The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-03-26
ASIATIC IMMIGRATION.
A Petition to be Presented 10 the
Legislature.

The following petition has been pre-
pared
To the President, Mobiles and Repre-
sentatives in the Legislature of the Ha-
waiian Kingdom.
GENTLEMEN We, the undersigned,
Voters and Taxpayers of this Kingdom,
earnestly request that Laws be enacted
during the present Session of the Legis-
lature, May, 1888, embodying the follow
ing clauses, which are of vital import
snce to the interests of the petitioners
and of the country at large:
First-That no more male passengers
of the Asiatic races, be allowed to land
at any of the ports of this Kingdom,
whatever be the place they may come
from, or if permitted to land, temporarily,
only on bail of five hundred dollars;
Secondhand the granting of return
passports to Asiatics be limited to speci-
ally urgent cases, and then, only with all
the precautions necessary for individual
identification
Third-That all further introduction
of Asiatic Coolie Immigrants, either
Chinese, Japanese, be Immediately res
tricted to the actual wants OF the indivi-
dual planters in labor for sugar and lice
plantations only;
Fourth-That the planters who hence
forth will require Asiatic laborers shall
make requisition to that effect to the
Government, stating the number re-
quired and the length of engagements or
contracts desired;
Fifth-That it will be understood in
those contracts that no Asiatic immi-
grant laborers coming to this country,
will be permitted to land freely, but that
they will be kept under proper restraint
until they enter into an agreement to
work for some responsible planter for
or years;
Sixth-That each of the employers be
made responsible, by responsible bond,
for such strictly limited number of
laborers as may be introduced for him,
with the clear understanding that all
such laborers, at the expiration of the
time for which they be engaged will
have either to reship on some plantation
or to be sent away from this country,
proper means of Identification being
taken on the first landing of every in
dividual immigrant;
Seventh-That, in view of better con-
trolling these laborers, only portion of
their salary, sufficient for their mainten-
ance, be paid into their hands, the bal
ance being handed over monthly by the
employers to the Government, to be
kept in some safe place of deposit and
] RENTED to the respective immigrants
only when, at the expiration of their
engagements, they are to be forced to
leave the Kingdom, their passage money
being then deducted from such deposited
sums;
Eighth-That it will be enjoined to the
Government not to issue to Asiatics,
either Chinese or Japanese, any new
licenses for doing business in any trade
or commerce, except for the sale of
Chinese or Japanese goods, pork or rice,
and that whenever favorable occasions
occur through legal infractions, default
or failures, the licenses actually granted
, to Asiatics. be canoe lied;
Ninth-That also such licenses already
granted to Asiatics, be at once cancelled,
which are obnoxious Or dangerous to
public health or safety, such as hack
drivers, bakers, butchers, etc.;
Tenth-That no Asiatic, after once
being bankrupt, be allowed to own any
more interests in any other licensed
business;
Eleventh-That the Government be
required to exercise proper vigilance on
the enforcement of the actual legislation
on licenses, against all Asiatics who at
present unlawfully evade the Laws;
Twelfth-That stringent Vagrancy
Act be vigorously enforced to prevent
any Asiatic idlers, Chinese or Japanese,
to remain in the country, and to that
effect, that every male Chinaman and
Japanese, residing here at present, be
registered and given an official certificate
showing that he is actually earning an
honest living;
Thirteenth-That all Asiatics who can
not show that they are willing to, and
can make an honest living here, shall
be compelled either to enter into con-
tract for or 5 years, as per clause 5, or
to leave the Kingdom;
Fourteenth-That the overcrowding of
Asiatics adults in their dwellings be
restricted according to sanitary princi-
pies.