The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-03-27
" made a valuable one for obtaining a

s general expression from the workin
e men of the country.
n In the discussion of the labor prob
; lem, with which the presence of tn
: Asiatic is closely associated, the frs
q inclination Of the white working mai
Y is to say, 1.-The Asiatic must CO." Blu
when it comes to naming the road by
2 which the Asiatic is to travel out of the
2 country. the working man and the
statesman runs against 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 a position from which ii
is not 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 ad-
vance 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 refutation
that what we have to offer will continue
to grow beautifully less if the Anglo
Saxon people in whose hands the Gov
is today, maintain their pres
ent attitude of inactive dependency,
continue to ask of each other in a dazed
manner, What are we going to do !
about it," i
Not many months ago a Labor Com ,
mission was appointed to investigate {
md report on the conditions of labor in i.
he country, and the Commission did I
is work well, setting forth at length :
he reasons for the great and urgent a
necessity for securing the immigration e
# the American farmer to this coun- d
ry, the primary object being to
trengthen the Anglo-Saxon colony. A
What is the result? Simply because o
be Labor Commission did not solve the .
'roblem il. a day many of our wise
ores have dubbed their work a farce; o
be Legislature has ignored their sug-
estions, and today the very arm which 81
kept at work would render some as u
istance by developing the work that OF
as already been done, has been to all :,
ltents and purposes cut off. Although W
good beginning was made, the coun- " "
~, in the solution of the labor and "a
citizenship problem, is r.
.anding stock still. Who is RESPONSE IL
lie for the situation? The Anglo Saxon -
tizens of the country. They and they
one. We may berate the Asiatic, but "
lat will not work benefit. We may pt
Tx about abrogation of treaties, and 10
lille bordering over the ACCESSIBILITY -
such move the Asiatic will have tn
orked bis way in and obtained the st
hip end. In
There are many points in the quiet,
advance of the Asiatic that 10
light be copied with profit While dis
lssing what is to be done, bring the &C
merican farmer to the country, and su
hereby quietly fill in the interstices m
hich he can occupy and make a good ~
wing at it, too. 1t may cost some tn
oney to bring the American to our Sc
lores, but he will be needed some day, sit
GRO noccih1v fbo1 ba &c ~ x,roco,x