The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-09-20

DO 80 at the meeting. Such talk ~
childish. -
iron farmers Mt Wahlawa, who under
took to show us how diversified fnrm-
iug could be made an ideal Pxistenr"
under the most favorable cOnditio''
prevailing in that district. They starv-
ed for ten years, then came the pine
apple. Today these pioneers are .piHe-
apple mAgnRtPs, and although n number
Of those sturdy tillrrs Of the soil have
Joined their fathers in the bosom OF
Abraham, their sons in many instGmces
are employers of largo numbers Of men.
You know the mrH that are doing the;
farming at Wahinwa today.
cove are far removed from Europe
and Europeans, and mayhap that they
will be needed at home after the war,
and our chances Of a laboring class Of
the Caucasian race are about as remote
as is the likelihood that the remaining
of Hackfeld Street will WIN the war.
The Great White Peril
I "The great thcatcr Of the Far East,
with it's untouched and un-war- riddIed
over supply Of human energy, is about
to take the stage. Our country is ready
to help them, both with many l"l
material, AMI we are so inconsistent
az to draw. 10 'hclp from them to our
own institutions of industrial and com
mercal strength The barrier Of race
prejudice is fhe.thrg that We can not
= get sout b nr Aystcms. even though
the Great Peril is not the yellow
Peril, hut the peril of the mighty sword
in the hands of the rulers and masters
of white nation that started out to
put the rest of the world under the
iron heel Of Kaiserism and the evrrlast
my yoke OF ahtocratic rIle.
Located as we are on the far edge
of the Occident required as We arc
bv natural conditions TO have a class
Of wOTkmcn that are tUilers in the real
sense, knowing as we do that the whit"
man is not constituted to labor und"u
tropir suns, what can be more Ominous
to the future Of our industries than 4
continuance Of the ban against the near
est base Of labor supply?
Il was not asked by your committee
to bring in the pot of Blue Paint
to draw unpleasant pictures at thi'
gathering today, but in the conSidern
tiOn of the after the war future of lia
wall, | set up the claim that the main
trnanrp Of our present industry is
first requisite, and this can only b,
accumulated by n labor supply OF ~
agricultural class. 1t is also essential
in my opinion, to amy further rXp,n
sion Of our natural resources
Our Only Hope
,,,uU 1n t,uiu la nj 0rUuynr
and APPLYING to the mainland that th,
non assmilativc nature Of the Orpntn
makes him undesirable as citizen. ]
may be that our Creator made the lSntl
meridian the dead line over which III,
human SPECIES shall not pass from cithc
side, although We insist on the 'Ope'
Door policy in Asia, and keep it CLOSED
at home; hut here We are out here il
the middle of this great Pacific. trvinl
to make this little patch Of island
! hriug forth its Increase; without tn,
toilrr that even our homeland is shnr
,, ON, what show have we gotH 1T is pre-
p0strrous unless we are permitted t
draw labor supply from our Orient |
> npighbCrs, as only this will enable II
to keep up with the great develOpm n
that will take place in those Far Ea''
rrn centers Of human energy utter -
war
~ realize that nv ideas on this Sp''
irrt are Mt variance With many of No'
y who sit hare today and Hay be. cry,
ri"rd as prssimistic aud perhaps uh
American; but since the Hun peril wa
, sprung upon us. ] stand for most an
! people, any race. that has reputation
\ far suuare dealing honest Durp0sp an,