The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-10-13
The Coolies Would Come.

ent Chinese invasion of this coast
one OF our evening contemporaries
tells all about how Secretary Gresh-
am was outwitted by Mongol. 1t
says:
Though the treaty was concluded
in 1882 and amended in few unim-
portant particulars in 1894, not un-
til Recently have the Chinese availed
themselves Of the opportunity in
fraudulent entry"
Now, Gresham was Federal Dis
trict Judge in Indiana from 1869 to
1882. He was Postmaster General
under President Arthur from 1882 to
1884 aud then became Federal
Judge again. He left the bench to
become Secretary of State in 1898
and died in 1896. II the treaty
amendments made in 1894 were I'M
important one has some difficulty in
seeing how Gresham was outwitted.
Mr.. Frelinghuysen was Secretary of
State in 1884.
But all this aside, why strain at
gnat aud swallow a camel in this
Chinese business2 A collector Of
Gust oms on Puget Sound is under
criminal inquiry because Chinese
landed in his district at the rate of
$50 year and the danger signals are
set because forty-one have landed
in this city. Precautions are on foot
to shut out also the Japanese as I'M
desirable competitors in our domes-
tic labor market.
Yet the same journal, and others
which like the cherubim continually
do cry against Asatic competition,
advocate the annexation of Hawaii
with her population Of N,407 Japa-
nese and 2l,616 Chinese and 455
"blackbirds" from the South Sea ISL
ands. We are scared by Al Chinese,
but propose to extend Senator Nor
gan's good government" over 46,023
Asiatics at one throw.
Let no man be deceived Those
Asiatics once annexed have every
privilege now enjoyed by their eoun-
trymen now domiciled in the United
States. The Court will hold that
Congress cannot build pale across
the territory of this republic. In
our system there is no foundation
for the repetition of the Roman
Ghetto and the Frankfort Judin-
gasse. The sugar plantations of
Hawaii cannot be worked by white
men, but the higher wages of Cali.
fornia will drain off their coolie la
Dor to this State, and the frank
declaration of Mr.. c. P. Huntington
that we want more cheap Asiatic
labor here will be an accomplished
policy as soon as annexation be-
comes fact.
Both countries will be hurt; Ha-
waii by losing the only kind of labor
that has ever successfully produced
sugarcaue and by denial of the right
to replace it by further importation
OF contract coolies from Asia; and
California will loose by the transfer
of nearly $4,000 Asiatics to her soil
under cover OF annexation.
We desire to lay stress upon the
physical facts involved. Hawaii
cannot continue her present indus
tries nor found new ones on Anglo
Saxon labor. The kingdom Of the
Kamehamehas did not restrict but
invite white immigration from the
United States from 1920 to 1896 and
the oligarchy since then in power
has continued this wide open policy.
Yet only 1000 Americans are there
and scarcely field laborer among
them, The climate is not friendly
to our race and it cannot overcome
the laws OF nature. Casual visitors
to the islands write in raptures of
the dangerous voluptuousness of the
climate, 1t is good in brief doses,