The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-08-28
is REVENGE GETTING
IN ITS WORK
HAWAII SHINPO DECLARES JAP
ANESE EMIGRATION COMPANIES
ARE INTERFERING

The Hawaii shinpo this morning has
the following:
The Shinpo is in receipt Of more evil
dence of the work of the immigration
companies i'm Japan to prevent the
coming of Japanese to Hawaii. Not
only does it appear that they are work.
ing in Yokohama, to cause the re-
lection of immigrants, as intimated i'm
these columns last week but they have
agents IN the outer districts of Japan,
from which the would-be Immigrants
come, telling of the alleged difficulties
of getting to Hawaii and warning the
people against trying to make the
journey, as well as spreading false
hoods about harsh treatment after they
get there.
As evidence of the 'work being done
in Yokohama there is clear and
specific cause. The wife of a Homo
lulu japanese is one of those who tried
to get passage, and her experience,
told i'm a letter to her husband, shows
just what is being done to obstruct
immigration to Hawaii. 1t seems to
be matter calling for some action and
the planters might bring it to the at
tention of the Foreign Office, for il
will soon cause a labor shortage here.
No matter what is to be the policy
in the long run as to labor for Ha-
wall, whether it be getting laborers
from japan or from America or Eu-
rope, for the immediate present Japan
is the only source of supply, and it
will not do to have it shut off in this
way.
The woman in question tried several
times to get passage, and was always
rejected on account of i'll health, as
she was told. The physician in charge
of the examinations, it is stated, is
white man, renegade Methodist
preacher, who was fired from his
church in California and went to Japan
where he seems to have got a hold
He is the man who, as stated last week
found 450 out of 500 applicants for
tickets to be in too poor health to be
immigrants. In the case of the wife
who wanted to come here he rejected
her without the slightest cause, as sub
sequent events showed. Finding that
she was not able to get passage be-
cause of some supposed diesase, but
being determined to join her husband,
the woman went to a hospital in Yoko-
! hama. She asked for an examination
and treatment for whatever was the
matter She didn't know that she
was sick i'm any way but was ready
to take the verdict of the doctors. She
took a thorough examination and the
doctors told her there was nothing to
treat her for. She was healthy and
they told her to go,-they couldn't find
an excuse for giving her even a pill.
Again she applied for passage to Ha-
wall, and again after the physical exa-
mination she was rejected as pas
! senger.
All this is told in a letter to her
husband in Honolulu. The woman
wants to know how she can get to
Hawaii she suggests that her hus-
/ band will have either to send her
cabin passage money or at least money
enough to come in the white steerage,
as she is unable to get into the Asiatic
/ steerage as long as this grating doc
tor is doing the examining.
I This case shows clearly what is GO
ing on, and a protest should be made
If the coming of labor RS is to be stop
ped in this way, laval will suffer a
serious shortage within six months.
This has nothing to do with plans for
getting white laborers eventually, nu.
is matter of immediate supply from
month to month, to make up for the
constant departures. The trouble is
caused by the immigration companies.
They are determined to show to the
planters if possible that they can con-
troll the situation, i'm the hope of fore
ing the planters to pay them money for
assistance in getting labor here. Since
the planters have refused to pay them,
they are doing all they can to prevent
immigration to Hawaii. 1t is a kind
Of blackmail. The planters should
investigate what is going on i'm Yo-
kohama and report it to the Foreign
Office, by means of a complaint.