Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 219, 19 June 1891 — LABOR VERSUS CAPITAL. [ARTICLE]

LABOR VERSUS CAPITAL.

The arrival of another horde of Asiatics recalls to niiml the necessity v in the future, for the voters of this country to study well the charaeter of the men whom they intend to represent thera in tfie Legislature. There is no denying the fact that the laboring man of j the country was badly sold by nearly all the whiie men who were elected by them. The neeessity for promoting t)ie; interests of tbe sugar planter, does j not require that we should be i flodded by eheap labor at the sacri-1 iiee of the future wellfare of the | ccuntry and its permanent po'pu-1 lation. A continuation of the importation of eheap labor will simply tend to eheapen the labor to help enrich a few men, who are J readv at anv time, if necessity j should arise, to leave in case of I any future trouble. Those who i eannoi help themselves and get j away will have to take the results! as they crop up. One of the effects of this immigration is the bringing in of men whōse mode of eheap living will enable them to work for 3ess wages, and thus force out of emplovment bonest white. awd native laborers, that are permanent residents. The rich is enabled t© make everything at the cost of both our ppr manent and floating population All this is due to the legislature of the country, and 110 where else oan Jegitimate reraedy be obtained for this state of affairs, eixcept by legislation. Thus the reraedy is in the hands of the elee tors,and they are the very ones who. are being pressed through their own neghgence and wani of honest effort to I the right men to fepresent them. A few monthshence the laborer's opportunity will eome when i he ean correct ftll this troublc.