The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-05-28

"a ldnu that VIII tufnlNu 10 thfnli! huD
!, stantlnlly all OF It's food except houi
and certain groceries. and produce be
side. something in demand in III,
worlds markets. fruit. vegetables
: maize. coffee. tobacco. sisal. with some
: promising experimental products suct
as vanilla. cacao and silk. The avail
able land Of the Territory Is 50 limited
that its tendency Is to rise in value
/, Every settler By the fact of his occu-
patton raises the value OF the land next
to him. while colony OF settlers has
a remarkably stimulating effect on the
adjacent lands. Wahiawa is often
quoted and may be quoted again as an
instance of what the work and the
perseverance of the American farmer
can do here.
There are many here who feel the
danger of our status unless effort Is
made to replenish the American leaven
in this community. The Chinese and
japanese boys in our schools will be
voters IN a few years, and they will
make good citizens, but will they. with
their traditions and parental influence,
be equal to the unfolding of Ameri-
can standards of life in the best Amer
lean spirit? appreciate these peo-
pie. they are falling in with our meth.
DDS, they are Joining the procession,
but If they should become the leaders
and the controllers of the public sem
timent would that sentiment be Amer
lean in the best sense?
What is the danger? 1t is easy to
see that the japanese and Chinese
merchants will hold the patronage
mainly of their countrymen and with
atfy ~,
countrymen the advantage of these
merchants is incontestabie, especially
as they compete largely for the patron
age of the other races represented
here. Hitherto these Chinese and
japanese merchants have gone to the
local wholesaling importing houses
conducted by Americans, Germans,
English and others, for their goods
other than those of Chinese and Jap
anese origin. They are now begin
ming to explore the markets on the
mainland and pehaps elsewhere with
view to doing their own importing.
If this should be carried out and
should become the rule with these men.
the loss of business would be most
keenly felt by wholesale business
houses just mentioned. Already there
I IL
of business Every such diminution
of business leaves clerks and other em-
ployes without work, some of them
have to go away. Our little Ameri-
can community cannot stand this
process very long without showing it,
and being weakened by it.
| THE American farmer is good
consumer. He lives comfortably; he
consumes lumber, hardware, and dry
goods. not to mention many things less
necessary. 4 thousand new families
would mean an added demand for
goods that would give business an up
ward tendency. A thousand Ameri-
can farmers with their families added
to our population and living content
edly upon their own farms, would al
most guarantee the continuance and
growth of the public sentiment to
which l have already referred. With
such a reinforcement every other good
! interest would be conserved and the
work of the Territory in managing it's
own affairs would become easier, and
statehood would, / believe, loom up as
+, something more than mere distant
hope
HEPBURN A KAMAAINA.
Toastmaster Smith then stated that
| the next toast was THE Future of Ha-
waii," to respond to which he would
call upon Hon. II. =. Hepburn of Iowa,
whose long experience in Congress
showed that he had always been good
friend of Hawaii.
I Mr., Hepburn, who was greeted with
hearty applause, said:
Il feel so much at home here, have
been so kindly treated here that l feel
good deal like trying to talk about
the future of these islands. When l
| remember something of the changes
that l have seen and with which we are
all familiar, 1 still feel more like talk
ing, gentlemen. Just the exports of
this Territory alone are greater than
the whole of the exports of the United
States We're during the administration
of Thomas Jefferson. The tonnage that
entered this port was greater last year
than the tonnage entering all the ports
of the United states one hundred years
ago. Two-thirds of a century ago l
was taken to a Territory that then con-
tanned $4,000 people. There are now
more than six millions of people who
have prospered there and who have
comfortable homes within the same
| Territory. With such wonderful
changes how valuable 1t is for man
to prophesy what may happen, what
probably will happen within the Ter
ritory of Hawaii within reasonable
period. within the lifetime OF those now
| living.
This Territory. its future. very nat
urally divides itself, and you have UNI
doubtedly, and will have n splendid
civic and a splendid commercial future
Situated as you are with relation to
the Pacific Coast with relation to the
Pacific ocean, with relation to Oriental
nations that probably may some day be
the enemies of the United States, you
are bound tn have your military flu
ture, one perhaps not so important to
you as to the eighty-five millions of
people that live within the States.
Looking forward for half century, !
can see no spot within the jurisdiction
of the American nag as important 10
the people of the mainland as is that
area that fell within the vision OF the
men who visited Pearl Harbor today,
tApplauseD
owning this Territory that / have