The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-12-04
j. p. BALL REPLIES.

Editor Advertiser: Permit me few
lines to correct some errors in your
yesterday and prior articles relative to
myself.
acting as attorney and trustee for sew
eral japanese who handle people wish
ing to go to the mainland, but II is
not true that l represent any corpora
ton in Seattle or elsewhere seeking to
obtain laborers from here 1t Is true
that the said parties for whom | am
attorney sent q Japs per Aorangi,
Oct. 21st.
IT'S true that Consul Morikawa of
Vancouver cabed here that said laps
had been refused landing and had been
ordered deported. 'Tis true that l I'M
mediately instructed my said clients
to receive no more applications for pas
sage per the Canadian Australian
route until I could investigate the
status of affairs. Thereupon l cabled
the General Passenger Agent of said
Canadian australian line, the follow
ing message, to wit:
"Are Aorangi Japanese ordered de-
ported? BALL
The above cable was Immediately
answered by General Agent Crawford
of the said Canadian line,
as follows, to wit:
mo"
In due course of mail l received from
said Agent Crawford, the following
letter, to wit:
Vancouver, b. c., Nov. th, l9oo.
Ball. esq. Honolulu, ii. l.
Dear Sir: l duly received your cable
of the 4th instant reading Are Aor-
angi japanese ordered deported?' to
which l cabled you the word No
We did not experience any difficulty
in regard to the japanese on board the
Aorangi and am unable to account for
the report that these Japanese had re-
ceived instructions to be deported from
Vancouver as they We're all landed
with very little delay. However, l am
pleased to say that there was no truth
in the report. Yours truly,
+. S. CRAWFORD,
Asst. General Agent.
AS throwing still further light on
the matter in question, i quote from
a recent letter received by me from
+. b. Lazier passenger and ticket
agent of the Pacific Coast Steamship
Co, located at Seattle, the following,
to wit:
ANY Japs coming from Honolulu to
San Francisco, via Victoria, Will be
subject to no annoyances whatever.
The Canadian inspectors simply wish
to know that they are in transit from
one American port to another, and our
inspector will make affidavit to that
effect, giving 1t to the purser OF our
steamer who will have this in his pos
session on arrival at San Francisco,
and which will be sufficient evidence to
the inspectors there that they have
come from an American port and
which will admit them at San Fran
cisco without any annoyance. There
is no head tax on them"
The last official report made In the
matter showed that in April last, 1873
Japs landed and disembarked at this
port from Japan. Each month prob
ably $50 or 200 laps leave here for the
mainland. 1t is absolutely impossible
for any very large number OF Japs to
leave these Islands as the steamers
refuse to carry more than very few
each trip.
The last Moana carried A Japs for
my clltntS lHOuen tntS Idh ioic "b
plications on file but ! had advised
them to make only minimum ship
ments each month so as not to disturb
the labor conditions in the Islands.
am not an advocate of japanese
laborers in these Islands, but 1t is the
best that can be had at the present
Any body of laborers who send away
annually 100000 cash to be deposited
try "a
the prosperity and upbuilding of such
country. II Is a leakage that VIII
ultimately sap the financial vitality OF
these Islands.
I have always been and am now an
advocate of the good old time south
ern plantation negro laborers, such as
are found in the sugar districts o'
Louisiana and Texas. These people
are American to the backbone. They
are docile, honest, Industrious anc