The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-05-05

Cooperative Plan to be Adopted
Some Suggestions as to Duty
of the People.

q am perfectly satisfied with the re-
suit of my investigation here and
believe the Government and major
| ity of the planters are sincere in ex-
| pressing a desire to have white labor
supplant the Asiatics in Hawaii
This remark was made by Commits
sioner Fitzgerald yesterday afternoon
after he had made his farewell call on
the officials of the Government and the
planters.
Il was surprised today to find most
of the planters who were lukewarm on
the proposition have decided to accept
The white men. l say surprised, sim
ply, because on previous conversations
some of them almost objected TO doing
anything that would increase the cost
of producing, sugar. Some OF them
could not realize, until 1 presented "a
forcible argument, that organized Am
erican labor could have any influence
in American politics, but it has from
Maine 10 California.
The position is plain. The tax pay
ers, large and small, of the United
States contribute by way of taxations,
to the support of "a navy You have
here in the harbor an American man
of-war, sent by the United States to
protect Americans against injury from
Asiatic labor brought here for the pur-
pose OF assisting them in making fat
dividends on their investments. The
United States does this for Hawaii
mind you. Now then, suppose 1 should
go back to California, and in the re-
port which l will submit to Governor
Budd say that neither the Government
or the sugar men want white white Ia
Dor. Where do you think either the
reciprocity treaty or the annexation
cause would stand? In "a hours after
that report was made public, every Ia
Dor organization il the United States
would meet and frame memorials to
their representatives in Congress and
ask them to work against Hawaii on
any proposition.
ITO me this is the golden opportun-
ity for this Government to show that
it is willing to take the white laborers
from the United States and populate
the Islands with them. Had I been
forced to report against this, there
would be few representatives in Con-
gress who would dare vote a treaty to
support a community unwilling to aid
the laborers of America.
From the newspapers l gather that
a Japanese man-of-war is on the way
TO Hawaii, and that it brings a COM
missioner 10 investigate labor diff
Guilty. Hawaii is on the verge of inter
national diplomatic strife, and she
looks to the United States to help her
out. Now. then. the cause-cheap Ash
attic labor. Do you think, for a mo-
ment, that the United States will
stand forever between this country and
its difficulties with other Governments.
when Asiatic labor is the cause of the
difficulty? I think not. Every one
knows that the greatest objection TO
annexation by people in the United
States is the vast numbers of Asiafics
here, and until now there has been no
organized effort to replace them by
white men. The planters have said
that white men could not work in tie
fields. and there has been no one to
combat their statement who was in a
position to do so. I came here entirely
unbiased and without a dollar of ex-
pense to your Government. I know the
CLASS VI IdbOT we nave III CdllIOTnld-
and I was asked to see the labor done
by the Japanese. I have done this and
am convinced that there is no work on
the plantation that white men cannot
do better than Asiatics
81 do not intend sending men here
until the Department of Labor is start
ed, and this will be done as soon as [
can prepare a detailed statement of eX-
pense and character of work to be done
by the department This 1 will do as
soon. as 1 reach San Francisco. The
planters agreed yesterday that the ex-