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Show B . Don't Want Hawaii . B It seem i singular th tt any sentiment B could bo worked up in favor of Hawaii B when we consider wio character of their B labpr system. Tim s gir industry oi B Hawaii is iractically founded upon B forced labor. It isnota-very seiious B stretcliof the triuli to say that the sugar B industry of Hawaii is now practically B based upou slave labor. Two hundred B and fifty .years ago many persons were B t brought over to Virginia and sold ai H Blades for given periods of time, to re- H imbuise the ship captains fur their H transportation money. Some ot these H persons were well educated, seeking this H ' country hoping for future developmen H ' and willing to accept the condition of H slavery for a time, hoping in the end to B better their own condition. This may H be tho motive of the many thousands o1 B contract labor in Hawaii, lie thei' H hopes and expectations what they may H ' they are now'in Hawaii under contract, H ' , ' t, and coml"Jltd to work unlese too ill to B E$L .do so. Tliero wero employed last year B ' ? "bout 22.U0O laborers on the sugar plan- B tations in Hawaii, over hulf of whom B ' wore son tract laboiera Tiie other half B "were styled "free" labotors, a distinctive H use of the word free, indicating the semi- H slave coiwliiiou of the contract laborer. B It has been found in Hawaii that the H contract laborers when their periods o1 H apprenticeship expire on tho sugar H plantations are frequently quite uuwill- H jiigtorenow their eontrauis, prefening B to go to thk coffee plantations. Wo B lueutiou all this to show that the United H States is now seriously considering the B annexation of the rlawaiian Islands, B wherein tlie entire labor system is of a B aenii-shive character, and is seeking to B bring thi't country into closer lelations B with our own, and into such relations us B would unquestionably bo injurious, to B our now developing sugar ituiustry. Wo B believe that evnry senator and repro' B i-eutative in Congress who would give B this matter fair consideration, would at H once perceive tiio very incongruous B proposition tliat is made by the an H .ntxationists. |