The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-18
A CITIZEN
POPULATE
y
Jared G.. Smith Dis
cusses the Problem
of the Hour.
Honolulu, May 16, 1907.

or themselves an honest living from
Hawaiian soil? Why should we single
mt Barnard. Bruner and Louisson, or
,Giffard and Pfotenhauer, ana
discuss the method and manner OF
heir successes and by what class name
heir enterprises are to be called?
Whether they are farmers, planters OF
business men, large or small, is beg
cling kthe question. These and others
nave Succeeded, in spite of all manner
of obstacles, by force of their own
integrity, thrift and business ability
AND WHAT THESE MEN HAVE
DONE OTHERS CAN DO.
The question eternal as far as Hawaii
is concerned is, What is to De the
outcome of unlimited industrial OH
entalization as affecting the future
population? 1t is an encouraging sign
that even the Bishop has begun to nave
doubts as to the outcome. Quo'e
from his explanation in today's AoVer-
tiser. The capitals are mine:
HOW SHALL WE INCREASE Ih ar
POPULATION OF AMERICANS IN
OF THOSE ELIGIBLE TO CITIZEN
SHIP? THIS IS THE QUESl ce,-
WHICH SHOULD ENGAGE oon
EARNEST ATTENTION. l belleVe
that a most important method is lol
the planters to agree upon poncy VI
employing citizens or those VINO ca
become such, in every possible poe.-
ton in the mill and the field. rms VIII
cost more, but it will be worth the cost
OF course, I include here men porn IN
these islands of whatever race. we
have an Oriental American populatloh
growing up which we can not ignore.
"Aeain. every means should be used
hv legislation and in every otner way
to encourage diversified industry, that
the lands now idle may be cultivated
I believe, and always nave peheseu'
that MANY articles now imported can
and should be produced here, and
believe they will be produced
AGAIN. WE SHALL HAVE To
GET AS FAR AS POSSIBLE, La
RORERS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE FOR
CITIZENSHIP In the end this VIII
be cheaper than to get transient Japd-
nese or others.
THERE IS, IT IS TRUE, NJ
FIELD WORK IN THE ISLANDS
WHICH AN AMERICAN COULD MOI
DO. THE PLANTATION LABORERS
DO NOT WORK NEARLY AS HARD
AS THE AMERICAN FARMER
DOES. The heat here is nothing 10
that of the Central States in summer
but the Conditions existing on the
mainland are absent here in a large
degree, There the hired man los
forward to the time when he can IMf
chase a team, marry and begin Trr
himself. I AM SORRY THAT THEIL
CONDITIONS DO NOT EXIST HE1E
EXCEPT IN RARE INSTANCES.
congratulate the Bishop on rs
change of heart, and, most OF az
congratulate the cause of AmeflcdI&
alton in Hawaii for this accesslonfSo
it's ranks of so able an advocate.
The layman has the right to expect
that the head Of the church shall De
militant for high civic and humanl-
tartan ideals as wen as leader in re-
ligious thought and precept. 1t is not
in accord that he shall preach men
failures There are enough prophets OIL
evil among the lay brotherhood.
fl, as an agriculturist, were & at
tack the ideals of the Church anGSbase
nv proof and argument on the #norai
turpitude of backsliders from the8folu'
the Bishop would be the first to attack
my lihe of argument on these Same
grounds, namely, that negative EVIL
dence proves nothing.
Hawaii wants leaders who will dream
dreams and make them come true. Ihe
Rishop is commencing to see Visions,
and | am glad of it. My ideal Woulo
be, not to fill Hawaii with laborers
eligibIe for citizenship but with cltl-
zens who will labor.
It is not the small farmer" that Is
on trial: nor is it sugar versus coffee
and pineapples.
The men who are on top in Hawai-
TODAY have been conducting a labora-
tory experiment on a gigantic scale TO
see whether they could not legislate
out of existence certain natural laws
namely. that cheap labor when III
abundance displaces high-priced Ia
Dor; that civic growth is from below
upwards, and that the man on the lana
| of one generation supplies the urban
population of the next. These naturai
laws are innate in all humanity, world
| W1ue IN Their dppIiCe1tioAA, O0
history. automatic, and are founded on
the desire of all humanity to better
their condition.
On behalf of those interested in tine
development of a citizenship in Hawai-
along traditional American lines,
| beg to present the following PROPOSE
tions:
F'irst-That in Hawaii we have an ex-
emplification of the workings of nat
ural law, namely, that cheap LABOR
when in abundance displaces and sup
plants high-priced labor. A stimulus
namely, the granting of a free Amerl-
can market to Hawaiian sugar twenty
two years previous to annexation, with
| out conditions as to methods of produc-
tion resulted in the Hawaiian sugar
producers flooding this country with
an Oriental population. This Orlentai
population, seeking to better it's con-
dition in life, has driven out and sup
planted the laborers, artisans, farmers
and merchants of Caucasian stock Ihe
resulting condition is that in HaWali
we have an American Territory thor
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