The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-11-01

feated there by personal work all |
the wealth and machinery the plant
ers could bring out to gain the
victory.
But now that we have the victory,
can we hold it? We intend to hold
it If we can.
We demand CONSTITUTIONAL
guarantees that the Cinnamon can
be controlled while here and can be
deported when their labor contracts
are ended. Further we demand
good guarantee that no Chinaman
can enter into competition with
skilled and other labor hereafter,
and can be compelled to confne
himself to agricultural pursuits only.
Ii this cannot be done we say-No
Chinese!
A few rich men cannot make
Chinese colony out of the Paradise
of the Pacific. You few wealthy
men claim to he the country. You
pretend that your sugar industry,
which tends to make each island one
large estate, is the life and benefit
of this kingdom, when at another
minute you protest that this very
same industry cannot exist without
the bonus of millions of dollars that
Uncle Sam generously gave you
every year?"
For goodness sake, if the indus
try has to go begging abroad for
support and cannot exist here with
out human misery and degradation,
then for the sake of common sense
and Christian humanity give it up.
Sell the land, parcel it out as home
steads and make the five million or
more people whom it could support
happy. What benefit is an industry
to any country which has to be snip
ported by slavery and cannot live
without the support and aims of a
foreign nation?
l deny the assertion of the Adver-
Users leader that the extension of
| plantations (the wharves and the
deeping of the harbor has nothing
to do with cheap labor) has created
work for skilled labor. The plant
ers have trained Asiatics for all
work in which they had to employ
formerly white men with few ex-
ceptions where they found it impos-
sible), as with sugar-boilers, lunas,
carpenters, brick-layers, engineers,
wheelwrights, teamsters, black
smiths, watchmen, etc. Even ply
sicians in few instances are Asia
tics. Consequently salaries and
wages for all kinds of work went
down, from the salary of the book
keeper and luna to the pay of the
stableman, and this during the time
when the planters grew enormously
rich. Is all this for the benefit of
the country, gentlemen? Yes, if it is
conceded that few rich planters are
the country must agree as the pro-
fits go to them only. But then how
about Art. Z of the platform of the
National Reform Party which de
clares that the wealth of Il nation i:
built on the partition "of the sol
into numerous small farms rather
than larger estates?''
These gentlemen of wealth as
sert that the consumption the trade
created by these large enterprises
is the benefit. Perhaps so if i
were not that the greed of mos
planters does object to even that thi:
crumb should fall to anyone. There
was on a certain plantation an indie
pendent blacksmith shop. This maj
had family, but as he could no
compete with the plantation shop
he had 10 go away Gall hands had tt
go to the plantation shop, orr.
The man is in California now, ant
does we'll. There are small mer
, chants who try to make decen
living for themselves and their folks
But how difficult is it now? as mos
planters not satisfied with their enor
nous NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. div
idends begrudge them their few
: dollars, difficulty earned, and rul
plantation stores in competition
Suppose the store-keeper still keep
open? In one or two instances tn
plantation bought the land unde
the mans house and made him NOV
away from his trade, but in most cases
the laborers are "forced" to blu,
at the plantation store and at plan
p tation store prices Or! or what
, There are THOUSAND ways to kill
. dog and to force serf. Are thes
not facts? If they are, where is tn
= "benefit of the country"
Is it a benefit to any country t
t have it divided up into estates tie
e miles square devoted to an industr
f that sucks it out like leech an
S has to be fed into the bargain by
n foreign power? On this estate ther
s are perhaps fourteen civilized whit
4 people and fifteen hundred slaves
2 who are changed every three or tiy
g years and let loose into the town
Y with the result which we know an
s against which we protest to tn
v great ACCOMPLISHMENT of these gentle
men who kindheartedly want to Civ
e us more of it although they kno
e that the importation of more serl
4 would be detrimental TO their Chris
n ian white brethren whom they al
e supposed to love,