Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-04-06
CHINESE MIGRATION.

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seeking new lands wherein to
form colonies. The whole eastern
seaboard is overcrowded and ne
cessity compcls the people to so
abroad. So anxious are they to
get away that agents seeking COO
lie labor find more offering than
demand requires, i'll fact the tables
are turned amt in place of diff
Guilty i'll securing immigrants the
Chinese gladiy buy from the
agents PERM, paying a bonus OF
from five to ,@elye dollars each.
This is well hGown as well as the
fact that runners buy these per-
mits and sell them at profit to
oven small boys whose parents
are anxious That they should go
abroad and do for themselves not
withstanding that they are un-
suitable for mans work i'll the
cane fields OF Hawaii.
Every legislature heretofore
has seen fit tu endeavor to more
strictly guard beloved Hawaii |
lIom the disus trous effects OF this
threatening avalanche of Mongoli-
ans except this one. Each legis-
lature has fixed limit to the num-
Der whom the executive might per-
nit TO come here during the fol-
lowing biennial period. This one
appears to have the utmost conf
dence in the executive, but ii the
community were really represent
ed il would DO more careful in
guarding the portals against the
aggression Of the Chinese. 1t eX-
poets that while permitting the
landing OF II necessary num-
Der to carry out the cuItiva-
ting of our principal products
and opening up this coulp,yla-
lively new country the lcglsia-
ture should make ample provision
for the return of this class of lab
orers when they cease to follow
their avocntion as agricultural
laborers, and not allow them to
take root in the country. What
provision does the present law
make towards this end? Each
laborer is required to ale post with
the Government the sum of one
dollar and fifty cents each month
Tor twonty-four mon HIS making
thirty six dollars, which sum Is
90 be used to pay the return pas
sage OF the laborer. Would not a
man paying twelve dollars for the
privilege of coming to Hawaii
gladly forfeit but eve n in this res
pect there is no forfei ture proyid-
ed in the law,-thirty six dollars
for the privilege of staying in SO
desirable n country especially
when the money is paid out in
driblets so that he does not feel it?
Formerly it was require that the
importer of the laborer put up a
bond of seventy-fve do liars for
each head conditioned that he
would see to it that at tha cSpira-
ton OF tho contract the lauorar
departed from these shores.
Under the very liberal laws
which Hawaii has made the whole
population of Chiria can come
mere under the head of travellers,
or merchants having busin ess in
terests in the Islands, provided
bonds are filed III the sum Of five
hundred dollars each that the
traveller or merchant will d epart
within six months. Hundreds
have taken advantage of this law
and are domiciled. i'll Hawaii for
all time by a procedure well
known to these Chinese, viz: to
send away an old worn out stage
horse under the same name and
thus cancel the bond. 1t may be
said that this course, III this res
pect, does not increase the Chinese
population, but "there is many a
slip between the cup and the lip"
Those who love Hawaii and who
are 10th to see it turned into a
Chinese country are extremely
solicitous that the gates be jea-
lousy guarded. The men of 93
who took their lives in their hands
and grasped a musket to over
turn rotten monarchy did it
largely under the impulse that
annexation to the United States
would certainly follow. How can
they supinely look on and see this
, threatened avalanche of Chinese, a
measure which will assuredly
close the door to annexation when
the nature of our population be-