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only difference is that there we have n
break during the winter months.
But about white labor and the in
| fiuence il may have upon the future of
the Islands. What the United States
needs is an outlet for it's superfluous
laboring classes. and where better can
they look for il than here. But the
opinion abroad, given out by the ISL
and planters is that white labor can
not work here. owing to the warm
weather. These frequent reports have
nearly convinced our people that this
is not white mans country.
Naturally our people ask this ques-
ton: If white men cannot work in the
Hawaiian Islands, why should the
United States annex that territory? If
white men cannot till the soil. il only
ASiatics, the enemy to white labor
can do this. on what grounds should
the reciprocity treaty be continued?
Unless it can be said that the people OF
Hawaii are willing to take white men
in their employ. no Senator or Con-
gresham would dare vote for annex
alton or n continuance of the recipro-
city treaty. If one single beet planter
in the State of California should go to
the representative OF his district and
prove by facts and figures that Hawai-
ian sugar, produced by Asiatic cheap
labor was injuring him financially,
that representative has no right to
vote to maintain such treaty. Why
should he? Hawaii is a foreign coun-
try. the same as Cuba. and Americans
have had it drilled into them for years
that white men cannot work here.
mo candidate for office in the United
States dare go against organized labor,
and these organizations are growing
stronger all the time. ! have been over
several plantations and seen men do
ing all classes of work. but have yet
TO see that which white men cannot
perform. The matter. then, remains
for the planters OF Hawaii to say what
is to be done. IF they are honest in
their convictions. if they mean what
they say. when they tell me they are
satisfied that my views are correct.
can so report. and I have no doubt the
feeling on the part of the laboring
classes of the United States will he
friendly to the reciprocity treaty and
annexation
Every labor union in America will
take up the cry that Hawaii is favor
able to white labor, and I tell YOU that
| would rather have the combined la
Dor forces with me on a proposition
where politics are concerned than
L
the Sugar Trust: It requires a weight
ier influence than good. hard coin to
overcome that. I have here some let
ters which I received about the time
we began the movement against the
Japanese in California They show to
what extent the labor unions i'm the
United States are interested and when
you think of the many thousands of Ia
bOrers, skilled and otherwise. that Ash
attic and Oriental immigration effects,
you cannot wonder that these men
have an influence at the polls. These
letters are from w RI. Allen, of Brook
lyn. Chairman on Restriction of Tmmi-
grafton, Advance Labor Club. L. a
1862. K. of l.. He says:
From the tone of your letter I in
fer that You think that while it may
be highly desirable to expel the Chi
nese that are here. the first thing to
do should be TO keep out their brothers
from Japan. When that is done we
can then turn our attention to the
question of expel1ing the Chinese
Having decided on this point, the next
one to be considered is the proper
course. of legislation to be advocated
Now it seems to me that, while the $50
head tax will solve the problem of Eu-
rOpean immigration, it will not solve
tnat OF the japanese. 1ne only posi-
bic solution of this problem, in my
opinion. is, first, to secure a modifica-
ton of the Japanese treaty as will per-
NTH us to apply the same laws to Jap
anese that we now do to the Chinese.
AS to the mode Of securing this
legislation, would suggest that you
of the Pacific slope to begin the move
ment on the lines indicated in your
letter then we of the East would come
in and join hands with you. So far as
we of L. A. 1862 are concerned, we
shall certainly get organized labor here
to act in the matter We viii visit the
minor bodies first and then begin on
the central bodies and work as fast as
we can as we want TO compel this next
Congress to grant us the desired legis-
latiOn.
so far as our movement here is