The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-09-16
.se LABOR CONDITION,

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tfy rfadf ~ ihasf ehn have r1fieii
rfI.raHfrf against ihD tmuinif fH H iht
U.f. ASSUMES thnf tha DHeuihIf have
i..1 brought in fn rNriuur Amor "nu
frUns from enc n.lia NUN thff. ore
Iuu large cinefDa of such tIt.E.nF hDfH.
tha enffaurhlsrd iiaWallnrs ana th"
white men ana from none uf thru. Fn
faT lF ap know have t1n Htf1'ka pro-
.r.i.d m The Senatorial Commission
$500 inquire ut HnWniiIus aul whites
lf they Will uudpt any ,ircumstnr"H. 30
th, nard work 90 the plantations. Do Wiz
soon nud that they Will not should
amy exceptions appear the men can get
work at once by applying ht The plhui-
prs labor agency The truth ls mat
there are no exceptions. our American
citizens do not care To 90 on planta-
tlons and hence. ~ sugar iE TO 10 proc
duged. some other class 81 people must
Boz employed.
In looking about FOR substitutes the
planters nave ny 80 means tied them
soIVes up To- Orieutals. They imported
thousands of Portuguese, but these en-
terprising people wanted homes and
completeness and forthwith went about
getting them. They could do better
than work for farm wages. Germans
were tried but the climate proved too
severe for them. Galicians were
brought In but they were like the Ger
mans. Later the planters tried negroes
and those they got from the South were
the ones the southerners were most
anxious to be rid of and they have been
keeping our Jail full ever since, An eN-
pertinent was made with Porto Ricans
and they have fallen a long way short
of expectations. White families have
been brought in from California to
raise cane on the profit-sharing plan.
AT once they hired Asiatics to do the
hard work, and after a little time got
homesick and went back to the wheat
fields and fruit orchards of the san
Joaquin.
What were the planters to do? Give
up sugar? They could hardly be ex-
pected to do that having sixty millions
invested. SO they fell back on Asiatics,
who were willing to do the work and
able to do It well.
Unfortunately for the white trades.
some of the Chinese preferred TO be
skilled laborers and went to the towns
to work. Much skilled labor came in
from Japan and competed. This was
not the fault of the planters, for the
same thing had happened on the coast.
over there it was the fault of the
treaty making power, the United states
senate and over here the general trend
nf American treaties was followed. Had
it not been followed, even unskilled la
ho, could NOT have been had. especially
from Japan. the main source of supply.
I,nap vas nroud and would accent no
form of exclusion. During the life of
tho ranublic she sent shiploads
az young mon here. ostensibly at their
own exnense certainly not at ours, who
wara hilleted at STUDENTS" and free
lnborers F." the evident purpose being to
dood tbo country and later to demand
,bo came terms Of suffrage granted by
,ne renublic IN all who wouId take the
l,,iida1 no,b Annexation came and
stunned the suffrage conspiracy but 1t
a., not ston tho canning of Japanese.
whose ,igbt ia enter here and engage
IL, Iscitimata business was not denied
a., ITni,aa Sto,as low
Natmrati,, Tho Asiatics nv underbid-
ding white men have acquired a stand
inc in tho trades The Chinese did so in