Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-26
Probable the President Will
Transmit Message Owing to
Recent Developments
sAReENr's REPORT OPENS WAY
Use of Hawaii SIS Stepping Stone to
Gain Entrance to United States May
Call for Vigorous Action = Japs
Break Rules of Own Government to
Gain FoothoId.

transmit 1t to congress Will oplioeiASA
message, making the third on this sub
ject.
Frank Sargent, the commissioner
general of immigration, was at the
White House Monday, and gave Presl-
dent Roosevelt a summary OF his in
yestigation of the japanese tide OF
Immigration into California thru Ha-
wall. AS he has but just arrived here
and has not even begun preparation OF
his official report, the commissioner
general was unwilling to give an out
line Of his conclusions.
His report will. have great bearing
upon the Settlement of the japanese
difficulty on the Pacific coast, however
because all Of this oriental immigra-
ton. now comes from the Hawaiian
islands, and if the flow from Japan to
Honolulu can be stopped the fear OF
. Californians of an inundatfon of Jap
anese will disappear, violation OF law
and order will cease, and normal labor
conditions on the Pacific slope will be
restored.
When the japanese ambassador call
ed at the White House, while excite
ment in California over the presidents
first Japanese message was at lts
height, statement was made on au-
thority Of some Japanese that a treaty
was being negotiated between the ex-
clusion Of the laboring class IN each
country from the other This story
promptly was denied by the state de-
partment. Since then, however. certain
neople from the Pacific coast and some
eastern senators have been let INTO the
secret OF negotiat lions
To understand the situation II snouiu
be explained that long time ago lne
Japanese government by 9 mere execu-
tive order stopped emigration OF. theit
unskilled laborers to the United States'
That order still stands and the Jap
anese coolie class are not carraeo VI
alips direct to this country.
n was reported to the Japanese gov
eminent. however, in all gooo Iailii'
that there was an enormous demand TOT
apricultural labor, in the Hawaiian
islands. This was. quite true. The oper-
! alton Of our Chinese exclusion act
cripnled the Hawaiian plantations.
when the islands were annexed Vne
nlantes. supposed It would be simple
matter 10 get congress to agree 10 sus-
rana the Chinese exclusion act so far
a Hawaii was concerned, but keeping
cinnamon out of the mainland. wheth-
ar thew came direct from China OF
from Hawaii.
Congress, however. refused TO meddle
with the Chinese exclusion act at an.
The result was an extraordinary oea1un
OF agricultural labor in Hawaii. TO sup
ply the gap the planters sought the alo
az Japan, and the Japanese government
subsequently, upon representation OF
anne Of kiaeir own large employment
agencies which operate much like the
sir companies Of China, or the padrones
OF Italy, agreed to elbow laporess TO
shin from Japan 10 Hawaii. practically
without restriction.
The result was astonishing AS la1e
~ 1884 there were In the ISLANDS less
chan 1 per cent OF the total popuialloa
who were foreign..born Japanese, While
at the same time about ~ per cent OF
che population were natives OF CHINA.
Since that time tile Chinese have gone
9homeward at the end of their period OF
employment under the six companies
system.
By 1901 more than per cent OF the
total population were natives of ia
pan. The census of that year showed,
moreover, that 81 per cent Of males III
wears of age and over were Japanese,
while more than 90 per cent were Chi
nese. It thus appears that in six years
nearly rs per cert Of the adult male
population Of the islands was Asiatic.
Since then the Japanese tide toward
the United States has set in. The re-
suit is piling up the Japanese on the
Pacific coast. wehere they are not
wanted, are a drain on the Nbor Sup
ply of Hawaii where the Japanese are
much in demand.
Commissioners General Sargent said:
"There are now probably 10000 Jap
anese in the Islands. They are arriv-
ing there at the rate Of from 900 to
1000 a month. The new arrivals do
not remain long, however, but soon
20 to the Pacific coast Of the main
land. In the last twelve months $4,000
Japanese have gone from Hawaii to
America.
1.-THE Japanese government, as un-
derstand it, will not issue passports to
its citizens to come to this country,
because it has bsen satisfied that its
people here could not get work in suf-
ficient numbers nor could be properly
guaranteed protec ton and good treat
ment The fact that there is demand
( for laborers in Hawaii induced the jap
anese government to issue passports to
those islands. Once they are in the
islands, however. the Japanese go di-
rect to California and thus evade the
intended restriction of their own coun-
try"