Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-07-14

the naughty son of a hundred kings. II
the Chinese go on increasing in this
country and we continue to tax them, we
must, as a vindication Of the patriots
who performed the immortal tea act in
Boston harbor, let them vote. Indeed a
federal judge in Oregon naturalized one
the other day. To do that habitually is
surely to write the epitaph Of free gov
eminent on this continent, for at the
last censu there were $50, 600, 900 peo-
pie in the Chinese empire-perhaps they
number 200, 000, 900 by this time-and
the emperor could send 100, 600, 900 Of
his subjects to this country and never
miss them. Naturalized here, they could
outvote us, underbid us in all work,
secure ell the contracts, get all our
money and run things generally.
The Whistle Too Dear.
Could old Ben franklin return to rs
in the flesh, he would PROFOUND to as
this question, Gentlemen, are you not
paying too much for the little Hawaiian
whistler
How does the prospect Of heather
Chinese domination suit you philoso-
pliers, statesmen and jingoes?
But we will be told that it will be
made unlawful for Hawaiian Chinese
to come to America. Believe them not.
It cannot be done. The American con-
gress on a historic occasion by a super
human effort solemnly enacted that it
could not be done. I plant myself on
the doctrine of stare decisis and declare
that we must not violate the p~recedents
of nearly a hundred years. History re-
peats itself with startling accuracy.
The pioneer Missouri state makers,
though in their honored graves, are
avenged at last. They placed q clause
free persons of color from coming from
other states and settling in that i'm
perial commonwealth.
Secession was loudly threatened by
the northern contingent in congress if
that clause were not eliminated. For
two years Missouri, the richest lowered
territory that eyer knocked at these
doors for admission, was kept out, and
finally, as a condition precedent to her
entrance into the Union, congress re-
quired that her legislature should by
solemn ordinance declare that that
clause should forever remain a dead let
ter, and it was SO ordained.
Now, after " years, in order to SNUG
gle in a few volcanic rocks in midocean
and to endow the ~variegated inhabitants
thereof with the invaluable privileges
and immunities of American citizens
in order to protect them with the old
flag and to gladden. their hearts with q
81, 900, 900 appropriation-this congress
proposes to do the identical thing which
it declared it an objectionable sin for
Missouri to do. Missouri did not ex-
clude free persons of color. Neither can
congress keep out the Hawaiian Celes-
tials.
Who Is It's Father9
Who is back of this annexation
scheme? Who has worked up q senti-
ment in its favor? Who has maintained
a lobby here to labor for it's success!
Who has enlisted a portion of the public
press and caused it to question the pa
triotism and cast insinuations against
the integrity of the men who have the
courage, the wisdom and the patriotism
to fight this colossal job?
I was long since taught that it is a
sound practice when trying to fix re-
sponsibility for crime to search for the
person or persons who would reap the
greatest profit from its commission.
Applying that rule of common sense
to this case, to what conclusion are we
irresistibly led? To this: That the sugar
kings Of the Sandwich Islands are the
chief promoters of the scheme, because
they are easily the chief beneficiaries.
Even the holders of Hawaiian bonds are
not in it with them, because all the
bonds ever issued by the Dole govern
ment are not equal to the profits which
the sugar kings will make out Of annex
alton in each and every year henceforth
and forever S long as they shall live,
because annexation will make raw Ha-
waiian sugar come In free, and the sugar
kings will pocket the tariff on the same,
which amounts, under the blessed Ding
ley bill, to millions of dollars annually
and will grow as the Hawaiian sugar
output increases and is really a gift
from US which already exceeds $65, 600,
600.
But it will be answered that reci-
procity already let's Hawaiian sugar in
free, and therefore the kings have and
can have no interest in annexation. Do
not believe that for one moment, Mr..
Speaker. The reciprocity treaty is a
tiptop thing for the kings, but it is only
temporary in its nature, and annexation
would be a permanent blessing to them.
I do not know much about stocks-I
have had no experience with the ticker
but, mark my prediction, the moment
annexation is an assured fact sugar
stocks will soar skyward, a direction
in which their owners will never go. To
this low estate have we fallen at last
that the sugar kings of the Sandwich
Islands force US from the safe, wise,
honorable policy of 100 years into a
new, dubious and untried policy which
endangers u prosperity and is a men
ace to our very existence.
I would not be understood as assert
ing that members in advocating annex
alton are consciously influenced by the
sugar kings or are in any manner cor
rupted by them. I am perfectly willing
to admit that their motives are abso-
lutely pure. Nevertheless I believe that
the sentiment in favor Of annexation
now, in the day of William Mckinley,
under the impulse of which members
are rushing upon ills they know not of,
is largely the work of the sugar kings,
lust as the sentiment favorable tn an
nexation in the days of William L.
Marcy was distinctively the creation
of the propagandists of African slavery.
AS annexation was resisted and defeat
ed by lovers of human freedom then,
SO it ought to be resisted and defeated
by lovers of human freedom now.
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