Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-12-12
UNION LABOR VIEW

Editor Evening Bulletin:
is in great danger. Many thousands
of natives are threatened with destruc-
ton. viii the American citizens be
compelled to leave? Sugar stock ma
nipulations and sugar plantation pro-
moters are excited. Agitation and
special meetings are being called by
the various labor and commercial bod
les to discuss the situation. A memo
rial is being proposed asking the Unit
ed States Congress for immediate &C.
ton to save the Sugar Planters Asso'
citation from destruction. Nearly all
Of the white American mechanics
have deserted the place. The Sugar
Planters Association has a knotty |
problem as to the most advisable way
to obtain laborers at the lowest pos.
sible price so as to enable them to de.
clare dividends on some friends over.
capitalized or watered sugar stock.
Many hope for favorable action by
| Congress to enable the sugar stock
owners to import all Of the cheapest
reliable contract Chinese labor that
they may decide is needed. The mer.
chants, traders, etc, are in the shad-
ow of humiliation and complete eH
tinction by their Chinese and Japan
csc competitors in trade. They will
probably be forced TO emigrate to pas.
lures new. If Congress or someone
does not come to their immediate re.
lief. The white laborers have gone
and the business men are liable to fol.
low them soon.
BY whom is this demand for coolie
labor advocated. advertised and aid
ed? Many of the leading newspapers,
Governor Dole, most Of the politicians,
some OF our Republican Representa-
tives in the Territorial Legislature.
our Delegate TO Congress. members
of the United States Senatorial Com
mission to Hawaii; in fact, every one
nearly, except the Honolulu Trades
Council and about 100000 laborers in
these Islands.
Will the United States Congress en-
danger the home and freside Of the
American workingmen throughout the
United States by suspending the en-.
forcement of the alien contract law
In the Territory OF Hawaii In case a
few hundred people interested or own.
ing sugar stocks In Hawaii pray they
do so? think not.
Will the Republican majority in
Congress repeal the Chinese exclusion
law, should a few dozen merchants
and sugar stock spectators in Hawaii
ask them to do so? | guess not.
One hundred thousand able-bodied
workingmen are needed in the Para
disc of the Pacific to assist in build.
ing up the vast agricultural possibili.
ties and TO enable this Territory to be.
come State of which the Nation will
be proud. We hear a cry that they
should be free white American citi-
zens. The labor and commercial or.
carnations believe they will be neces.
, sary in order to make this Territory a
State in which the American Nation,
without blushing, can say to the
world, Hawaii, the Paradise of the
Pacific, We have taken to our breast
and made her our full sister, in which
we are well pleased"
Will the merchants and land kings
, and capitalists make any effort wQr.
thy of mentioning to get American OF
European settlers to come here?
am afraid not. We hear a voice like
thunder and roar like the mighty
ocean. From whence did II originate
The root of all evil. money. sugar bar.
ons, who snatched up and echoed the
, cry; some of the commercial bodies
and their dupes. What is this mighty
, roar?-contract Chinese coolie labor.
They say that since the admission
of Hawaii in 1898 to the United States
that the labor supply has been cut of.
, This is false. The United States cen.
sus shows 10000 japanese in 1900
, and most OF them came during 1898
and 1899. Since the census was TAX
r en-. between 10000 and 10000 Japan
, ese have come, which, added TO the
census figures, would make between
2 $4,000 and 100000 now here, and they
are still coming for the plantations al
. the rate of about 1000 per month.
q understand that OF the 10000 Japan
? ese and Chinese imported to work 90
+. the sugar plantations, not more thar
Q 10000 now remain on the plantations
: The Japanese and Chinese who quit oil
4 were discharged from the plantations
: are to the tune of about 10000 or so,
900. now residing in the towns and
, cities of this Territory, and threaten
1 ing the complete determination OF tile
v white merchants and. Hawaiian ma
: tives. We are told that the planters
y have not one-half enough labor on the
a plantations. II this is so, they would
! need to import about $4,000 of the
q much-desired Chinese laborers. The
: laborers now on the plantations re