Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 495, 12 January 1902 — THE LABOR QUESTION. [ARTICLE]

THE LABOR QUESTION.

Editor Republican:—l was much interested in reading the Jvditorial in the Advertiser of January loth, entitled “The Local Labor Problem, and am lead to ask: What motive could that newspaper have had to express such principles? Principles which , are not onlv at variance with its • . j past, but it even goes so far as to , give evidence to substantiate the ex- , istance of present conditions which j have not only for years been anta gonistto to every American principle, but which it has cla med do not exist. One. in reading this editorial en- ' dorsing the* movement of the labor organisations in protecting themselves and families against Astatic labor, mast ask of himself: Why this change? Is it from the fact that the citixens’ meeting a few days since has opened < the Advertiser’s eye? to see that be- 1 cause the Lvcn of Public Sentiment t sleeps, he Is not n-cessarily a des I pised factor In shaping the conditions f of the world and f these islands? t Is it another deeo laid plot to trv 1 1 and mislead the laboring classes into < the belief that the plantations and the t Advertiser are the fronds of the Am * erlcan laborer If he will only endorse a the nomination of men pledged to the ■ continuance of present conditions? 'c

!. is It not an attempt to cause thd labor organ.r at.on? to organize a f fourth political party, whereby the i. Advertiser's friends would be sore t of victory and the cent nuance of anj G-American principles? r Since the mas# meeting at Jar. : ary a 4th a very large number of American citizens have come to realize that the Hom-= Rule Republican party is very s close to the tru~ American ideas for these islands, providing they mean what they say; and if that organiza 8 tion shows its g n od will to American laborers by nominating a goodly porq tson of white candidates on th-rir tick s cts in the future, a very large nume ber of American citizens will believe „ thev mean what thev say and endorse n them. ,\s a laborer. I trust the apparent expressions of good will, as given out by the Advertiser, will be received 1 with careful consid- ration. The policy r of the Advertiser ha- ever been Autak g ni.etir to the interests of the Anil erican and Hawaiian laborer, and a 1 strong advocate of the very principle? r which today has made necessary the ,j movement of organized labor against t the Asiatic, and I doubt if now this apparent donning of the sheep's cloak n will go far in concealing the true na ture it would cover. 1 also believe that the day is not far distant when every anti-American, whether a citizen or newspaper, will receive its just reward at the hands r of the very men who are today actual- - ly suffering through the principles which the Advertiser has represent- . ed and assisted in the past. A LABORER , Honolulu. H. T., Jan. 11. 1902.