The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-08-16


could be sent back when their SER
vices were no longer needed. 1t
was then claimed by antiChinese
members that the present process of
introducing unrestricted cheap la
Dor was no special advantage to the
planters and unnecessarily onerous
upon the country, in that out of
every two or three men introduced
for the plantations one perhaps re
manned permanently at plantation
rary service there where they we're
needed, left to 90 out into the coun-
try at large where more coolies now
means simply deadly incubus on
the white and native races and an
oppressive struggle for that limited
number of better paid occupations
upon which our own people must
depend for living if they are to
stay here. The anti-Chinese party
then said, can unrestricted Jap is
far better than an unrestricted Chi
naman, but restricted Chinaman
is far better than an unrestricted
Jap" and the entire issue. on the
labor question as far as the planta-
tions are concerned thus far has
been, not whether cheap labor shall
come, but how it shall come and
under what restrictions. On this
issue, last legislature, the represent
atives of those interested in cheap
labor saw fit to take their stand
against any restriction whatever be-
inc put on the cooie after he got
here.
Such a position so unnecessary
for the protection of the planters
interests, so senselessly servile to a
coolies wishes, so merciless and
high-handed towards their fellow
whites men who with women and
children by their sides to support
and care for have within the past
two years twice demonstrated their
willingness to face death in support
of responsible government--such
position say will rouse any mans
resentment and will force the whites
and natives In self defense to take
! the stand this election that. seeing
those interested in cheap labor not
content with getting their labor in
sist upon giving it full license after
getting here to forage on the balance
of the country, they in turn will
bend every energy to keep it out
altOge her until provision can be
made by which it can be brought in
under proper restrictions.
1t Is unfortunate that such an is
sue should be raised and more so
that the leaders of those interested
in cheap labor should themselves
have provoked it. 1t is unfortun-
ate that the views of Col. Spalding
and many other planters, which are
practically in sympathy with those
of their fellow whites in the towns,
have apparently been overridden by
another wing of the cheap labor
party, for the most part centered in
Honolulu, which having not only
plantation stock but also discounts,
commissions, rents and what not to
make ont of Chinatown, evidently
consider that they can best further
these dual interests by suppressing
this agitation all along the line and
being so placed that a few of them
in Honolulu can command the poiti.
cal policy of the entire sugar inter
ests, have concluded to whip it into
their service, though the issue as
raised does not necessarily involve
the planters interests and very
many of them are opposed at heart
to being made q carspaw in sup
pressing the struggle of their OWL
race to keep their feet.
BE this all rs it may, the strug,
gle is coming and though with the
whites decimated in number, and the
native Tied hand and foot by the Chi,
nese and his vision and comprehen
sion already mercifully dimned tt
The future that awaits him, the ont
come of the struggle seems fore
gone conclusion, yet it is not in the
whites TO give up ground once GOV
cred without IA struggle worthy o
the antecedents of their race.