The San Francisco call., 1898-01-05
TWO-FaCED ON ANNEXATION.


 >/ Rage and reason are never harnessed to- oether to pull the same load In discussing annexa- ton from its spleen rather than its brain the Chron icle discredts the intelligence of its readers It put in several years of fine writing to prove that white men-Anglo- -Saxons-cannot survive as laoorers on the plantations of Hawaii. It led n that line long list of newspapers in this State and elsewhere With all the irdescent egotsm of the peacock it repro duced columns of approving editorials from these papers, from far Kentucky, cold New England and the near by towns and cities of California All thIs was when the island planters were experimenting with white labor by introducing Germans and Scan dnavans. On that subject the Chronicle printed volumes to prove that white labor could not endure on the islands The hot climate enervated 1t.
 It speaks now in tone of awe and respect of the Portuguese in Hawaii In its former campaign to warn white labor away from the islands the Chron- cle said: ''The Portuguese laborers who come from Fayal and the Cape Verde islanders bring their wives and children, but they have been brutazed by long condition of semi-serfage and destitute ot that adiuncr of Christian civilization called morals In that way accounted for their ability to stand the climate and physical conditions of the islands, which were too hard for the Germans, Scandina- vians and Anglo SaNons.
 Now the Chronicle changes its tune and the change adds to the gayety of nations In its former campaign the islands were tropical. Now 1t de- claIes that the vertical sun is unknown in Hawaii
 It must be- then that Shah Dole and annexation have given a heaven and new earth. The islands are wholly within the tropics, unless the Chronicle has moved them, and the sun is vertical there in its proper season.
 To follow other remarkable statements of the Chronicle in its choleric advocacy of annexation, says: Whites and negroes are excluded because +i,a. ,,;- .Ia ton may drive the sugar barons into paying labor a decent wage and into yielding their despotsm in the local politics of Hawaii to the behests of popular majority" "To admit the citizens of any other country, white or black, to the suffrage would be to lose those political privileges in the islands which the sugar men have monopolized for years to keep their es- tates from being adequately taxed and to provide offices under the most disgraceful system of nepot- ism which prevails anywhere for their families and hangers on.'
 Now when one considers that the Dole revolution was planters conspiracy proved by admission of Minister Stevens and its subsequent history, and that the sugar barons are its sole supporters and under 1t dominate the local politics of Hawaii, cuding the natives from the ballot box, and that they tyrannically suppress the popular majority be- cause it is against annexation and permit only 2Soo
  port annexation the Chronicle statements perspire comedy It would have US believe that Dole and the planters are seeking to deprive themselves of the privilege of paying low wages to coolies, of dominat ing politics, of running a minority government which suppresses a majority of the people; when the fact is that Dole and the planters seek ton as the only of perpeuatng the rule they have set up, of making sure profit their coolie worked plantations, of depriving the majority of a voice in Hawaiian politics
 Dole must have some reason for saying: "I be- lieve the United States will give separate laws so that can get plantation labor" The planters who solidly support annexation must believe 1t too The President of the United States must believe it when he says in his message that peculiar conditions and the needs of labor will requre-wfat? Just the separate laws demanded by Dole
 In the face of all this the Chronicle gets red in the face and cries out: No treaty could do more to emancipate labor than that which proposes to ad- init Hawaii to the Union Witness its object; it aims to extend the humane labor laws of the United States to foreign country. It seeks to crush out form of slavery and supplant it with freedom"
 Don't write talk when you are mad, neighbor. Go seek cooler head in the wash basin The dead and gone treaty does of these things and you will know 1t when you refrigerate.
 If the treaty did this why does Shah Dole talk of separate laws" and President Mckinley of "pecu- liar conditions and the needs of labor" for which that document makes provision?
 When lawyers lose which they have taken contingent they go down to the tavern and cuss the court misrepresent the testimony and ac- quire jag. Newspapers which abhpr contngents should not initiate the bar when they lose case