The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-01-27
PLANTERS FLOODED TERRI.
TORY WITH ASIATIC
LABOR.

Merchants Association of Honolulu.
Honolulu, T. H., Nov. 2, 1904.
Messrs. Hawaiian Sugar Planters As
sociation, Honolulu, T. II.
Gentlemen: The Special Committee
on Transportation of the Merchants
Association of Honolulu, have for
acknowledgement your communication
of August 5, stating that while the
Planters Association is in sympathy
with the project of obtaining lower
passenger rates between the coast ana
this Territory, and believe that the
accomplishment of the object Of the
Merchants Association would be de-
sirable and would promote larger
tourist travel 1t is after careful con-
sideration deemed impracticable to
comply with your request for a guar
antee of 1000 tons of freight per
month"
This committee believing that our So
licitation for assistance to a project
of community interest, in which you
express sympathy, and offer the opin-
ion that, for the purpose desired, your
cooperation would be effective, can
dismissed by you without the due and
careful deliberation it merits; and,
| therefore, the undersigned with the
| conviction that our persistence will
ultimately result in a better mutual
understanding of the prevailing and
future conditions in this Territory,
take the liberty of further addressing
| you on the subject, and to present
some arguments, which may seem to
you to be reasonable or otherwise, but
to US, appear only logical and fair.
! This committee recognizes and feels
F., that at present, the sugar interests are
the mainstay and support of this Ter
ritory, and that any action that would
place this interest in jeopardy would
be both ruinous and ridiculous.
/ The concessions asked by this COM
mittee has in no wise such tendency.
1t is simply natural demand for re-
| ciprocity by contingent, but distinct
interests, that will always exist con-
currently with any prevailing indus
try.
II the Planters Association, as rep
resenting the material interests of
the Territory, is prepared now to as
sert that 1t Is matter of indifference,
whether or no a proper ratio of white
population is maintained here; If II
takes the position that such popula-
tion is not requisite and necessary fol
the maintenance of good order and
government, this committee withdraws
it's plea. We believe, that no sucf
counsels can prevail among those who
constitute the Hawaiian Planters AS
ISOLATION.
We feel that in the pursuit of thu
one object, of securing the maximum
result in profits on sugar, equally i'm
portant issues are becoming obscured
and we submit, that in consideration
} of past loyalty and support freely ant
unhesitatingly rendered to, and &C
: cepted by your association, from th'
= Mercantile community, its first modes
t request Is deserving of loyal and cor
: dial recognition by you. Furthermore
: the time Is not far distant, whei
unity of the whole white population
5 will be of greater Importance to you
e interests than at any previous period
y We submit that this question. of unit
e OF interests Is real and not imaginary
: we assert that for the sake of our oni
}. industry, this country has been inun
d dated with an influx of Asiatic popu
y lation that threatens to undermine II
political security. so far as the as
Il tendency and control of the whit
= race is concerned. and that for the pun
e pose OF obtaining cheap labor, ther
n have been introduced here twice q
:. many Asiatic laborers as have bee
d necessary for the working OF the plar
tations, and that this has resulted
'e competition disastrous to all but In
IT mediate sugar interests, and that. col
lie sequently. the surplus labor whic
l. numbers in the neighborhood of so
It 900. is engaged In professional. mi
E. chanical, and mercantile pursuits, th'
In Territory OF the United States {
Is in any country legitimately belong
es its citizens There are few occup'
e. tions that these aliens. imported
plantation laborers. cannot freely e.
e. ter in competition with American ci'
II xens
or Your reply to our respectful solicit
on ton Of July 2srd was in effect an a