The Democrat. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1910-1910, 1910-10-25

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ren. And those he did get were by no
means of as good quality as the Port
uguese who came years ago.
Now Campbell is on another and sim
liar mission to the Azores and Madeira
and, according to reports received from
him, he has made another fizzle of it.
His last lot of immigrants cost the Ter
ritory more than 100000. Nobody
knows what this fasco will cost.
A. l.. G.. Atkinson and A. Perelstrous
went to Manchuria and picked an ILL
assorted, lazy and more or less lawless
crowd Of Russians who, when they got
to Hawaii, promptly announced that
they didn't want to work and if they
did, wouldn't work for the miserable
wage paid by the plantations. 1t cost
an immense sum to bring them to Ha
waii-and what did Hawaii get out of
it? A few Of them are now at work on
the plantations. after months of quar-
reling, pickering and loaang; some are
in jail; very large number, having
had their passage paid as far as Hawaii,
have gone on to California-and many
are still loafing in the filth dirt and
disease of Iwilei. Those who have gone
to work have for the most part taken
the places of Hawaiians. And the ad-
vocates of further assisted immigration
have the face to try to tell us that this
has increased wages in Hawaii and
thereby bettered the condition of the
Hawaiians
The planters, the Republican orators
and the Advertiser openly threaten
the voters that if they don't allow them
to go ahead with their selfish, unjust
and entirely false scheme of importing
foreigners to take the work away from
the Hawaiians, they will bring in Fill
pinos and Porto Ricans.
No doubt they will try it, but they
will not keep it up long. If they do
try it, it will inevitably lead to a Con-
gressional investigation of their acts
in the past and their intentions of the
future-and if there is anything that
Republican bosses and sugar planters
fear more than something else, it is for
Congress to find out what has been 60
ing on in these islands the past few
years.
But Congress is going to find it out,
anyway, and whenever it is understood
on the mainland that Hawaii, acting un-
der special dispensation from certain
Republican leaders at Washington, has
been in effect violating the contract Ia
Dor laws and filing the islands up with
foreign paupers and worse, something
will drop-and the assisted -immigra-
tionists are quite liable to look around
and discover it is they
But now the question is up to the
voters. Are they going to permit the
special interests any longer to sacrifice
the welfare of the Territory, the good
of the citizens, to their own greed, or
are they going to say to those who are
robbing them to their rights Stop
you have gone far enough? There is la.
Dor here in plenty if you will pay us q
living wage. You shall bring in nc
more assisted immigrants.
Vote the Democratic ticket on Nov
ember s and protect your rights.
Someone ought to take Judge Stan
ley to one side and kindly but firmly
impress upon him that the flag of thu
United States is the flag of the people
of the United States, not the flag of any
particular party. That enforced citi
zenship which the judge seems so mucl
to regret does not appear to hav'
brought with it to him proper under
standing of American ideas and ideals
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So Bob Shingle does not belong t.