The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-19
STACkABLE IN
WASHINGTON
Sees the President and Tells
The Newspapers About
His Mission.

mail Special to the Advertiser.)
WASHINGTON, d. c., May 31.--Col
has been here this week, en- route from
Spain and Portugal. He spent three
| days in Washington and talked at
| length about his trip to Europe with
federal officials He had several con.
ferences with the Commissioner Gen
| eral of immigration, Mr.. Sargent, and
| with Labor Commissioner Charles P,
! Neill Just before President Roose-
welt left for his trip to Canton, to at
tend the funeral of Mrs. Mckinley,
| Messrs. Sargent and Neill accompanied
Mr., Stackable to the White House Of
fees There he met the President and
detailed to him what had been done
toward securing immigrants for Honolu-
IN. The President was interested at
the results accomplished toward get
ting able-bodied Europeans, who will
make good citizens, to settle in the
islands.
With Commissioner Sargent Mr..
Stackable went over in much detail the
work he has been doing in Portugal and
Spain. He told the Commissioner that
he regarded the Spaniards who were
sent by the Heliopolis as an especially
desirable class of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
as desirable as could be found any
where in Europe today. He talked
considerably about his experiences with
the Spanish and Portuguese officials.
AS soon as they fully understood his
mission, he said he had little difficulty
and in the main they cooperated with
him. The European governments are
not particularly pleased nowadays at
the departure of any great numbers of
their able-bodied population, as the Uni
ted States has ascertained during its
efforts to secure laborers for the Pan
anna canal. But this attitude did not
prove a serious obstacle to Mr.. Stack
able He was highly pleased at the
class of men he secured. They had
quite large families in many instances,
but the children were a healthy class.
Care was exercised to eliminate unde-
sirable characters-men who had rec
ord for lawbreaking and for disorderly
conduct.
TALKS TO THE PAPERS.
Mr.. Stackable started about 400 i'm
migrants for Honolulu during his resi-
dence of one year in Europe. Discuss
ing his trip in general terms with the
reporter for local newspaper, he said:
''The Territory wants those whose
grandchildren will be able to intermarry
with the descendants of the best citi-
zens now there. 1t wants those who
will be stable, industrious and honor
able. / found that sort of people in
Spain and Portugal. 1 secured the as
sistanee of our immigration agents over
there, and they helped me to pick out
some of the best people who ever emf
grated to another country.
"Some of the best blood that built
up California and the Southwest in the
early days was that of the Spanish and
None better can be found
in all the world The Spaniards and
Portuguese are intelligent, and the bet |
ter classes today are as hardy as their |
ancestors, who followed Cortez and
Pizarro, centuries ago, in the Western /
world.
Those we selected are men with |
families. Families were given the
preference, and single women were not |
taken at all. We examined each can
lidate. We looked at a mans birth |
md marriage certificates. which we
got from the church, and his record in
he province where he had lived and
n the army, which we got from the
We had each applicant
Examined by a physician also, so that
We really got fine set of men. During
he year 400 were sent, and the move
nent will continue from this time on.
one will lie bound in any way TO any
or field of effort. Work
will be found for all, but there will be
lothing resembling peOnage. The I'M
migrants and their children will be
mong the future respected citizens of
Iawaii
1.-The last chartered ship that left
pain was the Heliopolis, carrying 2293
spanish men, women and children. For
ONE time before they sailed | remained
n board with them. / asked If any
,ere dissatisfied and wanted to leave :
he ship But none took advantage Of
he offer On the evening before they
1T they were playing their banjos and
ngine merrily. | suppose they kept
up half way round the world Z
Commissioner Sargent was well pleas
d with the report that Mr.. Stackable
lade. He approves in every particular
he plans for inducing these desirable
uropean laborers to immigrate to Ha- :
ali and as is well known in Hawaii
as been aiding the movement as much
: he could The Commissioner General
aid today that the immigrants, who i
ent bv the Suveric. were doing finely ]
gET have received