The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-10
SPEECH.

HUMPHREYS SPEECH.
Immediately after luncheon recess A.
s. Humphreys was given the floor, he
announcing that he appeared as a citi-
zen n a member of the bar. Begin
ming by making comments upon the
statements of Secretary Cooper as ito
labor conditions, he read a record of
appropriations for advancing agricul-
ture and aiding Immigration the list
showing a total Of 81 1885,, 900 expended
to bring Asiatics and Portuguese, which
was, he said, a scheme to establish a
system of c~ontractuaf slavery.
He then read sections of the penal
laws, affecting the laborers. who en-
deavored ito eemancipate" themselves.
He said that no effort was made to
induce white immigration and that con-
ditions were made such hat no decent,
self-respecting white man would take
service.
He then read reports of the Secretary
of the Board of immigration showing
conditions of cruel treatment of labor
ers in 1897.
I He said that white people who sought
service on plantations were subjected
to h same conditions.
He said Japanese We're rushed into
the country after annexation and before
organization to get a force of labor or
hand.
He said the conditions in which Porto
Ricans arrived here were more wretch
ed than that of the reconcentrados in
Cuban camps, and that they came un-
der false promises.
He said 500 white mechanics had left
because unable to compete with Orien-
tails. who now control 60 per cent of the
building trades.
He said there had been no effort to
induce white Americans to come here
in good faith. only for the purpose of
making a p%retensei that Orientals were
necessary.
Asked if it was possible to American
ize h Territory without sacrificing in
duStries, he said: II think the Ameri-
can1zation is of more Importance thar
the industries, and between the two ]
am prepared to sacrifice the indus
tries"
He said hat since annexation there
had been watering of stocks for the
purpose of selling them to mainland
buyers.
He objected to the provision that cit
liens must be residents for three years
before they could be members of the
Senate.
He recommended that the qualifca-
lions to vote be made six months resi-
dence and that any voter may hold Of
flee.
He asked that the age limit be re-
moved from the qualification for COVER
nor, as well as the provision of citizen
ship, and the same as to judges.
He for appeal from the Su-
preme Cou to the United States Su-
preme Court.
He said three Circuit Judges were
unnecessary and that the law under
which the third was appointed was un-
constitutional.
He said the purpose of section so OF
the organic act was to perpetuate Gov
Dole at the head of an oligarchy,
through appointments, and that such
choice should be left to the Legislature
He attacked the appropriations as
extravaganza and said they were made
on the estimate of Gov. Dole, the Leg
islature cutting and r~etrenching.
He said the attorney general had con
troll OF the police and the purpose was
that plantation labor might be kept in
subsection.
He said much else along the same
lines.
BOYD TALKS OF LANDS.
E. S. Boyd, Commissioner of Public
Lands, continued his testimony, saying
that the total of the lands of agricul-
tural classification was 1872, 900 acres OF
which much had been homesteaded. He
requested the commission to visit the
iand and was told that if the trip was
taken he would be expected to accom-
pany the party.
Speaking of the leases he said that
there were many leases made by the
commissioner of the icrown lands which
, we're now falling in and that in every
instance these lands were divided and
people induced to take them up wher
possible. He said that on Hawaii +bare