The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-06-22

pensaDlei far more so than In the In
dustries In the states which do not
come into competition with cheap la
Dor of Asiatic countries. In the Unit
ed States the tariff was created large
~ to head of competition with the
European labor market, but that COM
petition is Heaven alongside of the
competition that Hawaii would have
to meet In raising products in direct
competition with Asiatic countries
where they have labor and a vast sup
ply of 1t, which can be had at a wage
upon which our people cannot even
exist If states like Ohio. New York
and Pennsylvania need protection in
such industries as the iron industry
against European labor, what do you
suppose Hawaii will need in the way
of protection in carrying on agricul-
tural industries where the competition
is net with white men, but with Asia
tic labor. where competition is i'm
possible?
1 am Democrat, but figures cam
not lie In this matter. l believe that
one white man can compete with an
other white man living practically un-
der the same Industrial system and
tIt Sdilt ClNlllZdtlOIl, Dut Wnen IL
comes to white men against Asiatics,
or any man, white or dark, who lives
as an American and wants to live as an
American, there has to be protection
of some kind or 1t cannot be done.
! And it is for that reason that was
strongly opposed to this Philippine
free trade bill II they want to make
the Philippines territory and SUBJ
I ,ect them to the conditions to which
Hawaii is subjected, then they have
the privilege of free trade and protec-
tim. too. But, as I understand it,
Hawaii is expected to be American
through and through. She is to give
up Asiatic cheap labor and create
scale of wages here and conditions
that will permit people living as
Americans should. to come in here;
and that means that we have got to
have the benefit of the American in
dustrial institutions to meet the de-
mand put upon us by the very fact
that we were annexed.
| 5.-I believe our land laws are we'll
suited to the advancement of Ameri-
cans in the Territory. 1t would be alb
surd to attempt to extend the land
laws of the United States to Hawaii
| If you want to vest all the land left
in the sugar plantations and other
corporations, the surest and quickest
| way to do 1t is to extend the Ameri-
can land laws here whereby people
can go in and get patent to their lands
and sell out to the plantations at a
figure that will make it pay the stool
pigeon to take a hand. One cannot
read our land laws without being inn
pressed with the idea that they are
drawn honestly and squarely to pre-
serve the small settler. If there is any
hope or chance to do it.
6.-The Japanese certainly do take
kindly to American ideas. They are
great people; great enough to alb
sorb Hawaii in spite of annexation,
unless the United States keeps her
eyes open. and very wide open. This |
Is said without disparaging the Japa-
nese; they are doing simply what our
race has done from time immemorial. |
l don't think the Japanese intend to |
be the pupils of America; they intend |
to be her rival. japan is her rival to-
day, and will become more of rival |
every day
IL think the sugar plantation in
terests are favorable to homestead |
European labor, in the sense that they
are coming to see that 1t is inevitable
that they must do something They
would not be human II they did not
like the cheap Asiatic labor; they cost
little, having few requirements, and
having the intelligence of white labor.
Why should not they banker for 1t or
any other fieshpots? But they are
learning more and more clearly, as
time goes on, that the islands We're
annexed to make them American, and
they have got to be American or they
can not remain part of the United
States. And If the sugar plantations
are going to hopelessly block the
Americanizing of the islands, then it
is the plaRtations that have to go, and
under these circumstances many in
telligent plantation men are honestly
aiding the plan to get European labor.
They may not all be as liberal as they
might be; it is matter of education:
they are developing, and l believe the I
tendency is towards widening of their
of the necessity of getting
into line with the sentiments on the
mainland.
S.-This is answered by what / have
already said.
81 believe it is sheer nonsense to ,
talk of getting Americans OF Anglo !
Saxon descent to work on sugar plan ,
tation as laborers: but there is no -,
reason why the Latin can not be as 9
simulated here. and there is no reason :
why he can not work on the planta-
ions The answer on that point is
hat he has come here; there is a
colony of eighteen or nineteen thou
sand Portuguese in this country who /,
owe the country. who have made the !,
vest possible labor on the planta- a
ions In all branches. and who have
argely drifted away from the plan =
ations simply because OF the influx
II Japanese labor here, which, for .
while. worked for very cheap wages. !,
md under that pressure the Portu- .
Iuese have naturally drifted TO the A
tiles though a great many still re- ),
main on the plantations, generally at n
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