The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-19


to the mainland where he went to
raise funds for the purchase of the
old General Armstrong place as site
for Iolani College.
Among Bishop RESEARCHES most in
teresting experiences was an interview
with President Roosevelt, whereat the
president expressed himself as favor
ing the immigration of a. limited num-
Der of Chinese to the Islands under
proper restrictions. Mr.. Haywood,
who was present at the interview, told
the president he could get a treaty
from both the japanese and Chinese
ministers covering the president s
ideas.
Mr.. Restarick was very successful
lin raising the funds required for the
church in Hawaii. He met while in
New York, Mr.. Wray Taylor, as has
previously been published, but the
Bishop would not discuss the matter,
until after he had a talk with Mr..
Taylor's attorney in the city. While
away the Bishop visited nearly all of
the principal cities in the East.
I'VE understand that you have been
in many cities of the Atlantic coast?"
was asked the Bishop.
Yes, I have spoken in nearly every
city of Importance from Chicago east
ward and from Washington to Boston.
I found the people everywhere eager to
hear about Hawaii, at the same time
they had the most crude ideas about
our conditions. Everywhere, people
who had relations in the Islands made
themselves known to me-
What kind of addresses did you
deliver?"
I'll preached in large churches, spoke
at large meetings and made addresses
to clubs of men in Washington, Balti-
more, Philadelphia. New York, Pitts
burg. Rochester, Meriden, Conn, and
prominent men, some of them with ma
tional regulations"
Did you find people DESTROYS of Wis
iting the Islands?a
Everywhere I met many who stated
that they had fully determined to
spend some time here. 1 gave all the
information / had time to convey
We understand that you had an
interview with President Roosevelt
Yes, friend of mine told the Pres
ident 1 was in Washington and l re-
ceived a letter from his secretary
making an appointment at the White
House at 10 o'clock one morning. In
the room where / began my conversa-
ton with him there were two gentle
men whom I did not know. After a
few questions one of the gentlemen
arose and said: Excuse me, Mr.. Pres
ident, but if this is Bishop Restarick
of Honolulu he will, I am sure, permit
me to present to you at this time a
cablegram which tells me that Judge
Estee is dead A rapid conversation
Immediately ensued. The President
asked me number of questions and
before l left I knew who was to be
appointed in his place and who was
to be Governor.
After this the President spoke of
the labor question. He said: am
unalterably opposed to any relaxation
of the exclusion act. L do not believe
in Orientalizing American territory.
Speaking as rapidly as / could
said: Mr.. President, I lived in Cali
fornia twenty years; I was an exclu-
sionist for the mainland-I am so now;
but the conditions on the Islands are
wholly different. AS to OrientaliZing
American territory, Hawaii had a
large Oriental population long before
it became a part of the United
States.
THE President said: But we must
look to the future, not the presently
And let the industry of the Islands
be ruined 1 broke in. Mr.. President,
I added, I have been on nearly every
plantation of the Islands: 1 am famil-
lar with farming in the United States
since my boyhood and 1 know the con-
ditions in the Islands and 1 say that
white men cannot and will not work
in cane fields. Planters in the Islands
have tried it. They have obtained
Germans, Norwegians, and others. TIC
work in tall cane under tropical sun
| cannot long be endured by white peo-
| pie. Besides. Mr.. President I said
we are not shutting out Orientals, the
| japanese are coming in all the time.
Well he said, I have no objection
at all to the admission of limited
number of Chinese without their wo-
men. under agreement to return in 8
certain number of years.
| Mr.. President, I replied, one rea-
son the Chinese on the Islands are
superior to those on the Coast is be-
cause they have their women.
| Mr.. Haywood said at this point
Mr.. President, I can get the Chinese
and japanese Ministers to sign treat.
| les based on your ideas in half ar
| hour
The President said something abou
the contract system and 1 informed
him that the contract with Oriental:
under the old system was taken from
the contracts which sailors sign whe1
they go to sea AS to i'll treatment,
4 said, have been on nearly ever.
plantation on the Islands and / know
personally most of the managers, ant
those interested in plantation labor
and l know they are men incapable
of cruelty or injustice. The repor
on the subject made to President Nc
kinley shows that stories of cruelt.
We're false
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