The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-23

| ton. but that evil is in process of cor
recticn. The doors of America are
| omen 10 trade. TO commerce. TO close
| intercourse with the nations. but they
| are closed. and I trust they Will remain
closed. 70 the Asiatic hordes- SUES i
! tute pro-consular government for
| American States, invite the cheap Ia
! Dor OF the Eastern Continent 20 over
| flow the country and the highest hopes
and the grandest aspirations of man
| kind would be extinguished in two
| generations. on this question AIneri-
can sentiment is virtually unanimous.
An AsiatiC community in the middle Of
the Pacific would knock great many
wears at the entrance to statehood be
fore it would be admitted.
Hawai- is part of the United States
and not ar aprendage TO the continent
of Asia American farmers, American
traders American mechanics think
they have a right to settle in Amer
lean Territory and they do not care
70 be escort ed TO outgoing steamers by
Asiatic professions and told to go
home. This is an inversion of our Ter
ritoridl rights TO which the American
people will not permanently submit.
Here. then, is a difficulty that has
TO be met and overcome and il VIII be
met ana overcome in these splendid is
lands. far more tl.In eighty years led
icated to, and slowly progressing to-
wards. the realization OF tolerance.
liberty, the inspiring concomitants OF
modern life Americans are mott
trust they never will be-rheap men
They believe in the domestic and social
virtues They believe in religious and
int ellact udI fr,tCon, limited only by
decency and prop riety. They believe
in education pervaded by morality.
They believe in equality of opportuni-
ty They believe in equality before the
law. with no Difference to color or
class They believe in vigor, in enter
prise IN regulated aspira ton and am
bition They believe in the extension
AID diffusion of commerce and in tn
diversifcation of industry. They be-
licve in self-goVernment and that all
government is business and to be con-
Quoted by business methods. They be-
iieve in the use of the land and the APP
p, up, ia ton of its fertility. They be-
liave I'll the equal protection of all in
terests. And, for all these reasons, they
do not believe in the Asiatic monopoly Of
American territory. This is the result
Of our Declare ton of Independence
which was crystallized by Washington
and the great men among whom he is
the towering figre.
There is another and a correlative
question to be shortly considered. The
plantations are entitled to available
labor and to a just profit upon invest
ed capital. Honor, duty pledges moro
than implied when annexation was
be safeguarded i'll their rights and not
or rapid confiscation. Straightfor-
wardness and definiteness are essen
tial factors in American expansion
and, for one. while ineXorably opposed
to the Asiatic octopus, L have long
considered that if Asiatic labor under
proper restrictions and excluded rigid
ly from interference with citizen in
dustry, i'll all it's branches, was actual
ly necessary in the cane fields, 1t
should be tolerated.
''But the planters themselves, with
rare sagacity and ability, have decided
1t is my deliberate opinion
that there is no business in the United
States, and that means in the world, |
more scientifically or in every feature |
of Hawaii. The reports |
presented at the annual session of the |
Planters Association, separately and |
in combination, are unsurpassed. The |
sugar interest represents ninety-six per |
cent of the products of Hawaii. 1t |
should not only be kept up to it's pres |
ent standard, but should be enlarged, |
while, by the development of other in |
naroautaue can no and |
should be reduced.
''The labor question that has caused |
so much perplexity and difficulty was
foreseen when Hawaii was annexed and |
the argument then used to Justify an |
neXation was that Congress had the !
power to legislate, specially and effec- |
lively, to meet the peculiar local con-
ditions. No such legislation, however,
is now contemplated. Far reaching |
to supply the labor demand |
by the introduction of Europeans, elg- |
lble to citizenship, have been devised
and are being carried forward with the
moderated rapidity that best insures
success. In harmonious cooperation
with the Board of Immigration and the
Territorial authorities, which it is to
be hoped may not be broken. this act
Of Difference to the sentiment of the
American people and of the Washing
ton administration has assumed def
niteness and proportions that are full
IF promise. In one special direction,
The movement inaugurated by Mr.. j. B.
Castle and already far advanced to-
ward achievement is an exhibition of
sound judgment and of wise adaptation
hat will command general respect and
admiration.
- 1t may be justly said that, tempo
'arilv at least and most likely perma-
lently, there is no longer field labor
ssue i'll Hawaii. If, as Mr.. Jared c.
Smith, a competent authority, is re-
ported to have stated, there is room on
hese Islands for hundred thousand
American farmers and if, as official ac-
ion indicates, a liberal and American
policy in reference to the distribution
# unoccupied and available public land