The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-24
ANTI-ASIATIC UNION.
Preamble, Constitution and Bylaws
of a New Hawaiian Organization.

WHEREAS, It is an acknowledged fact
that the present official policy of this
community, in obedience to the selfish
interests of few, is striving at keeping
up the immigration to these islands, in
unlimited numbers, Of Chinese and Jap
nese, for the sole purpose of introducing
cheap and inferior labor; and,
Whereas, it is also not less undenia-
bic that this continuous immigration of
Asiatics, and their consequent encrOach-
ments in all and every branch of trade
and labor in this Kingdom are fatal to
the rest of the population of these
Islands, driving to ruin all our laboring
classes--white and native alike; and,
Whereas, the ultimate results of I'M
limited Asiatic immigration will be the
humiliation of the native race, the
forced emigration of the white settlers
and the final transformation, ere long,
of the Hawaiian Islands into an Asiatic
Colony;
Therefore, under the designation of
the Hawaiian Anti-Asiatic Union," an
association is hereby constituted for the
purpose of obtaining, for the native and
foreign population of these Islands, pro-
lection against any further Asiatic immi-
| grafton and redress against Asiatic en-
croachments, although no harm nor ret
roactive measures are intended against
such of the Chinese or Japanese as are
already settled in this country, IN honest
and continuous occupations, living as
useful and peaceful citizens.
Section l. The members of this asso-
ciation-''The Anti-Asiatic Union''-in-
tend to pledge themselves to employ all
| legal means of moral suasion, and use
all their influence and individual activ-
| ity for the prompt furtherance of the
| ends hereabove mentioned, viz: OF
stopping the immigration of Asiatics,
without conflicting with the planters
interests, and of preventing competition
against white and native labor
Sec. 2. The Union is open to men of
all nationalities except Asiatics, and of
all creeds, who may wish to join and CO.
! operate. The candidates will have to be
! proposed by some member of good
standing, to the Executive Board, who
will accept or reject them. Those re-
ported favor ably upon will be admitted
only after taking the necessary pledges
and signing the constitution.
Sec. 3. Any member who may be con-
victed Of being untrue to the Union and
| to its DIlrDOSeS or of violating anv of his
! pledges, may be punished as decided in
| private meeting of the Board, or may be
expelled after judgment at such meet
ing. Members wishing to withdraw
from the Union must notify the Secre-
tary of their action.
Sec. 4. The center of the Hawaiian
Anti Asiatic Union" will be in Honolulu,
H. l., but every effort will be made to
obtain the formation, in all the districts
of this and the other islands, of branch
societies or sections, connected with the
Honolulu center, and taking their in
struc*ions from it.
Sec. 5. The Union will be headed in
! Honolulu by an Executive Board, con-
stituted of one President, two Vice Presi-
dents, two Secretaries, one Treasurer
and six Directors, all elected by ballot
Sec. 6. The Honolulu President will
have all the necessary executive power
over all sections, and in case of a tie in
Board on voting questions, he will have
right to casting vote. The Vice Presi-