It is paying a bonus to the people of the Sandwich Islands of over $4.000.000 a year. and it is taxing the American people to do it. There is not an American laborer upon those islands. and there are only 636 Americans. or reople of American descent. who are registered voters. The remainder of the population is composed of natives. Japanese. Chinese. and Portuguese. They are contract laborers. almost as low as if not lower in the scale of civilization than slave labor. I can see no reason why the people of my State or the people of any State of this Union should be taxed for the purpose of furnishing the people of those islands more profitable employment.
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