Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-22
HAWAII and RACE PROBLEMS

George w. Guthrie, Uncle Sans new amhas
sador TO Japan, is the kind Of man and the kind
of public official that Honolulu delights Il
honor
lifelong member of a great national party
he has been of distinctly independent turn OF
mind as regards politics, being bound by no far
fetched doctrine of partsansllp where his OWL
scruples were violated. Willing to be a worker
in the ranks, he has been always able to SEE
where the ranks we're headed, and if unworthily
led, he has not hesitated to say so. He is one Of
Pittsburgs foremost citizens and has been able
to maintain the respect even of those he most
vigorously opposed in municipal politics.
Mr.. Guthrie is shrewd public official, and
since he was appointed to his diplomatic post, he
has distinguished himself by discreet silence on
details that might, by unwisc revelation, embar-
rass his country. There will be no repetition of
the Crane incident with Mr. Guthrie.
As the successor Of Larz Anderson at Toxic,
Mr. Guthrie should be successful and popular
representative Of the American people at time
of unusual international tension. AS the cross
roads between the Orient and the Occident, Ho-
nolulu appreciates the opportunity to entertain
Mr. Guthrie will doubtless, at his new post,
hear and see good deal of iingoism, for there is
plenty Of it in Japan as well as in America, and
possibly there will be good deal of misrepre-
sentation of Hawaii's attitude. 1t may therefore
properly be emphasized here. and now that Ha-
waii has no use for the yellow peril talk, and
that we of this territory feel confident of work
ing out our race problems if the national admin
strati0n will afford us unhampered facilities for
working out our industrial problems. BY the
crippling of 'her great sugar industry, Hawaii
will be Immediately handicapped in the solution
of the vital problems of race nterningling and
progress for ALL European immigration, now
held up because Of uncertain financial prospects,
will be stepped and Filipino immigration en-
ccuraged with the reduction in the returns from
sugar. Former Governor Carter has said that
under free sugar Hawaii will be reduced to a
mere military outpost. The truth is that none
can tell just what disas er will befall us with
the blow at Hawaiis vital industry.
Hawai's racial problems have been worked
out with remarkable success, in large measure
due to the fact that the Americans have assumed
the really tremendous burden of educating the
children of aliens in the public schools of the ter
ritory.1 The school finances are now strained to
the utmost and they will be totally inadequate if
Hawaii's sugar industry is hard hit and the tax
returns fall off to the extent now Indicated.
Public work of all kinds must inevitably suffer
by the shrinkage of credits and values. The ia
cilties that Hawaii has had in solving her race
questions must inevitably suffer.
This territory has been APPLY called the melt
ingpot of nations. Should the present tariff pol
icy of the administration he carried out the fires
will be drawn from under the pot Self-preser-
Walton will demand cheaper labor, less expend-
iture for education, for benevoence for social
welfare, and particularly for the bringing-in of
immigrants eligible to citizenship under the
present laws
The future intercourse between Japan and
the United States should be as friendly as the
past. Hawaii is connectng-link and able to
speak from experience of the result of close social
and industrial relations between the two nations.
Under policy that guaranteed the people of this
territory stable Industrial organization there
has been friendship and progress Such may not
be the ease if that stable industrial organization
is shattered
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