The San Francisco call., 1897-11-07
Continues
TO ADMIT
JAPANESE
HaWaii's Peculiar Policy
While Pleading for
Annexation.
CONSIGNMENTS YET
COMING.
Reach Honolulu in One
Week.
About Six Hundred LaborerS
OVER THREE THOUSAND
THIS YEAR.
OVER THREE THOUSAND
THIS YEAR.
While Asking to Be Saved From the
Invaders Does Regime Throws
Gates Wide Open for Them.
Correspondence of THE CALL

HONOLULU. HAWAII, Oct. 30.-Tbe ar.
rival OF two consignments of Japanese la,
! borers this week has set even the strong
est annexation supporters OF the Govern
ment wondering what their policy can be-
On the one hand they appeal to the
United States to save them from Japanese
colonization and control, and on the other
they voluntarily open the port OF Homo
lulu to over 600 in one week and to no less
than $3.50 since the beginning of the year,
with a forecast of nearly 5000 more 10 ar
rive within the next few months, for the
greater part of this mum ber are already
contracted for.
The figures are rendered more import
ant by the fact that about 25 per cent are
women, and that the proportion of con.
tract laborers to free is about two-thirds
Adding to these japanese about 5000 Chi
nese who have arrived, or returned to the
country in the past ten months and de.
Quoting from the latter number those who
have left for good, say 500, and laboring
men have fair sample OF how Asiatic I'M
migration is decreasing on the Hawaiian
Islands.
The Government claims to have stopped
Chinese immigration, and undoubtedly
that immigration is now practically
barred, for formal notices have been issued
throughout the Chinese, Japanese and
British ports to this effect. and hereby
hangs little story not yet told.
1t has transpired that the Foreign
Office has received information of two
rather cute moves on the part of the
-.
Manchurians were shipped by Japanese
employment companies, through Japan
ese ports in Japanese vessels, for Homo
lulu. as mere serfs they are valua oil
but as des ira bic Chinese laborers they are
not, lnasmuch as they do not speak the
Chinese language as spoken by the other
Chinese in Hawaii, and consequently it
is very difficult to instruct ana control
them, and, moreover, their sym pathies are
not Chinese in character.
Again a curious move was made by the
Japanese Government in connection with
the Chinese Government in regard 10
Chinese immigration. The Japanese in
formed the Chinese Government of the
stoppage of Chinese immigration by the
Hawaiian Government and called atten.
ton to the alleged maltreatment of
Chinese laborers in Hawaii, and sug-
gested prom pit attention TO these matters
The possible desire OF the japanese Gov
ernment was 10 elicit the sym patnies OF
the Chinese Government in their dispute
with Hawaii.
But what will the white workingme en- s
associations of the United States think of
a Government who clamors for annexa-
ton for fear OF an uprising OF Japanese,
and then imports them by the thou.
sand in order to give them greater
opportunities OF being successful. If
the Government is afraid of $4,000
Japanese, wherein lies the wis
dom OF adding 5000 to them in single
year, and that year annexation" year
1t is not as if these laborers arrived on
contracts made before the annexation
scare pleas were made, for the contract s
are being approved by the Hawaiian
Board OF Immigration daily and weekly
in quarterly patches.