The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-06
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WINGED that the Chinese are as class
docile. tractable, assimilative and
lamenable to Americanization, where
as the Japanese are less inclined tc
adopt American methods and are more
likely to prove an element of dissat-
isfaction.
There is work in the United States,
and when I say the United States /
mean also the Hawaiian Islands, that
for which labor, other than the Chi
nese can supply, cannot be secured,
and it appears to me that it is a great
injustice all around to exclude the Chi
nese from this country when we need
them. We open our gates to every
| body but the Chinese and yet we,
America, are supposed to be the asy-
lum of the world for all the oppressed
and unapprecfated elsewhere. So long
as we exclude the Chinese we are not
what we call ourselves, we are not
that asylum.
For what reason does America ex-
clude the Chinese? For no other rea-
son than that it is claimed the Chinese
take work from the hands of the white
men. This is not so. The white men
will not do the work and cannot be
secured to do the work which the Chi
nese are willing and able to do. If
the white man will not do the work
that must be done what is the mat
ter with employing Chinese to do it?''
When President Smith returns to the
mainland, and he leaves Honolulu this
morning in the S. S. Alameda start
ing on this ocean voyage on the seven
ty-fifth anniversary of his BIRTH he
will from many a pulpit and from
many platform speak of his trip to
the Hawaiian Islands and in his re-
marks he will embody his ideas on
the question of Chinese exclusion and
on the japanese situation as he has
found it here.
! In this connection it is interesting
to note that President Smith and Rep
resentative Hepburn from Iowa, who
was here with the Congressional par
ty, are friends of long standing. The
prophet has on more than one occa-
sion helped to elect Hepburn from the
Eighth Congressional District of Iowa.
Right here / want to say" said
President Smith, that as church we
are temperance entirely, and no saloon
was ever sustained by our votes"
Reverting to the subject of Chinese,
President Smith said: 1.-THE present
on Chinese should be re-
moved. I have always considered that
the Chinese have been unjustly treated
in this regard by our nation. This
matter presents a problem to the bet
ter element here that is difficult of
solution, but must be solved. Hawaii
must have cheap labor and it is not
only a question of Hawaii but of the
whole country, along certain impor-
tant lines, obtaining reliable and at the
same time cheap labor. 1 am sure that
the Chinese constitute the solution or
this problem"
Speaking of the Chinese and Japa-
nese in Hawaii led President Smith to
a brief remark anent the school sys-
tenn in these Islands, since he has
taken great interest in observing the
methods here and the cos
of the schools. Il see"
said he, that in some cases you have
about eighteen teachers to nearly a |
thousand pupils and pupils of all ma
tionalitfes at that. This is not enough !
teachers: there should be more.
''It is significant to observe how the |
government takes hold Of these for |
signers and puts them through the |
operation of becoming American citi-
zens. We, as a church, seek to take |
hold of citizens to make them Chris
-ians. We have a good number OF |
Orientals in our church.
THE government is assisting Won
lerfully in the Americanization of the |
Islands by the common education OF
he young of all classes and races that
constitute the community
Referring to the incidents on the
Pacific coast, both at san Francisco
md Vancouver, wherein the japanese
md Hindoos and others from the Far
EAST figured as unwelcome elements,
he son Of the prophet believed them
O be mere labor agitations without
ull appreciation of the real situation.
Speaking of his visit to Hawaii, be-
ginning October u and ending today,
he reverend gentleman declared that
t had been one of the most pleasant
experiences of his long career. Il have