Because the Japs do the work for $12.50 a month. and the Americans get from $50 to $75 a month. So the American was not wanted. The men who talk so much of their love of country and the prospect of American laborers being imported to Hawaii discharged their American employees and filled their places with Asiatics. There were in 1890. mostly laborersbeing Japanese. Chinese. and Portugueseof Portuguese 8.202. I will show further that it appears that they discharged the German and British laborers. as well as the American laborers. and for the same reason. and yet they tell us an American community is going to grow up onthose islands and American labor is going there to find employment It appears from the table that in 1895 there were 2.499 Portuguese employed upon the sugar plantations. and in 1896. one year after. 2.268 were employed upon the sugar plantations. Why? They were discharged and their places were filled by Asiatic laborers. coming in under contract. and before I get through I will show what that contract is. Of the Japanese there were 19.212 males in all the islands. In 1896. 11.584 were employed upon the sugar plantations. and in 1896. 12.893.
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