Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 11, 13 January 1894 — Plantation Labor. [ARTICLE]

Plantation Labor.

llie “Advertiser is now hooio- j ing a sohemo of flooding tbe countrv with the Chinese as labor- ; ers. lhat was of course \vbat eouhl be exj>ected from the organ j of the faraily cotnpact. The eheek | | whieh Asiatic iramigrHtion receivod in 1890 from the National Re form Party had to be swallow ed by j the mtssiouary clique, but they | have constantly been nsing tbeir braius to devise meaus whieh i again would euable thcm to run | their sugar plantations on starvation rates for their Iuborers and assist them in running out of: the country every white meehanie , and bread earner who neither would, nor conld, snbmit to the rates of living—or rather dying whieh competition with ' tho Cbiuese eheap Ubor wonld brii:g about The Advertiser praU-s about i tho fre« h*bor whieh Hawaiij

1 i I eouUl obtain if the Amer: -sn fl-»g | wsved from Hawaii lo J»iihau. XoEsense neighbor. you don t ! wint free Iabor in H»w*iinei. who will *lare eome forw«rd aud ; tell us that the fieid-labor on our sugar plauialion is fit for men of I the Anglo Saxon raoe? Wllo dares | to propose to otfer to free Americans the ehanee to Slare under our ! hroiling son and perform thework • i u-’i.ieh is done b» 'Cbinese, wbose J 1 nati.re and constitntions adapt | them for it aad to whom the 1 stern and hanl necessity of euteri iug from their birth, the battle. in whieh the fittest survives, is tbe i bard aud unmercifnl taskraaster ; and trainer? Tbe Advertiser tells ns that in two years 9000 Jap- ) anese Iabor eontracts will expire ' and it ho{->es that many of the free»I luborers will re-coutract. That shows better than anything eise the desire on the part ol the Keforra party arul the sngar planters to hnve free Iabor iu , Hawaii nei. We hope that even - Japanese whose contract expires will retnain a free mao and work <>u the best terms obtainable either by the day or month and become good and nsefal citizens of our couutrv. Bv saving aiui frugal living, natural to their bringing np, and j cnstora.s the Japanese will poon i save enough tv st.ut farras of their own, aud tben the day j ma\- eome when Hawaii eau ! boast of au indostrions aiul de- , sirable class of citizens, who will, | jto the utiuost, develop tbe re- j conrces of these fertile isles. But of course tho “Advertiser s’’ friends iuay not be able to collect froui 40 to (30 perceut dividends annnally. In regard to the registratiou of the Chiuese we fully agi’ee with the uioruing paper. It has beeu a snrprise to us that the Provisional Governmeut bave not long ago passeJ ; , tbe Eegistratiou act whieh throogh a misunderstanJing ou the purt of the Hawaiians iuto whieh they were \vilfully led by the so-called, more iutelligent, white brotber, \vas ! Jefeated in the last Legislature. i But we believe in makin" the | Registration of citizens general aud not confined to a single race I 1 and class. Let every man register himself. It will be a measure ! of extreme benefit to the country j —and it will enahle ns to see who 1 Mr. McStocker’s 7,000 mem | bers of the aunexation club | really are. As far as further ! importation of Chiuese is eon- ; cerned, we believe with Mr. Emiuelnth that the government should go slo\v. The leading raembers of the Secrot Leaeuo the Schutzen Verein, and even the A club haveall been known as members of the Anti-Asiatic I League, and as they are the only anthority whieh Mr. Dole remembers (his memory is poor) ex- ; isting trouble might arise. Take i ! warniug gentlemen aud, in this case, at least, Iisten to the AntiChiuese tinker.