The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-07-14
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.'Neighborhood Without Brother
hood Is He'll, Says Reverend
Nh. Fry IN Mainland

"a treaty may be only a scrap of
Taper, but all the while the world is
being forced together into one great
ncighbOrhood, and neighborhood with.
out brotherhood is hell, said Rev.
William II. Fry, superintendent of
Methodist Episcopal missions in Ha.
wall, recently, speaking before a large
congregation in the Vincent Methodist
Episcopal Church Of Spokane, Wash.
ingtOn. .M, ~.
Mr.. Fry, according to, a newspaper
of that city, discussed the problems
arising out of the contact between the
Oriental and white races. In matters
of immigration, he said, Hawaii is the
experimental station Of the United
States, and Honolulu is the laboratory
in which the solution is being worked
out. 49,.
There is no spot on earth where
class line counts for less than in the
islands, - he continued. 1.-THE marvel
to the newcomer Is the ease and grace
with which people of all classes mingle
ia social and commercial life. We are
really teaching q Lesson in world neigh.
borhncss. L am not suggesting that
we take all the Chinese, Japanese and
FiliPinos and make Americans of them.
The task would be an impossible one,
for the reason that they do not want
to be Americans, and would not make
good Americans even if they did want
to be. r ..
"Our government has need to move
with exceeding care upon matters Of
Oriental Immigration. The religions
of the east and the west will not mix
any more than will oil and water. But
this docs not state all the difference be,
tween US. The relationship between
male and female, husband and wife,
parent and child, the individual and
the state suggest matters of grave con.
Germ to be considered in the possible
citizenship of those who come to our
western gateway and seek admission.
awe ought to put our own house in
order before adding more disorder to
it. What about the multitude in our
land who have ceased to live for 9th,
ersi What about the poorly fed, the
poorly paid and the Christless rich, tho
supineIy Indifferent and the multitude
who in the hour Of their affluence have
turned their back upon the church and
closed their heart to the cry of the
necdyf
save can best serve the Oriental by
keeping him where he is and present
ing 10 him the ideals that have made
possible our great heritage as an Amer
lean people. Let each preserve the
genuine and Characteristic of his own
race and country, but God forbid that
we should ever lose the reality of
brotherhood. q,
-'Let us not forget that this problem
is at our very doOr-for Honolulu is
an American city just as much as Spok
lpe is. and the Territory Of Hawaii is
American soil just as surely as the
State of Washington is"
The first missionaries landed in Hal
weii in 1919, he said, sixteen years bel
fore Jason Lee or Marcus Whitman
discovered Oregon, and twenty mind
wears before the discovery of gold I'M
California. ~ sts5taZ@t
awe can boast of having the first
newspaper west of the Rocky Noun
'tains," be continued. "The people of
California used to send theiH children
to Hawaii to school long before they
had an adequate school system of their
own. We had the first college, the
first public school the first court of
Justice to be established west of the
Missouri river Long before the noble
pioneer crossed the Rocky Mountains
Hawaii had established charitable and
religious institutions and a Christian
citizenship"