The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-07-23
WANTS MEN TO
SETTLE LANDS
HAWAIIAN GOVERNMENT
OFFERS INDUCEMENTS
FOR AMERICAN SET
TLERS-JAPAN-
ESE LABOR
EXCLUDED.

lie eIIOfl I'd SECURE pei llldlSllt
settlers for the public lands OF
Hawaii has been renewed with
fresh determination. The refus>
al of Congress to pass the bill
which would have enabled the
planters to bring large numbers
of laboring immigrants from Eu-
rope has brought more strongly
than ever to the recognition OF
the thinking men of the Terri
tory that something must be
done to attract hither white men
who will make it their home, ac-
uuire ali interest in the Territory
and by their labor and their eff
forts and lives create there a
truly American community. Ev>
en- the planters, who in the past
have not been friendly to any
thing they thought likely to dis
turb the labor system of the IS,
lands or create industries that
would compete for the land they
wanted for sugar, are beginning
to adopt a less uncompromlsing
attitude. With Japan as an mex
haustible source OF labor supply
to them. and Congress refusing
to permit them to bring in un-
limited quantities OF assisted inn
migrants from southern Europe,
they feel the necessity OF finding
some means which will bring in
to the Territory population
that can supply the labor neces-
sary for their needs.
The idea of using the public
lands to bring in settled popu-
lation of American citizens at,
tached to the Territory by prop
erty interests has been suggested
before and efforts to carry out
the idea have been made. In.
quiries regarding the public and
private lands OF the Territory
have been coming to Honolulu
by the hundreds for the last ten
years. But so indefinite have
been the replies, largely, it is be-
Iieved because of the latent hos
tility to the immigration of an in
dependent class, that very few
if any of the class now desired
have ever been induced to come
by them.
The promotion committee d
the Territory has now taken the
subject up and proposes TO Sc
| cure and formulate in available
form definite information about
cultivatable lands in all parts O
the Territory, whether publicly
or privately owned, and to make
an effort to disseminate this in
,rmation among the home-seek
ing classes of the mainland, anc
by it to be able definitely anC
satisfactorily to answer all ques
tons and inquiries received a
Honolulu.
The need of bringing in Amer
leans is felt all the more strong
ly because of the evident fac
that it will only be few year.
before there will only be a vot
ing population OF Hawaiian-borr
Japanese large enough TO out
vote the present electorate
whites lind Hawaiians-and will
thus undermine the Americana
ing influences ut work there anC
wholly orent;aEze the territory.
There is some apprehensiv,
feeling among Hawaiians re
garding this effort to brins
American settlers there. Thu
Hawaiians are now largely in tn,
majority in the electorate and
though on the whole they worl
tremendously with the whit,
Americans, they are uncertain a
to where they will be if TIN
whites should become superior t,
them in voting strength, as the,
already are and have long beer
in wealth and other elements o
influence and power. AT the sam
time many of them are begin
ming to see that as between tn
danger of being outnumbered il
voting strength by Japanese o
by whites, their safety and inter
est lies with the whites will
whom for a century they hav
been in intimate contact and wh'
on the whole, have been thei
best and most disinterested adj
visers. and who have brough
them a prosperity they woul
not otherwise have known.
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