The San Francisco call., 1898-01-01

\ States will give us separate law, by which we get laborers here"
 Referring to executive document I, part l, Fifty third Congress, get idea of the kind of sep arate law expected by President Dole to ft the peculiar conditions and needs of labor" referred to in President McKinley's message. In inquiry made into the form of labor required by the planters this revelation
 Suppose contract laborer is idlng in the fields, what do you do?'
 We dock him; we give him only half or three quarters of day. and if he keeps it up resort to the law and have him arrested for refusing to work"
 What do you accomplish by putting him in ail?'
 "For the first offense he is ordered back to work and he has to pay the costs of court If he refuses to obey orders he is arrested again and light fine is inflicted which the planter pay and take out of his wages, else he is put on the road to work For the third oense he is likely to get three months imprisonment. :.:.... .:
 Now the laws of the United States make it un- lawful to prepay transportation or III any way assist the importation of any alien under contract parole, express or implied, to labor in the United States. The thirteenth amendment to constitution, which abolished slavery provides that: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States any place subject to their jurisdiction"
 | Now the kind of law which Dole believes will be given separately" to the islands provides for in voluntary servitude for 1t compels the performance Of labor under penalty of imprisonment. :. 1 President Doe's laws now in force are perhaps 1 the best definition of what he believes will be per mtted by the separate law necessary for the islands. 1 Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald, who has been ill l Washington lobbying for annexation as an agent of Doles purposes, in his report made last summer on returning from his Hawaiian junket says off cially: s'My Investigations through the Ha. waiian Islands have brought my a tten. tiOn many new conditions and phases O1 labor, the important of which is the Asiatic hOrdes that now infest the island. and predOminate i'm numbers. upon the plantations. \ have seen 2O,OOO bare. footed Iaborers. half of whom work un. der a penal contract; Ihave seen reward. offered for their arrest when they violated their contract and deserted the pIanta. ton. with their number printed acrOs, their photograph in convict style."
 Let it be remembered that every law now on the statute books of Hawaii has been put there by Dole or remains there by his sufferance He has been the supreme ogarch of that country for four years The penal contract law and the involuntary servtudt under 1t therefore regarded by him necessary to the industries of the islands and their continuanct is what he believes will be permitted by separate law of the United States after annexation
 Ii the plantations could be any other sys tenn he has had four years in which to demonstrate 1t. He has had four years in which to abolish in voluntary servitude. Lincoln began and closed war for preservation of the Union and freed slaves in four years. But in that time Dole has no been able abolish penal contracts for labor, now believes they will be continued by the United States
 We repeat this matter must be looked squarely 1T the face. Either the planters whose estates white labor is impossible, to be cheated and ruined o the constitution is be violated by separate law compelling the and stripes to wave over in voluntary servitude in Hawaii. Which is it?