Speech #530181037

It would be the introduction into this country of another one of those perplexing. harassing questions which have so often distuibed our peace. If the Hawaiian constitution and all the circumstances of the revolution were laid before the American people. does anyone believe that the Congress of the United States. when its power to legislate for those islands became complete. by the islands having assumed a territorial relation to the United States. would not be called upon to subvert such a constitution and to secure to every freeman the right to participate in the Government? Does any one believe that therCongress of the United States would submit to the contractlabor system which has put into those islands 20.000 Japanese. 12.000 Chinese. 4.000 or 5.000 Portuguese. occupying the ambiguous relation which contract labor always occupies toward an orderly established Government? These revolutionists. these republicans. have instituted and instigated the importation of Japanese. Chinese. and Portuguese labor into the Hawaiian Islands. According toAdmiral Walker there are 20.000 Japanese. and I remember in an earlier document to have seen it stated that thefe are 12.000 Chinese and four orfive thousand Portuguese. making a population of 35.000 or 40.000 contract laborers who have been introduced ito those islands. until today there is no labor for the Kanakas. They have been driven into parts of the islands which nobody else will have. and have been supplanted by contract laborersfrom China. Portugal. Japan. and other of the Pacific islands.