The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-05-19
KENT TAKES WHACE
At SUGAR PLANTERS
CALLS HAWAII COUNTRY OF
CORPORATION AND YBL-
Low MEN.

Congressman Kent OF california bC-
came exceedingly facetious in his
maiden speech on the floor Of the house,
in which speech he took occasion to
ISLAM the trusts, 4" and also take a
side swipe at Hawaii and it's leading
industry. He said in part:
ANYONE who has lived on the Paci-
flo Coast can not fail to entertain pro.
found respect for the self-helping abil.
ity of the Japanese. They are the
most remarkable self-helpers in all the
world, and no one need ever again in
vite them to help themselves. Some
two years ago, in the Islands of Ha-
wall, Just at a time when the cane
grinding season was at hand, the Japa-
nese engaged in that industry unsin-
imously struck They did not appear
TO be satisfied with their wages nor
disposed to recognize the contract they
had made with the planters, which pro-
cedure was not entirely original on
their part. In the course of the dis
pute they wrote a series of resolutions
to the planters to the effect "that It
was the duty of the planters, in ac-
cordance with the true American prin-
ciple of protection, TO get an increase
in the sugar duty and thereby raise the
value of sugar, and then out of the
added profit they should divide with the
laborers." Strange that this simple and
excellent and wholly American plan
was not at once adopted. daughter.
"Let us consider some more phases
of Hawaiian sugar. The BUSINESS was
built up first under subsidy and then
under n protective tariff. The sugar
land is nearly all of it in the hands
of the great corporations These cor
porations are paying large dividends on
inflated values This is the upper crust
of the pie. Next there comes filing
of upward of 100000 tons of sugar, for
which, together with all other sugar,
imported and domestic, the American
people are paying heavy taxes The
lower crust consists of oriental labor.
The yellow man is everywhere displac-
ing the white man, even in the skilled
occupations. The white man of small
/ means haslittle or no chance to in
habit the Paradise of the Pacific 1t
is today a country of corporations and
yellow men. The white men are so
greatly outnumbered that there seems
danger that the pie may be turned over,
to the obvious benefit of the under
crust, but to the destruction of The
upper crust. To prevent such an UNI
fortunate occurrence and to protect the
] protected sugar industry we are taxed
I for an increase in our Navy. To pro-
tect the Navy, which must protect the
protected-sugar industry, we must be
taxed to fortify Pearl Harbor. To
protect Pearl Harbor, to protect the
Navy. to protect the protected-su
industry, we must keep near Pearl
Harbor a considerable army of men
and these must be supported out OF
public taxation.
"This is am illustration of the
American doctrine and the American
consumer can realize as he pays his
grocery bills that he is not only pa
triotically encouraging an American in
dustry for the benefit of corporations
and yellow labor, but that he is en-
couraging an indefinite increase in oul
Navy and probable increase in ouI
Army always with the possibility tina
the Navy and the Army aforesaid MAJ
have to be actively used to furthe,
protect the protected sugar industry
with all the waste of life and of prop
erty incident to war. and at a very
rough estimate with four hundred ant
eighteen thousand millions of dollar
of pensions TO pay in the years t,
come. Laughter. ~