The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-12-20
WOULD HAVE THE CHINESE
BELIVEs THAT CONGRESS WOULD
PERMIT IT.
If Properly Appealed to Progress"
Thinks National Legislature Would
Give Us Adequate Relief.

EDITOR STAR: In former COM
munication l suggested how labor and
that too of the desirable class, might be
obtained. l have no reason to change
my opinion, in fact a survey of the field
strengthens my views.
Hugh Miller, the geolOgist and writer
having at one time been a bankers
clerk when he had good opportunity
to study human nature, remarks that
if men who had been compelled to go
into bankruptcy had only expended as
much ingenuity and interest in their
business while it was successful as
they displayed when the crisis was
nigh they would not have been brought
to the verge of bankruptcy"
Watching the wriggling and attempts
of planters, individually and as an as
ISOLATION, to obtain labor since the time
has passed when it was to be had for
the asking, forcibly reminds me of the
above quoted remark Of the hard head
ed Scotchman.
Porto Rico, the colored man Of the
South, white labor of the North Euro
pean labor, all has been exploited and
for one reason or another each is found
to be unsuitable. In the mean time la
Dor is becoming scarcer, wages higher
and attempts by one to seduce the SER
wants of another are becoming more
numerous. There is a point beyond
which the planter cannot go in paying
for labor or the ultimatum is financial
death On the other hand lack of
sufficiency of labor will have the same
result. Recognizing that the inevitable
crisis approaches why do we not help
ourselves in legitimate manner? We
are very inferior republicans as long
as we look on Congress as a foreign
body. The man from Penobscot repre-
sents Hawaii as much as he does Maine
The Senator from Minnesota should be
Il tsa.1f IL
late annexed territory as he is in OBJ
tainging lucrative appointment for sons
of henChmen of that State. Congress
has the power to make a special law
in favor of the main industries of Ha-
wall. Are not we the people and do we
not in Congress assembled make such
laws as are for the benefit of any part
of our country. One man in Congress
proposes making Hawaii the lazar-
house of the United States. If
Hawaii was a State no Congress-
man could be found fool enough
to make such a proposition know
ing that Congress has no such
power But as a territory some can be
found who think Congress can do as it
pleases. 1t certainly has already shown
it's power to make special laws for ter ..
ritories when it makes a law when 1t
declares that no Chinese laborer, whe e
Their he shall hold such certificate or not
SIldil ne dllOWGu 10 enter any state, Ter
ritory, or District of the United States
from the Hawaiian Islands"
When Congress claims its right to
cOnfine a certain class to a particular
part of the United States who will deny
it's right to allow more of that proScrib-
ed class to come to Hawaii, especially
when it is clearly shown that the life of
two of Hawaii's main industries depend
on renewal of labor which is to be had
from no other part of the globe? Con
greSs knows well that it annexed the
Hawaiian Islands purely as a war mea-
sure and did it against the will of at
! least two thirds of the inhabitants and
probably two thirds of the people of the
United States. 1t did not do so with the
intent to ruin these large industries on
which the Islands depend. Yet if its
| laws will have that effect surely It
had the power to remedy the wrong.
There is no doubt that if Il bill was
forcibly presented Congress would lass
it, a bill permitting 10000 Chinese la
bOrers to come to the Hawaiian Islands
say every three years, said Identical
Chinese to leave the Islands at the end
of said term. Why not try IL?
Instead of raking the United States
with a fine toothed comb to obtain thc
undesirable class who would come as
laborers, merely for the eaVe of the
jaunting trip and to have a free passage
would it not be better to try TO get
what are known to be good labors?
PROGRESS