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

many LILLE HdW3u3uS.
1t Is not every native that is idle
the industry o. some Is most commend
able.
While Secretary of the Hawaiian
Board OF Missions. ! used to receive
regularly most muniticent contribu-
tion for its foreign work from a ma
tive farmer who was coffee planter.
He kept persistently at his work and
made a success OF it, where others fail
ed lie was but one of many such hard
working natives in his district
The Hawaiian is not necessarily lazy.
As sailor he can match any man;
as steyedore and foundry man he
can match any man; as a fisherman,
tIller OF the soil. or ranchman he has
peculiar aptitudes. On the plantations
he Il IN special requisItI0u as d handler
Of teams. But his wants are few
Civilization IS still new to him. He
has not yet overcome his inheritances.
The early PoIFnesian, though of SPLEEN
did physique and capable OF great ac
tlyIty IN war, at games, and In the
performance of special services, such
as that of the runner, had not the
need of persistent industry, and his
descendant has yet to learn that lesson
The native surrenders his taro-patch
to the Chinese rice planter and his
shores to the stirring, bold, ingenious
japanese fisherman. In place of the
graceful canoes that once lined the
beaches OF Hawaii, one now sees, just
off the shore, the rocking sampans OF
the japanese fishermen. The oppor-
tunity for work is not lacking. The
industries OF the islands offer work
for all and are constantly seeking good
I,I III
a crying lack of them, as you all know,
and there are lands untitled which of
fer rich returns to the wise farmer.
Another sad fact about the native
is that, amenable as he is TO good in
tiuences. he succumbs readily to those
which are bad. Gambling and drink
are his undoing. A grave need IN
HAWAII is reform of her liquor laws.
As one step towards counteracting
these evils, towards bringing the Ha-
waiian boy to honest Independent
work, towards verifying the statement
made by one of our leading lawyers
/ that 1.-THE Hawaiians have in them the
making of American citizens of the
! type of which none need be ashamed,
| industrial training should be more
! strongly emphasized in our system of
/ education At present the boy too
| often receives a training that hits
| him above his opportunities and makes
| him unwilling to meet the duties of
his station. In many instances it is
necessary to rouse in him divine dis
| content with the mode of life IN which
| he was born. But the awakened ideal
must have a stronger practical side.
| Yet it must give him breadth of hoTi-
| zon as well. and to these ends | plead
| for further development of industrial
| training in Hawaii. and for small DIS
! trict libraries.
4 Apart from the Bible and hymn
book practically no books are to be
| found in native homes. In the CON
| duet of my work | have Travelled the
! length and breadth of each of the SIX
| larger islands of the group many tunes,
and | have very rarely found native
| home supplied with good reading mat
| ter. Yet the natives are fond of read
| ing. They read with avidlty their
narrow partizan newspapers and from
| beginning to end the silly improbable
serial stories But excepting among
! the whites. good simple English lItera
| ture is hardly known IN Hawan ana
| is surely needed towards making the
youth of Hawaii, of pure and mixed
/ blood, men and women of the 20th
/
apprehension of life's higher ideals.
| Though with the middle-aged and Older
| Hawaiians. the mother-tongue IS stu
! the only familiar one, the use OF Eng
| lish in the schools enables the young
| men and women Of all races to speak
| and read English This, added to the
| decrease in race feeling, owing TO the
greater stability of government since
! annexation. renders both educational
| and missionary work simpler and more
| effective.
Turning from the consideration OF
the aboriginal Hawaiian to the hroao
interests Of the land. how further shal
Hawaii preserve her integrity as
! welI-governed territory and part o.
the American Republic 1t has beer
| suggested that white men can not Ia
| Dor in her cane-Eelds or meet the
sharp competition of Asiat1es IN th'
trades That therefore there Is danger
of her becoming OrientahzeJ anu IN
American. Personally. / helleEe ina
there Will always be room IN ia" al
for the right sort OF mechanics, 1ol
men who can TO conscientious "oLi
and employ and handle workmen o.
! other races.
Let me quote from a recent sPeeei
of Hawaii : greatest citizen. Sanfor'
r. Dole. Fedora / loo ~
only president of the Republic Of Ha
wall and first governor OF 'ue &C.,
lit appears to me tonight tina
family after family of this Anglo
saxon or Teutonie race, in consequent
of dulInezs of trade and pressing com
petition of japanese and Chinese; ar
| leaving the islands for the malnlan, .
II is great loss. ] feel that if thu
diminution of our race goes on tn
future win be dark We wish to kee
the Ieavening element Of men an
women that will make the future
American.
eve should keep the islands unde
American tendencies. The Promote
Committee is doing all It can to 6rin
people here 10 stay upon the soil an
to come back upon it. but I thing ina
something more radical than that
necessary. and Ny FAITH Is II
WISE DISPOSITION OF THE Pt.