The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-05-17

NtN tftrFihF 10 THIS country iWHh W
that buatlund, srafcrly a haIf dozen
ahie.boditd men among thctn, the rest
ate children aud women. VINO. rVentu.
any, viii become n puhliC thufHo. You
ought Go b. ashamed 10 yours "
Those buys' replied BALDWIN. 'wil
grow w ANA become good lnburefE. ana
good citizens, ana you might some
day want some OF those very lads tu
WORK ON your plantation
II haven't got ANY plantation snap
ped buturluth. - Hurkrd $4,000 lu una
once upon "a time. aud that eXp'rlonc.
was enough for me. I don't want any
thing mote Co do with such scenes as
this. " almost makes mp weep to see
such things as this going nu here iu
this civilized community tWecpSD
somebody referred 10 the Board of
Health at this juncture and the
Boss with big round oath, declared
he would present resolution today,
"nTinE' the members uf the Board uf
Health Seeing that the tide was turn
ing against him, Emmeluth decided to
take matters into his own hands. He
declared he would stop the kinau from
leaving, at all hazards. Showing his
hat down over his ears, he made "a
dash for n rowboat held in readiness
for him.
The Boss sat in the stern of the
boat hanging on the gunwales with
maniacal grip. From the stern of the
boat he commenced to hurl cuss words
and cries of wiki wiki" at the Devil
dered native, who was manipulating
the oars Soon he reached the wharf
and leaped ashore.
The last seen of the bewhiskered
statesman he was hurrying up the
dock to the street, where he caught T.
hack and drove with all possible
haste to the Executive building, where
he tried to persuade the powers that
be- to stop the Kinau from sailing /
His mental disturbance aroused pity
but no one offered to help him.
Meanwhile. the Kinau sailed, and
with 1t, another of the many resolu- I
lions introduced by his whiskers." has
resolved itself into nothing
The rest of the committee left for |
the shore on the launch, favorably i'm ,
pressed by what they had seen, and .
any more stories about the iii treat
ment," or diseased condition" of the
Porto Ricans, will be taken with a bar
rel of salt.
EMMELUTH INTERVIEWED
Representative Emmeluth was in
terviewed last night by an Advertiser
in regard to the question of
Porto Rican immigration. He said Il
feel that | cannot speak too strongly
upon this subject 1t is a question that
involves more than simply the labor
question. 1t is to the Territory the
either got to Americanize the Terri
tory, or to give up and acknowledge
that Americanization is not worth
fighting for The immigration of the
class of Porto Ricans that are being I
poured into the midst of the islands, is
not calculated to help to Americanize
The Territory by any means. Have we
not already got our hands full in the
work of educating and Americanizing 6
,ur mixed population of Chinese, Jap
anese and Hawaiian children, without !
adding another and a worse factor to I
he difficulty? The reports from the II
schools since the Porto Rican immigra /
ion began clearly illustrate the extra t
and expense to the Territory a
has already caused The Porto Ric-
IN children are overcrowding the S
chools wherever their fathers have Z
'een employed as laborers, and since d
he tuition of every child costs the Ter n
itory over $22 per year, not to speak Il
f the cost of school building, etc, it
viii be seen that the importation of n
'orto Rican children is not a desirable c.
hing for the taxpayers. The Porto 81
eicans pay no taxes at all, and the o.
rain on the treasury for the education n
their children is not Offset by any II
,turn whatever.
Il questioned the immigrants that Il
anne in on the Colon, and found them CO
} be very ignorant. Children fourteen So
nd fifteen years of age that had never so
cen TO school at all, were among the 81
This sort of immigration pl
clearly calculated to complicate the CT
faculties of our already difficult prob de
m Of education.
- Dot bar tbtpu tbn,o L.,
attempt to deceive us in the matter l.;
the ages of the immigrants. In the be
St lot the report was that there were at
0 males-and I think that this was
ven out to convey the impression that .e
ere were that many abIe-bodied, III III
'own-up labprers, capable of taking 90
re of themselves. Instead of this be- :
g the case, we found that the children r.
ere In the majority, and there were ne
any invalids and weak women. I
RINSE that there is a great deal of gu
e responsibility at the other end of sh
line. 1t is probable that the United me
ates authorities there will not allow va
oorers TO leave without they bring w.
'hg their families and that may be ba
reason why we are receiving so Uo
my small children and invaded wo- of
IN as laborers. In view of the strus- DR.,
we have ahead of us with our pres
difficulties, before we can accom- =,
sh the Amercanization of the is ~
IDS, such immigration is an imposi y,
n and a hardship h.,
AS / have said, this matter brings he
situation to the front, presenting is
~ two solutions. One is that we ing
al not tolerate the importation of DIRE
ITO hican laborers, and seek TO work DAY