The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-05
WHITE CALLS It BLACK
Showing Up Annexation in What
He Deems It's True Colors.
SOME YELLOW STREAkS
He Thinks If Uncle Sam Is So Green as
to Take the Dose 1t Will Leave
One of Those Dark Brown
Tast ties in His Mouth.

Washington, Feb. 4.-Senator White !
continued his three days speech in OPP |
position to the annexation of Hawai-
in the executive session of the senate
to-day. At the beginning of to-days
speech he made some additional points
against the availability of Hawaii for
defensive purposes, saying that 1t IS
500 miles from the outside islands of the
group to other islands. This fact, h
said, demonstrated that numerous
points must be guarded from hostile
assault and that powerful! navy would
be required To accomplish this; that
the expenditure would be without ben-
eft to our defenses on the continent.
He declared that If Hawaii would be
acquired. il would be contenGed that
our domains should be extended TO
other islands, and we would finally em-
bark upon the foreign acquisition bust
ness involving an outlay of hundreds
of millions of dollars. He then took up
the question of labor. contending that
the Chinese and Japanese are receiving
Si5 per month without board. He ridi-
culed the pretension that the Anglo
Saxon race could labor i'll Hawaiian
sugar fields, and demanded to know
why, if they could, there was so much
white labor on. the islands now. He
read from a recent consular report to
show that the coffee business was t
best problematical, and even in this
work laborers only receive SIS per
month without board. He denounced
the master and servant regulations
now in force in the islands as a species
of slavery. said that coffee must be pio-
dueed in competition with the lowest
grade of peon toilers and that the time
would never come when farm hand
on a coffee plantation would receive
a white mans wages.
He also said the japanese have the
same right to come into the United
States enjoyed by other foreigners, and
that while contract laborers of all kinds
are excluded still there is no obstacle
to the entry of the ordinary Japanese
laborer who complies with our general
immigration laws, and said that If ar
nexation We're brought about Oriental
labor would still dominate the situation
in Hawaii. He denounced as absurd
the assertion that trade would De Iii
verified from the United States if an
nexation were defeated and said that
even with the present treaty out of the
way the Hawaians would do business
with us: that when the Mckinley bill
was in force they still traded with the
United States. He compared the grow
ing trade of Japan to that of Hawaii,
showing that cotton. flour and manu-
features of iron and steel We're fast oC-
cupyinE the Japanese market. He de-
MED there were valuable agricultural
possibilities to Justify annexation.
Mr.. White then took UP the Dole gov
eminent insisting that it was irregular
and a fraud. He said in this connec-
ton that IL was universally conceded
that the Hawaiian natives were we'll
educated and would be citizens of this
country in case of annexation. and con-
tended that they should be consulted.
He read from the proceedings with re-
1af Ia N
show that the constitution providing
for annexation and the specific ques-
ton Of annexation was submitted To a
popular vote that whatever might be
the rule as to barbarous tribes or por-
items of territory held by monarchies.
il was clear that wherever the validity
of the government is challenged, and
when the people have never had an
opportunity To vote on the constitution
or on the question of admission. no
affirmative action could be taken. This
government. based upon the Will of the
people could not he said. afford to in
corporate a large number of persons
who would be eligible to citizenship
against their will. He read from Judge
Cooley and several other writer's in
support of his views, and declared
again that the entire power behind the
throne was the sugar combination of
+ Hawaii, whose personal interests had,
he said, always been consulted, regard
| less of the effect upon the public. He
! criticised the action of President Dole
| in coming to Washington at such a
/ time, and said he asked what would
! have been thought of the taste of the
| Prince of Wales had he come here at
! the time that the treaty of arbitration
! was under consideration for the pur-
! pose of influencing our action. He re-
viewed at length the general policies
/ and theories of our government. de-
/ clared that the question was above all
politics and that il was Il step which. If
! taken. could not add TO our glory or in
crease our wealth or be regarded as an
/ evidence of our honesty.
Senator White quoted at length from
speech made in the senate in 1894 by
Senator Turpie of Indiana. in which the
i Indiana senator said that however de-
sirable the acquisition of the islands
might he the United States could not
afford To take them by stealth. by any
/ process of furtiVe legerdemain or gilded
larceny sprung from the bandit max
i'm, mscalled the policy of success. :"