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

Following Is the address OF Kew
Oliver P. Emerson at the Mohonk Con
ference:
The theme suggested to me was that
of the needs OF Hawaii. Those needs
are many and may be considered at
this conference from different points
of view-the political, social, moral,
religious and economic Yet surely
the different views converge in one
the need of Influences that make for
high ideals-such influences as shall
advance the common interests and
help the various races who inhabit
those fair islands to dwell together
righteousiy and happily and unite in
building a state which shall be worthy
of its place in the great American
Republic.
First, let us consider the different
races that are brought together IN
that isolated center, far from any
mainland a group OF islands with an
area a little larger than the State OF
Connecticut with a population of about
14O, 900.
There are the aboriginal Polynesian
people, now numbering about 10000,
who, only three generations removed
from barbarism, have shown their IN
ability to develop the resources OF Ha-
wall and cope unaided with the forces
which, for over a century, have come
to them from other lands. They have
been greatly benefited and they have
greatly suffered by contact with the
different elements of our Anglo
Saxon civilization They have been
blessed by the white mans virtues
and cursed by his vices. The mission
ary and the honorable business man
| came among that people, as forlorh
| hope. after they had suffered from
| forty years of helpless exposure to
| the worst Influences OF CIVILIZATION
| and a remnant was saved.
These men were the ancestors of the
| ENGLISH and American Hawallans,
| whose Homeland Hawaii has been tor
| three or four generations. They and
| their sons have given it It's character
| and, by their leadership, built up a
State. Long before the States OF the
| Pacific Coast and many others west
of the Mississippi river were coionlzed,
| the islands were coloniZed by these
men OF pure Anglo-SaXOn American
| blood, consecrated to the highest
| ideals of America as assuredly as were
| the settlers of Plymouth or Massachu-
| setts Bay. Indeed many. II not most
| of these colonists, were descendants OF
| those earlier men. They inherited
| their sturdy New England principles
| and ideals and, actuated by earnest de
| sire TO bring freedom of faith TO the
| Polynesian. their relation has been a
| more maternal one to that race, than
| was ever conceived by Puritan or Pll-
| grim towards the American INDIAN
| The natives could not furnish these
| white men with the labor necessary
| for developing the resources OF the
| country, and so Asiatlcs were called
| into requisition who now are a large
| factor in the Hawaiian problem we
| have been wont to call them pa2al9
+ and heather, but in our growing ac-
duaintance with the WorId peoPleS
we have learned to be careful IN the
use of these terms. They brought with
them an example of industry, thrift
and persistence which the Hawaiian
needed-characte which, united
with Christian principles, make the
Chinaman a marked man. A SINAI
contingent of Cinnamon had prohtee
! b,- missionary instruction in their owl
country before landing in Hawaii II
one shIpIoad of laborers there were
nearly a hundred Christians Ihest
| CHRISTIAN Cinnamon in Hawaii have
, nrovea leaven among their people
which is most valuable to the abl'
white men who are leading the steady
march of Christianity among the Chl
nese in Hawaii
TICS all of whom were Chinese. II
: teen years Lister there We're -Cb'o'
chinese Since then the japanese nav
4 Laan coming and now number owe
1 10000 D.
| Dnripp the eighties came the For
| -,~-,7asa mainly from the Azores an
| NT95eira They came with their koma
| Catholic training and have sho"
| themselves thrifty home-buIiders an
,ar, number 10000 and more. Anon
/ no chinese Japanese and Portuguese
1 +bere has been active, successful WpI-
,1opa nv the Protestant Missions "hlt
| aDpeaI to Won for ana IN thelI si'"
work on American soll- -
| With the a;d of these people ~
| - English and German eit
| ments. now forming from 49, 10 =,
| G@G Of the population, have been e.
! ablea to develop the resources 81 ines mes
fertiie islands, ana Hawaii has Tee
| a part Of the great world m move. n
| of the last quarter OF century |,
| yrqrds material development rms ID
had is far-reaehing dement's ana I 10
| Greatly increased the power OF - -
| 49, ras+ citizens But Tor Ut
| l,'aa~alIs merchants and planters an
| h non 5,hriz+ian workers of the warrior
: me l.ions which these have helped,
m maintain. Hawaii Ii,9 would have bee
I be6aism Of Of the days Of Kanebang5
2 V and Kalakaua. which was beaTln
t ~ mat natives back to heather practice
rm mT to both mind and body. an an
~, a fierce struggle put It 40"
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