An effort has been made to show that Japan was throwing this "contract" labor into the islands. I have shown that Hawaii has long been expending large sums to obtain that kind of labor and to protect it. Minister Toru Hoshi. of Japan. says: An emigration law has been enacted. carefully framed. to protect the emigrant and to prevent him from going to countries where he would not be welcome. Japanese emigration to Hawaii involves this among other questions: That emigration was instituted upon the solicitation of Hawaii under the strictly guarded stipulations of a special treaty. The welfare. much less the independence. of Hawaii has never been endangered by the operations of that treaty. On the contrary. Japanese immigration was zealously romoted and encouraged in the islands until political contingencies rendered another policy advisable. Japa did not seek the treaty. but her people have been Induced to resort to Hawai under the guarantees it provides. The experience in our own history. with all the intelligence possessed by our own people. with all the virtues attributed to them. is that when they are confronted by conditions. no matter how deplorable. which affect the laboring population. the AngloSaxon intellect and energy. in spite of Its Christian training. will use it for its own purpose and for its own cupidity.
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