The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-07-31
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IDEA OF HOW TO
RULE HAWAII

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s. F. Bulletin:-To treat the Ha-
waiian Islands as tropical colony,
to allow the American capitalists 10
exploil the Asiatic laborers at their
own sweet will-that is the way 10
solve the race problem, according 10
A. Monestier, editor of the Echo de
Chine, a French paper published at
Shanghai. 1t is an extreme policy ne
and his ideas are interest
ing.
1t is the race feeling, not the class
feeling that has given rise to the trou-
bles with the Japanese in Hawai-,
says Monster Monestier. A blow CIV
en- or wrong done to Japanese
rouses the anger of his countrymen.
"The fact is that the Japanese are
not willing to be treated as an lnfe-
rior race" he says, especially since
their victory over the Russians. More
over, feeling that they dominate the
labor market, they act the matador,
ways ready to quarrel with their mas
tiers. Then there is that youthful va
nifty which is a characteristic of their
race and Of which we have often had
manifestations Besides it must be
taken into account that the recent
immigrants are not the Ignorant peas
ants of former days.
MANY of them are educated and
know of socialism. Recently they have
organized higher wage association,
and that association has been respon-
sible for the recent troubles
IF the Americans would make up
their mind to treat these islands as
tropical colony and to exploit them
simply for the benefit of the white
capitalists, the race problem would be
solved-it would no longer exist The
Asiastics would see the toll of their
arms, the planters would buy it at
the best price they could make, and
nothing more said
But the American ideal refuses to
sacrifice the principle Of free, demo-
cratic community to purely material
interests. This ideal, of course, is a
credit to the humanitarianism, Of the
United States, but it may at times be
little out of place, especially under
the peculiar conditions in Hawaii. For
all races are not equally capable OF
lization.
The Hawaiian question is therefore
far from solved
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istry. A special commissioner reported
that slavery was not truly Portuguese
but was an excrescene ON the national
life, abhorred by patriotic Portuguese.
Thanks to the refusal of large firms
in England and elsewhere, says Mr..
Burtt, to buy slave-grown produce,
we can now drink clean cocoa This
action of business firms, he declares,
is a moral protest that will appeal
to all The unfortunate native, how
ever. will not benefit unless slavery
is actually stopped. He quotes several
authorities to show that there is no
difficulty in disposing of the San
Thome cocoa, in spite of the action
of the English firms. In January,
1908, the Lisbon stock of cocoa was
12OO15 sacks; by March it was reduc-
ed to S2,765, while early in June it
was as low as 10000, nearly all hav-
ing been sold in America. America
is first on the list of cocoa-raising ma
tions, having used in 1907 1886 met
ric tons against England's 20,l59. Let
her, he says, i'm this centenary year
Of Lincoln's birth, raise her voice Tor
freedom.
To this the editor of the Spectator
adds: IF the people of America would
pledge themselves to drink no more
slave-grown cocoa they would raise the
noblest and most magnificent memoir
ial to Lincoln that the brain of man
can conceive"