The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-12

that is, laborers, Cloth domestic an
field hands, of different type,-woul
succeed in developing the islands an
in securing the fruits of that fertilit,
! which God never intended should go t
| waste. All men were created equal
| but different. Some races can endur
extremes Of heat, under which other
would fail. For instance, it would b
a refinement Of cruelty to decree tina
| all cooking in Hawaii should be don
by the wives, mothers and daughter
of the white race. Not only would
be waste Of fine material, designed
by nature for better things, but i
would be downright abuse. The SAM
may be said of stripping cane.
would be waste Of material to Sc
anyone of the Aryan race at that par
| ticular task.
My argument is simply this: Con
| ditions in our island possessions differ
from those on the mainland. If oul
institutions do not permit of f1exibility
to meet changed conditions, we should
draw in our outposts at once, and
retire to the mainland
England's great success as an ad-
ministrator of dependent races comes
from her keen realization that no pro-
crustean bed will answer for all of her
wards. No two of her colonial gov
ernments are alike. They run along
the scale from the independence of
the Commonwealth of Australia to the
military despotism of the crown coll
ony.
The best influence we have today in
Hawaii, next to that of the Missions,
is our public schools. They will bear
inspection. Their work is of surpass-
ing Importance to Hawaii and in a
degree to the nation. We are educa-
ting children of a dozen different ma
tionalities. All except the American,
English and German are being brought
up in paths widely divergent from
those in which their ancestors trod.
In educating so many children of Ash
attic descent, and making capable of
understanding their coming response
bilities, those of them, born in Hawaii,
who will become voters, Hawaii is in
part doing a national work. 1t would
be equitable to have this recognized
by a contribution by the National
government towards some part of our
unusual burden. This might take the
form of supplying additional school
buildings, or by assuming a measure
of control over our Normal school.
There are many obvious reasons why
it would be wise to bring this insti-
tuition in close touch with the Bureau
of Education in Washington. Results
from the training in our schools are
beginning to appear not only in Ha-
wall, but abroad. For instance, the
reform movement now sweeping over
China has received impetus from Chi
nese of Hawaiian common school edu-
cation. At one time price was on
the heads of some of our Hawaiian
Chinese. The Japanese are also re-
spending to the same influence.
Governor Carter last summer intro
duced a schoolmate of his, j Jatanesc
of unusual stature for that race, who
was born in Hawaii He went to jap
an after growing up; on his return
Governor Carter introduced him as
good American. Up to that time
had not believed that a japanese, no
matter where born, could be other
than Japanese in sentiment and at
lection. 1t turned out that this man
had been deeply impressed with the
innumerable petty restraints to which
his countrymen are subjected in Jap
an by the police and by all in author
ity. His common school training in
Hawaii had rendered the tryannical
type of government unbearable. He
openly stated that if a war should
ever come between Japan and the
United States, he was an American
and would fight for the land of his
birth and her free institutions. Ger
tain Japanese fear the influence of our
The Shinto religion is being
encouraged in Hawaii because it nur-
lures that peculiar blind type of
patriotism which worships the head
of the State as a divinity. 1t is this
quality which has made the Japan
csc invincible. They may be exter-
but never conquered. Joss
houses and Shinto temples are on the
increase in Hawaii. OF this fact
there can be no question. Whether
they are receiving encouragement
from home in the hope of offsetting
the influence of our schools must re-
main conjecture. 1t is so claimed by
some whose judgment and means of
must be respected. There |
IS enough danger to cause our
churches to take notice.
Renewed effort has recently been |
made to introduce European families |
into Hawaii. Three shiploads of peo-
pie have been brought around the |
Horn during the past year. Four |
seven hundred souls have
been added to our population. The |
expense to the Territory has been very
great, aggregating three hundred |
thousand dollars. These people have |
Ill been given homesteads and work |
has been at hand. 1t has been neces-
sary to furnish free transportation for |
them. No intending immigrant could |
pay his own way from Europe to Ha-
vail Why should he bear the ex-
oense of travel from New York to Ho- |
lolulu? 1t is preposterous to expect |
t. The expense must be borne by the |
But here Congress steps |
n and prohibits all assisted immigra-
ton. BY the present law not only is |
anding denied TO immigrants whose |
passage has been paid by another, and |
who are brought to the country with |
, rarouoiSo nf baiur Given confinement /