The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-06-28
1nn YELLOW prRIL

| Already The Tines are belur drawn fuf
the contest which ls 90 mark iho next
session " Congress the hrht Tor the r..
enactment ~ The Chlnnra exclusion laN.
Tho ucary exclusion law WaF passed
nineteen years ago. and viii expire IN
May. 1909. II Was IN December 1884.
that the Gresham treaty with china,
which embodios the consent u the lat
ter nation 20 the terms Ut The act was
signed and promulgated
During the last term uf Congress
there was continual agitation OF the
matter especially by Congressman
Kahn of San Francisco. who had ready
for introduction bill which would
continue the exclusion acts force for
another twenty years That he did not
Introduce It, according TO the reports In
the papers OF his home clu. was due
to the fact that 1t was deemed wisest
TO allow the matter to rest until the
long term Of Congress when there
would be final action on the matter.
BY this plan there would be nJ double
working up OF sentiment necessary.
From the two extremes of tie CONT
nent come tales of the activity Of those
Interested In the exclusion law. In
Jew York an organization has been
| effected on the part Of the Chinese,
! which has for its object the prepare
ton Of a memorial to the Government
protesting against a re-enactment of
the law. 1t Is set forth that each one
of the thousands of Chinese in the
, United States will be asked to sign
this memorial, and it is conceivable
that there win be collected a fund for
the proper presentation Of the claims
| of the prOtestants, which will attract
the attention of one OF the largest lob
! bies which has been seen at the ma
| tiOnal capital for many years. The
| New York Chinese too, win ask all
| those of the Americans who have not
been opposed to the opening of the
doors to the Orientals, to sign a MEM
oria which will be made feature of
the fight.
! Meanwhile, on the Western coast. |
where the agitation against the food of
cheap labor had it's beginning, the
fight is already being put up. Labor
organizations and newspapers have be-
gun to agitate for the pledging OF mem
bers of Congress to a new law which
will stem the yellow scourge. The
| friends of white labor. the unions of
artisans in all lines of human endeavor,
| the men who think upon the subject
broadly, all are in unison on this mat
ter. There Is nothing to be done but to
| secure longer period of relief from
| the danger of the extinction of the
American workman as he now exists,
the best paid the highest living work
man in the world, and this can be done
only by the absolute prohibition of the
| entrance Of Chinese labor into the
United States. The same feeling, which,
when fully aroused, brought the people
of the United States to see the threat
enng danger of the yellow cloud. has
been displayed in some extent In the
West in regard to the little brown men.
the so-called Yankee of the Pacific, the
Japanese. 1t Is a fact that within the
past five years there has been develop
ed In many Western States as strong
an antipathy to the Jap as is felt to-
ward the coolie.
| The danger which lies In the way OF
the re-enactment of exclusion legisla-
ton Is that there shall be among leg
islators from the East an absolute lack
OF knowledge bearing upon the condi- |
tions which will obtain when the Or |
iental Is given a free field to compete
| with the free white man. In various |
| Eastern newspapers there have APP
peared in recent years criticism of the |
course OF the West In demanding |
more stringent restriction laws. At
| one time the New York Sun !
| served notice upon the West |
that there was absolutely no hope Of Sc |
curing any restriction OF Japanese I'M |
migration, vet we have seen that mood |
STAYED by the Emperor himself II is |
| In the spreadinr of Information as to
the ecourge which the yellow man
proves. that the widest field, for,,the
proponents, of the exclusion laws now
| lies, The fact that every national labor
union has taken I'm this branch OF the
service gives hone that there Will be no
member of either House of the national
Legislature who will have the question