Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-10-05
REPUBLICANS PROTECT THE
LABORERS.

been expressed by one OF Its orators, II.
b. McClanahan, in an address at a
meeting Of Portuguese in the follow
ing terms:
The Republican party-and its
platform Is the standard by which
we must Judge it-threatcn to pass
such laws in this country as will
prevent further work being done by
Portuguese not citizens Of the
United States-prevent them from
receiving or doing work on all
public or government property in
the Territory OF Hawaii"
True to the old time Democratic plan,
the local satellites of Bryan's cheap
dollar party seek to rise in power by a
scheme of attack by which the voter
may be temporarily hoodwinked until
his ballot is secured, after which he
awakens to the fact that he was misled
and the sound business principle of the
Republican party grossly misrepresent-
ed.
No apology is necessary for the labor
plank of the Republican platform, eth
er in its INCEPTION and the arguments
presented before the platform commit
tee or as II now stands among the dec
larations of the Republican party. This
plank was brought before the commit
tee by L. II. May, representing the Ia
boring classes of Honolulu. 1t was pre-
scented as a method of protecting the
labJring classes of this Territory be
they Portuguese Hawaiian. European or
American against the inroads made ur-
on the labor employed on public works
b. the Oriental population that has nc
more interest in the Territory or its
people other than the money that can
he made out Of them and shipped back
to China and Japan.
Thus the plank stands today an eff
fective barrier TO protect the Portu-
guese and Hawaiians who have homes
In Hawaii against competition with
the wages on which the Oriental can
thrive on which Portuguese and Ha-
waiians would starve.
The Republican party and its candi.
dates by virtue of that plank stand
pledged to enact laws by which Portu-
guese and Hawaiians shall find ready
employment on the roads and on pub
lie buildings whether the work is done
by the government or let out to con.
tract. 1t stands pledged to do away
with the old custom whereby contracts
have been let and men who have homes
In Hawaii and seek labor at goo,
wages have been forced to stand by
only to see Orientals willing to work al
starvation wages taking their places.
1t Is hardly necessary to draw the at.
tention of the laboring classes to the
influx of Asiatic laborers to the city
Of Honolulu from the plantations
They leave the plantation to go into di.
rect competition with the laborers
whom the Republican party is pledged
to protect. In following this policy
the local Republicans uphold the pro.
tective principles of the national par.
t. against which the Democrats Offer.
ed the plan of throwing the markets
open to the competition of cheap Ia.
boz that Is practically a non-resi.
dent class.
The Democratic orators criticise, bui
what has their party to offer. The
election is only six weeks distant and
the Democrats have not offered sin.
gle declaration of principle. They have
Famed candidates and supposedly
sometime in the future they will frame
a platform" one that will probably
c"rdomn everything that Republicans
support. That is the time honored
custom of Democracy-to come alore
on the flag end after the Republicans
with characteristic energy and honesty
have mapped out sound business poll.
Gle shat make for prosperity in the
homes of the people.
What have the Democrats to offer fol
the continued prosperity OF the people,
MI. Wise, one of their leaders cast II,
deciding vote in favor OF 16 to ]. which
II carried out means that every work
mgman's dollar will be reduced to ont
half its present value. Is this the kim
OF prosperity that the Portuguese want
that the Hawailans want?
DO they want the Democratic plan Of
free trade carried out which will mpar
that every Hawaiian and Portuguese
nottingham will be reduced to tn,
same level as the Asiatic laborer OF
the plantations?
What the Democrats want Is the vot,
Of the people so that the candidates
may secure Office After the election d
Democrats 1t Is the people who will bC
In want; Of labor which they cant gel
locause of Aslatlc competition; of food
because business Is checked and what
work they do secure is paid for with a
lifty-cont dollar.