Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-05-15
(ORREA'S PLANT
FROM DISTANT FRISCO
he AIRS HIS TROUBLES
Sample of Letters Sent to Hawaii
Politics Causing Trouble, But
This in His Own Fer
tile Mind

Editor Evening Bulletin have
! read with interest Honolulu newspa-
rers, Portuguese and English, anent
the alarming exodus of white people
OF Hawaii to California, more partic-
ularly that of the Portuguese race.
Since my residence in California |
have met and spoken to nearly every
! Portuguese who has come to Califor-
MIA and find that the consensus of
opinion among them is: that condi-
tons in Hawaii are intolerable and
such that they see no future for
themselves or their children, and
| give as reasons:
First-The. large portion of Orient
al cheap coolie labor in Hawaii, espe-
tially Japanese.
Second-The low rate of wages pre-
FALLING in Hawaii.
Third-The discrimination shown
in every walk of life against the Por-
tuguese in Hawaii.
Fourth-The lack of favorable land
laws, and
Fifth-The bright and prosperous
future for them and theif>children in
California.
The first cause, the blame is laid to
rest upon the sugar planters, who
have discharged almost every white
han possible employed on their sugar
estates and replaced them with cheap
japanese coolie labor, in the mills, va
1ious workshops, fields, and etc; and
the merchants who employ at and in
their homes nothing but Oriental SER
wants, and few in their establish
ments and places of business. The
second cause has prevailed ever since
the large immigration of japanese
coolies into Hawaii and no doubt eX-
lists by reason of the meager wages
this class of people will work for, ow-
irg to their mode of living.
The third cause is attributed to the
fact that the Portuguese is the larg-
est colony Of the white race in Ha-
vail, andEtheir progressive, frugal, in
dustrious, ambitious, abiding and
home-loving propensities have to a
certain degree engendered the envy
and prejudice of the dominating 9TH
or whites in Hawaii and the wages
offered a Portuguese in all classes of
employment is not commensurate
with their ability and proficiency or
that given or paid his white brethren
for the same class of work and in the
same employment.
The fourth cause relating to the
land laws has been of long standing
and though the farming class of
white people in Hawaii have raised
their voices to the very height of
Heaven in denouncing the existing
land laws, the influence of the sugar
planter and land shark has to a
large degree prevailed upon those in
authority, and hence the existing con-
ditionS.
The fifth cause is due to the first
four causes combined, and among 9TH
ers to the work available in Califor-
MIA at good wages for young and old,
the large tracts of land available for
orchards farms and ranches. the
prosperous condition of those who
have come to California before them.
The equal rights accorded them with
their white brethren, the fact that
their children who avail themselves
CT education and are capable of hold
ing office and responsible positions
are given that opportunity, without
discrimination or prejudice as to race
CT creed, and the fact that in Hawaii
the only profitable industry one may
engage in is the cultivation of sugar
cane, which industry the planters
have monopoly of, they possessing
all the available sugar lands. The
. tempt to Americanize Hawaii and
save it from the throngs of approach
ing ruin, by the Filipino route, will
very shortly prove dismal failure,
for no one who is conscious of or ac-
quainted with the character inclina-
tons and propensities of the Filipino
will deny that the Filipino will not
become or make a good American cit
izen; these people havesa tendency
to much favor and assimilate with
the japanese and have a most pro-
hatred for the American, his
institutions and principles. The Span
ish immigration, like the Molokan,
will result in an ignominious failure,
inasmuch as these people, who are of
a very irritable disposition, with
strong tendency to rowdyism, will not
assimilate with the few suave whites
10