Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-08-29
CHINESE MAKE THEIR REQUEST.
Continued from first page.
Memorandum setting forth the why the Chinese
Exclusion Laws enforced in the United States should
not be extended to the Hawaiian Islands.


l.. Chinese immigration does not eopardize any vested
interest in the Hawaiian Islands, When the United States
sent commissioners to China to negotiate the immigration treaty.
$780, for the regulation of Chinese immigration Chinese
reluctantly consented to they were
informed that the continued immigration of Chinese aborers to
the territory of the United States would affect or threaten to
affect the interests of that country and endnge the good order
of certain locality thereof (See Article of that Treaty
That certain locality was California and States the
Pacific coast There Chinese, engaged in mining and railroad
building into direct competition with white labor and
especially Irish labor. Whether the danger arising from the
competition OF Chinese labor real imaginary, not the
question The fear that there might be such danger
doubt existed the minds of people the United States
at that time, and they demanded immigration treaty and
laws restricting and prohibiting the coming of Chinese aboes.
It was condition not theory similar condition does not
in the Islands between the Chinese and the white aborers
Therefore unnecessary and unreasonable to extend to the
the coming to the United States of Chinese aborers.
-. Chinese laborers needed in the Hawaiian Islands,
They good terms with the natives and, possessing those
very qualities which the natives LACK do not for this
excite their jealousy As household servants they useful
themselves indispensable to the Islands Thousands Of acres of
valuable land would lie waste but for the Chinese. The
exclusion of Chinese labores would be injury the Islands
industries. n....aH .-.. '......
g. There other foreign elements the Hawaiian Islands
besides the Chinese the japanese If
they not nererred with, why should be the Chinese The
Chinese are aw-abdng They mind their business
have desire to NEEDLE with the affairs of the
They only ask that they be treated the the people of
other nations. Is .....
1t is maniesty unjust to single the Chinese out for
exclusion This has the effect lowering China in the eyes of
the world. There occasion whatever for casting sur
upon the whole nation The Chinese are not the only Asatc
people. There the Japanese, Samese Burmese Maavs
and others. Why these people excluded from the
Islands also -? The an-Chnese policy, if adopted by the
United States these Islands, would force the impression upon
every far-mnded that the United States unwilling to
accord the Chinese the treatment that reev given
to the people of other nations.
s. The Exclusion Laws supposed to apply onv TO
Chinese aborers But their rigorous enforcement by the
Treasury officials has worked great hardshps on Chinese
merchants, students teachers travellers and those belonging
to the exempt class matter of frequent occurrence that
Chinese whose right to enter the United States unquesoned
detained on shpboard for weeks owing failure to
they allowed to land. .'
g. The enforcement of the Exclusion Laws by the United
States officials against the Chinese strcter than
before short time ago, certain Chinese sought admission
United States trader He presented certificate of
tiles and vsed by the United States Consul in China to the
Collector of Customs at San Francisco, but refused
admission appeal made the Treasury Department
at Washington was referred to the Attorney
General for opinion. The Collectors decision
rmed Moreover portion of the Attorney Generals opinion
reads follows .... ....
lt may be stated comprehensvely that the result of the
whole body of these laws and decisions thereon determine
that the true theory not that all Chinese persons may
this country who not forbidden but that only those
entitled to enter who are expressly allowed" d,
In consequence of this opinion Collectors of Customs have
been directed by the Treasury Department hereafter refuse
admission to all Chinese persons whose occupation station
class Chinese defined by law reject all applications
for admission from persons described statesmen, clerks
restaurants, etc. The result is that hereafter only officials
teachers Students merchants, travellers tor curiosity
pleasure and Others will be able gain admission the
United States Is this fair Would the Chinese Government
have consented and ratified the Treaty of $780, they had
dreamed that such state of things might result from the
Treaty? And yet this will happen in these Islands if the
Chinese Exclusion Acts extended here.
7. What rights the Chinese may enjoy the Hawaiian
Islands ought not to be curtaed. -
8. Laws should be made adapted to the varying require
ments of the times and places 1t has been shown that it
not for the interest of the Hawaiian Islands exclude Chinese
and the Exclusion Laws of the United States should not be
extended to the Islands, Special legislation enabling Chinese
aboers to and reside in the Islands should be enacted
g. 1t is contended that the Chinese Exclusion Acts were
enacted in view of the then existing circumstances in those
states when the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands
thought Of and it unfair these discriminating
laws to these Islands where circumstances totally different
and where there is not the slightest danger but con-