The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-03-27
LABOR PROBLEM SOLUTIONS.

The first meeting of the Third House
Thursday evening, was attended with
quite as much success as such ventures
usually are when first launched. With
proper nursing and by the promoters
of the movement keeping constantly at
it, the organization can undoubtedly
be made valuable one for obtaining a
general expression from the working
men of the country.
In the discussion of the labor prob
lem, with which the presence of the
Asiatie is closely associated, the first
inclination of the white working man
is to say, "The Asiatic must 60" But
when it comes to naming the road by
which the Asiatic is to travel out of the
country, the working man and the
statesman runs against a stone wall.
1t is action, not words, that counts, and
during the last few years that the citi-
zens of the country have been talking,
the Asiatic has been quietly working
his way into position from which ii
is rot an easy matter to GUST him. A
great many people seem to think that
the Chinese and Japanese can be put
down and out with one sweeping blow
or stroke of the pen. They were never
so thoroughly mistaken.
The only way to meet the compe
tition of Chinese and Japanese is for
this country to Systematically foster
Anglo-Saxon citizenship. There has
been a great deal said about the equal
ization of races. The plantations can
get along better by dividing their labor
between the European and the Asiatic,
but it seems never to have occurred to
the public mind that outside the con-
tract labor practically nothing is being
done to carry out this principle OF
equalization. What is being done today |
to bring the Anglo-Saxon to this coun- |
try? How much money is being ex-
pended to bring an Occidental popula- !
ton to the country to check the adj |
Vanc5 of the Orientals? 1t may be said
that we have little to offer the American
or European. And it may also be said |
without danger of successful REPUTATION |
that what we have to offer will continue
to grow beautifully less if the Anglo
Saxon people in whose hands the Gov
eminent is today, maintain their pres
ent attitude of inactive dependency,
continue to ask of each other in dazed
manner, What are we going to do
about it?"
Not many months ago Labor Com
mission was appointed to investigate
and report on the conditions of labor in
the country, and the Commission did
it's work well, setting forth at length
the reasons for the great and urgent
necessity for securing the immigration
of the American farmer to this coun-
try, the primary object being to
the Anglo-Saxon colony.
What is the result? Simply because
the Labor Commission did not solve the
problem in day many of our wise
acres have dubbed their work a farce;
the Legislature has ignored their sug-
gestions, and today the very arm which
if kept at work would render some as
by developing the work that
has already been done, has been to all
intents and purposes cut off. Although
a good beginning was made, the cOun-
try, in the solution of the labor and
citizenship problem, is
standing stock still. Who is response
bic for the situation? The Anglo-Saxon
citizens Of the country. They and they
alone. We may berate the Asiatic. but
that will not work benefit. We MAY
talk about abrogation OF treaties, and