The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-13

gers here in the East that the fusionist
managers on the Pacific Coast are Of |
tempting to frighten the voter with the |
bogy of threatened Asiatic immigration,
for 1t shows that the Bryanite cause IN
that part of the country is on its last
legs, and they are confident that so rdic-
ulous claim cannot be taken seriously
by anybody
IN obtaining the views of several lead
ing officials here today on this subject il
has been found that it is difficult for them
to believe that the fusionist managers on
the Coast could make so great a fuss fer
campaign purposes on so flimsy basis as
the recent decision of Judge Estee of the
Hawaiian Supreme Court The inevitable
conclusion which they have reached upon
being convinced that this is really the
case Is that Mr.. Bryan's cause on the
Coast must be so hopeless that it's advo-
Gates are catching at straws before going
down in the inevitable defeat
Secretary Gage. under whose direction.
as head of the treasury department, tire
immigration laws are administered, said
tOnight:
The fusionists on the Pacific Coast
have set up man of straw Why, this
idea that the Pacific Coast is threatened
with inroads of Oriental immigration is a
bugaboo. 1t is too absurd to discuss to
suppose for a moment that the decision
OF a Territorial Judge in Hawaii on a
.
migration into the United States by any
OF the Hawaiian Islands is worth consId-
Grafton in this connection. The Demo-
cratic campaign has been remarkable for
its appeals to ignorance and class preju-
dice. but this effort which you call my at
tcntion to seems to exceed anything in
this line that has been attempted"
NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY.
officials of the Department of Justice
liSnngpG a ha ar
with any seriousness whatever hey ad-
mttted that 1t was well to have the dues-
/ tton fully examined, for great harm IL
sometimes done in the closing hours of a
campaign by partial statement of the
truth by political managers on the sup
preston of important and closely related
facts. So much for the political aspect
of the case. AS to the legal question,
! they declared, 1t was absurd to suppose
that there was any question at all.
| a high official of the department, who
did not care to be quoted in a political
discussion of this character, said: 1T is
a fact well established by high court de-
cision that Congress is supreme in its
power to govern the Territories In the
recent Act organizing the Territorial gov
ernment of Hawaii 1t was expressly pro
vided that no Chinese laborers shall be
allowed to enter the United States from
the islands.
should make a decision expressly dispJS-
ling this power, instead of on a subject
not even remotely related TO the matter
it would not affect the case at al. The
Supreme Court of the United States LONG
ago covered the general case completely
and conclusively in a decision relating tC
! Louisiana and Florida. I dare say these
decisions will never be reversed. As FOL
lthc present eonerete question: an infius
OF Asiatic cheap labor on the Pacific
Coast II might as we'll be said now, as
positively as anything can be said, tina
nothing of the kind will ever come Il
pass or can come to pass as long as public
sentiment is such as it is and the laws re
main unchanged"
Judge Estee stated yesterday that IN
had nothing to say on the subject. ''Th'
lopnion speaks for itself, and you can se'
what was decided in it by reading it.
did not hold at all that Chinese and Jap
anese had the right to go from hawaii L
T and from the States. That is all that l
! is necessary to say"