The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-09-14

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MY Dear John:
Down on the Fort street corner
where they talk politics, think have
seen you there sometimes, they tell me
that you are opposed to the immigra-
ton policy of Hawaii, to the Immigra-
ton Board, and that you don't want
any more foreigners coming here.
I said I didn't believe it, not word
of it, that you had more sense, that
you wanted to see your country pro-
gress instead of going backward. But
the corner insists that you talked
against immigration at Wailuku, so !
thought would write and tell you why
you are on the wrong tack because ]
hate to see one of my political sons
going astray, especially one like your
self who has come to the front and
given promise of doing good for your
country and your fellow citizens.
I know you are not fool, John, but
you certainly would be if you tried to
do yourself out of job. And that is
one of the first things that would hap
pen If no more immigrants were al
lowed to come here. Somebody must
have been giving you some bum talk
about the planters. Cut it out, John.
You might hurt them by stopping i'm
migration but they can stand it. They
have money and can retire if they want
to, living comfortably on their private
incomes. But how about yourself,
John?
THE SUGAR AND CoBWEB IN
DUSTRIES.
Did you ever stop to think that the
Inter Island Steam Navigation Com
pany would be one of the first to suffer
and one of the biggest sufferers when
the labor supply was cut off? Lock
the doors of the mills and turn them
over to the spider industry for max
ing cobwebs, and how much freight
would there be for the inter Island
steamersY How much sugar would
there be coming to Honolulu? How
much merchandise would there be and
how many passengers would there be
going to the plantations? How much
work would there be for the clerks in
the Inter Island office? You have been
a trusted, honored and valued employee
there, John, for many years, so why do
you want to knock the business? How
long do you think the steamers would
keep running, and how many of them,
with crops of weeds and lantana grow
ing where the cane now flourishes? One
clerk could probably do the whole bust
ness for many years, until crops Of
rubber, sisal, pineapples, vanilla and
other things were raised in large
enough quantities to supply freight
)nce month, or once in three months,
for steamer trip. And even these
crops would need some labor. Do you
think you would be lucky enough to
Keep the only clerks job in the Office,
while the cobweb industry was busy in
The space unoccupied by your lonely
lesk?
HOW ABOUT TIE STEVEDoRES?
Have you thought about the Hawai-
an stevedores, John, and what they |
will do when you stop immigration and |
lose the mills? You are political
eader and look to the stevedores to |
'ote for and elect your candidates. |
What fools they would be to do SO! |
Tote for men who are trying to do
hem out of their jobs. Nit! OF
curse they could sit along the wharves
nd try to catch fish, for there would |
10 no steamers at the docks coming |
ere to take freight for San Francisco,
lew York or Philadelphia. Once In
while we might get load of tour
SITS, but the stevedores cannot load
hem aboard or discharge them as they
o sugar. And the tourists would soon
top coming here II We had nothing
D show them but grass-grown streets
nd moss-grown statesmen. Just figure
p, John, how many stevedores' votes
on can get to elect your candidates to
he legislature to stop the prosperity
( your native country. How many of
le wives and children of the steve
ores would you care to meet every
ay when they knew that their hus-
ands and fathers were out of work,
,at food was mighty scarce at home,
rat they were likely TO be turned out
ito the street because their rent had
ot been paid, and all because of some
amphool policy that you had advo-
lted7
FIGHTING AGAINST WASHING
TON.