The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-03-06
Speeches on Various Subjects by
Prominent Men.
MARsDEN ON THE LABOR QUESTION.
H F. Dillingham;, ,. - EmersoE. and
w. A. Bowen also speak-Edward
Towse Disputes Mr.. Marsden's views
on the Chinese Immigration Act.

LIE IOonS vi the American Leagu
were crowded last evening at the opei
meeting. The chair was occupied b,
the Leagues President, L. Il. Murray
AT o'clock he introduced Mr.. w. A
Bowen to the audience. Mr.. Bower
spoke on Incorporation" His speech
in brief, was as follows:
81 have upon me the favorable op-
portunity for speech, but in order t.
be successful should have had more
time. 1t may be said that have had
three days, but one of those was Sun
day, and / have been taught to De-
lieve that that day is not as all other
days. 1t is set apart for the hOnoring
of God, and / would not do any work
OF a political nature on that day. /
wish to express my protest right here
against any and all Sundy political
meetings and the rife and shooting
matches that are now becoming the
habit. 1 have been asked to- speak
on cooperation, but in the time
allowed me L can only give in
this connection the general princi-
pies. To illustrate the power of finan-
cial cooperation we have only to look
at home. Three years ago thirty or
thirty-five wage carriers met in lit
tie room on Merchant street. IL was
about the time of the beginning of the
$2,O00,000 Makaweli plantation and
also the S1,000,OO0 Eva plantation,
and the atmosphere was full of new
enterprising spirit. But these men
could not get into any such big scheme
and were left out in the cold. Hence,
they met to see If q way could not be
found of putting their earnings to-
gether in a manner to better them
selves. You all know the outcome
and how successful it was. ALI the
stockholders of the Pioneer Building
and Loan Association bid fair to be-
come capitalists. 1t is a happy OBJ
ject lesson, and has come to stay.
Plantation cooperative labor system
is now being carried on at Eva al
though still in the experimental stage. |
But L believe that Eva is on the |
right course, and that the results |
reached will prove a helpful |
object lesson to the other plantations.
AS TO political cooperation, L hope
that what L say will not be taken as
applying to the American League
alone. Our crisis is so serious that we
must make a sharp distinction be-
must not be mistaken for the other,
and we must all fall into line. With
the abolition of monarchy the aboli-
ton of all monarchical politics should
come. The new order should be, no
longer anything in q corner; no
longer the few, but the many. Secre-
cies beget bossismS, which must be
guarded against The American
League, believing in such principles
rs these, can afford to throw wide
open its doors and remove it's veil of
weight to its place in this commu
nifty. Intelligent cooperation is every
thing. liz we do not move together,
)ur great aim-annexation-w not
De realized. United we stand, divided
We fall"
Mr.. Bowen had evidently been read
ng the ADVERTISERS advice to the
League in regard to opening its doors
10 the public
Mr.. Joseph Marsden was the next
peaker. His subject was the labor
question.
sfEvery one will admit" he said,
that our prosperity depends on the
ugar industry. III we cannot get good
md cheap labor, that will suffer. We !
must have il. The question is, what
abor Is best? We have 10000 Japan
Sc here, whose labor is fairly good.
Z we restrict the Chinese who come
Iere, they cannot hurt any labor. L
vas one of the first To propose to the 1
legislature n proper restriction law,
nj to insist that the Chinese should [
lot usurp n white mans prerogative, {
nd take the bread out OF your
nouths. The contracts of 5000 Jap
nese expire next year, and we must {
III their places. / have heard it said |
hat Portuguese labor Is good. So it I
J, but there is no chance of getting it.
{ is all needed for Africa. We had t
luch better have Chinese. that we {
an restrict, than Japanese that can I
OF he restricted. If the sugar indus
" dies out we will all have to leave {
ne country. OF course, new indus {
les might be started, but ID o
-ouId take at least four years i
, place any one of them on paying t
asis, and even then We would need {
Lbor. 1t is only through having Chi i
csc and japanese labor here that r
-hite men are enabled to live ut all Fl
white man cannot work unoer TINS o
opical sun. We pay more now for f
~, contract labor than white men q
,rn in Germany. It has been said &
,at If Chinese are brought here, I'M e
ar the contract system, that anneXa- I
on would be lost. / deny that state b
ont in toto. We can place more re- a
rictions on the Chinese here than C
lev do in the United States. Ihere, $
,ey do not say that Chinaman shall C
IT 90 into any business. The Chi- $
s 80 who come here could he prevent p
! from going to America, and the "
.onle there would not care now
any we had if they did not go.
sstrict their privileges ana tney q
M do no harm. a PiahI1a ap u
nnot be worked by WIT ito 90, , in q
i &c e;tu TO run two of our big planta- e
ms 81. They cannot stand the work. 6.
, ,n neonIe may not like my adyocat- #
ou PScPie IaRor but I have seen so L