The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-29
ATKINSON
ALARMED
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industrious and law-abiding Portu-
guese population.
"On account of the changes brought
about by the immigration bill, where
In the japanese are allowed to come
to Hawaii but not to go hence TO the
mainland, We are put on the basis of
an Asiatic community. On the other
hand, with the virtual exclusion of
japanese from California, the Califor-
mans are put on an American basis.
They are protected outside of the
consideration of higher cost of sub
sistence for labor on the Coast
Some people do not believe in tell
ing these facts, but l do not believe
in holding them back. They are true.
Therefore l think, under the conditions
as they exist, we should make a more
serious effort to retain those whom we
have here, besides retaining any more
that we may induce to come.
How can this be done? I do not
say we can hold everybody here but
| do know a method by which we can
hold whole lot of people. That is,
not only to employ the Portuguese but
others we have here i'm all the mechan-
zeal positions around the sugar mills
and elsewhere, but to domiciles such
people as well.
"A correspondent of the Advertiser
this morning aptly used the express
sion, Man the land L say kokua but
also would man the jobs, because the
man that holds the job and owns his
own home besides is not going to leave
this country
The Portuguese have a strong fam
lily trait. The sons generally turn in
their money to the family exchequer
and when enough is accumulated the
father retires from hard labor for
wages and the sons support the whole
family. Therefore it would be well for
the planters to watch those sons, talk
encouragingly to them and, whenever
they are old enough, initiate them in
the work for which they are suited
and instruct them in the conditions
by which they can hold their positions.
With every job allotted endeavor to
domicile the family.
Il believe that the agricultural in
terests should dig down into their
pockets and pay their labor such
wages as would hold those people
here, because if they lose them they
will have to get others.
This country is going ahead. 1t is
not going backward We are not the
kind of people that lie down every
time a crisis arises.
Yes, by all means continue the i'm
migration of Europeans. From the
fact that as many go away in four
trips of the Alameda as we receive in
a single shipment at enormous ex-
pense things naturally look very black.
And the fact that Japanese are allow
ed to come here and not to go to the
mainland makes it look blacker for the
of this Territory, but
don't you suppose for one moment that
1 believe in quitting.
1.-THE President will not desert us.
believe he will see US and our policy
through. l personally know how he
feels about this matter, and don't you
think for one moment that he Is going
to allow Hawaii to take a step back
ward. He is not built that way. We
are a long way from headquarters. He
knows more about the situation than
we do. You never heard of President
Roosevelt retreating from a position.
Another thing. Do you know what
this crisis means for Hawaii? 1t
means that this Government recog-
nizes the condition of affairs as a sig
nal to redouble its efforts to get the
land settled. The time of delay has
gone by. The public lands must at
once be opened up for settlement"