The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-29
LECTURE ABOUT
HAWAII POPULAR
Crowd and Overflow to Hear
Talk in a New England
College Town.

The following account OF talk on
Hawaii is taken from the Worcester
massachusetts Telegram of March
18th:
The last in the series of Friday night
lectures, at Clark College, was last
afght in assembly hall, and the hall
was filed.
DIR. George H. Blakeslee lectured on
asHawaii, the Garden of the Pacific. =
There were a great many people who
came to the lecture, but who were I'M
able TO get in, aud there were many
expressions of desire on their part that
Nm opportunity would soon be offered
for them to hear the lecture.
DIR. BlakesIee is professor of history
ut The college, and is an excellent lee
surer. The subject attracted special
interest.
He told many things of the Islands
and said: asWith Hawaii well fortified,
the foolish talk of war with Japan
viii have even less justification than
II has today
DR.. BIakeslee said III part:
ssFor charm and loneliness, there is
NO land in the world which can sur
pass Hawaii
ssHonoiuiu, the capital, is essentially
IN American city, though only 5000 of
IT'S As, 600 inhabitants are Americans.
1t was the early New England mis-
sionaries WHO stamped upon the coun-
try it's present civilization.
stEn the near future, Hawaii is to
have a commercial Importance far
greater than at present, for when the
Panama Canal is completed, practically
every ship which goes through the
sanal bound for the Far East will be
compelled to stop at the Islands in
arder to secure coal and supplies. These
are the only islands in the Pacific, be-
tween the equator and Alaska, and be-
tween Asia and America, where sup.
plies of any sort may be obtained. But
if present conditions continue, all of
this commerce will be carried on under
foreign flags, for the Americans are
not able to compete in either building
or operating ships with the Japanese.
a government subsidy will be the only
means of saving the American mer-
shant ships in the Pacific.
Sin case of war in the Far East,
Hawaii would be the key to the Pa
sifc, for it contains the only naval
base and eoaling station in the mid
Tf
war with any Asiatic power, it need
not fear any naval attack upon the
California coast, so long as Hawaii is
well guarded At present work is be-
ing energetieally carried on, to make
Pearl Harbor perfectly secure in ease
of any war. This is one of the largest
and most perfectly land-locked har-
Aors in the world. Money has been
appropriated by Congress for large
aydock and for the necessary forti-
kcations. With Hawaii well fortified.
the foolish talk of war with Japan
win have even less justification than
it has today
Hawaii can give California MANY
lessons in regard to the proper treat
tanent of the Japanese and Chinese.
There is relatively little racial pref
adice In the islands, and this is shown
eieauay in the public schools, which are
EpfeHdfdiy organized and do excellent
work. Hence all nationalities are taught
together, without the least racial fris-
non or racial feeling. In one of the
schools, which has today about 500 stu
dents, there are fifteen different nation
Antics represented Chinese sit next to
Hawaiians and Japanese next to Amer
scans. The teaching force contains
nearly every race, including Hawaiian.
Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese; but
xH of the teaching is done in English.
Every effort is made to take this hu-
man raw material and to make it into
good American citizens. To help in
ehis the largest schools has the stu
dents organized into school eity,
where the students themselves elect
mayor, sheriff and police. These child
afffeials bring the school culprits be-
Fore school courts try them, and if
guilty, sentence them for the disobedi.
snse of rules. The ability oil the Ash
attic students is shown by the fact that
the high school is led in scholarship
not by American children, who are in
Ane majority, but by Chinese and Japa.
nese.
"Hawaii is very prosperous due to
the large returns from the sugar plan
Aations, which have the greatest yield
per acre, of any sugar land in the
world. It is in order to secure tn.
needed cheap labor that SO many Chi
aese and japanese have been brough
into the islands. Recently there ha
been q great development of the pine
apple industry. This year 9,600,0ot
cams of pineapple were put up in Ha
twaii. Some time this may rival til,
sugar industry, for the Hawaiian va
.iety of pineapple is vastly superior t.
the ordinary kind, and is probably un
surpassed in the world.''
This communication in regard to tn
lecture was received last night:
10 the Editor of The telegram:
/ am one of 500 who failed to &c
into the lecture, tonight, at Clark Co
Rge, though 1 was there at 7:45. 4
least thirds of this crowd wei
4Orty years old, and many were profe
annaf men who had made great effo
to be present, and in some instanc
zad come several miles. The Peep
turned away were an appreeiative elias