Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-01
GOVERNOR MESSAGE GIVEN TO PUBLIC DEPICTS
J ATTITUDE OF NATIONAL Observation-Disclosures
AFFAIRS; MORE UNANIMITY ISURGED

lavshly nurtured as have the people of Hawaii
by the United States of America preTi0as -
annexation and since. -a,. !.
40 fear the effect has been to regard the United
States asa patron for speciaf profit. and gascI-
alton It's bond, until that idea has heen fixed as
d cardinal principle in many minds
s.. If so, it is dangerous conception apt TO
lead and i fear has led, to ventures whose sole
margin of security is artificial. q sss,sl..
The leaders in Hawaii's development have
been pioneers in reclamation, daring in enter
prise, and for their courage are entitled to and
have received marked and notable credit and
praise
If eagerness for riches has led to abnormal
Development ON impossible competitive lines
the responsibility should rest where it belongs
within the Territory of Hawaii.
II the great sums Of money arising from Ha
waits phenomenal balance of trade, unap-
preached in the commercial world, have not
been judiciously conserved, the responsibility
should rest where it belongs within the Terri
tory of Hawaii. .
& While at first the Territory missed its Gus.
toms revenues and might well be excused for
mentioning the fact, they ara but Hawaiis prop
.er contribution to the general government, and
the Federal Government has been and is re-
turning much of the money in one form and an
other to within the Territory. Should our pc
5culiar and isolated position ever entail obliga-
items, other than strictly local, greater than we
can bear, undoubtedly fhe Territory of Hawaii
will not lack friends in Congress who will see
that even justice is done
ITO secure the undivided interest and assist
ance Of Congress and the Chief Executive of
any administration it seems to me there should
be mere unanimity among eur people; otherwise
the central government, however friendly can.
net comprehend our desires.
Cur processes should be orderly processes.
We must rid ourselves of some of our insu.
laDity and at least consider national problems
and give them due weight instead of believing
local standards must outweigh national inter.
|ests.t
We have character, intelligence and stamina
enough in this community, if it can be separated
from private prejudice apd selfishness, high and
low, to judieially consider all our problems, to
side world, present creditable and united
front
We have the race problem with us, but sim
liar problems, only under the surface, are fully
as acute in many parts of the Union.
We cannot condemn the Understandable
races among us. We invited their presence, and
$50 long as they choose, to dwell with us and re-
spect our laws and customs above all other laws
and customs, we are bound to extend to them,
within the law, all opportunity for welfare, edi-
cation, refinement and happiness.
TO the credit of the TERRITORY of Hawaii in
no place are these advantages so sincerely and
|abundantly supplied as within its borders
No advanced srages have ever refrigerated so
as to be able to physically compete, in the me
NAL avocations, with those races who depend on
low Intelligence, superior physical capacity and
the plainest scale of living.
Only the application of machinery and the
#intrcacies of science, trade and commerce en-
ables our foftuneless intelligenceto maintain it
self. .<s=t, 1,.t.- -
ThfszWOrid at high nervous commercial ten
sion, if mot international political tension,
awaits the word to pass threIIgh the broken bar
rier. of the Western Continent ., IT,.
=. 1t is aquesfion if the Territory Of Hawaii is
not the most interested spot lin this readjust-
ment gfethe worlds commerce. ( r..
Possibly before any apprehended disturbance
can come to what she has considered her para
mount interest her attention may be absorbed
and her means employed in the beginning of a
Commerce dwarfing into insignificance that
Commerce CT the middle Of the last century when
the flag of the United States dominated the com