The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-06-25
A FRISCO VIEW OF THE STRIKE.

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The daily Recorder San Francisco commercial and law journal
published on June interesting editorial the Japanese strike
here Though the article based an exaggerated
idea of some features of the strike Hawaii the line of argument is
tor many reasons very interesting here:
From Honolulu That evidence concerted move
n on the part of the japanese the Hawaiian group to dominate
the sugar industry through control of the and thereby
influence legislation and dominate the Of the islands
has been unearthed there
at claimed the strike Of the Japanese ore in the sugar
plantations for increased wages which progress for over
month is part of widespread conspiracy affairs
from the white residents them manner
more IN keeping with Japanese ideas This the Japanese according
papers seized by the authorities search issued
OF the conspiracy proceedings hope accomplish through their control
OF the labor market which governs industry
dominates the island government
This but another evidence of the japanese method acquiring
territory dominating region The Mkados government
standing its otepeaed dena the Hawaiian group
order to it. the japanese resident there will first render the
islands unnhabbe by whites by destroying the chief industry and
when that has been accomplished they will they have done else
where take possession Of the land and eesab industry under
Japanese management This will be the the Japanese
excluded 'front.' islands
"The methods Of the Japanese well known California
ea of the States fertile regions dominated by subjects
of the Mkado who have literally forced the white people leave
through the inability of latter compete the
Zap proceeds by Secretary w A. of California
Board Of Charities and Correction the national conference of
Charities and Corrections Buffalo n v who thus explained the
situation:
the Oriental arrives he must find work and TO get
will underbid all others Even then highest wage he
ever earns He cooks his simple food rolls himself up
blanket at night and lives less than $50 gets
employment first in the lowest fields labor works long hours
and does fair work By this he enrences himself in
this line of work Then he strikes exclude white men,
after which higher wages demanded The step
demand the management of the business Japanese capital
making investments and especially buying farm lands
"If this continues, in time the Oriental will the best
farm lands and crowd completely the white farmer The
white population protests against driving the white
the farm heretofore the nurture field of the best Amer
manhood
white long compete such system a case
OF survival and the Japanese be excluded his coming closely
ected this Pacific Coast the most valuable of national ter
rtory preserved white mans land The Oriental has
He axe
and send back the Orient The Chinese immigration began with
the discovery of gold increased steadily until restricted by the
cson of 1892 Then the Japanese began coming and from 1900
0o8 100000 of the Mados subjects admitted There
this country $4,000 Orena IS per of whom the
Pacific and the Hawaiian Islands
Oriental immigrant Chinese Japanese rue
without He has in the past sent
what he earned oe Orient having been sent
there in the last thirty years.
Nov there is change The Japanese investing money
BY working nothing crowds the white aborer then
av possession of labor compes the payment more
wages than the land affords the land and works him
self finally haXing driven out the white man ne buys the land
And wherever the Japanese have secured control Of large land areas
that land Japanese territory the owners OF which recognize allegiance
o government but that of the Mkado l
Can this government afford tolerate such condition of affairs
very we'll argue that the Japanese few but this
only beginning They will not stop at small things it is not the Jap
way and time unless something is done they will seek to dom
mate today they sfek control affairs in Hawaii such
conoues are boo price tremendous Mr. Gates query
in closing his puts the question and the remedy plainly
Can the white build home, for wife and chill
dren perform duties of American citizen and compete
his daily bread with this weess, chldless, duye yell
low man?
THE white and the yellow races have now met OH the Pa
and the contest for supremacy has commenced What
will tell We certain, however,
that our duty lies in preserving those ideals of this Christian
civilization which foundation of this republic
do this the Oriental immigrant be denied admission
to these shores
These not the words of demagogue but of familiar with
the conditions here and the possible result 1t well to consider
them carefully"
THE LESSON: KEEP OUT ORIENTALS.