The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-10-11

-lOBEk II, 1907. SEN
probably with good reason. that tn,
fleet will go to Honolulu and that muci
of the coal now being sent there will
be used in supplying the fleet for tn,
long journey TO the Orient.
DEWEY FAvoRS PEARL HARBoR
During the last few days the Gen
eral Board of the Navy. of which Ad.
miral Dewey Is president, has beer
considering prospective improvements
for Pearl Harbor. Admiral Dewey
stated to Mr.. George Is. Mcclellan that
personally he favored making start
soon in the improvement of that har-
Dor and that he hoped Congress would
make some appropriations for II at the
coming session. Mr.. Mcclellan appear
ed before a subcommittee of the gem
eral board and furnished them with
all the information he could on the
subject. The Improvements under dis
cussion include the establishment at
Pearl Harbor of a coaling station. some
dredging of the channel and the pos
sible construction OF a dry dock.
NAANNAS Va NAlI
while apparently all favoring the i'm
provements. are shy about taking up
the necessary cost. Nevertheless ef-
forts will be made TO have some esd-
mates for these works submitted. Mr..
Mcclellan had conference with Sec
rotary OF the Interior Garfield this
morning. He presented to Mr.. Gar
field charts and other documents per-
tanning 10 Pearl Harbor for the pur-
pose of having the question presented
by Mr.. Garfield to the President. It is
hoped that he will recommend in his
annual message that some appropria-
ton for the harbor be made by Con-
greSS.
HONOLULANS IN WASHINGTON.
Mr.. A. j. Campbell. Treasurer of Ha-
wall, is here at the New Willard Hotel.
seeking to arrange for a small issue
of territorial bonds. He has secured
the Presidents approval of the issue
and is now at work trying 10 secure
assurance from the Secretary of the
Treasury that the bonds will be ac-
cepted as security for treasury deposits
In National banks. 1t is likely that |
such assurance will be given as it has
been given in connection with several |
previous issues of territorial bonds.N
Mr.. S. B. Kingsbury. of Honolulu, |
whose daughter is the wife of Capt. |
c. F. Humphrey. quartermaster of the |
army, was in town for a few days this |
week. Mr.. L. T. Peck, president Of |
the Honolulu Rapid Transit and Land |
Company, has also been in Washington |
this week. In an interview with the |
Herald Mr.. Peck had this |
to say about Hawaiian affairs:
MR. PECK'S VIEWS.
1T is mistake to think that the
natives of the Hawaiian Islands look |
On the. japanese as interlopers and that |
a hostile feeling exists between the
two races.
1T is true, however, that the Japa-
nese are dangerously near the control
ling element of the islands, as out of |
4 population of 10000 there are about |
$4,000 Japanese. The number is in |
,reasing year by year, but in proper |
ton they are just about holding their |
OWN. The feeling between the natives |
and the Japanese is good, and there
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IF course, the same feeling that would |
the islands were it composed |
of natives.
That there will ever be any trouble
between the two races in the islands L
10 not anticipate, but if it does come,
[ will be stirred up by strangers and
who have at times shown a
endency to be meddlesome.
Neither race can be said to control
he business or finances of the islands,
or most of both races are laborers or
small merchants. The money in the
stands is held mostly by Americans or
and for that rea son there
5 no clash in business interests be-
ween the natives and the Japanese.
Neither is the labor question a serious
ne, for the natives can work just as
veil and as cheaply as the Japanese;
fact, they are in many ways superior
o them As merchants and vendors,
he natives far outrank the Japanese,
While in the field they are in every
ense equals. In case of war, I do not
mink the japanese in the Hawaiian
Stands would cause much trouble, I'M
ess secret agitators from Japan got
-mong them, and in that case I be-
ieye that the natives, who are loyal
o the United States, would more than {
old their own. As a nation, they are
lot overpartial to Japan, but as in
ividuals they like the japanese. There
as been, however. not much intermar-
wing between the two races, as each
ne considers that it is a bit superior
0 the other.
1T is true that cargo of Japanese
migrants went to Vancouver primed
or trouble, but they were taught a
esson which will be appreciated by the
theirs in the islands .
ERNEST G. WALKER.