The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-19
THE COOLIES In HAWAII.

\ r. PARDEES newspaper in Oakland says:
J The Call is revenging itself for defeat in the
- annexation of Hawaii. 1t demands
that all contract labor previously imported into the
islands shall be expelled. Of this is mpract-
cable and all that be reasonably be asked is that
from this time on the contract labor laws shall apply
to Hawaii. Even the suggestion that the
Chinese in Hawaii shall be prevented from migrating
other parts of the country is of doubtful practical
bility The doctor might well say that the consti
tuition of the United States is trying to revenge itself
for the defeat in the annexation of Hawaii for it was
defeated, and not The Call.
AS the constitution has been overridden and we
have taken Hawaii against the consent of % per cent
Of its people, California has every to fear what
may follow in the form of government which is to be
dictated by the island planters and the Dole ogarchy
This fear originates in the presence the islands Of
$4,000 Asatic coolies. Their number has been largely
increased during the last few months. We have not
limited our demand for their expulsion from the
islands to contract labor alone as the doctor mis-
takenly states. He admits that if they left in Hawaii
their exclusion from the rest OF the country is of
doubtful practcablity. Such exclusion was feature
OF the annexation treaty and of the unconstitutional
resolution under which we have taken the islands
The Call said months ago that it was sham and that
the annexatonists never intended to enforce it. and
the doctor admits this to be true but accuses us
be granted.
Why they not be? The doctors newspaper
seems to be talking for the employers of Asiatic
coolies here and in the islands rather than for white
labor and white wages in California We demand the
deportation of all Asiatic coolies now in Hawaii
whether under contract free Unless this is done
Hawaii becomes open door for the admission of
coolies to this State Send them home and that closes
the door. Does Dr. Pardee want it kept open? He
admits that they can probably come notwithstanding
their pretended exclusion in the annexation resolu-
ton He admits the hypocrisy and show of the whole
proceeding, and decries effort to protection
for California by mpressing needs upon the
mission in which Hawaii has two votes and we have
none, owing to the culpable neglect of the Western
Senators whose votes made annexation possible.
In this city white women, the widows and the
mothers Of soldiers are crying out against the compe
tition OF hundred coolies in the manufacture of uni
forms for the War Department. Those women need
that work and their children the bread it will
This is the cry and the need of Our own flesh
and blood against the alien coolie But what is the
competition OF hundred coolies compared to that of
5o,ooo 1t is contemplate for DR.. Pardee to pratte
about demands being dictated by revenge and i'm
possible to be granted while white children need
bread that is snatched from them by coolies
We repeat that California demands of this Illinois,
Alabama and Hawaiian Commission
The deportation of all coolies now in the Islands;
the absolute prohibition of further cooe or blackbird
immigration thereto; and the extension of the eight
hour day and existing labor laws to the islands.
There is nothing impracticable in these demands.
They simply put the employers in the islands on an
equal footing with the employers in California. We
paying their debts, and propose to pay the cost
of their government. Why should we add to these
advantages superiority of right to the employers of
aborf The stars and stripes should mean every
where, political equality But DR.. Pardee seems to
think that in Hawaii the flag is to mean inequality
with California as the under dog.