Hawaii had a treaty with Japan that gave the citizens of the latter free ingress. being a "favored nation clause." By -the resolution of annexation we struck this down and established our own treaty relations with Japan. This was only the enforcement of a wellestablished principle of international law. Our treaty with Japan provides that the United States may at any time control or prohibit the immigration of Japanese laborers to the United States. The party in power has never invoked this right to protect the interest of labor. Note the number of Chinese and Japanese we have added to our population. Since annexation. July 7.1898. thousands of foreign contract labor have been flowing into the Hawaiian Islands. so that today 40.000 contract laborers. or more than onethird of the population. are on the islands because Congress did not prohibit this infamous dealing in human chattels in the resolution of annexation. It could have been done. The Chinese were excluded by a section of the resolution. but it was not the policy of the annexationists. it was not the policy of the administration of Hawaii. nor of those in charge here. to do it. because it is. thought that the islands can be more cheaply and profitably worked by foreign contract labor. Those voices which were raised for annexation p reclaimed that Hawaii was near to usshe is far enough away. ut near enough to infect our laboring men with the pestilence of her labor system. Hear this proof:
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