Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-09-16
REPUBLICANS
... OPEN
THE CAMPAIGN

and hunger, and drape the Stars and
Stripes around his empty dinner table
When he cannot find job he will find
/ ship to take him where he can OBJ
tain a job. tAppIause.)
] The sugar industry depends for its
success upon kind OF cheap labor
which no American ever consented to
undertake, and which hope to God nc
American will ever be compelled to
perform. II is dirty, disagreeable, ser.
vile labor. Ihe Portuguese work out
( OF 1t in few years; the Porto Ricans
shirk out of II in a few months: the
japanese drop IT as soon as they can
find other employment, and the Ha.
waiians who labor cheerfully in the
taro fields, and in the shops, where
they soon become skilful mechanics
draw the line at the plantations. and
/ viii live on poi and raw fish rather
tnan work in them. (Cries OF That's
so,D
Only the patient, Industrious, unam.
( bIuous Chinese are satisfied to work
in the cane fields. As have said else.
where, in the cultivation OF sugar the
man with the hoe ought to be the man
with the queue. Congress which is su.
preme in a Territory, can so modify
the exclusion law as to admit to these
Z Islands. as agricultural laborers only.
thirty thousand to fifty thousand Chi.
nese and so save Hawaii from ruin 4.
he law can be so framed as to ex.
clude them from any labor except in
! the sugar and rice fields. Their pres
ence will not harm American mechan.
les. On the contrary, they will create
values that will give well paid employ
ment to American mechanics. (Ap-
plause.)
II is not impossible, | think, to Sc
cure the passage of such a law. II the
Senators and Representatives from the
Pacific States will favor II, 1t can be
passed. They will favor It surely II
their constituents desire II. If were
conducting a campaign for the sugar
planters would appeal unto Caesar
would try to touch Caesars pocket
nerve. ] would go directly to the labor
organizations of the Mainland and call
their attention to the fact that the ex.
ports and imports of San Francisco
and Portland and Seattle to these Isl.
ands are in excess of their trade with
Gil trans.Pacific ports combined. Mil.
lions OF dollars worth of goods manu-
factured by California and Oregon and
Washington mechanics are sold in Ha-
wall. Thousands OF Coast laborers are
employed in transporting and handling
Hawaiian products. II the sugar indus
try is destroyed II will mean loss of
employment TO American workers on
the Mainland, and 1t will be crippled
II not destroyed ultimately unless the
plantations can be supplied with Chi
nese labOrers. Chinese allowed to
come here for agricultural labor can
be excluded from any other kind OF la
bor and excluded altogether from the
Mainland. It is clearly to the interest
Of Pacific Coast workmen to favor the
passage Of such law. (Applause.)
Anu If had my way would make
such a modification of the Chinese eX.
ciusion law exceedingly popular, by
proposing TO SO change treaties and
laws as to place Japanese and Chinese
on an equal basis. American workers
are, in my opinion, in greater danger
from Japanese than from Chinese com.
petition, and all Asiatics look alike to
me.
II Hawaii shall obtain legislation
lat will start her great sugar indus.
try upon a career of renewed prosper.
ity; ii she shall obtain legislation that
will enable her to retain for local i'm
provement the customs revenues
whose export drain her life blood; II
she shall secure payment of the in.
debtedness incurred by her in using
the torch to save her people and the
people OF the Mainland from pestilence
If she shall obtain any or all Of these
tnings she must obtain them from the
Republican party, for 1t is In power in
Congress and 1t is there to stay. 1t is
with the voters OF Hawaii now to de-
termine with which party they will
identify themselves. Will they march
forward with the swelling Republican
legions or will they drag backward
with the dwindling and retreating
forces OF Democracy. The choice is
with them, and as they choose wisely
or unwisely will the destinies Of these
beautiful Islands be affected,
Col. Fitch closed with an eloquent
peroration and received prolonged ap-
plause as he sat down.
Chairman Fisher called for three
cheers for the candidates, which were
heartily given, and then the audience
dispersed.