The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-20
THE GOVERNOR
TALKS ABOUT
ISLANDS
Not Pro-Japanese in His
Interview at
Syracuse.

Syracuse, New York, Herald. -
DO you want to be Governor? Presi-
dent Roosevelt is looking for one tc
take the place of George r. Carter
present chief executive of the Territory
of Hawaii, whose term expires on Jan
nary l next, and who says he has had
enough of governing the turbulent lit
lie island territory. In fact, no one In
Honolulu, according to Governor Car
ter, is over anxious to take the respon-
sibIe office and its handsome salary.
Governor Carter comes from an en-
terprising city which has added to the
advantages richly bestowed by nature
by enterprise, and has a park boulevard
and playground system which, owing
to a great extent to advantages of sit
uation. is unrivaIed In connection
with this it is a matter of note that
Charles NJ. Robinson of Rochester, a
well-known expert on municipal inn
provement, shortly after a visit to Sy-
raCuse, where he wrote a series of ar
ticles on Syracuse Opportunities -
which were published in The Herald,
went to Honolulu at the request of the
Hawaiian authorities and mapped out
the system there.
Governor Carter passed through Sy-
racuse yesterday afternoon on his way
back to Honolulu, after a visit to
Oyster Bay, where he went at the
Presidents request to talk over mat
.ers Hawaiian. and according to the
Governor. running Hawaii, with its
mixed population of Chinese, Japanese,
Hawaiian natives, Portuguese, Ameri-
the innumerable varieties of mixtures
that intermarriages have resulted in, is
not all beer and skittles.
I'VE have the Japanese problem" )"
said Governor Carter, then we have
the Chinese problem, although that is
not worrying US much; then we have
the Hawaiian native and half-caste
problem, which is the worst of all, and
then we have a problem with every
separate citizen of the Territory.
mo. l am not quitting" he con-
tfnued. My term is nearly up and I
have a big law practice to attend to
and 1 want to give someone else a
chance.
Just now things are a bit muddled
out in Honolulu. You see, all this Cali
fornia agitation against the japanese
has had its due effect on the Japanese
in Hawaii We have about $4,000 out
there, most of them labOrers in the
sugar cane fields. but a good proportion
merchants, skilled workmen and even
editors and writer's. These educated
Japanese. unlike the 1aborer in the su-
gar cane fields, do not intend to return
to Japan and are clamoring for the
rights of American citizenship, and as
many of them were residents of the is
lands before annexation, they can not
see by what right they are refused
Their opportunities have become a
nuisance and every law passed that in
anv way affects them is reported to
their government at Toxic as discrimi-
nation. and the result is a continual
series of petty complaints. This, how
ever. is not our worst worry.
OBJECT TO THE ORIENTALs.
"Of late a feeling of anxiety has
begun TO be apparent among the Eu-
ropean and American population OF
Honolulu and other cities. The people
have the idea that they have just
about all the japanese in the Islands
that they want, and if they can not
occidentalize'-thats the term we use
put there-those in the islands they |
want them out as soon as possible.
There is no objection among the
Europeans and Americans to those al
ready in the islands becoming citizens, |
but they want them, unlike the Cali
'ornians, to send their children TO the
same schools and have them taught the
,ame language as their own. The root
= the matter is that the Caucasians in
he islands. being in minority yet prac-
icalIy commercially supreme, see
cal danger in the increasing japanese
.onuIation. They are afraid that
broueh sheer force of numbers the is
ands will become 'orientalized' and the
Methods of the Far East take the place
( the methods of America in CONNER
ial ond social life unless something is
one TO prevent it.
..,Tbe DIanters have found the Japa-
csc laborer a necessity for the pro- !
uction Of sugar at anything IKE
aIable price and these have been COM ,
lg into the country at the rate OF
100 2 wear for the last seven years ,
hese men are at once sent off to the
limitations, but after serving the three
ears for which they sign a contract
! landing they show a disposition 10
tile in the cities and become shop-
aepers. As such no European mas
chance to compete with them ana
lis is arousing to a certain extent the
of the white merchant. IN
.e meantime the Chinaman looks on. 3
e have some 10000 of him out there a
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