The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-07-28
Tho Coolies in Hawaii.

land says: "The Call is revenging
itself for defeat in the annexation OF
Hawaii. 1t demands that
all contract labor previously import
ed into the islands shall be expelled.
or course this is impracticable, and
all that can be reasonably be asked
is that from this time on the con-
tract labor laws shall apply to Ha-
wall. Even the suggestion
that the Chinese in Hawaii shall be
prevented from migrating to other
parts of the country is Of doubtful
practicability." The doctor might
as well say that the constitution of
the United States is trying to re-
venge itself for the defeat in the an
nexation of Hawaii, for it was de-
feated, and not The Call.
AS the constitution has been over
ridden and we have taken Hawaii
against the consent OF SO percent of
it's people, California has every
reason to fear what may follow in
the form OF government which is to
be dictated by the island planters
and the Dole oligarchy. This fear
originates in the presence on the
islands of $4,000 Asiatic coolies.
Their number has been largely in
creased during the last few months.
We have not limited our demsud for
their expulsion from the is lands to
contract labor alone, as the doctor
mistakenly states. He admits that
if they are left in Hawaii their ex-
clusion from the rest Of the country
is of doubtful practicability. such
exclusion was feature OF the annex
alton treaty and of the unconstitu-
tional resolution under which we
have taken the islands The Call
said months ago that it was sham
and that the annexationists never
intended to enforce it, and now the
doctor admits this to be true, but
accuses us of making demands in
behalf of California that cannot be
granted
Why can they not be? The doc
tors newspaper seems to be talking
for the employers OF Asiatic coolies
hero and in the islands rather than
for white labor and white wages in
California, We demand the de-
portation Of all Asiatic coolies now
in Hawaii, whether under contract
or free. Unless this is done Hawaii
becomes an open door for the ad-
mission of coolies to this State.
Send them home and that closes the
door. Does DR.. Pardee want it kept
openl He admits that they can pro-
badly come, Notwithstanding their
pretended exclusion in the annexa-
ton resolution. He admits the
hypocrisy and show OF the whole
proceeding, and decres our effort to
secure protection for California by
impressing our needs upon the COM
mission in which Hawaii has two
votes and we have none, owing to
the culpable neglect of the Western
Senators whose votes made annexa-
alton possible.
In this city white women, the
widows and the mothers of soldiers,
are crying out against the competi-
ton of a hundred coolies in the
manufacture of uniforms for the
War Department. Those women
need that work and their children
want the bread it will earn. This is
the cry and the need OF our own
flesh and blood against the alien
coolie. But what is the competition
of hundred coolies compared to
that of $4,000! 1t is contemplate
for DIR. Pardee to prattle about our
demands being dictated by revenge
and impossible to be granted while
white children need bread that is
snatched from them by coolies.
We repeat that California de-
mands of this Illinois, Alabama and
Hawaiian Commission:
The deportation of all coolies now