The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-14
STACKABL.E
IS TO co
Starts on His Labor
Mission in Six
Weeks.

" collector of the Port Stackable vii
D start for Europe and the Azores to Sc
2 cure plantation laborers in about 81.
x weeks. In the mail that came from tn
. mainland yesterday, Mr.. Stackable re
z ceived from the Secretary of the Treas
: Jury at Washington leave of absence fol
D six months in order that he may fulfi
the mission to which he has been ap.
5 pointed by the Board of immigration
> The permission reads that Mr.. Stacka-
BILE may take his departure when, in his
) opinion, the good of the service will
permit-and he will have matters in
: train for his departure in six weeks.
Yesterday afternoon the Collector of
: the Port had a telephone conference
with the Acting Governor, and these
: two will meet this forenoon to go over
the situation. Afterwards, probably on
) Monday, Mr.. Stackable will meet the
} Board of immigration for formal con-
ference relative to his trip. Following
} this meeting, arrangements for his de-
parture will proceed as rapidly as posi-
BILE.
In the meantime, it is said that the
/
mined to send man to the Philippines
for laborers, although neither o. A.
| Stevens nor Manager Fairchild of the
| Makee Sugar Company will be the man.
| The Alameda yesterday also brought
| the news that Joe. Marsden is going to
| Porto Rico for more laborers. Marsden
himself is given as authority for this
statement.
That the japanese are fully alive to
all that is going on in the labor world,
and to a few things that are not per-
haps, is shown by the fact that the Ha-
waii Shinpo of yesterday, on the arri-
val of the steamer China from the ORR
ent. blazed out with its whole first page
devoted to letters from its correspond
ents in Toxic, and to extracts from the
Japan papers dealing with the Hawaiian
labor problem, and the coming of jap
anese to this Territory.
| The Shlnpo prints very prominently
long extract from Yorozu Choho, of
Toxic, from which this extract is made,
the matter being printed on the English
page of Shinpo:
"The Hawaiian planters send their
representative to Washington every
year, and endeavor by skilful move
ment among government officials ana
the legislators to repeal the Chinese ex-
| clusion laws, or to pass a law allowing
| them to import contract labor; and they
| have endeavored to Introduce POrtu-
| guese and natives of the West Indian
Islands. But these efforts have so far
proved unsuccessful Now they have
changed their tactics and turned to-
ward the japanese government.
1.-The principal points of their nego-
tiation with the japanese government
are: To ask the Japanese government
to stop her subjects in Hawaii from
migrating to the States; and to enter
into a special treaty with the Japanese
government through the Territorial I'm
migration Bureau in order to secure
more immigrants from Japan: the final
object being to increase the supply of
labor and to decrease the demand there
for correspondingly and that to lower
wages. This immigration Board is
supported by local taxation and by the
contributions of the planters. This is
so only in appearance. The board is, in
fact, entirely supported by the planters,
and is their organ. When Mr. SwanZy,
president of the Planters Association,
was here last year, he secured inter-
views with the Foreign Office officials
through the Introduction of Mr. Deni-
son american adviser of the Korean
government). For aught we know, he
could not secure any definite result
from the interviews. Again the policy
was changed, and by skilful manipula-
ton, by abetting small merchants and
hotel keepers of Honolulu. who are, of
course. interested in the increased in
/ flow of laborers, the planters have made
a grand assault upon the japanese emf
grafton companies and the limitations
/
Hawaii, and are demanding the removal
of the limitation. Besides, the planters
are reported to be stretching their
hands in the direction of the japanese
Foreign Office and busying in those who
had been in Hawaii as agents of vari-
Gus japanese emigration companies, and
| in other ways they are making in secret
| a very strenuous effort in Toxic. The
time, is not far distant when the Ha-
waiian emigration will see great
change
Following this are two long letters
from the Shinpo's correspondent in
Toxic, from which these agraphs
are taken:
According to the first plan, a branch
of the Territorial immigration Bureau
will be established in Japan, which
| will do recruiting and assisting of the
emigrants to Hawaii: and the emigrant
will be compelled to sign a contract
whereby he will barter away his lib
| erty, by agreeing to place himself at
| the disposal of the immigration Blu
reau at and after arrival there; this
contract is expected to secure the sane
ton of the japanese Government. The
result of this arrangement will be to
! completely sever the emigrants COM
| nection with the emigration COM
panies; but there will also grow a new
| order of emigration company, whose
| business it would be to recruit Ia
borers for the government of the Ter
ritory of Hawaii A move to get this
privilege has been commenced by the
! Central Emigrants Dealers Associa-
ton. whose master spirits are Hinata
and his associates.