The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-21


objection. said that ''the Chinese were
partly TO blame for the manner IN
which they We're maltreated by Ameri-
cans They wear their queues and
Oriental style of dress and this arouses
an antagonism which might otherwise
be dormant" had 70 admit that
there was some force in his remark
Perhaps If Chinese, being permitted ana
about 10 go to the United States, would
first visit a barber and then procure
New York styles Of clothing they might
escape the resentment of the hoodli lis
that the plural Of hoodlum?) of Califor-
MIA. An excuse for maltreatment of a
human being I never could tolerate
but presume it would be wise for Chi
nese immigrants 10 try TO assimiIate
their clothing with that of the people
amongst whom they intend TO sojourn-
RESOURCES OF CHINA.
From the expressed admiration Of
Chuck Hoy and c. K. Al of the spirit
of progress which they had witnessed
in America and their longing that the
marvellous latent resources of China
should be developed along similar lines
we got TO discussing the great advan-
tage Americans would have in the race
and what a magnificent market would
be opened for American products and
manufactures. A great writer has SAID
that America was discovered at Pc
ried in the worlds history when there
was such an engagement Of population
in Europe that the only resource they
had was in wars amongst the different
peoples. probably to keep down the
population. Wise men attributed the
discovery to the Creator for this rea-
son. viz: to open a field to which the
over-crowded masses might fly and find
relief. sToday we witness the stream
still pouring into America, over mil
lion last year, and an enormous pro-
cession of old settlers of the West being
crowded up into Canada.
The manufacturing centers are
crowded and the struggle to obtain
markets for their products taxes the
genius of the brightest minds in
America. Is it possible that the rich
yerdant fields of China have been held
back for just such an emergency?
Have the untouched mineral wealth
and uninitiated wants of the Chinese
been reserved for just such an occa-
sion or period in the worlds history?
We know somewhat of its magnificent
mineral resources which the superst-
tions of the Chinese have kept locked
up for thousands of years; of its thou
sands of miles of anthracite coal beds,
of it's gold fields, of its copper. zinc,
tin, iron and other useful metals, we
have heard somewhat from such great
travellers as Won Ricthofen. And of
later years we learn of its innumerable ,
cascades which present studies for our
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power and in such great quantities and
so universally spread that they afford ,
sufficient horsepower to move the |
masses and freight of the empire at a
minimum of cost; of the masses of peo-
pie whose education as to those super
fetal wants which have become second /
nature to US, such as watches. type
writer's, agricultural machinery, ETC.. !
as well as the desire to eat the portable /
-four and corn of our prairies; the great |
market China affords for our gushing |
oil wells our cotton crop, the general
cargoes of our commercial fleet, the /
broad field for our bodybuilding engi-
neers, the enormous demand for our
steel rails and wood ties as well as the I
timber of our great forests of the morrill,
west for building purposes. as well as
for small and large machinery of all |
which a comparatively /
new country will demand. In every line
except that of labor it is a country
whose wealth will demand everything
we can produce or manufacture. The
European countries are fully awake to
he possibilities of China as a market
for everything, but they are handi-
capped by distance whereas we have
but a river between US.
Knowing all this and feeling the
necessity of this great market at this
period in our history why should we,
by our unnatural laws, prevent our
people from being first in the race? If
We would only use the good judgment
which we are credited with hay
ng by our European neighbors and
reat the Chinese as politely as we de-
nand We shall be treated in our travels
he door of China would be opened and