Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-31

compel them to at once discontinue
Il cir higher wages to Caucasian lab
CTers. The closing down of many plan
tations will at once produce a surplus
of labor and tend to lower the mini
mEm wage; the inevitable result will
be that the plantations in their strug-
gle to continue as going concerns will
be forced TO employ the oriental at de-
I Ginning wages, and that citizens and
Caucasian labor will be forced to leave
the country to find profitable employ
ment.
1t is a fixed economic law that I'M
Ger sharp competition a cheaper form
CT labor will always crowd out that
which has higher standard of living.
| In Hawaii we have been taxing the
sugar industry to counteract that law
and to purposely reverse it by placing
Caucasian labor in place of the orien-
tai and in addition to being taxed to
bring them in the planters have volun-
tGrily paid a higher wage 10 Causa
San laborers
The effect Of this law, if enacted,
will be to stop the process of Ameri-
caniZation and to force a consi 1eraEle
part Of the white population now in
hawaii to leave the islands. 1t will
result in having whatever is left of
Cur agricultural industries turned over
almost exclusively to oriental labore-s
they being the only form of labor that
can compete in free sugar production,
even on our best plantations.
The destruction of the larger of our
sugar industry will work direct hard
ship on our native Hawaiian .Peol.:e.
Il will take away the employment Of
native Hawaiians, whose labor as
slevedores, boatmen, railway and
plantation employees is based directly
of chiefly on the sugar industry. 1t
will greatly lessen and in some cases
wholly destroy the value Of plantation
shares held by school-teachers,s clerks.
mechanics, and all classes OF citizens
IN Hawaii, representing in many cases
their entire savings. To every ciaSS
that goes to make up the citizenship
of Hawaii this bill would Toaa the
less of their means OF earning living
fer themselves and families. go
To our Territorial government
would mean a. tremendous shrinkag1
in tax receipts and would make il nee |
essarp to abandon the building Of new
roads, wharves, bridges, schoolhouses
and other public works that are .
vital to the development o.
those islands. ..-> Is <@
The liaH1Iiau Stands were nof &C.
cured to this county - either ur-
hpFantp 1
Territory of the TaIssd states by
treaty between two independent ma
tons: and ttwas both reDresented
and understood by all concerned that
the welfare of the Hawaiian beopie |
would be protected by this Nation.
IL Cpugres were passing a bill TO |
abolish duties in the United States on
all commodities Hawaii woald pct
we'll protest, even though she Would
Rave to bear IN undue proportion OF |
the burden of change. But 1t Is
crave question as to whether 1t will not
in effect amount to breach OF gooa
faith on the part of the Government |
coward y separate people who. yolun' !
tarily merged their Governments in TINS
"a bring Industrial dit aster to that IS
and community by singing out THIS
me great commodity for transfer to
.he free list while continuing many I
,ther staples and many necessities Oh
;fe on the dutiabie list. x ="
do not question the right OF Con-
yress to readjust the fiscal system a
he Government. ask only that In
aking such a reimbursement due con-
liberation be given to sources OF rev.
,n1;e and to the proper rights and !
claims of all Territories, States, ana
that go to make up the
Nation. Il
Respectfully submitted. i
J.. KALANIANAOLE,
Delegate from Hawaii.