The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-05-18

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Regarding Public Works
II speaking on th1 aubicct Of public
works of the Islands, under fcderaI con
trol, Mr.. Thurston stated that the
pollcy was to hive Enr lerp-water port
on each one of tie prin,irA Islands
but Honolulu was still onE n ono. sLir
port; that was to say but one shin O,
any size coulI lass through ths chan
mel at tine. The lH aid Of engineers
i " army haI recommended that I'hnolu.
III harhor we extended At n sutt IL one
and one half million dollars, aud that
an appropriation of f2)0,JC0 to made
4. with the privilege % consuming the ca.
teEprise. Nawiliwili's harboT would
receive the attention of congress- at tn,
Incxt session.
1 In the matter of the site for the
federal building in Honolulu, Mr.. Thur.
I ston said that there we're some per.
sons that did not seem to care much
where the federal building was TO be
placed as long as Honolulu got build.
ing but he declared that, he would
Erather wait ten years for federal
building than to have IL placed in the
wrong place. (Applause).
: Hawaii II Profitable
Hawaii aai proved profitable to The
United states, so she was not asking
for gifts when she drew the attention
4 of congress to her needs. She did not
/ come as one asking favors, The Gus.
toms. of Hawaii-the revenue received
by the United States from Hawaii--had
Decn way In excess of moneys paid out
for Hawaii's benefit. Army and navy
! appropriations, of course, were not al
lowed to enter into the calculation, for
the reason that they were naturally for
the benefit of the nation at large and
not peculiarly for these Islands.
The race question, said MIR. Thurston,
was probably not understood abroad.
! Every now and then there issued wild
statements to the effect that the jana
nese in Hawaii were arming, or were
armed and were to rise against the
United States government; that the
japanese were going to seize Hawaii,
and similar absurd statements. He as
snrcd his distinguished hearers that
there was no foundation for such re.
ports. Then there was the alarmist
statement that in q very little while
the Japanese becoming citizens on ar.
irving at maturity, having been born
liH the Islands, would out -vote the
American population. Mr.. Thurston
gave figures to show that in ten years
from now the proportion of Japanese
voters to American voters would be
/ about as one to ten.
ihildren Are American
Japanese children were being educat
cd in American ideas and ideals, learn
| ing to grow up good citizens ,uM,.er the
school With the children of other races
here and advancing along the same
lines of education. The speaker had
no more idea that these Japanese
children would grow up to attack his
| children and the children of other
Americans, than that he himself ,yonli
| rise against the government Mt Wash
ington.
There were problems n Hawaii, to be
sure, but he believed that MI would
admit that Hawaii had 1pne pretty
well so far in meeting her difficulties
and settling them. (Applausr).
The coastwise shipping law WINS sno-
ther matter on which Mr.. ThurstGI
wished to speak. EILler the l'rorosi-
ton of the people IF thess Islands Lot
being allowed to travel between hfIe
and the mainland n a"y hut sh.PH fly
ing the American flag, great hardship
was inflicted on The territory.
Only Twelve Ships
There were but twelve ships that la
waiians could haV j ia and scoa pltero
would be bur BeVnn, for. tAe PnFili..
Mail haI 1nIli, lU unnpnlnpnI fhnf Al
would Withdraw is vessels. There
were plenty of good boats plying be-
tween here and the Coast, Dnt Hawai-
ians were not i.crruttei to t"avti
aboard them uule's thsy paid a 800
fine. Onl9 tie nth'r dav 1t had lietn
reported from San Fraucisco that ha!t
Of the people who wan ID IN "UInr here
after visiting the world 3 fair eye IN
able to do 80 for the reason that they
were unable to get transportation.
1t was at this point In his Address
that Mr.. Thurston was interrupted by
the chair with the reminder that he was
exceeding his time allowance. pe
spoke for forty minutes. For this
reason Mr.. Thurston had to cut short
he rest of his remarks, squeezing mere
references to what he wanted to say into
another eight or ten minutes. ,
Diversified Industries
He had intended saying much on the
subject of diversified industries but
covered this subject with the state
ment that the people OF Hawaii wen,
doing all in their power 10 demon.
strate the Vahie of, diversified indus
tries, experimenting as far as was
possible with industries other than
that of sugar. ~
In regard to the sugar taria, Mr..
Thurston said that he did not propose
to ask congress to change the law
especially for the benefit of Hawaii;
he did not ask that special Legislation
be enacted for 100000 people as
against the welfare of 100000, 900 PEG.
pie but he believed that Il would not
have TO be matter Of special legis-
IatiOn, but that the congressmen
would merely have to look at the su-
gar question from a broad national
standpoint. First, the country at large
needed the revenue that would be Oh
tanned from the duty on sugar, and,
second, IL Hawaii 2eouldn 7 live under
free sugar there would be no chance