The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-31
JAPANESE APPEAL
Continued from Page One).

anese government not having consent
ed to such an abridgment of this right.
The Japanese in Hawaii should not
be punished for any wrongs their coun-
trymen may have committed in Amer
lea If the Japanese there have dis
turbed the labor conditions that is no
reason why the observation-disclosures
should be condemned to exile, and de-
prived of their liberty of locomotion.
1T strikes us as q dream to see such
a multitude of people,-60. COCOON
demned to exile, to virtual imprison-
ment in the little specks of islands in
the midst of the Pacific government
which has waged the greatest war in
the annals of mankind to emancipate
millions of slaves.
| If the presence of Japanese in San
Francisco creates disturbances there it
is up to the police and authorities to
put down the disorders, not keep out
the japanese and deprive them of their
legal rights.
| The japanese in Hawaii are at the
mercy of the planters, their virtual
| slaves. If their right to move be taken
away the wage scale will go down. If
the restriction be removed it will go
up and a, class of middle citizens will
| be established, thus bringing about the
condition desired by the President. To
keep down the japanese in Hawaii
will take away from Hawaii ''the only
possible opportunity Of her ever be-
coming a real American community
with a strong, independent middle
class" because "the importation into
Hawaii of white population in such a
number as to build up community
of two or three hundred thousand is too
expensive an undertaking for even so
rich a community as Hawaii and, for
ever, history of Hawaii has proved that
such attempt is failure
A warning against the abridgement
of the rights of states is given, for if
the residents of Hawaii cannot go to
another part of the country, the people
of a state can be shut in and
it could prohibit the citizens OF one
state from going to another in search
of better wages better market, or bet
ter opportunity of success, by insertjng
similar and apparently innocent
clause in the law governing the inter- |
state commerce. This would prove ~ |
be a powerful weapon in the hand &C |
the plutocracy to detroy the powers |
of labor or vice versa as 1he case
may be. As the struggle of capital ard |
labor grows fiercer every year, this |
precedence would in the hands of some |
future Caesar or Napoleon, represent
ing either of these classes, prove /
to be a terrible pretext for usur- !
patton of powers and the oppression of |
people. The future of the Republic it
self, we beg to venture to say, demand /
the rescission of precedent fraught
with so potent possibility.
ITO sum it up. the executive order
the Hawaiian Japanese to /
remove their residence to the States, /
issued in pursuance of the new immi-
grafton law, is impolitic in that it es-
dangerous precedent in the /
Republics future. and in that it dis
turbs the Japanese-American interra-
tional relation by injuring the feelings |
of the two people; it infringes the 4
existing treaty between Japan and
America, it is unconstitutional and
also in that it deprives SO, 900 Japanese
of Hawaii of their liberty without: due
process of law; it deprives Hawaii of /
only possible opportunity of becoming
Americanized with a strong community
of middle class; and, lastly, the un-
dersigned have the honor to respect
fully represent, Mr.. President, that it Il
is 1nhuman, it is cruel, for it deprives
tens of thousands of men of their lib
erty to go where they please in search
of happiness, in search of opportunities
to better their lots and their condi-
tons"