The San Francisco call., 1898-08-09
THE CooLIEs OF HaWaI.

is evident that an attempt will be made to pacate
 public opinion and pacify imperiled interests III
 California by canonizing forcibly against the Chi III the scheme of government to be prepared TOT Hawaii We do not propose to be blinded or caJoled by any such subteruge The issue, common to white labor and to employers in California, IS aga1nst Asiatic coole labor in Hawaii That labor competes with white labor at white wages in California, and we cannot stand the competition We want all Aslat1c coolie labor deported from the islands and per1na- nently excluded therefrom. The Labor Commissioner ot California; who investigated conditions III HaWan year ago, says in his report: The most interesting phase of the labor question in the islands IS the Asiatc hordes that now nfest them and predomlnate the plantations 1 have seen four five hundred Japanese walk ten miles to back up the position ot one man when only a few days work was involved l have seen murder and riot the plantations l have heard the Japanese say that their people have brought the sugar industry the position 1t now oc- cupies, and that they propose hold controlling in luence upon the islands at any hazard. have seen them demanding that white be discharged and Japanese taken Ill their places have of our o-war anchored in the harbor to defend the planter against his own labor, and have seen Jap warshp there to encourage the Japanese n their arrogant and insolent behavior and to further de nand that more shall be added to the already over burdened conditions It needs words to picture the future of these islands when once the Japanese be- come the moneyed power the employers of labor and the labor itself.
 It will be noticed that the objection not to Chinese alone but to Asatic coolies and that while the Chinese hardly mentioned in the report its exposition of conditions relates to the Japanese alone If Hawaii is to be governed in the genius of our con stitution it must be by extending thereto the equal ity which the constitution is intended establish and does establish, between the States of this Union.
 The Immigration Commissioner at this port is mostly engaged in turning back Japanese coolie laborers who here to compete with white labor in California. Why keep on foolng with the San Francisco spigot and leave the Hawaiian bung open
 All of the press which favored annexation is put ting forward the Chinese question if their expul- sion and exclusion from the islands would satisfy white labor and its employers here. The defeated treaty and the annexation resolutions mention only the Chinese while the report of the Labor Conmis- soner shows twice many Japanese in the islands as Chinese To the Japanese attributed all the trucuence and acts of disorder Their method is bold and defiant No one hears of Chinese banding to- getber and demanding the discharge of white men and the filling of their places by Chinese But this IS done boldly by the Japanese and left to infer that it is successful
 For these reasons we demand the deportation Of Asiatc coolies from Hawaii; the nufcation of con tract labor laws the extension the islands of the labor laws of the United States eght-hour day and all; and the establishment of exact equality Of con ditions with the rest of the country.