Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-03-28
Oriental immigration

IL the Hawaiian islands had not
been annexed, but had been permitted
10 remain under the local government
which was protected and whose in
dependence was virtually guaranteed
by The United States, the ouestion or
Japanese coolie immigi ION into the
United States would not have become
SO acute. In annexing Hawaii. how.
ever, our government lost its powe,
TO regulate immigration from the is.
ands TO this country. Whoever
reaches Hawaii can come To the
mainland. and it is from Hawaii that
Japanese laborers go to California
at The present rate of nearly 1000 a
month
Ihere Is no immigration of Japan.
csc coolies into the Philippines he.
cause in the Philippines there is no
demand for their entry into the Amer
lean market; the Philippines are not
prosperous enough to keep the ma
yves well employed. But in annex-
ing Hawaii free trade was established
AS it must be in the case of tho
phiiippines ultimately, If they are to
De permanently retained-and thus
the hawaiian sugar industry was Civ
en- an exceptional position. But Ha.
wall mas never been able TO furnish
its own field labor. Before annexa.
ton the planters imported Chinese
under contract, and since annexation.
the chinese exclusion law of the
United States applying to them they
nave welcomed with open arms thou.
sands of Japanese. That the Japan.
csc iaborers should go to Hawaii, un
der these circumstances was newt
able. Wages were high in the
sugar plantations, compared with
wages In Japan, and the planters
nave regarded as Indispensable 70
.ne prosperity of the islands this or.
rental stream of labor. 1t is prob.
ably true Tat in cutting off this sup.
ply, the government would strike a
severe low to Hawaiian sugar in
uustry, at least for the time being
The Japanese laborer reaches Ha-
wall in response to the insular de.
mand, only to discover very soon that
nothing prevents his migration u,
america, where he can easily earn
sun higher wages The econom,,
law works as simply and directly "a
the multiplication table, 1t is motor.
ious that there has been a chronic
shortage of crude labor on the Pacific
coast. there have not been enonrh
white men there, either in the states
Or In British Columbia, TO do the
work waiting to be done. Since the
destruction OF San francisco of course
the shortage of labor has been in
tensiiied, and direct result of this
state of affairs, it is understood. has
peen the active recruiting of lana.
ese Hawaiia for industries in Can.
aorhla by agents from the mainland
hey go TO Hawaii, advertise In the
honolulu papers, offer higher wages
ana even advance the passage money
needed for the journey. After reaching
the coast, they are employed ON the
railroads, in the fruit orchards and
on The beet sugar plantations. As tho
I aci1c coast tends in this manner tn
drain Hawaii, so Hawaii makes gooa
the loss by importing more from
japan. In annexing the archipelago.
our government made it stepping
stone for an oriental movement 10
America, although the annexationists
on this side Of the ocean could see in
the Islands nothing but an outpost
ior the United States in the direction
| of Asia.
The great economic fact which the
white race confronts is that race,
failure to furnish the labor necessary
LOT the exploitation on that part OF
the earth's surface which It controls
1t is not wholly question of the O..
ientais ability to work more cheaply
tnan the white workman, nor of the
orientals rapid advance in the arts of
modern industry and his appearance
as a competitor that we face. Along.
Side these conditions Is the undoubt.
ed circumstance that the white race
cannot do its own work, II not from
sheer lack OF numbers, at least from
the proper distribution Of white pop.
uiauon Even before the great eco.
nomic Inventions, which introduced
machinery and rapid transit through.
out the inhabitable world, tie white
race failed to perform all the labor
which accompanied its exploitation
Tor the earth. A large section OF our
own country was economically deyei.
oped by the labor of negroes forcibIv
brought from andther Africa and the
building Of the transcontinental rail.
roads was largely accomplished bv
C--inese coolies. Since the extraor.
binary expansion of modern industry
under the stimulus of steam and cleo
tricity, tne economic opportunities OF
tfs white race have still farther ont.
stripped its inherent capacity for
crude labor not merely in warm eli.
mates but In the zones peculiarly its
own. how true this is, not merely
In america, ut in Europe, has been
SHOWN strikingly within recent
months by tho stIevestf<,v, tv nn~r,.. .