The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-03

and 5000 miles more to the eastern
shores Of our country, finds this dis
lance an almost insurmountable obsta-
Gle in obtaining help from European
sources.
Those who are we'll versed in the sit
uation at Hawaii are of the opinion
that it would not be difficult to adjust
the laws so as to allow Chinese immi-
grafton under such restrictions that it
would not in any wise injure the inter
ests of the people on the coast or in the
country, or even the friends of thu la
Dor unions in the United States.
The people who constitute the labor
unions will not go to Hawaii to work
on the plantations, and it almost seems
like the fable of the dog in the man
ger to hear unions 50 determinedly OPP
posed to the Introduction of labor into
an American territory that would be
productive of great good, not only to
the planters, but to the people of the
United States at large.
1t is probably well known to most
of your realers that the Chinese re-
striction law was passed largely at the
instigation of the sand lot dema-
gogue," Dennis Kearney, and once on
the statute books it has remained there
by the influence of the labor unions.
1t does seem strange to some of us
that every other nationality under the
heavens can have its inhabitants well
coined here but to the quiet, honest
workman from China this is denied.
The objection is often made that the
n nrIc
it back to China, but what can be said
to the fact that $2,OOO,OO0 more or less,
in a year is taken away in the outgoing
steamers bound for the old country?
1t would seem almost to be adding in
suit to injury to prevent the incoming
of the japanese and Koreans, whom
the planters had been forced to bring
in to substitute for the Chinese.
You make reference in your article to
the amount of value of the products
imported to the United States and the
amount of exports, showing the bal
ance in favor of the Hawaiian plant
ers.
It should be known that a very large
percentage of the profit accruing to the
planters is expended in improvements
on the plantations, largely by importa'
tions from the United States Any eX-
cess finds its way to the United States
for investment, and in this respec
there is no difference between the cap
ital of the Hawaiian or Louisiana
planter.
Chapter 9, page 1875, Treaty of Leg
islation. From the speech of Senator
Hoar: I believe that everything in the
way of Chinese legislation can be ac'
complished by reasonable, practicable
and wise measures which will not in
volve the principle of striking at labor
Page 1923: It is not by injustice, eX'
, clusion, caste, but by reverence for the
individual souls, that We can aid II
the rescue of humanity. It is not by
Chinese policies that China is to bt
civilized. 1 believe the immortal trutl
of the Declaration of independence
came from the same source with the
Golden Rule and the Sermon on The
Mount. We can trust Him who prompt
ed these laws to keep the country safe
that Obeys them.
LAS surely as the path on which oul
fathers entered a hundred years age
led to safety, to strength, to glory, 81
will the path on which 1T is pro-
posed to enter bring us to shame, to
weakness to peril"
GORHAM D. GILMAN.
Boston, December IA, 1905,