Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-08-15
Should Cultivate National Spirit
People Have Proved Themselves
Capable Of Self Government
Oriental Youth Making
Good Citizens

Good Citizens
ends by methods found through careful Investigation to be adapted
ito the specific conditions
Faith in what may be accomplished by such methods justified
by the history of present chief industry For forty before
the reciprocity treaty that industry lettering infant with
scarcely better prospects than have other industries
long after the advantages the treaty began be enjoyed
turing predict that that industry could eventually attain than
small fraction of its proportions would have been branded
visionary If the of that industry during the last quarter
century has been due anything outside of the free admission of
into the United States it has been due to the application
scientific methods every phase of the industry excep to be
In the light of experience in tina industry and of the progress that
obviously any careful observer has already been made in the dre
ton of homeadng and diversified industries and the plain prob
abilities Of favorng conditions the future would be reckless
assert mpobty of overcoming the obstacles Under these circun
stances the Importance of the end calls for heroic effort
toward its accomplishment the risk of failure
The aim must be for the highest class of citizenship possible
japanese and Chinese citizens by birth under the constitution
growing to manhood and womanhood in
ORIENTALS AND nty increasing numbers; longer
CITIZENSHIP matter of doubt that under proper training
they will prove themselves worthy of their
citizenship Hawaian and Portuguese form the bulk of present
citizen population it cannot be questioned that they become
cessfu landed propretor in far larger numbers than present
To what extent AngSaxons may become such whether tn
their lands exclusively themselves employing others assist
not so clear
statutes should be amended If necessary obtain
adequate numbers immigrants desirable races; the highest types
available and adaptable local conditions should be secured those
reared here should be trained with reference to existing conditions
The difficulties apart from questions Of immigration mainly
those Of suitability Of methods Of cultivation and manufacture
and market The Limitations Of the occasion
forbid detailed consideration of these whether progress already
made towards the solution of each to favorable considerations
for the future The solution will constantly grow easier The rapid
filling Of the great West will drive increasing numbers to these
islands settlers and tourists and the furnish grow
ing demand for products The expanding Of the
Pacific arising largely out of that growth Of the West and the
awakening Of the East aided by the construction Of the 1hman
canal will enlarge the market for the products Of this pivotal point
well increase its facilities of transportation of all proportion
its separate importance The development Of harbos already be
gun will enable take advantage Of these vorng circumstances
and the time will encourage the bud belt lines Of rail
road about the principal islands Such lines will of the
main obstacles confronting the woude settler not alone by
facilitating transportation from the seaoard and reducing
cost but by odng Of conveying central factories
and furnishing the advantages of competing factory Dev
opment Of internal Of transportation will make possible the
production for local consumption of much that it imported
such enormous quantities.
The Territory underpopued needs development along
lines proper relation to each other in order reach the
highest point of efficiency through division and combination of labor
and capital Changes that may first nimca to this enter
prise that will in the end advantageous through the general
upbuldng Many Of lands do require irrigation those
that do failure devise feasible methods Of irrigation for small
preto would qualification in view of the recent reclamation
projects the west the ancient complicated systems of Hawaiian
rights and repued American ingenuity and enterprise The
Planters Experiment Station the Federal Experiment Station the
Bureau Of Agriculture and Forestry the College of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts the special employment of experts and scientists in
lines indicate disposition appropriate methods for
discovery Of suitable crops and methods of cultivation and manufac
The public schools be directed by the spirit
venveness and adapabty order requirements by
interest
well instruction agricultural and mechanical pursuits
The factors many; all must be made to contribute.
The detailed the consideration the feasible appears the
object but general would strange if the spirit that is
verng called the Geat American Desert what
coming be called the BREAD Basket of the Wod
land of such sabry climate fertility of SOIL favor
abeness location and attracveness islands
The policies of small landed propretorsps and diversified indus
tries not necessarily antagonisc to the
SMALL LANDED prosperity of the sugar industry There
INDUSTRY inherent for opposition to that indus
try; every for aiding it. Probably
where business enterprises large and small conducted gen
orally under corporate FORMS but probably nowhere they
Quoted honorab with less abuse of capac power The
industry the proveba goose that lays the golden eggfrom
which directly indirectly the Territory and her people derive their
main support To destroy seriously cripple would deprive
of what have and render mpoent get what If
still in its infancy it would call for efforts
bring it to its present and state of efficiency
Our policy should be constructive destructive even sub
stimtiona except to methods.