Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-25
RACE PROBLEM,
RACE FEELING,
UNKNOWN HERE
w. r. harrington Quoted in
Pasadena Paper on Hawaii
Conditions

Hawaii has no race feeling or race
problem, the Pasadena News quotes
wv. r. Harrington as saying on the occa'
sion OF a recent visit to the California
town The following is reprinted from
the News:
W. r. harrington. vice president and
general manager of the Honolulu Star
Bulletin. who was a classmate OF l..
A. Roadway Of Pasadena at the Uni
versity of Maine. Is spending few
days in Pasadena. having Just re-
turned from the East. where he placed
his son in the University Of Wiscon-
sin, and then went to Washington
I'VE have strong hopes in Homo
lulu" said Mr.. Harrington, that the
provision In the last tariff law for free
sugar after May, 1916, will not be al
lowed to go into effect We hope that
the coming Congress will decide to
keep the cent of tariff now remaining
and II 1t does not. the situation in the
Hawaiian Islands will be very serious
Sugar growing there is such an indus
try that our prosperity depends large
~ on whether the price OF sugar is up
or down. Our chief competition is In
sugar from the beet sugar fields OF
Europe. The European war has kent
the price Of sugar at q good level late
~, after the tarin when frst declared
had made a very bad market.
I'VE sell most OF cur sugar to the
sugar trust OF our 100000 tons 4a0.-
900 goes through the canal to Atlantic
ports. and 100000 to 100000 to the
Hawaiian refinery at Crockett, Cal. AS
this population increases, we will send
more and more sugar to the west
coast and many think this market will
eventually take all our supply. We
ship what Is called raw sugar. re-
sembling the old brown sugar. and on
our tables In Honolulu we often use
washed sugar. or raw sugar with part
Of the molasses washed out.
TO stimulate the CONSUMPTION Of
canned pineapple, in which there is
said to be an overproduction. en- adj
vertising campaign Of $4,000 Is being
carried on in the United States. The
for growers is serious since
prices have been cut from $24 TO 81
and 81 q ton.
We have no race feeling or race
problem In Hawaii. Children OF all
races go to the schools and Chinese
boy at q private academy attended by
my son took the scholarship prize at
the end Of the year This does not
mean that the whites intermarry with
Chinese and Japanese. ALTHOUGH they
10 to some extent With the native Ha-
waiians.
I'VE think we, have assimilated the
Japanese population, but | think Cali
Iornia is right in opposing wholesale
The whole tendency of
Oriental labor is to lower the WAGE
scale and to drive white labor out in
certain lines. There are 10000 Lar
anese in our 100000 population. They
are good workers and some have gone
into business.
The removal Of the American flag
from the Pacific in the sale of the Pa.
cific Steamship Companys vessels.
some or the best ships that visited Ho-
nOlulu, creates serious situation for
us. The Japanese will without Ques-
ton I'LL the breach with their ships,
and that throws the carrying of our
trade into the hands Of foreigners.
It Is my first visit to Pasadena. and
am delighted. We have q climate
that Is famous IL. Honolulu but many
seem to miss the tang that results
from your cool nights and evenings.
said to my wife that the people Of
and Southern californfa
have seized their opportunities. The
roads are magnificent and apparently