The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-16
FINDS HAWAII
IDEAL RESORT
A Sacramento Visitor Pleased
Wants More Tourists
to Come Here.

IL 4 II %fANNNfAAA "a ,
who has been in the Islands for a few
weeks, returned to California yester-
day in the Mongolia, thoroughly i'm
pressed with the attractiveness of the
Hawaiian Islands as tourist resort,
whose advantages should be demon
strated to the travelling public even
more generously than has already been
done bv the Promotion Committee. He
came here on a vacation on the advice
of a friend who had visited Homo
lulu, and has never regretted a mo-
ment of his stay. His trip to the vol
eano he regards as one of the men,
orable incidents of his jOurneyings,
the volcano being especially active
and full of fire. The trip along the
Hamakua coast, where the sugar cane
fields are laid out panorama-like above
the steep bluffs, was a revelation, and
the tree-molds, the vegetation of Ha-
wall, the fine climate of both Oahu
and Hawaii, appealed strongly to him.
al have found the people of these
Islands the most hospitable I have
ever met" said the Doctor on Satur-
dav. "The climatic conditions are
ideal. The scenery is grand every
where That volcano is something one
should travel thousands of miles to
see.
ct would suggest that your tourist
committee here endeavor to arrange
excursions to the Islands. 1t seems to
me that if your Promotion Committee
and the Chamber of Commerce could
cooperate with the Steamship COM
panies, advertise reduced rate, and
tell of your varied attractions in the
most attractive way, that you could
bring big excursions here several times
a year.
''It seems to me, also, that you have
fine agricultural possibilities here, too.
OF course, your entomologists need to
eradicate the insect pests, or at least
reduce them to a minimum. There is
a great deal of land here that might
be utilized for small farming. The
climatic conditions are excellent.
have been all through the pineapple
country with Mr.. Dole and was par
ticularly impressed by the showing
made there. You need a middle class
of people here, agriculturists able to
make homes, raise families, take up
homesteads and spend their money
right here.
"We have a Japanese question TO
solve in California. The people of
California are suffering from the en-
croaehment of the japanese in all
lines of business. and I believe you
are, too. Some of the best lands of
Sacramento Valley are in the hands of
Japanese. They lease the lands, and
work them on shares and eventually
form colonies, all to the detriment of
the other peoples about them. The
japanese are so monopolizing the
farming there that the opportunities
of the American farmers are growing
less and less. An American raneher
leases his lands and then the family
next to him finds that his children
have Asiatic playmates, and they go
to the American schools and fill them
up, and eventually the neighboring
farmers move out so that their chill
dren may be educated apart from the
Asiatics. They are driving the people
out of the farming districts.
az think the feeling is general in
California that they are not desirable
as American citizens. While we may
admire certain traits which they pos
sess, vet we must understand that the
japanese are Japanese and send their
earnings to Japan instead of making
use of them on the mainland, and they
retain their japanese nationality and
are clannish about it, and therefore
it makes me feel that America is for
real Americans.
"People who have not come in ac-
tual contact with the Japanese labor
ing class have been blinded by the
heroic side of the japanese as he is in
war, and only learn how he is en-
croaching in eommereialdom when he
begins to take away the business of
the Americans in the cities and coun-