The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-10
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Reasons in Believing that American
Traditions Will Persist In Our
Hawaiian Schools.

Hawaiian Schools.
a. The mixture of other national
tiles is so great as to offset in part
at least, the influence of the Japanese
in the schools.
b. There is an intense ZEAL amount
ing almost to passion on the part
of the Japanese, to learn the En9lish
language. This is probably due large
ly to commercial reasons, but fairly
reflects the average Japaneses ambi-
ton to excel in things that other for
eigners excel in.
C. They are equally ambitious to
conform to American ways and dress,
lnsomuch that the kimona is fast dis
appearing from the Japanese school
child, especially in the cities.
d. They have been trained in their
homeland to a respect for American
institutions and have been brought
up to a genuine regard for the tradi.
tional friendship between the peoples.
e. While intense patriotism to their
imperial government has existed and
will doubtless continue, it is likely
only to be modified by an American
loyalty so to MAKE them a connecting
link between the two countries.
A Labor Probability.
S. 1t is inconceivable that the next
generation will to any degree supply
the places of their parents (for the
women have labored with the men in
the lighter field work. as unskilled
labor on the sugar plantations. 1t is
conceded land the proposed bill has
brought out many statements of the
fact) that only illiterate labor can be
secured for field work, under the pres
ent plantation syStem-only ignorant
labor will remain at it. In other
words, there are chances for frugal
individuals of any race to do better
for themselves off the plantations at
the present rates. On the assumption
that it Is impossible and undesirable
for any part of the United States to
keep any portion of the population ig-
norant, it is clear that ignorant cheap
labor is doomed in Hawaii as It is
doomed everywhere. else in the world
where enlightment enters. 1t is
equally clear that the sugar industry
to endure must eventually reorganize.
It is hoped that this change may be
gradual one in view of the large
claim to recognition which the CAPT
talists have in Hawaii-who at large
risk and with more than ordinary
| business skill have encountered com
mercial problems of great magnitude,
reclsiming large areas of land and
tying up large sums of money in the
sugar business.
g. 1t is very probable that there
will be much greater investment on
the part of the Japanese in Island
homes. Notwiths landing the fact that
they pay less taxes than any other
of the principal nationalities and have
the smallest deposit in the savings
banks - all this must decidedly
change. Since they have considered
this country as mere temporary
working place wherein to amass their
money (Which they have always sent
back to Japan, the slimness of their
local deposits is readily accounted for
as we'll also as their very slight real
estate holdings.
Things Potential.
Here Is undoubtedly the crux or
this paper. With a desire to present
constructive criticism upon possibili-
ties of racial blending in the worlds
most perfect point of contact, the lin
its which need be placed upon a spir-
itualized imagination are only those
suggested by common sense. It must
be very clear to anyone who has fol
lowed the writer in the foregoing
pages. that he regards Hawaii as the
highly privileged leader in the great
silent change in the thought of man.
kind which promises to rob the world
of its most pregnant source OF strife.
In a keen article in the American
Magazine, Ray Stannard Baker re.
CARDS Hawaii as furnishing a specta-
Gle for economic investigation con-
corning labor and lands-and 1t may
be he finds 1t interesting from other
points of view as his article proceeds
in succeeding issues of the magazines,
Even admitting, for argument, that
economic conditions determine world
policies and International intercourse,
yet We hold that the most potent in
huence might be claimed to be race
prejudice in it's effect on past as well
as future history. We refer in this
article to Hawaii as a "mixing-pot Of
the nations" We might as appropri'