The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-08-16
will Find Few Here To Agree
With His GeneraIizations Pub
Iished In New York Educational
Journal b.

Journal
Filipino immigration into Hawaii,
the Islands and the feet that the bulls
the population Of the Islands is in
eligible to citizenship come in for n
roasting at the hands of Prof. Naug
han MacCaughey Of the College of Ha
Waii in an article written by him for
"SchooI and Society, published by
the Science Press in New York. Very
many in Hawaii will fail to agree
with all that Professor MacCaughcy
SAYS. His article in full is:
THE complex racial problems of
Hawaii are little known to the people
Of the mainland United States. Ha
waii, remote and isolated in the broad
ranges Of the North Pacific, has at.
tracted the tourist and the commercial
adventurer, rather than the sociologist
and the schoolman. A phrase currently
used in Hawaii, and sometimes repeated
on the mainland, is to the effect that
we have no race problem in Hawaii >
This phrase is fundamentally unsound,
fallaciOus, and befogging What is
really meant is that no violent racial
antganisms have been given an econ.
omic opportunity to express themselves
in Hawaii. Race problems are, to a
very considerable degree, economic in
nature. In a country where the life of
the people is dominated by a feuda.
istic capitalism, and where cheap
labor has effectively driven out the
higher types of labor, racial problems
ore apparently submerged.
Bewtldering and Complex
"On the other hand, a more correct
statement would be that Hawaii
polyglot, polychrome mieroc cosm-con-
tains within it's tiny population of
250 900 people, a most bewildering and
intricate complex of racial and inter
racial reactions. A veritable test-tube,
into which numerous mobile elements
have been collected. The native Ha-
waiians (rapidly vanishng), and a
few South Sea Islanders represent the
Polynesian elements. The overwhelm-
ing Asiatic population comprises Jap
auese, Chinese, and Korean; over half
the total population is Japanese. Span
ish, Portuguese, Porto Rican, and Fill.
pino represent the Latin and Malavan
types. Russians, Germans, a few Scan
dinavians, a few negroes-are the re-
naming elements in the motley horde
Of cheap laborers that have been i'm
ported by the sugar planters from tn"
back alleys of the world. This com
posite laboring mass of human ma
terial is crowned by a small group of
capitalists, managers, business and pro
fessional men, who are almost wholly
! American and English. The Germans
due to their dishonorable plottings and
espionage during the present war, are
| now in process of eviction. although
they formerly constituted formidable
COLONY. a solid block of Kaiser worship
pers.'
Chiefs and Sugar Barons
"In oIden times, and until compare
| lively recently, there was no middle
class in Hawaii. The chiefs owned
everything; the common people were
saves The feudalism of primitive Ha-
waii was rapidly displaced by the 'su,
| gar barons' and their gangs of cOolie
contract laborers. At present, under
the demOcratizing influences of the
great social ana Pohtlcal movements OF
the twenheth century, middle class
Is SLOWLY making IT'S appearance.
"Today the thoughtful people Of Ha-
wnii-schOOlmPn and Mhers-realiZe
more clearly than ever before, the ne
cesslty tor really Amerl'anIzlnR the
boys and girls VINO are growing up on
american SOIL. These children despite
thelr amen Parehtagt ana all OF the
untavorable and un Am'nran lntIuehce'
OF their homes through the agency
OF the American Publlc schools must
he converted INTO genuine and uSetul
American citizens. lhe middle class
OF hawail Will be built up very largely
from these nat'Ne-b"r boys and glrls'
for many decades me PuOll'
schools of Hawai- "er" financially
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