Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-27


patriots were struggling in congress
and out of it with might and main to
annex the Sandwich Islands, inter ALA
suggested in the house that it was not
a good or wise thing to take to our
yearning bosoms thirty odd thousand
Chinese coolies and to fix it so that the
sugar barons would and could import
that undesirable class ad libitum to the
exclusion of American laborers. Then
was denounced as a bad citizen by
men who had accepted retainer from
the sugar kings and who had their i'll
gotten gains jingling in their pockets
Now, strange to say, an elaborate news
dispatch has been sent out from Wash
ington as a feeler to prepare the way
for the free admission of Chinese cool
les into those leprous islands primarily
and into the rest of our territory final
ly. The meaty part of the aforesaid
dispatch runs as follows:
The great problem which will shortly confront
the people of the island of Hawaii and threaten
future development is that presented by the lack
official, who has just returned from Honolulu,
where he went with orders to pay off the public
debt of the island. He says also that the impor-
tation of Porto Ricans has been failure. Hun
dreds of them have been brought to the island
with the expectation of putting them to work in
the sugar plantations. After a short time their
indolent habits resulted in their discharge from
employment. They have fattened up and look
better than when they arrived, but they refuse to
work and threaten to become public charges.
The Chinese exclusion act keeps members Of
that from coming to the island, and yet the
government official believes the Chinese alone are
adapted to work in the sugar fields. When the
island was annexed by the United States, there
was sufficient number of Cinnamon there to
handle the sugar crops. Since annexation the
acreage has increased to a surprising extent, and
the planters have been obliged to look elsewhere
for laborers. Experiments show that the negro
from the United States is not adapted to the
work, and the Porto Ricans taken as an
other experiment. Now it appears they have not
come up to expectations. The Hawaiians place
their hope in the expiration of the terms of the
Chinese exclusion act and hope it will not be re-
| newed by act of congress.
Now, that paragraph does two sepa-
rate, distinct and rather startling things.
1t informs an amazed public that our
newly acquired subjects, the Porto
Ricans, who are half in and half out of
the Union, are too lazy to work, That
will be an eye opener to many mis-
guided patriots who have been hugging
! the delusion that when we annexed
Porto Rico we did an unusually good
piece of business. Secondly, it upsets
all the philosophy and scientific conclu-
sions Of the past by proclaiming that
| negroes do not make desirable laborers
in a tropical climate. Perhaps and
! most likely neither of those things is
| true, but it is necessary to cause both
| to appear true in order to lay the
| foundation for the scheme of admitting
| hordes of Chinese coolies to our shores
in order to crowd out American white
and colored laborers. That is the end
| which the Hawaiian sugar kings have
in view, an adequate supply of Chinese
cheap labor and it is most significant
| fact that it is a prominent government
| official who sends out the feeler. He
| withholds his name for prudential
reasons If the feeler is well received.
| others will chime in with similar re-
marks to help educate congress up to
proper frame of mind to do this IN
! American thing. From all the signs OF
| the times Hawaii is to be made a sort
of governmental experiment station.
( If a particular tiIing-unprece
and outra geous-is submitted to there,
then it will be tried on the rest of the
| country. A monarchist delegate from
Hawaii is tolerated in Washington
now. Later monarchists will appear in
congress from other sections OF our
country-"frst a speck and then a vul-
ture, till the air is black with yultures'
Ito borrow a simile from "Hiawatha. -
American citizens are to be familiar
lied with Chinese cheap labor in Ha-
waii, where it will be lauded as the
| best. Then other American kings be-
sides the Hawaiian sugar kings will in
sist that that species of cheap labor
having been demonstrated to be the
best for Hawaii must be best for the
whole country.
Vice is a monster of such frightful mien
| As to be hated needs but to be seen;
But seen too Oft, familiar with her face,
we HrSL enuuIe, linen pity, tieH SihotdSe.
SO it is apt to be with Chinese cheap
| labor. Unless the wage Garner of this
country wakes up suddenly to the dan
ger that is impending he will be a
modern Othello. for his occupation will
be gone-gone to John Chinaman. If
the American laborer wakes up in time,
congress will be very slow in admit
ting Chinese cheap labor without limit
into Hawaii or any other place over
which Old Glory floats. Consequently
if our American laborers are crowded
ont by the scum of the Mongolian race
it will be their own fault. They should
wake up and vote the Democratic tick
ct.
Amende Honorable.
Not long since, when my brilliant and
eloquent friend, Senator Carmack Of
Tennessee, in his speech at a presideD-
tial banquet opportunely asserted tbat
he was weary of the gush about a re-
united country as though it were a
Judge Griggs delivered his speech on
another subject at 2 p. m. of the same
day, in which he elaborated the idea
that the loyalty of the south was not a
new thing growing out of the Spanish
war, but had been blessed fact for 30
years. was so unfortunate as not to
hear that speech. 1 say unfortunate
adyisedly, for | always listen to the
judge with profit and delight. But an
open confession is good for the soul,
and was so busy at p. m. commit
ting my Blair speech to memory that
failed to hear my distinguished friend
from Georgia. / have recently careful
ly read his speech on that occasion. 1t
is very fine and should be read by ev-
cry one. Here are a few of its splen-
did and glowing sentences:
Every act Of the people of the south, from Ap-
pomattox to Santiago has been declaration Of
devotion and loyal sacrifice to the Union, and
| nothing but the 'blindness of unbelef' has pre-
vented its acknowledgment long ago.
Neither the testament of bleeding war nor the
pomp and glitter Of the presidents march brought
harmony to the people of the Union.
The time has come in the evolution of sentiment
i and feeling, under the providence of God, when
in the spirit Of fraternity we should to the last
man shake off this horrid nightmare of sectional
hate, from whose paralyzing grasp our itful and
hysterica1 awakenings for % years have made the
angels weep and the nations smile.
Thirty-fiye years have rolled by in their cease
less round since Shermans ''march to the sea-
A generation has come upon the stage Of action
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