The San Francisco call., 1895-07-31
JAPANESE FROM HAWAII
DR.. Gedge Explains How and
Why They Come to This
Country.
DOLE's FEAR OF THE MIKADO.
Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald Has
a Good Source of In
formation.

The little island republic on the big,
good-natured Pacific, where the deep blue
above and the blue deep below are folded
together and riveted with diamond
headed spikes, as Joaquin Miller might
say, is just now engaged in the prosaic
business of unloading its $4,000 Japanese
residents upon this country, according to
the belief of Labor Commissioner Fitzger-
aid and DIR. Donald McC. Gedge.
DR.. Gedge knows great deal about the
methods of Sanford Dole's Provisional
Government, for he lived in Hawaii quite
awhile, was prominently identified with
King Kalakaua's Government, and is an
advocate of the justice of Queen Liliuoka-
lanfs claims.
DR.. Gedge's father-in-law, G. E. Will
iams, who is now in this City, after a resi-
dence of forty years in the Sandwich
Islands, and his sisters husband, Captain
Turner, now on the payroll of the Pro-
visional Government, are stanch sup
porters of the Dole administration. The
doctor had extensive sugar interests on the
islands once. Speaking of the japanese
exodus to this country from Mr.. Dole's
dominions. DIR. Gedge said yesterday:
There is no question in my mind about it.
The right of suffrage is denied by the Provis-
ional Government to both natives and Jap
anese Queen Liliuokalani's administration
assured the Japanese that this right would be
extended to them, and the Provisional Govern
ment assumed the same obligation: Japan
now proposes that this promise shall be made
good. The fear of japanese man-of-war in
spires the present administration to do some
thing.
Government should seek to get rid of the Jap
anese there by so manipulating things that
they shall be made unable to obtain work and
will, by the very necessity OF circumstances,
be compelled to emigrate?
When they leave Hawaii the most logical
thing for them to do is to make an effort to get
into the United States. To obtain a footing on
the American continent is not hard, because
they can go first to British Columbia. We all
know the rest. Once in Victoria, B. c., they
come down to California as contract laborers.
The Japanese have proved themselves more
hurtful 10 the whites in the Sandwich Islands
than even the Chinese. How? Well, they
affiliate more with the whites and soon learn
| ell our methods of business. They import
everything from Japan, and with the double
advantage OF cheap goods and knowledge of
our ways they manage to supplant the white
| traders.
They have succeeded in driving out of busi-
ness about all the small Portuguese traders on
| the islands of Kaui, Hawaii and Maui. Ernest
Hutehlson, the special envoy OF the Hawaiian
| Government to Portugal, has made great efforts
to induce the Portuguese to immigrate to the
| islands, but has failed because the Portuguese
do not want to come under the unfavorable
circumstances.
With the Japanese barred from labor, the
only thing left is trading. The planters want
the japanese, but the Government discoun-
tenanees their importation. This was made
manifest short while ago, when several hun
dred of them were brought to the islands for
work on the plantations
Commissioner Fitzgerald will make the
most searching investigation into this
matter and, as he has good source of in
formation, it is very probable that he will
be able in a few months to lay all the facts
before the Federal authorities.