The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-29
PENSION PLEA
LIliuOkaIani'S Claim is
Discussed.
4 Chapter Of the Senate Debate on
The Amendment to Section
l0l Of CuIIOm Bill.

eNe NNllbh bil4- WHICH We aU@tN 10
publish Tuesday:
Shortly after this effort az annex r.
JiDn We resnas-ed a duty upon sugar
so that the advantage still flows O.
them. We have remiJl6d in du.iss to
those people already the sum Of over
$S0O0O,0 600. Each year We remit in
duties now more than $40. 900 900, and
that money comes out Of the pOcks.s
Of the people Of Jne United States. Ten
million dollars a year for the privilege
Of having the name Of governing this
rotten borough in the Pacifci Ii
cones out OF the people of the United
States, because, although they raise
100000 tons OF sugar, the amOun-
which they raise is not sufficient to
lower the price one particle in the
United States, and therefore the duty
which We remit for We charge no duty
upon their sugar, is added to the price
OF the sugar to the Hawaiian planter
and comes out OF the pockets of our
people. IN other words, IL those isl
ands were not a part Of the United
States, and IL We collected duty upon
the sugar which they ship 70 US, we
would collect duty Of over 10000
600 year.
Mr. CullOm. I inquire Of my friend
If he is in favor of putting a duty on
sugar now that they are a part Of the
United States. Also. while I am on
my feet, IL The Senator will allow me.
| will ask him whether he does not
know that under the reciprocity treaty
sugar was coming in free a long while
before we got the islands?
Mr.. Pettigrew. stated that We
made an agreement in 1875 by which
sugar came in free from those islands,
and that when in 1890 We made sugar
free from everywhere they ceased to
have an advantage. and therefore they
wanted annexation in order TO get the
bounty OF 2 cents a pound which we
were paying upon the domestic sugar
produced.
/ will briefly answer the Senator :
question before finish. Now, with re-
gard 70 these islands, what have We ac-
quired? Mr.. President, there are
BOSS people OF American blood in
those islands. There are about 100
men who can vote. OF those BOSS peo-
pie. 800 ard a fraction over are males
and 1 100 are females, showing almOs.
two to Onei OF males over females
among the population Of American
blood, showing the same thing that
exists in every tropical country in the
world where the European has gone.
In other words, the European, The Am
erican, does not go to the Tropics to
raise children, TO have a family, and
therefore the disprOpOrtiOn between
the males and the females for every
AnglO-SaxOn settlement in the Tropics
throughout the world is from two to
five to one. In Singapore there are
probably 5000 Europeans, English and
Americans, and less than l 900 Of those
are females. So il is i'm HOngkOng; so
it is in every tropical country through
out the world; so il is in Hawaii, and
so it will always be in Hawaii.
What were We tOldI Why, that this
was the paradise of the Pacific, that
Americans would go there and raise
families, and that we would soon build
up an American State. Mr.. President
the moment we annexed those islands
we were notified by every lodge Of
Odd Fellows and MasOns and Knights
of Pythias that it was no place for an
American TO stay unless he had enough
he wanted TO remain there and TO get
away with when he got tired Of stay
ing: that the labor market was over
crowded; that there was no place for
American labOrers or American toll
ers. But in the meantime they i'm
ported after we annexed the islands,
81 600 contract labOr5rs from Asia.
Now. what have We annexed? We
have annexed 3,OS5 people II American
blood, many OF them citizens Of Ha-
waii. whose fathers went to thai cOun-
try TO carry the blessings of a Chris
tian religion, and whose sons had be-
come the prosperous sugar planters of
than Country. We have annexed 5000
or 5000 Germans, English, SCandina-
vians, etc. We do not know whether
they will become citizens Of the United
states or not. We have annexed abou:
H. 600 Portuguese, whose ancestors
went TO those islands as cOu-raC,
| laborers from Madeira years ago, and
We have annexed 1000 Kanakas and
| 5000 mixed bloOds. half Kanaka and
| half missionary and half Chinese
Mr. GalUnger. That makes three
/ halves.
Mr.. Pettigrew. Three halves; and
We have annexed AsiatiCs by the
| thousand. We have annexed $1,000
| contract laboners and $4,000 or 10000
| Asiatics who are not contract labOTers
and now we try TO fiatter ourselves
[ with the delusion that we are going 90
make a Territory in the center Of the
Pacific and ultimately admit IL as q
State into this Union. is this the ma
I ter.al out OF which an American state
| Is made. with lees than 1900 voters
I who are Americans, with a population
/ q Asiatics who are males 10 20 /, for
under this system OF importing labor
/ the contract provides that 1 woman
only shall be brought for each 10 men
. So where they bring IN 1000 Asiatics
they bring in I 600 women. Does this
b-otheI. then, In the Pacific possess
/ the elements, and viii it ever possess
| the elements. out Of which you can
/ construct an American State? Il Is
| all nonsense; it can not be done. We
must hold them as. a subject colony.
I We must hold them as a part Of an
empire. We must undertake 70 main