Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-08-17
iNEWLANDS AS
HAWAIPS CRITIC
Lawmaker Declares japanese Will
Be a Menace and Demands That
immigration Of Future Provide
Citizenship.

has not abandoned the attitude that
he assumed In the Senate OF the
United States in regard to the prob
lens surrounding land holding in
Hawaii and the development OF the
Territory "along traditional Ameri-
can lines"
! Newlands was the father OF the
thousand acre limitation clause in
the Organic Act, and the statements
that he made in 1900 In connection
with the land problem and the de-
velopment OF immigration he now
says have been amply vindicated by
time.
In a speech in the Senate on July
9th, In connection with the Philip
pine tariff Senator Newlands voiced
an emphatic protest against what
he termed the GENERALIZATION Of
Hawaii.
His remarks were made in con-
nection with the offering of an
amendment to the Philippine tariff
bill reading as follows:
That It is the purpose of the
United States to hold the Philip
pine islands in trust for the Philip
pine people until such time as a
staple Government shall be estab-
lished and the people of such islands
shall be prepared for self govern
ment and then to withdraw. main
len IN 4,
Islands some such relation as the
United States now bears to Cuba"
In connection with his amend
ment Senator Newlands had the fol-
lowing to say bearing on his pre-
dictions In regard to the future of
Hawaii when the Organic Act was
under consideration In Congress:
SO far MS the Hawaiian islands
were concerned, We also persued the
policy of drift have always felt
some degree of responsibility regard
ing those islands, for had the hon
or to introduce In the House of Rep
resentatives the resolutions under
which they We're annexed. But there
we failed to realize that the Ques-
tion of the future of the Hawaiian
Islands was not SO much question
OF Government as question of
economies. II was my effort when
the civil bill was framed to have
the laws regarding those islands so
framed as to develop self respect
ing citizenship composed of men
who had an interest In the soil and
who would ultimately be prepared
to take on themselves the burden
of self government introduced
several amendments to the Organic
Act in the House of Representatives
to that end, some of which were
beaten and some of which were
passed, but ! am sorry to say that
most OF them were eliminated in
conference, upon the assumption
that these questions could come up
at some future time for solution.
They have never come up, and the
result is that We have legislated
with reference to the Hawaiian is
lands In such way as to give the
land itself q value of from fifteen
hundred to two thousand dollars an
acre to make man there almost
valueless."
Senator Newlands then quoted
his remarks made In 1900 under the
heading of Civil Government in
Hawaii-land monopoly-servile la
Dor, and continuing he declared:
That utterance, made in the year
1900, nine years ago, has been
abundantly INDICATED by subse-
quent events. We have built up
there by subsidy of $4,000, 900
annually In the sugar bounties a
sugar planting class, one OF the
most refined, cultivated and edu-
Gated classes to be found in the
world, but & small class composed
at the utmost of few thousand
people and We have there 10000
people almost none of them are fit
ted for self government, almost the
entire population of those islands
being attached in semiservile
capacity to the soil, without right
in 1t and without any conception of
what free government means. We
have encouraged the immigration
into those islands of this class of
people and to-day there are nearly
$4,000 Japanese In those Islands,
whose presence will constitute a
constant menace In the future.
"one of the reasons for the ac-
QUESTIONS OF those islands was that
they controlled our defensive line
in the Pacific, that we could not
rush their occupation by a foreign
power; and yet we have allowed the
people OF the only power which il
likely to contest with us our posi-
tion of advantage in the Pacific to
80 unnumbered upon those islands
eX-soldiers, trained men; and IL at
any time difficulty arises with Japan