The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-09
L. 6. Jackson,
Phone 10. II2 5. Fourth.

I IlstlCS 20 the SlIect InaL IN eleven months
Of last year there had been 4sS.0c0.o 90
/ pounds Of Hawaiian sugar importd into
/ the United States. The senator under
! took 10 show that all the sugar grown on
/ the islands must be produced by Asiatic
/ labor, repeating and celebrating the ar
{ gument that no colonies Of the Anglo
/ Saxon race had ever been successful with
( in the tropics. He replied TO Senator Tel
/ ter in this point. saying that the facts
/ were against the Colorado senator's cor
! tention and that the Hawaiian Islands
/ would prove no exception TO the rule that
/ the white man could not and would not
/ labor in a tropical climate.
/ He said that of the 7o0. 900 people in ia
maica. fewer than 15000. including the
/ British garrison. were white. and in the
Straits settlement not per cent Of the
/ residents were English. He asserted that
1 in Hawaii there was not one European
! lahore, aside from the Portuguese. en-
gagged in the sugar plantations today.
If. he argued, we should annex the IS
lands, the japanese would inevitably
take possession Of them. and we could not
in any degree check their inroads until
our new treaty with Japan. which goes
into effect next year. In view OF this
| fact he ccntended that whatever boun-
" we give or tariff we levy the result
will be in the interest of Asiatic labor in
Hawaii. Senator Pettigrew held that the
result Of the encouragement OF this spe-
cies of labor would be 10 the detriment
of our own commerce. which. he con-
tended, is already declining in the Ha-
waiian Islands. The Asiatics. he said. do
not buy or use anything we produce In
consequence Of this fact our exports To
that country have declined rapidly during
the past seven or eight years. He quoted
statistics TO show that this decline since
1891 had announced to fully a million dol
lars, which, he said. was a large figure
for that country. In the fact OF this ftc.
he said, the population had increased to
the extent of about 25000 in the same
length of time It was true that this in
crease OF population had been almost ex-
clusively among the Asatics. but this
fact only served 10 emphasize his point
that the Asiatics buy only Asiatic goods
He took issue with those who contended
that the islands are in the track OF COM
merce, saying that they are not in the
way 10 or from any place or country. If
he said, we would fortify any cutposts in
the line Of our travel to the Orient. IL
should be one Of the AIeutian Islands
which We're directly in the way of the
commerce between tn two hemispheres.
He held that a feet would he necessary /
for the protection Of the islands if we
should own them. and that II hostilities 4
should be begun against this country with /
our feet 1T Honolulu. we should be in an /
awkward predicament.
He then undertook 20 show that many
Of our warships do not carry sufficient /
coal to bring them from Honolulu TO san /
Francisco under forced draught while /
others carry only little more than enough /
for that purpose
Suppose. for instance" he said. "San |
Francisco should be attacked by the en- /
envy and we should cable 10 Honolulu for
the fleet a cable having been supposedly
constructed. Many OF them would not be I
able 70 reach our coast. and If the others
should be engaged for day or two on
the coast their coal supply would be ex-
hausted and they would be perfectly
helpless. capable OF neither continuing
their Journey to San Francisco, nor OF
returning to Honolulu"
II. n the other hand. he argued. the
Islands should be in the possession OF
hostile power. we would be perfectly Sc
cure from an attack from that source
for the same reason. Then the hostile !
vessels would not be able to cover the
great distance between the two coun-
tries on forced raught becausy Of the in
capacity to carry sufficient coal for that
purpose.
1T IS absurd" exclaimed the senator.
''to talk Of defending San francisco from
Hawaii. as It IS 10 talk Of defending New
Yo<k from Ireland. for the distance 81
about the same"
Senator Pettigrew. at O'Clock. an
nounced that he had not concluded his
speech, but would continue tomorrow.
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vide awake competitors In the fall
Wideawale dealers consult the wishes
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Ilst as good' when you ask FOR an ad-
sertised article.
Trademarks and labels OF standard
goods are sometimes fnEenIously irnltat-
%. Remember this when you go shopping. !