The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-07-06
MEMORIAL.

Following IS q memorial TO be
presented by the Anti-Asiatic Union
to the Legislature, expressive of the
Unions views on the Chinese ques-
ton -
GENTLEMEN: The Hawaiian Anti
Asiatic Union, an association of
electors and tax payers of this king
dom, formed for the purpose of
seeking TO protect themselves con-
stitutionally, against the evils and
competition of Asiatic immigration,
have caused q petition on this sub
iect to he drafted and circulated for
signatures, which will be submitted
to the present Legislature, through
the honorable Noble w. L. Foster.
AS n sequel TO this petition, the
members of this A. A. Union do
hereby also wish to respectfully
place before you the following inn
portant considerations, which they
according TO the constitutional
rights granted to all citizens of this
country-desire to submit, as the
true expression of their opinions
and wishes, to the Mobiles and Rep
resentatives who have been elected
by the people to defend the peoples
interests.
At the present time the whole
world is going through period of
distress for the working classes;
but the hard times are more especi-
ally felt in all the countries where
the inferior and cheap labor of
Asiatic races is allowed to compete
freely with the laborers of the civil
lied races. Thus the results of this
competition are now growing so in
tensely disastrous in the United
States of America and in the Aus
tralian Colonies, that the people
there are determined to obtain strin-
gent legislation, to the effect, not
only of preventing any further I'M
migration of Asiatcs, but also of
ultimately compelling those already
abroad to return to their tlowery
empire.
In this Kingdom we are also pass
ing through serious econom zeal
and commercial crisis, which our
population is beginning to feel more
kcenly than it otherwise would do,
were it not for the fact that about
5000 Chinese and over 5000
japanese find themselves in pres
ence of less than 900 white people
and 10000 native Hawaiians.
Thus, competition in labor and
trade, which would hardly have
been felt had we no Asiatics to di-
vide with, is daily made more bitter,
at the very time when work is
growing scarce and living difficult
on these islands. 1t cannot there.
fore be surprising TO see that from
this incipient crisis, combined Will
Asiatic competition, has already re
suited the exodus from this country
OF quite large number of white
labOrers with their families, which
constitute the real back-bone of the
nation, and which we cannot AFFORD
to lose. Aside from those already
gone, many more intend to leave be-
fore long, and this situation ough
to attract the earnest attention O.
our Representatives, rs every man
of this kind who goes away, is {
dead loss to every one of us who re-
mains, to such degree that if pro
per measures are not taken, it can
safely he prognosticated and seri
ousIy feared that, at no distan
future, Asiatics alone will be founC
on living these shores.
All these dangers, which threaten
the stable and industrious popula
ton of these islands, are nothing
new and they have already beef
f0reseen 10 such an extent that dur
ing the last session of the Legisla
ture, q very wise, although yet onl,
partially effective law, was proposed
for putting a stop to any /furthe
Chinese coolie immigration. Blu
unfortunately, the Legislature, no
realising the true state of things
yielded to the pressure of n few in
terested men, who wanted that i'm
migration to be continued on condi
tions which, practically, make it TN
restricted.
The Anti Asiatic Union, and tn
petitioners who sympathise with it
views, do not ignore the usefulnes
of the Asiatic colonies already set
tied here, and which no sane min
could want to drive away. nor d
they wish to interfere with tn
planters interests, wants, and neces
sites; if some think that they mus
, continue to use Chinese and Japa
nese, let it be so by all means.
Go be continued.)
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