Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-11

NloitCu lClt1lVly VIII dlty
Last May Writes Long Ar
tiCle on Conditions in Islands
as He Found Thenl-cofl-
petition With Cuban Plant
ers impossible, He Declares
"What the United States Owes the
Hawaiian Islands II the title Of the
second OF series Of newspaper arti-
cles by Congressman r. w. Austin Of
Tennessee, now being widely circulat.
ed by mainland newspapers. Mr.. Aus
tin, who with his wife and daughter
came 10 Hawaii last May with the con-
gressionaI party and later went on 10
the Philippines. Is writing series Ct
articles called An American Com
gressman In the Orient
The main contention made by the
fiery Tennessee Democrat, who re-
Gently stirred up the Filipinos by de-
claring that the United States would
never give up the Philippine Islands,
u that the mainland owes Hawaii a
protective tariff on sugar, without
which, he declares, prosperity Is an
impossibility n this territory.
Mr.. Austin's article on Hawaii fol-
lows.
First Hand lnlcrmatioFa.
Last week gave out for publication
10 the American press my observa.
tiohs on the Philippine Islands. and
In this letter Will take up the Ha-
waiian Islands. having spent some
time there gathering first-hand infor-
nation from the citizens, officials, busi-
nessmen and commercial organiza-
tons. travelled ofer the islands In
speeding sugar and pineapple factories
and plantations. schools, colleges.
military camps and f0rtifieations.
This new American territory Is com
posed Of = group 81 eight inhabited
islands. covering 6.449 square miles,
or 400. 900 acres, excceding by 166:
square miles the states of Connects.
cut and Rhode Island and the Dis
trict Of Columbia. The 1910 census
gave the two states and the District
Of Columbia q combined population Of
l,gss,l Al, and the Hawaiian Islands,
$4,000.
The islands were annexed by the
United states as q territory on July
z. 1888 during President McKinley's
flrst term and after his democratic
predecessor. Mr. Cleveland. had refus.
ed to accept them and, In fact, ex. ]
hansted Sis influence to restore the
monarchy OF the many wise and
beneficial pieces Of legislation enacted
during The administration Of the mar.
ttred president there we're two which
stand At the head Of the list: the TAX /
Ing over ,of the Hawaiian Islands. and
the substitution Of the Dingley pro
tective tarin measure for the Cieve.
land Wilson destructive law which
had pafalyzed and destroyed business
prosperitf In the United States in the
same manner the Wilson Underwood
tariff law mas been doing since It's
enactment
The Inhabitants OF the islands can
not be compared with the natives Of
the Philippine Islands. as the former
are more highly civilized, more pro
gressive and thoroughly III sympathy
with America. In agricultural. edu-
cational and business development the
Hawaiian Islands are abreast Of any
section Ia the United States and far
in the lead Of many, and this Is espe.
cia1ly true Of the enterprlsing Anne
rican daily papers published in Ho
nolulu. In 1920 the capitol city. Ho
nolulu. had q population Of only 5000.
ln1S66 Il had Increased TO L, 900. with
adobe and grass houses. Today II has
10000. With every modern municipal
Improvement gas, electric lights.
street railroads, sewers, water works.
telephones, telegraphs, cable and wire
less systems. efiicient police and FIRE
department. parks. modern wholesale
and retail stores and beautiful homes
an honest. progressive city govern,
ment headed by q popular and able
mayor, native Hawaiian, Hon. John |
e. Lane:
pr,lses 'eu;ldlncs.
rs nnblIc hnijdinFE churches. edu.
c.fionsi .lnstitntione M RI a civil
s1d sociaI organizations. business cor |
49, t,e,r,E nnhlle ntilities hanlrs climbs