The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-12-17

and force out of the country skilled
workmen OF other nationalities9 Yes.
They have taken the places OF black
smiths who received from $500 to
500 per day, and are cheerfully
working at the forges for and from
$500 to $3.50 per day They have
supplanted carriage wood workers
who formerly got four and five dol
lars for days wage, and the indus
tlious Portuguese is content with
two fifty" Carpenters, painters,
yes, all kinds Of mechanics have had
to compete with them and not con-
tent with that, they even succeed
ed in reducing the wages for the
poor kanaka stevedores on the docks
Yes, they howl because my race, a
little more economical, industrious
and persevering than their own is
gradually supplanting them as they
supplanted others
Then we have the sad spectacle OF
American and European mechanics,
who have solved all the vexed ques-
tions Of political economy, and who
frantically rush into print, and with
a wall Of despair call on the Govern.
ment to save them from the awful
influx of-(again that word Of con-
tumely) "Asiatics."
These patriotic mechanical gem
tlemen apparently forget that Com
mercial Treaty entered into in good
faith between two reputable nations,
granting their mutual subjects GER
tain rights and privileges in their
several dominions, is not thing to
be lightly broken even at the behest
of solid phalsnx of mechanics or
tradesmen eager for annexation and
q sugar bounty.
Aud let me also remind these gen
tlemen, who are so rabid against ORR
entalism, that if the Japan-Hawaii
Treaty was abrogated tomorrow the
subjects of a. /. j. M. now residing
on these Islands would still be as
sured Of the same protection and
privileges accorded the subjects of
the most favored nations.
How much of buncombe, hypo-
crisy, deceit and dishonesty there is
after all in the cry OF the alarmist
and professional agitator against
the Japanese.
Those who raise the loudest out
cry buy their clothing, PROVISIONS
everything in fact that they can pur-
chase, from Asiatics.
Who patronize the Japanese bar
bers? White mechanics. Who en-
ploy japanese and Chinese to build
their honest White mechanics. Who
wear suits made by oriental tailors?
White mechanics. Who are the
chief patrons of the "Act to Miti-
gate2" Ask them. / won't tell you.
Who employ Asiatics as cooks, laun-
drymen, yardmen, stable boys
why, every body all over town, rich
and poor, and among the names OF
the speakers at the annexation meet
ing | noted several who never en-
ploy any but Japanese or Chinese
to do their clerical, culinary or mec-
hanical, work.
This talk about annexation to the
United States proving a check to
our advancement here is rank non.
sense. We have treaty with that
country that guarantees us the same
rights we enjoy here.
Mr., Editor, I am proud to be a
citizen of Japan New Japan, if
you will, and l foresee here as else
where, a grand and prosperous era
for my fellow countrymen. Yes.
The Land of the Rising Sun will
surely sweep to the van of the great
modern nations, their peer in intel
lectual, moral and industrial deve-
lopment, not to be stayed by the
puny walls of those Jealous and en-.
vious of her splendid achievements,
but, serene, undsunted, she shall