The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-16

Try. giving them good roads and other
facilities Is the way 10 meet this
danger which. on account Of the de
parture Of people and the growth OF
. AslaTlc sentiment, i becoming serious.
= Five hundred American families
settled in these islands would almost
safeguard the political future OF Ha-
wan
1.-The American colony AT Wahiawa
Is an example OF what an American
community can do on public lands.
/ The Importance now Of that little com
munitv 10 Honolulu : business prosper
Ity Is great.
Zone OF the most important policies
for the future l. 10 have enough white
children in the schools 10 offset the
influence of the children Of other ma
tiouaities. =
These public lands are reserved for
the American citizen. which as yet the
Oriental immigrant can not become.
II people only knew the fertility OF
Hawaii : soil and the various indus
tries besides sugar the great staple.
that have been tested and that are
waiting TO be developed from it
pineapples, sisal, tobacco. coffee, rub
| her. bananas, oranges and other fruits
if they realized the rare beauty Of
the Hawaiian landscape and the
healthfulness Of her climate. that has
been tried and proved by the early
I American colonists and their descend
ants, this suggestion would not 90 I'M
needed.
To help US ascertain if this danger
referred To by Mr.. Dole, which he
elsewhere states he does not consider
great, is a real one, why not have a
commission appointed to investigate
these important racial and industrial
| problems?
| have been glad to read in recent
paper that about a thousand Portu-
| guese colonists are now on their way
| to Hawaii and still others are ex-
pected.
| With this fostering of immigration
| from America and Europe Hawaii
needs larger faith in the possibilities
! of the diverse elements of her pres
ent population and more unselfish effort
! on the part of her citizens to amalga-
| mate them
One thing further-Hawaii needs a
| better recognition than she has had
| from the American people for the
value of the service she ha' rendered
and is rendering them. She IS buffer
state, and more than once her able
Board of Health at Honolulu has saved
| the mainland from the plague and
| other contagious disease. There she
stands. lust far ei:"uGh Il 70 eaten
| the plague germ that percLance has
| developed and shown itself on its way
across the Pacific from Asia and II
arrest it before it reaches tie Amer
| lean mainland There she Stands
where she can arrest manv moral
plague germ on its way TO the main
! land
Through her schools and Christian
workers she is trying to help her many
immigrants towards a Christian civil
cation and to safeguard the morals oil
democratic America Yes, and ASIA
! herself has also felt the impress CT
| hen humane and Christian in9rltTtions.
| In return for the services she thus
renders the American peopie and the
revenue she yields, Hawau should re-
ceiv e at Washington fair consideration
of her needs and interests.
Many years ago Arson P. Burlin-
game. the American Ambassador to
| China. said Of Hawaii: The Hawai-
| ian Islands is the only American
| COLONY She asks YOU to realize this
fact. now that she is territory of the
American Union.
AS Porto Rico and the Philippines
are not-most of all, perhaps. Hawaii
needs the sympathy of her sister
|