The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-11-07

What Hawaii needs today is an adj
justment of the labor legislation,
specialized if you please (not portion
ed out as equally fitting to coal fields,
or the lumber forests of the mainIand)
by which foreign labor may be intro
duced where no other is possible. Such
legislation could be made acceptable
to government and people, all unjust
servitude could be prevented, and the
laborers made contented and produc-
tive.
1t may be asked why this repeated
plea for the Chinamanl Why is he so
much desiredf For very good reasons.
He is more quiet person naturally
he is much more amenable to regula-
tions and rules covering labor than
other nationalities,-h is more gen.
orally Industrious. When married to a
Hawaiian wife he makes a good hus-
band and father.
The Japanese have more frequently
the opposite qualifications, and conse.
quently are more Independent and less
easily under necessary management.
Expensive attempts have been made to
introduce laborers from abroad, which
have proved most unfortunate failures.
An exception may be made with re.
CARDS to comparatively recent impor-
tation of laborers from Korea,-some
eight or nine thousand persons.
These are not under the restriction
clause and their coming seems to have
been of much benefit to all parties in
terested. 1t is interesting to note that
goodly portion of the immigrants are
Christians and connected with the
Methodist Episcopal Church, coming to
a large degree from the missions of
that church in Korea. The testimony
is quite emphatic that as class they
are most desirable acquisition.
1t appears to the friends of Hawaii
that there should be modification of
the exclusion laws. There is no neces-
sary conflict between Hawaii and Cali
fornia on this question. If common re-
port is true, the fruit growers of Calf
fornia, the lumber men of the North
west and the home keepers along the
Pacific Coast would be glad for John
Chinaman' services and would have
them but for the labor unions.
If the Chinaman could be allowed to
come to Hawaii, it would be under
such regulations that he could be kept
from passing to the Coast, and would
be of inestimable help in carrying for
ward great American industry, which
would benefit the whole people.
The Chinaman in Hawaii even as a
plantation laborer has an opportunity
of acquiring information, instruction
and knowledge of affairs. They have
their newspapers which disseminate
the news of what is transpiring in the
world.
Is it strange that suffering as they
do because of the treatment they and
their countrymen receive under the ex.
clusion laws, that the Chinese in Ha.
wall have raised and forwarded for the
boycotting of American goods in
China 100000 and expect to make il
up to $50,000s The Chinese, in the
Islands, who enjoyed the benefit OF
Christian influence support mission
airy in China and several churches and
missionary stations in Hawaii, and are
as class, well disposed and quiet
citizens.
One great factor in the development
of Hawaii in less than hundred years
has been the perfectly free access ia
the country to all people. Perhaps in
nv Npuhtiy, Popuidtioh 10 bo vi
versifed, is there such a commingline
of interests and so little spirit Of
caste, prejudice or opposition.
The friends of Hawaii ask for 9
"square deal' in the interests of faiI
play and honorable treatment. They
believe that the exclusion act is an act
of injustice to the Islands and indi
rectly to the homeland as well, and
would respectfully ask that this con
ference may deliver an opinion favor
ing modification of the laws, at least
SO far as Hawaii is c"ncerned.
HAWAII'S APPEAL.
Rev. Dr. Scudder delivered the fol
lowing address before the conferenc,
on the 18th:
''No man is yet born who has beer
granted the vision of the meaning OF
that tiny group of islands in the mid
Pacific entrusted by God to our re
public after three centuries of as prov
idential history as that of any lanC
this earth has ever had. Last May il
the annual meeting of the Territorial
Association provision was made for tn
participation of American and Korean
Methodist brethren, and on the boar,
of our great mid-Pacifc institute tn
presiding elder of the Methods
Church has been elected by our Hom
Missionary Board. There is not s,
much talk about Christian unity on
there as there is realization of it il
practice. All this lends a peculia
charm to the campaign in Hawaii. Blu
Hawaii appeal rests upon something
p. more inspiring than trumpet call on
of the past. 1t comes to you and m
! of America with authority of an in
! perative duty. The line of battl
, which we face is of vastly differen
, mettle from that confronting tn
/ fathers of 1920.
"There is no question that the ferc
: white race, with it's death dealin
5 drinks and its strenuous living, mus
soon make an end of the most genii
Q man Mother Earth has nurtured. I'll
9 Hawaiian is slowly fading, minglin
I, his blood with that of more endurin
r peoples. Out of the mixture a ne
d variety of human is crystallizing. H
r wall seems destined to give the worl
r n unique race, speaking English wit
It an accent all its own, sunny tempere
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