The Hawaiian Government. the Hawaiian people. do not want the contract. It amounts to nothing so far as they are concerned. Our laws do not keep Japanese out of the United States. and the Hawaiian laws prohibit the immigration of Chinese. so that the immigration into Hawaii consists now entirely. so far as Orientals are concerned. of Japanese. The labor contracts that are authorized by those laws are no incentive to bringing Japanese there at all. - On the contrary. they are rather an embarrassment. Japanese had a perfect right to go there until we annexed Hawaii. They did not have the right to go there except under the Hawaiian permission. but they go there now freely. not more freely than they did before. except that before they went as contract laborers. and now they go as rightful immigrants. That is the only difference. We may here pass this bill. and we do nothing at all except to interrupt the autonomy in Hawaii in such a way as to produce confusion in the whole government.
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