The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-19
WILCOX SAYS FAREWELL
Ind RESOLUTIONS ARE
PASSED.
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on Mr. John Wise. democrat. to read
the resolutions. Mr.. Wise made a few
preliminary remarks in which he said:
! Fellow citizens. of the Car Dole"
and then he read the following resolu-
ton:
whereas, Henry E. Cooper. as acting
governor of the Territory of Hawaii, has
submitted his annual report for 1901 to
the Secretary of the Interior, and
| Whereas, the said report under the
subhead Labor" the acting governor
has made statements absolutely at va
rance with the actual conditions exist
| ing in these Islands, conditions which
no man holding the high office of COVER
nor and interested in the advancement
of civilization and the Americanizing of
| this Territory could either ignore or dare
to deny, and
Whereas, the entire report under this
subhead is couched in form inviting spe-
cial legislation in the interests of the
| classes; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, that the members of the
Home Rule Republican party in mass
meeting assembled do urge the Terrific
rial Delegate to Congress to use every
effort to defeat the object of legislation
invited, and to devote his entire energy
to securing the re-enactment of the Ash
attic exclusion laws, because:
First.-Ninety per cent of the present
:
these Islands as contract laborers.
Second.-Of the total Asiatic population
there are but thirty-five per cent emf
ployed on sugar plantations.
Third.-Not to exceed twenty-five per
cent of the remainder work in rice fields.
the other three-fourths being active COM
petitors in every mechanical and indus
trial occupation as well as in mercantile
pursuits, with Americans in this Terri
tory today, and this circumstance, to-
gether with our Hawaiian land laws, are
the potent factors preventing the influx
of desirable American farmers and me-
chanics.
Fourth.-There are in these Islands to-
day more than 1000 Asiatics who had
the government acted in good faith
would be in their native land, and
we affirm without fear of contradiction
that any condition looking to the return
of any laborers to the place of their ma
tivity would be violated as was the law
in the case of these coolies.
Fifth.-The immigration of unskilled |
labor has not ceased. There is a con- !
slant stream of Porto Rican laborers |
coming to these Islands, assisted to !
these shores by the Planters Labor and |
Supply Company. These assisted immi- |
grants are a most undesirable addition |
TO our Island community-illiterate, i'm |
of low vitality and lower NOR |
ais. Many of them occupy prison cells, |
grancy, thus through special privilege an
other dangerous and burdensome element
is injected into our excessively cosmopol-
itan community, to be aSSimilated at I'M
told sacrifice to the community at large
while creating conditions favorable to
the successful and economical produc-
ton of sugar"
Sixth.-The white man can speak for
himself, but we are satisfied that he,
like ourselves, would work anywhere
and at anything that will yield him the
value of his labor.
That the white man Will not stoop to
,he economics and associations of the ,
camp barracks is a matter TO his ,
credit
When American" land laws pave the
way to American occupation of this
Territory the Hawaiian American will ,
give cordial greeting to those coming !
lcros sthe water to live in our midst and I
raise cane" c
Seventh.-The relief. If any is required {
s at hand. We already have a large I
surplus of Asiatics in our midst. a slight a
Increase of wages will bring all that are r
equred on the plantations.
1t was passed as read. Then the fol 6
owing resolution was read and passed n
s read: :.
Whereas. the governor OF this Terri 8
DRY is personally soliciting loans on gov .
rnment account, from private sources,
Lodging therefor the public credit and
that. heretofore, illegal I
cts of this kind viii be ratified and pro-
ision made for their payment by the q
ext legislature; and
Whereas the superintendent of public .
'orks has been and now is making Il
greements, In advance of legislative ac-
on whereby the credit of this Territory t,
pledged to private corporations for ma
erials to be furnished and labor to be a
(said agreements being them h
elves violations of law in that there has Il
cen call for tenders as required for a
-ork or materials to the value of five
undred dollars (s5O0) or over; and lG
Whereas, these and kindred acts of the s,
xecutive are in plain violation OF law h.
nd subversive of those principles of e,
emocracy contemplated by the constitu- OF
on of the United States and the Organ G
Act creating the Territory of Hawaii; cl
nd
Whereas, there is ample opportunity T
or promptly creat ting the legal condf- II
ons necessary for meeting present re- n