The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-23

come here to look into affairs. The re-
suit will be that there viii be absolute
and complete knowledge of matters in
the Islands in the hands of Congress
men and heads of departments all the
J time. one thing which Will have
! weight is the fact that every one i'm
presses upon the members and secre-
/ taries. as we'll the fact that there
should be u thorough investigation Of
Hawaiian matters before there is any
radical legislation Even Delegate
+ Wilcox, whose land bill is the most eX-
! tIaordinary thing imaginable, says he
favors a committee to look into affairs
before there is any final legislation.
There is a probability that This viii
be the ending Of the many reforms
which are to BE- Instituted The Off
cials believe that there is something
in the classification of lands as outlin-
ed by wilcox, but they have heard SO
Z much about small holdings that they
think there should be an investigation
; before there is any law passed.
AS I have intimated in previous let
teTs. the Attorney General Of the Unit
ed States knows right well just what
he missed in not having time TO read
all the evidence in the Humphreys
case He did not have the time, bur
he has since taken it.. He admitted to
one of his recent callers from the ISL
ands that he had not imagined that
the NOluIIle ana aUlOdNllS Win IL, con-
tanned the amount OF evidence he had
since learned was in them. He said
something else which perhaps is not
known in Honolulu, that the synopsis
OF testimony he asked for consisted.
when he got it, Of only one page. and
that the very first sentence threw cold
water upon il to such an extent that
he did not attach anything like the
value to the evidence that he should.
Perhaps, too, it is not known that Car
toOnist Yardley is known and esteem
ed at the Department of Justice. While
here, Judge Humphreys filed with the
department as evidence Of extreme
malice upon the part of the Advertiser, |
a set of the cartoons which the Ad-
vertiser printed from time to time.
The tenor OF the conversations Of the |
general run of the members of Con-
gress who are here, is that the coUn- /
try is short Of labor. This IS true of /
the South and Middle West as well as /
of the extreme West One member Of /
the legislative branch of the govern |
ment who was in California during the |
past summer. said TO me yesterday I
that in his opinion if the matter Of |
the permitting of Chinese labOrers TO /
enter the country was left to the farm |
ers Of that state. he believed there /
would be q majority Of the votes in its /
favor. The campaign against the |
Oriental is that of the skilled work /
men. who fear his competition. for |
with his cheap way Of living there |
could be no other result than that he |
would reduce the American artisan. /
the pride II a justly proud nation, To
he level Of the peOn and slave Of the
South. and the cheap labOrers Of the
more degraded districts of the Old
World. The problem would be TO get
field labor, and as there seems no way
in which this can be done without |
opening the trades to the cheap labor. |
there VIII be no change made i'm the
Geary law, except TO not limit it as 10
time. D. c. L.