiser is still keeping up the fight
;or the small farmer. Why cannot Ha-
vail adopt the same policy as Cuba.
Here we have the colonial system and
he contract and share working sys
good III their way. Another
hing which I wish to bring to the no
ice of the people of Hawaii is, when
man comes to Cuba and works
steadily for one year on any planta-
ion, the government will bear the eX-
,ense of bringing his family from any
part of the globe, if he has one.
Before [ close, Mr.. Editor, 1 must say
hat there is someone in Hawaii who
oes not consider any distance too
'reat to follow a man and to try and
njure him if his ideas do not chime
n with those of the plantation inter- :
SITS When my last letter appeared
n the Advertiser. written from YOn-
ers, n. Y, mentioning where L was
mployed, some person who lives in
honolulu wrote to Mr.. Spreckels, tell
1g him 1 was an agitator and a dis
urber. He thought would get fired
light away. But L didn't. Instead,
have the best position and the best
alary I have ever received; but he =
as not man enough to sign his name
D the letter Now, on account of my
with Mr.. Pinkham and his
eport, I fear some folks may think
hen they read this letter that it was :
e who wrote to Mr.. Spreckels. But
know it was not Mr.. Pinkham.
ave the highest respect for him.
now him to be a gentleman. 1 have
0 Ill feeling against him. He has I