The San Francisco call., 1898-02-06
THAT AGREEMENT WITH JAPAN.

 agreement and particulars of the triple alliance \ between Dole Hoshi and the United States without deprecaton, but with tacit approval, 1t IS necessary for American farmers and white labor to be on the alert We wish now to warn California that if this State assent to annexation 1t will here after protest in vain against the source of supply for cooe labor It was only after years o education costly agitation and many demonstrations of violence that we succeeded ill getting Federal legislation to check the invasion of Chinese coolies And then 1t took years of effort to secure the useful enforcement of this legislation, overcoming hand Asiatic subtlety and on the other the corrupt greed of American officials.
 With annexation following this new triple alliance, such means as used against the Chinese will not make ready impression. With one of our Senators declaring that his for the treaty personal act, but is done in deference to the wish of jorty of the people of California we occupy the po ston of willing assent to act that future distress and necessity will compel to repudate And when do the charge that with all the facts before assented to 1t will nullify importuntes and deafen the of the country to our appeals mat ter how frantic they may become how well grounded in the condition of our farmers and our labor
 To get view of the conditions to be made perna-
 
 may turn to the official report made by Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald on his return from Hawaii last summer Now he is toiling for annexa- ton, Japanese coolies and all but at that time he used this language:
 My investigation through the Hawaiian Islands has brought to my attention many new conditions and phases of labor, the most important ot which is the Asiatc hordes that nest the islands and pre- dominate in numbers on the plantations have seen 2oooo barefooted laborers half of whom work under penal contract. 1 have reward offered for their when they violated their contract and left the plantation and their number printed across their photograph in convict style. have seen four or five hundred Japanese walk miles to back up the po- sition of one when only few days work was involved. I have murder upon the plantations in riot have heard the Japanese say that their peo- pie have brought the sugar industry to the position which it occupies and that they propose to hold the controlling influence upon the islands any haz ard I have seen them demanding that white men should be discharged and Japanese taken in their place I have seen one of our American men -ofwar anchored in the harbor for the purpose of defending the planter aginst his own labor, and 1 have warshp of Japan at its side simply to encourage the Japanese upon the islands in their arrogance and in sulting behavior and to further demand that more be added to the already overburdened condition. On the plantations the number and nationality of labor is, by the last report I6I5 Hawaians, 22o8 Portu- guese I2So3 Japanese, 628o Chinese and about 7I5 o other nationaities. The Hawaans the best work men, It needs no words to paint the future of these islands when the Japanese become the employers of help. the moneyed power and the labor itself
 Against this somber background is thrown the re- cent Dole agreement Let 1t be remembered, too that the conditions vividy painted by the Labor Com missioner deliberately created by the Dole Government and by 1t maintained Its power has beer absolute. Nc popular vote has been permitted to !ls 1 lodge 1t or to interfere with its will It has been supreme It could have prevented that which it has chosen to permit, therefore its permission is cer- tfcate its belief that such cooe labor necessary and that this necessity IS among the peculiar cond tons and the needs of labor referred to by President 1 Mckinley in his message, and had in mind by Oi- 1 garch Dole when he said, "I believe the United States will give separate laws to the labor need" All of this fits into the agreement into act that makes the question internatona one with Japan, and therefore removes 1t further away from the power of the people of the United States change when its results reflected in the distress and disappointment of our people.
 There is but one course for the United States to safely pursue This is pointed out by the resolution offered by Senator White. which is simply renewa of the Turpe resolution of 1894, by which the isand are neutralized made independent and left to worl out their problems under the physical conditions which make those problems peculiar to them and of fensve to us