The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-20

paid IN HAWAII and onerlng TO advance
| the passages of laborers who will go
| On a number of occasions tramp steam
ers have been sent down and gone from
port to port throughout the islands
| collecting laborers who have been pre-
viouslv notified of the saiings through
| the papers and runners who have gone
| from plantation to plantation drum
ming up recruits. In many cases pas
sages of the laborers were paid for o.
| advanced to them.
"sThe laborers who go to the Coast
are largely used on the railroads IN the
northwest, as fruit pickers in the or
chards of California and laborers or
the beet sugar plantations in Califor
| MIA
eff treaty is negotiated with Japan
by which laborers are shut out from
Hawaii, and they are allowed to come
from Hawaii to the Pacific coast, Ha-
wall viii speedily be drained of the
labor absolutely necessary to carry on
its enterprises, and we will be in as
abnormal and difficult a situation as
would the eastern portion of the Unit
ed States be if all immigration from
Europe were suddenly arrested.
PURELY FICTITIOUS AND MIS-
CHIEVOUS.
''The kilograms which have recently
been sent out from Honolulu as to mill
tary activity there are purely fictitious
and misehievous. One of them stated
that large amounts of rice were being
landed and secretly stored.
81 am a member of the board Of
agriculture and happen to know the
exact facts in regard to these rice i'm
portations.
"'The Japanese prefer japanese rice,
as the Chinese prefer Chinese rice, sim
ply because they prefer the flavor of
their home article, and will pay as
high as a cent pound more for it
than they will for other kinds of rice
''Last summer an insect pest in
fected nearly all the japanese rice
coming to Honolulu, to the extent that
the board of agriculture, fearing that
the insect might infect the local rice,
quarantined and finally barred it out.
This resulted in completely exhausting
the supply of japanese rice in Honolu-
lu, and now that the new crop is COM
ing in from Japan a larger amount
than usual is doubtless being imported
to make up for the previous shortage.
That is all there is to the rice story.
81 am well acquainted with many
of the japanese residents of Hawaii,
and know what / am talking about
when [ say there is no suggestion of
hostile feeling or warlike intentions
either by the people of Hawaii or
against them or by them against the
people of Hawaii.
ssThe most of them are there for
the purpose of making small stake
and going home, and this object would
be interfered with if they got into
trouble. Only few of them buy real
estate. A comparatively few rent land
from five to ten years. There are
some 5000 or 1000 of them who have
their families with them, and from
these families there arc now something
like 5000 children attending the pub
lie schools. Doubtless a considerable
number of these will remain and grow
up in the country of which they are
citizens. by birthright. / have seen
nothing to indicate that they will not
make good citizens.
81 have no comment to make upon
the japanese school question in Cali
fornia. / would say, however, that
we have exactly the same questions
to meet that they have in California,
and we have solved them without trou-
BILE.
GAS to adults attempting to go to
school with small children, there are
not many who have sought the priv
ilege, and those who have have been
barred out of the primary classes by
establishing an age limit, irrespective
of nationality. Those adults who want
education have had no difficulty in
securing it at night and private schools.
SEGREGATION OF PUPILS.
Gas to segregation between nation
alities, nothing of the kind has been
thought of, but practical segrega-
ton satisfactory to both white and
Asiatics has been arrived at along the
following lines:
1.-THE white children all understand
English, and their prime object in GO
ing to school is to secure a general
education. On the other hand, the ma
tives and Asiatics are to a great ex-
tent ignorant of English, and their
primary object in attending school is
to learn English.