The Hawaiian gazette., 1894-03-06
Speeches On Various Subjects BY
Prominent Men.
MARSDEN on TIE LABOR QUESTION.
W a. Bowen also >pssk-Edwari
ro~ss Disputes DIR. Nar>deu's Views
the Chinese Immigration Act


the Leagues President, 7. B Murray.
ATS O'Clock be introduced Mr.. W. \
Bowen 10 the audience. Mr.. Bowen
spoke on Cooperation" His speech,
in brief, was 81 follows
4 have upon NE the favorable OPP
portuuity for speech, but in order to
be successful l should have had more
time. II may be said thst have had
three DAYS, but one Of those was Sun
day, and I have been taught 10 De-
lieve that that dsy is not IS sill other
days. Ii Is >e. apart for the houOring
Of God, snd 1 would not do any work
OF Il political nature on that iSy. !
wish 10 express my protest right here
against any and all Sundy political
meetings aud the rife snd shooting
matches that are now becoming the
habit. l have been asked 70 speak
on cooperation, but in the time
allowed me- I eAu only give in
this connection the general priuei-
pies To illustrate the power Of insn-
eiSl cooperation We have only TO look
ST home Three years ago thirty or
LhIrCy-dvs wage ear ers NET IN 5 lit
tie room on Merchant street. II was
about the time OF the beginning OF the
3. 100000 MakAweli plantation and
SI>O the Sl,UU0,000 EVA plantation,
and the atmosphere was full OF new
enterprisiuC spirit But these men
could not get into any such bigscheue
and were left out in the cold Hence,
they met 10 see If = way could not De
found OF putting their earnings to-
gerher in ! manner TO better them
selves. You all know the outcome
and how successful it was. AL the
stockholders Of the Pioneer Building
4ud Loan Association bid fair 10 be-
come capitalists. Il is 3 happy ob-
iscC lesson, and has come 10 stay.
Plantation cooperative labor system
i now being carried on st Eva ST.
though still in the experimental stage.
But I believe that Eva l. on the
right course, Snd th2t the results
reached will prove helpful
object lesson to the other plantations.
A. 70 political cooperation, l hope
that what l say will not be taken as
applying 10 the American League
alone. Our crisis i 80 serious that We
must make Il sharp distinction be-
tween principles and prsjudiess- One
must not b. mis+a ken for the other,
and We must all fall into line. With
the abolition Of monarchy the abolI-
ton Of aII uouarehie4I politics should
come The new order should be, no
longer anything in i corner no
longer the few, but the many. Secre-
eies begeC o0ssisus, which must be
guarded against The American
League, believing in such principles I
a. these, can at1Ort To throw wide /.
open its doors aud remove it, veil Of !
secrecy, and by - doing add great /
weight to is place in this coumu /
nifty. Intelligent coo per@tiOu l. every |
thing. II We DO not move together, |
our great aim-auuexAtiOu- not I
oe realized United We stand, divided 1
We fAlL"
Mr.. Bowen had evidently been read |
ing the ADVERTISER advice TO the /
League in regard to opening its doors
70 the public
Mr. Joseph Marsden was the next |
speaker His subject was the labor
Question
Every one Will admit" be said,
-1Ghat our prosperity depends on the
sugar industry II We cannot get good
and ellsap labor. that will suffer We
must have iG The question i, what
.abor l. best2 We have p, 600 japan
sse here. whose labor Is fairly good
II We restrict th= Chinese VINO come
here they cannot hurt any labor.
Eas one Ct tie IrsE % propose to the
Legi=LaC i proper restriction law
mi % insist that The Chinese should
lot usUrp q white mans prErDgatIyer
Ind take the bread oct OF your
The CONTRACTS Of 5000 Jap
LUese expire ueE5 year. and We must
III their places. I have heard IL said
hat POrtugue4 labor L good SO it
:, but there Il no chance Of getting IT,
Z l. al Needed for Africa We had
much better have Chinese. that We
an re- trIct. than japanese that can
.Ot be restricted II the sugar indus
~ dies oUt We viii ali have 70 leave
he country OF course, new indus
ries might be started, but 1t
would take At least four years
o place any one Of them Oh a paying
Ibor. It l. only through having Chi
lese and Japanese lAhor here that
Thite men are enabled To live as all |
| white man cannot work under this !
rUpieaI sun We pay more now for
Or contract IaCor than white men
arm IN Germany It has been said
hat If Chinese are brought here, IN
er the contract system that anneXa-
loo would be lost I deny that state
1eut II toto W. can place more re-
trietfOus on the Chinese here than
hey DO IN the United States There, ;
hey do noe say that 4 Chinaman shall
oG 70 into any business The Chi !
ese vino cone here eoUld be prevent
I from going % America and the
eopIs there wouId not care how 7
1any We had II they did noe go
.estriet their privileges and they 4
Al 10 40 harm 4 plantation 9
InH0s Dc worked by white Isbur !
here are not enough white men IL
lis city 10 run two OF COR Big pisLnEt- {
0us. They cannot stan,t The work
-0U people may noe ike my advUestt-
II Chinese labor, Bat have seen -