We can accomplish it by the control which the State has over the corporations which it creates. The Government can determine the class of labor which these corporations shall employ. and it can subject them to the penalty of forfeiture of their franchises if they violate the injunction of the law. These corporations control all the sugar lands of Hawaii: and as that is the occupation which employs almost all the laborers in that country. by controlling the corporations in the employment of Asiatic labor you regulate the evil complained of. Now. I provide in this amendment for the gradual increase in the white labor employed by these corporations. The amendment provides for the employment of onetenth within the first year and an increase of onetenth every year. until at least threequarters of the employees of these corporations shall be citizens of the United States. wfich includes white and black citizens of the United States. citizens of the Territory of Hawaii. which includes the Kanakas and other white people. such as Italians and Portuguese. who can migrate to these islands. and thus gradually thre -quarters of the now Asiatic population of these islands will increase by the addition of such persons. white or black. as are now citizens of the United States and by the immigration of laborers of the white race who are accustomed to a semitropical climate.
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