Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-12-06 | Page 11 | Should Fortify Hawaii

SHOULD FORTIFY HAWAII I H.i id to Overr-stimate Importance of This Need. In mv Judgment Immediate steps should i" taken for the ror'tlfli . i Hawaii This Is the most Important polnl In lhc I'aciflc to fortify la order to conserve tho Interests of this country It would bo hard to overstate tho Importance of this need. Hawaii Is too heavily taxed Laws should be enacted setting aside for a period of, say, twenty years 75 per cent "f the Internal revenue and customs m-celpts m-celpts from Hawaii as a special fund to be expended iii the Islands for educational educa-tional and public buildings, and for harbor har-bor Improvements and military and naval defenses It can not be too often repeated re-peated that our aim must be to develop the Territory of Hawaii on traditional American lines, That Territory has serious commercial and Industrial problems to reckon with but no measure of relief can be considered con-sidered which lookn to legislation admitting ad-mitting Chinese and restricting them by statute to field labor and domestic service. ser-vice. The status of servility can never again bo tolerated on American soil We au not concede that the proper solution Of its problems is special legislation admitting ad-mitting to Haw-all a class of laborers denied admission to the other States and Territories There are obstacles and great obstacles. In the way of bulldlnn up a representative American community com-munity In the Hawaiian Island- hu it Is not In the American character to give up in the face of difficulty. Many an American Commonwealth has been built up against ...Ids equal to thos.- that now confront Hawaii No meri ly half-henrted effort to meet Its problems as other American communities com-munities have met theirs can be accepted ac-cepted as final Hawaii shall never become be-come a Territory in which a governing lass of rich planters exists by means of coolie labor. Even if the rate of growth of the Territory Is thereby renin ren-in red slower, the growth must only lake place by the. admission of Immigrants fli In tho end to assume the duties and burdens of full American citizenship Our aim must bo to develop tho Territory on the name basis of stable cit Izenshlp as exists on this continent