The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-29
SARGENT GIVES
SOUND TALK.
Continued from page IL

York he could get some out of the mil
1 lions arriving there. Many a man
would rather come here, if he was told
of the conditions, than go to places on
the mainland where everything was
4 frozen up five months in the year
so far as the United States immigra-
| ton service is concerned" Mr. Sargent
l said we stand ready to do everything
1 we can TO get immigration to come hel e
4 instead of the mainland. The talk there
now was about restricting, instead of
| encouraging, immigration. II would be
I a great relief to divert some of the
l. aliens to these islands. l sometimes
1 wish, since coming here, that we could
4 have turned one of those vessels with
| 22O0 people away to Honolulu
l NO CLASS LEGISLATION.
Mr.. Sargent, from knowledge of the
| views of persons having positions far
superior to his as he put it, declared
l that the Chinese exclusion law would
/ not be relaxed so far as the labor eIe-
1 ment was concerned. Neither would
there be any class legislation for the
benefit of this Territory. He remarked
on the unfortunate, as it was inoppor-
tune, agitation against the japanese
just when the President was success
fully using his influence to bring peace
between the warning nations. At the
same time he deprecated the subter-
fuge employed to lure Japanese from
here, where they We're needed, to the
Pacific Coast, where they were not
needed,
Reverting to opportunities here, Mr..
Sargent said we might have canneries
to put up many things. Among other
things he mentioned were sweet po-
tatoes. a canned article of which had
come into much vogue on the MAIN
land. Then he made an important
statement about an agency at New
York.
| IF Congress will carry out the sug-
gestions l have been making for two
years, Bureau of Information will be
established on Ellis Island. I should be
glad to have in that bureau a display
of the products of your islands and a
representative of the Territory to fur
niSh information"
! He wanted to be able to direct i'm
migrants where they had better go as
we'll as to tell them they might land
If his scheme took effect he assured
them Hawaii would have the same
chance to take an advantage of it as
Mr.. Sargent told of the great develop
ment of the grape and wine industry
at F'redonia, n. Y, by italians, saying
if the same kind of people went to
Maui they would start making wine.
Anywhere on the mainland people were
always willing to change their loca
tons. He met a man the other day
who spoke about what fine country
Hawaii was, but his one objection to it
was that the people talked of nothing
but cane.
INFLUENCE ON CONGRESS.
Another thing" said Mr. Sargent, |
use your influence on Congress. You
want someone there to tell of the |
needs of the Territory. Congress must !
be urged to improve your harbors and (
to make bitches for the storing of |
water. What you want is to have !
someone right in Congress to plead |
your cause and press your needs.
God never put these beautiful is
lands here but to have them become |
one of the most chosen habitations of a |
prosperous and happy people,
If he was white man here, the |
speaker said, he would not be discour- |
aged at the association with Asiatics,
but would take off his coat and work. |
They ought to work in harmony. If
that was not the advice they liked he
could not help it.
| DISCUSSION FOLLOWS.
! Mr.. Cooke rose to express his appre-
citation of Mr.. Sargent's address. He
agreed with his suggestions of sending
representatives to Italy and New
York Mr.. Cooke told of efforts of plan
tations in which he was interested on
Maui to get European laborerS and
settlers. A fine lot of 23 Italians they
had on Spreckelsville two years ago was
coaxed off to the mainland. They were
encoura ging small farms on the lands
bordering the cane planting zone, es-
pecialIy for the sisal industry. He
doubted if some products mentioned by
Mr. Sargent could not be imported
cheaper than they could be raised
Nevertheless. he considered it a duty of
the planters to induce Portuguese, by
giving them plots of land for perma-
nent homes. to take the place of de-
parting Asiatics.
Mr.. Atkinson, in the course of a few
remarks, emphasized the Importance of
retaining the Portuguese now here. He
also made a strong plea for duty on
coffee.
Mr.. craig stated Jnat ne mad lot year )
been of the opinion that we could get
class of people here from Europe who
would not only make good citizens bat
good agricultural laborers. The planta-
tions should go little beyond their
former inducements and give each i'm
migrant piece of land to cultivate. In
closing his remarks he said he hoped
the next time Mr.. Sargent came here
he would see q different class of people
than he saw now.
Mr. Sargent. responding to the re-
marks of members asked them not to
be discourse ed from previous expert
ence, and again advocated the obtaining
of rates and the issuance of through
immigrant tickets at Palermo and