The last census shows the following: Natives ..................................................................... 39.504 Chinese ......................................................... 25.407 Japanese ............... ...................................... 21.616 Portuguese ..................................................... 15 291 American ................................................. " --------- 3080 German- ......................................... .. .... 1. Q2 English ................-------------................................. ..... 2.250 How is our action in taking into our body politic the virus here Ishown to help us or anybody else except the sugar kings of the islands? We have passed laws against Chinese immigration to this country and have spent vast sums in keeping them out. and yet in this one act you make American citizens. or at least American residents. of 25.000 Chinese. free to leave the cheap wages of Hawaii and come freely into our Western States and directly compete with our educated labor and break down still further the present small compensation given for a day of toil. Not only this. but the very floodgates of China would be opened upon us through Hawaii. Every applicant for admission would prove by 100 witnesses that he was a resident of Hawaii at the time of its annexation. and the bars would be let down.
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