The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-14

| stead thereof, this vast sum is divert
| ed to Oriental tradesmen or sent back
! 10 the Orient. thereby depriving Amer
| lean citizens of their just and legiti-
| mate business heritage, and systemat-
lcally impoverishing the Territory and
destroying its vitality. So long as this
condition of affairs exists so long will
| the islands not only not be prosperous,
out VIII continue on the downward
grade until financial ruin results. There
must be implanted in the islands
class Of laborers who will spend their
earnings with white tradesmen and
citizens, thereby retaining and keep
| ing within their own confines the cream
of their products and surplus wealth.
| From the islands must be eliminated
| the alien element which is ever antag-
| onistic to American interests and to
| the social and political welfare of the
| community Unless some speedy and
methodic course be pursued to avert
| the result, ere many years the islands
will have become thoroughly Oriental
lied and the majority of the electorate
will be composed of the descendants of
aliens. In fact, this is so obvious that
| it seems wise, even now, to inaugurate
steps to amend the Organic Act so that
only the worthy few may exercise the
elective franchise as was the case in
the days of the Republic.
The very conditions which must al
ways exist in the islands, growing out
/ of and resulting from the class of la
Dor of an inferior calibre which must
! be brought thereto and maintained
! therein in order to produce the best
results for the sugar industry make it
patent that in order to preserve to
the intelligent, cultured and wealthy
citizens the right and privilege of man
aging and controlling their own af-
fairs, the right to exercise the elective
franchise must be limited and confer
red upon only those possessing the
proper and requisite qualifications.
If the planters of the islands are
looking for a class of sturdy, indus
trious and faithful laborers for their
cane fields; for people who are averse
to communism and it's natural out
groWths, strikes and lawlessness; for
a sunny, happy and quiescent people;
for a people who are cheerful and Law
ish spenders of their earnings with and
among American tradesmen; for peo-
pie who have no ambition to dominate
politically or otherwA se; for people who
are ideal hewers of wood and drawers
of water, then let them offer such in
ducements as will gradually and stead
lily fill their cane fields with thousands
of negro laborers of the right sort from
the plantations of the Southern States.
They it will be who shall become the
cornerstone and foundation upon which
Hawaii may build lasting future in
dustrial prosperity. Let passion and
prejudice against color and race give
away to sound judgment and business
foresight. The Southern negro when
properly treated has never been dere-
lict a 20 rRnnSaf LEI Hawaii
awaken to her future interests and take
speedy steps to invite to her shores
ten thousand families of Southern plan-
tation negro laborers who even now
are in a thousand neighborhoods of the
South scanning the horizon FOR PROM
Used land. Let Hawaii become the
haven and the beneficiary.
There are ways and means by which
these ends may be accomplished, and
all that is required is a start and n
methodic and steady pull in the right
direction. Let the Hawaiian planters
and citizens say that they want Civ
en- number Of negro laborers of the kind
above referred to and they shall be
forthcoming. The labor problem must
be settled by installing a class of la
bOrers that, while reliable and depend
able. are not overweight with burn
ing ambition to absorb the soil and
swallow up the gross earnings of the
planters. The negroes of the Southern
have been tried and found
worthy. Let Hawaii embrace her OPP
oortunity and emancipate herself from
coolie domination.
Very respectfully.
j. P. BALL.
Seattle Washington. January 81. 1906.
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