The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-06-03
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ISLAND LABOR

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rion viii result only in dlscomhtufe "
not disaster both to Themselves aud 40
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Tho application ~ these remarks win
BE- patent % any one who had the mis-
fortune q witness and experience the
trend ~ affairs in this Territory under
American labor vagarlcs, With their
costly results.
Tho British appear 10 have In
measure adapted themselves 90 the
sclf-cyidcnt truth, but have yet 20
learn the lesson in It's entirety, as wit
ness the history ~ the labor question
In Australia. Yet the conditions there
may not exactly coincide with those In
tsis Territory.
Grant the dssirahility that this should
be - white mans country" and that
IL can, and eventually Will b.some so
to an extent both gratifying and sufii-
cient for the paramount good OF all
concerned; the process OF transforma-
ton must necessity be SLOW. and no Ill
judged or inhumane attempts to force
undesirable conclusions will result in
anything but "a retardation Of progress,
with large attendant loss TO unwilling
victims all along the way.
Does II never occur to the "laboring
classes" who are madly following the
popular cutlery against the Asiatics,
that II these patient "hewers OF wood
and drawers OF water" are excluded
from the country, they themselves
must perforce lay down the hammer or
the busy pen. or stop the whirling
wheels OF their machines, to hew their
own wood and draw their own water.
or that In the expulsion OF those who
will strip and load cane and are fit
TO do nothing else, the great Industry
that constitutes the bed rock on which
all other industries in this land are
built, must fail. and with its failure
must come disaster to all the others.
with the loss of income and Of situa-
lions to thousands of industrial fac
tors and wage earners, not only in
these Islands, but ON the mainland as
we'll?
There is n commonly accepted saying
that sheep on the run will follow their
leader though they all fall into the
ditch VIII the working classes" OF
this Territory rashly support the cham
pions OF unjust exclusion, either here
or on the mainland, to their own ruin,
simply because the cry against Chi
nese labor has become popular, rather
than favor regulated immigration of
those who will do what the white man
will not do? VIII they for a moment
pause to inquire whose country this
viii he, or what manner Of country 1t
viii be-, in case its living industries.
devised by active brains and urged by
energetic wills, should be eXtinguished
for want Of sufficient hands to perform
the necessary labor. and at cost
which will leave a margin of profit to
the principals? 80