The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-01-29
LABOR FOR HAWAII

The problem of supplying the right kind of labor for island
colonies will be difficult solve The legislation that
suited in the exclusion of Chinese from the United States
vigorously contested before prevailed The Chinese had
obtained the hold industries that they have the indus
tries OF Hawaii the Philippines and their exclusion
attended by serious consequences proved easy to get men
other naonates that the Chinese had already
begun monopoze The change instead Of producing
nomic CONFUSION predicted merely made unnotced
ripple
But in the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines the situation
entirely different Industries have grown large proportions
because of the employment of cheap labor and the exclusion of
this labor would the people of the islands say put end
many Of their most profitable enterprises OF
Der that the predictions of disaster made California
dozen when the exclusion law enacted and they
failed remembered that
diton different in colonies The climate the
roundng the people, the customs the traditions of the countries
are those to which the white man is not accustomed and to which
may prove difficult for him habuate himself In Hawaii
attempts have been made substitute Japanese Portuguese and
Porto Rcan but always unuccessuly No people, it claim
ed, can do the work as the Chinese
Even this claim can be ubsanated the question of Chinese
competition by means eliminated 1t may exist in the
islands The Chnanan may not be taking the place OF the white
Hawaii but he is coming directly competition with
the beet growers of California and the sugar planters of the South
If Chinese competition be evil and the highest Legislative
thoy in America has pronounced such it equally So whet
the labor be in Hawaii California There may be ques
ton of degree may be perceptble when the cooe
working the brakes of Hawaii three thousand miles away
when he is picking fruit San Leandro making shoes
overas in San Francisco but the principle involved the
The proposition allow the settlement OF Chinese Hawaii
the Philippines has been fought and will be fought vigorously
and the arguments will be advanced have heretofore been
used Several of the prominent national labor leaders have
issued combined protest this subject They say that the
proposals introduce Chinese into the Philippines the
establishment of the of cooe labor in its most
Objectionable form, many respects resembling slavery The
chief argument in its favor be the desire attract capital
and hasten the exploitation development of the Philippines by
a system of cheap labor
This appears be altogether insufficient for such
proposition with its great wrong the Fpno-who is not in
any way consutedand its peril the American workngman1
With Chinese cooe labor in the Philippines will be almost I'M
possible prevent its coming into competition with American
labor at home and lowering its standard OF life.
Another experiment is proposed by the governmentthe
colonization of the Southern negro Attempts send the
Africa have always failed but thought that they be
successful when American colony the objective point
But here again another interesting complication arises The
negroes American citizens and they be coOnzed
and should thrive Hawaii it would be long before they
would the white citizens and hold the political power III
their hands, condition that the population objects
and will fight agaipst.-Oakand Enquirer.