The sugar industry was begun 40 or 50 years ago by the missionaries sent there from this country. and since its establishment there has been a continuous growth. Should the sugar industry be wiped out it will be impossible to substitute any other industry in its place. The effect of this legislation on the citizenship of Hawaii will be to turn Hawaii over into the hands of the Asiatics. No people have done more--and I say this earnestlysince annexation than the people of Hawaii to Americanize that country. Hawaii has expended millions of dollars to bring Europeans into the Territory to replace the Aslatics that are there. And yet when you have enacted this law. placing sugar on the free list. gentlemen. you place Hawaii. the paradise of the Pacific. under Asiatic control. We Hawaiians have a majority of votes there. and yet. gentlemen. we have brought into that country thousands upon thousands of white people. Why? To stay in that land ind make It an American community. Today you are attempting to stop the further bringing of those white people from Europe through the attempted enactment of new immigration laws. Now. you are jeopardizing our hopes of Americanizing those islands through this radical policy of reduction. Gentlemen. it is hard for the people of Hawaii. but they are Americans today. and they must bear the consequences.
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