The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-17
FOR SELF
PROTECTION
Labor Club Outlines Its
Principles and
Aims.

1--WE are not banded together to
drive out the japanese and Chinese. .
said President Matt. Heffernan in his
opening speech at the Citizens Labor
Club last night. but we are bound TO
protect ourselves and if it comes to a
question of them driving US out or our
driving them out, it will be the white
men who will stay"
Thus did the president of the new
club lay bare the underlying principle
of the organization, and his remarks
were enthusiastically received by the
thirty odd members of the club gather
ed in their room in the waverley
block.
I'VE are gathered together as Ameri-
can citizens to protect ourselves and
our rights as American citizens" con-
tinued Mr.. Heffernan. 1--WE have moth
ing against the Chinese and Japs as
people, but they are not citizens. We
believe that men put into public offices
by the votes of the citizens should en-
ploy only citizens in all their private
and public work. We are here to keep
the AsiaticS from running US out of
our own country.
"A white man should employ white
man. We don't want to take the
bread and butter away from the Asia
tic, but we are not going to let him
take our share. We are going to en-
dorse those men for election that will
only employ citizens in public and
private"
There were a number of other burn
ing addresses along the same lines,
Dinny Fox. H. German and Larry. Dee
taking an active part. Prominent
among the 1aborers We're Dick Sullivan
Jack McFadden and Spider WEIGH. it
being suggested that Sullivan take up
the collection as being the one who
could probably collect the most.
Larry Dee said that the club was
just the proper thing. White men,
among whom he included the Hawai-
ians and all other citizens, should stick
together. Blood was thicker than wa
ter He had been in business for years
and had never seen the town so quiet
as it was just now. It was getting
so that white man couldn't run a
saloon any more because the yellow
men had taken the business. Any citi-
gen who refused to sign the clubs roll
was unworthy of the proud privilege |
Of being an American citizen. |
H. German wanted to know where all
the Hawaiians and Portuguese We're. 1t I
was for them as well as the Ameri- |
cans that the club was formed. /
The only Hawaiian present suggested /
that there had been no notice in the |
Hawaiian papers, and it was thereupon
to give notice of the next
meeting in the native and Portuguese
press.
r. Wagner wanted to call the atten-
ton of the club to the fact that E. P.
Low, of Hilo was a candidate there
and was employing Japanese here. He
thought that the HiIo voters ought to
Know.
1t was resolved to wait until after
he conventions and then pick out the
candidates they wanted and endorse
hem. Someone in the back asked what
party they were going to pick their
.andidates out of. He just wanted to
Know, but no attention was paid tol
he question.
The only avowed candidate present
vas Jim Quinn, who avowed repentancel
or having any OrientaIs in his en-
10Y. Whereupon the club volunteered
O fill their places with citizens. an
ffer which Mr. Quinn protested his de-
light at at the same time warning
AIRY Dee not to employ any nlorei
a Qanese himself.
Another meeting of the club viii bel
eId next week.