The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-28

nit Chinese, restrictedly. and thus save
the deteriorating of the development OF
the country. which was going on with
rapid strides. the laborers could not be
had. BY this time Japan had become
satisfied that Hawaii was nice little
place and it would be advisable to have
a good sized colony esta blished here
and the government aided the people
to emigrate.
AT this juncture England was induced
TO ameliorate her terms in regard to
the emigration of Chinese (only as far
as Hawaii) for the reason that ii was
found that they had always been well
treated here. which was the opposite
OF what they experienced in Latin
America Then the Chinaman began
again TO grasp the hoe and make the
dirt fly in Hawaii. This did not please
Japan and she entered her protest.
showing the convention which she had
induced our wiseacres to sign in their
emergency.
However, times We're somewhat
changed and annexation was in sight.
and the powers that be insisted that
no more Japanese should come to the
country than had gone through the
form of applying for admission. A
whole ship load who had not gone
through the form were sent back. Then
some supersensitive wiseacres con-
Guided that if We admitted more Chi
nese we might jeopardise our chances
for annexation. and, being the powers
that be, shut down on the stream
which had but got fairly started. Like
the old man and his son and the ass
in Aesop's fables. the powers that be-
were always willing 10 take advice
from anyone who had any of that
cheap commodity and we find emissa
ries being dispatched 10 the Southern
States to bring the floating refuse from
there to fill our prisons. for that was
the only class of negroes who We're
willing to unseat themselves.
Other enaissaries were sent to Cali
cha, where the character of the labor
ing classes is set down as rude, filthy,
ignorant and incorporate but some
one said the teeming population of thai
Austrian province could be had and
would fill the bill.
And if all this was not sufficient an
attempt must be made to bring Porto
Rfcans. a country from which nothing
good had ever come. Possibly it may
have been thought that a sea trip
would convert this long down-trodden
people into good citizens and field
hands.
The Hawaiian, the aborigine of the
soil. was but little consulted in all
these matters as aliens had got into
the habit of doing his thinking for
him. He stands in amaZement at see
ing the Italian driving his knife into
his countryman or brother, or at the
army of blacks or Porto Ricans which
is crcwding the jaiIs of his country to
the bursting point, or at the horrors OF
Korean and japanese barbarities and
i,nmc ralities.
If consulted the Hawaiian would
have said: Why are You not content
with the Chinese who filled the bill so
well, who took no part in politics and
who departed as soon as he had ac-
quired a sufhciency, and who during
his residence obeyed the laws of the
land?"
The wise kanaka will say you did
quite right in seeking annexation, but
your bringing the Japanese in the first
instance was wrong and you brought
on the very condition which required
annexation, to save the country from
absorption by the NAV of the Shotgun.
Now you have got annexation you
unmixed good The labor unions of
the United States will not permit the
admission of the inert Chinese. Like
the dog in the manger which could
not eat oats and yet would prevent the
horse from doing So so the labor
unions would cripple the development
of TIE Hawaiian Islands. Also you
will find in that broad land many who
will insist OH Hawaii being developed
on traditional American lines what
ever that may mean to the unsophis-
ticated.
1t is futile for you to show the va
rious attempts you have made to sup |
ply the place of the dying Hawaiian |
by Chinese, Koreans, South Sea Is |
landers, Japanese, Norwegians, Ger |
mans, Italians, Portuguese, Galfcians, |
Porto Ricans, Negroes, Russians and |
the innumerable attempt to induce |
Canadians and Americans to do the |
field work and peradventure perform |
the duties of citizenship. There is |
none so soulless as a Republic. The
man of the Dennis Kearney stamp al |
ways leads the masses and his vote
is sought by the inbred CRATER and you
may argue with him as you viii he
cannot be convinced that an Esqumaux
CdII1Ol cultivate tropical idIlu DIS wen
as the yellowskinned Asfatfc. You
need not be surprised at the refusal |
of the lawmaker to look at the posi-
ton of Hawaii on the map or to no
tice that nature has provided certain |
families of the human race with a pig
ment in the skin which will shield |
them from the blistering rays of
tropical sun and enable them TO cul !
tiVate where the man of the temOera Ie
zone cannot. There are none SO blind |
as they who won't see. To show that |
the cultivation of cane by Chinese
would provide a market for the prod
ucts of the small farmer, supply |
work for the mechanic. customers for |
the stores, supporters for the churches,
and schools for all is merely so much
logic wasted. 1t is hoped, however.
that wisdom will come even to the
elected representative of labor unions.
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