The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-06-30

buG ROUu UlQ DOOh says, JuS Ia
borer is worthy of his hire" and
we must and ought to pay what we
promise. There is way to settle
thisChnese question constitutionally
if not change the Constitution in a
way so that it can be settled. We
want the Chinese to work where
they should work. We do not want
to see them retailing in Honolulu
and working at trades for which
they are unfit and of which they
know but little, yet enough to
snatch the bread away from our own
people. Now to 90 back a little
way, l have bought sugar in Homo
lulu for the California Sugar Re-
fnery at 500 per ton for sugar
polariziug 50 degrees strength be-
fore the treaty, and with the advan
tages of the Reciprocity Treaty it is
now worth only $50 per ton; and
before the treaty we had our labor
for So month and we have now to
pay from SIS to S25 for it whilst
the price of sugar has gone down.
Now that is hard on the planter; it
is hard on a man to pay ] per cent
more to raise the sugar than he gets
for it.
To return to the point, the law, as
L understand tits now this, that the
Minister of the Interior issues Ii
cences for great many things.
Well, supposing that the honorable
Legislature in it's wisdom should
say, Every man must have licence"
Clam willing to put licence on max
ing sugar. if it was only one dollar
instead of fifty. You say there are
no Chinese voters in Honolulu, well,
then, don't believe in class legis-
lation when it does no good but l
am there when it does. Now if a
Chinaman wants to drive nail as
u mechanic in Honolulu make him
90 to the Minister of the Interior to
get licence which may be
given him on the recommendation
of 80 per cent of the voters in his
district and if you vote to let him
have it that is your own lookout. 1t
is none of your business here in
Honolulu if we Recommend a man
in Kauai to have licence even
though he may be Chinaman, as
long as we do not NEEDLE with you,
you simply want to prevent these
men from getting q lcence to do
things that you don't want them
to do; it is no use lodging the ques-
ton, the Chinese can live cheaper
than the white man, and can drive
him out. l don't believe that he
can always sell cheaper than the
white man for he can't always steal
his goods or get them on credit
cheaper than a white man. l am in
terested in store on Kauai and we
have the reputation of buying pretty
close. We sell to Chinese but it is
none of our business whether they
sell to Chinese again or not. What
you require to do is this, drive
them out of Honolulu, send them to
the plantations. If you do not,
some of them will get into positions
where they will drive the white men
out. l don't believe that theChinese
is equal to the white man, though
there are many whites who are not
equal to Chinaman. The question
is will you protect yourselves, il
you have not the right to do SO
make the right. If you had not the
right to change your Government
last year you took it, and it is your
duty to protect yourselves against
the Chinese, your duty to your
wives and families. 1t is any and
every mans duty to be doing
in this matter. 1t is no mans
place to sit down with folded hands
even if he is bachelor with nc
one to support, he should not
sit down and see the Chinese
push his fellow white man to the
wall. Here is my friend Mr.. Will
COX from Kauai, he has neither
chick nor child, and he is running O
plantation against me and | have
five "honest" little ones, and can't
protect myself by employing Chi
nese cheaper than he can, and l dc
1T too. He pays $40 a month, and
get them for SIG, but have the lit
lie chicks to look after. / have cut
down wages to the very lowest notch
that it can go to. This licence
business is something that can be
done towards settling this question
Perhaps it is unconstitutional but
make it constitutional. Send them
out of the town and we will fine
them work to do right straight along,
| would have that applied to those
who are here now right away al
once, delays are dangerous. Give
some of them say till the 1st of Jan.
uary to fix up and sell their tools
etc., and | would extend it to the
whole of the Islands, wherever
found white man there
would put it in force, some one
asked me if would object to Chi
nese holding land in fee simple wei
think as they do in the States witt
regard to the English land grabbers
l would let them have little piece
not q whole State. The United
States had to pass law to proven
these great English Syndicates O
monopolists from buying up thu
whole country but L see no objec
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