The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-01-25
LABOR MEN TALK
Of JAPANESE
ADDRESSES DELIVER
ED BEFORE STATE COUNCIL AT
SANTA CRUZ.

Asiatic problem occupied the entire
day before the seventh annual conven-
ton of the State Building Trades
Council Addresses on the Asiatic ex-
clusion question were made by A. e.
Yoell, secretary OF the State Asiatic
| Exclusion League. Gorge b. Benham,
chairman of the committee on public
|ity and statistics of the Asiatic Elk
| clusion League; President p. II. Nc
Carthy and Secretary Tveitmore.
| Yoell submitted q resolution request
! ing Congress to exclude all Asiatic
| immigrants
| G. b. Benham described the exist
| ing trade conditions in the Pacific,
showing how America and Japan are
| facing each other in the great battle
| for supremacy. He dwelt on the pro-
gress Japan is making in the CONNER
| cial world, showing how strongly the
| Government stands behind all indus
| trial enterprises, ready to take over
and industry which will be a source
| of revenue.
! He called attention to the fact that
! Japan, during the late war with Rus
Isia, left nothing unprovided for. while
our legislators at Washington Ben
ham continued, ARE splitting hairs in
order to avoid giving us the necessary
laws for our preservation, japan is do
/ ing business at the old stand with
| new and improved stock of war goods
! To prepare for war business her peo-
| pie are staggering under enormous
taxation. She is attempting to float
! loans in every country. One loan of
$1,000 100000 is reported as being ne
gotiated with France. Japan is build
! ing war ships which compare with
any which float the ocean; shipbuilj-
ing and repair works have been work
ing day and night with double shifts
of men; new torpedo factories, ship
yards and coaling stations are being
rapidly established. Five new factor
les for the production of small arms
are now employing over 10000 men;
gun factories are being enlarged;
powder factories are busy; the manu-
lacture of high explosives is being ra-
pidly advanced, both by experimental
work and by actual production.
Great contracts have been lei to
European gun manufacturers; 100
twelve-inch guns have been ordered
from Krupp at Essen for the Japanese
war ships of the Dreadnaught class.
Naval stations are being located and
equipped in China, whose men are be-
ing drilled by Japanese military eX-
perts. Japan is spending money to
educate and attach to herself tens of
thousands of Chinese youths Ii is
estimated that there are upward of
e 10000 of them undergoing scientific
and military education in Japan,
while many times that number are
being educated in China
'All this means Asiatic solidarity
when the time comes to commence
warlike operations The work of pre-
paratiOn is methOdical and progress
i've; the plan which is being worked
out in every detail is to organize ev-
cry province in China. reliable es-
innate last year gave 100000 as the
number of Chinese under military
i training by the Japanese and when
D each province in China has given its
D quota during the year 1908, it will
4 mean that there will be a trained ar.
D my of 100000 men under Japanese
D influence in China alone"
Y Benham quoted Rev. Hiram Vroo-
, man to Portland as saying that in
, case of trouble there We're now Jap,
anese spies enough in the United
States to blow up all the Government
= magazines"
1 Benham explained the objects of the
D Asiatic Exclusion League and appeal
D ed for more financial aid in sending
a out speakers, literature and holding
a mass meetings
D Secretary TVeitmoe submitted re
= solution calling upon Congress to pro
= vide more Dattle-ships of modern con,
struction, more perfect Notifications
: for the Pacific Coast, a refuge harbor
with proper breakwater in Monterey
bay and a completely equipped naval
a base in San Francisco harbor.
D The convention received greetings
0 from the Structural Buildings Trades
a Alliance and invitations to meet next
D in Monterey and Santa Rosa
, A banquet was given in Armory
. Hall in honor of the delegates by the
local council in the evening