The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-03
AN UNNECESSARY AND UNRIGHTEOUs ALTERNATIVE

Both the Republican party and sugar have to cry
against in the house of their protested friends M
coing to the morning paper immigration policy which the
Republican campaign saked bluff so far as getting European
The agents Of the planters the Philippines to-
day, and concentrating all their work the FhPp says
All their work" Then Agent Campbell of the board of mm
grafton body supported by the special income tax must DE
Europe only pleasure trip instead Of working to recruit white
Yesterday the Advertiser flooding Hawaii with Fill
pnos Rcans contingent to the Republican
immigration policy construed by The Star threat
which react iuiousy the Republican campaign In no
circumstances will the introduction of hordes of Fhpnos ana OF
Porto Rcansn great proportion lazy and
What the morning said yesterday was tins; Al
present the agents the paners are in the philippines with
the expressed intention of sending twenty thousand FnoS TO "
wa they able to and forced to get that many
"And forced it meant anything slgnhed threat tha
if right the planters would nh great wrong
upon the This entued to suggest that the declared
unnecessary but unrghteous 1t is of the
opinion still The Star opposed to any policy that will make
the these islands unsafe for and children or peace
1t approve of bringing into the
country the classes that longest the sums and crowd the
Yesterday infection of tens of thousands
of Fpno upon the country contingent on political accident To-
day represents the planters as concentrating all their work for
it makes difference Hawaii which the election 1t is
in for flood of Philippine cheap labor anyway
Happily there grounds believing that the Advertiser
than does the policy of the Republican party The labor problem
of the planters in transition state Ever since annexation has
been endng toward Identification with the American policy of
Ting upon the land people, either citizens those eligible for citizen
ship, who will cultivate well other crops 1t will
require time to bring such policy forward to its ultimate triumph
but the most oIesghed planters are now seeing that must be the
final solution of the labor question Not necessarily that cheap and
ndess labor will not always at least for great be
themselves will employ such labor But there will be back
bone of industrious citizenship the industry which Will
it safely through leader of the planting interest
public
corporations in the settling growing with
independent cultvatO the that the settlers
would be half way arrangements for having their
into
While, therefore, the Republican immigration policy is in
with the advice of the President Mckinley
waan Islands should be developed American lines there
justification for apprehension that the planters will peevsy
methods nmica to civilization should the prospects
immigration be eoparded by any misguided verdict
Tuesday As pointed out by this yesterday all will be
through temporary setback But the sole alternative
of existing plans deugng of the Territory with undesirable
miScievOus
likely to rrae the intelligent and Independent citizen the preu
dice of the Republican Worse still the
this morning which place the sugar interest position
ing all its efforts to introduce labor supply regardless of the
decision of the such will Obvae
immigration.