The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-12-27
UNDESIRABILITY
IS ACCENTUATED
Commissioner Keefe Points Wit
SCOrn at Latest Batch
of FiIipinos.
lFrom satnrday,s Advertiser.l ]

WIN a fortnight hard work here
behind him Chief Commissioner of I'm
migration d. J. Keefe leaves today
for Washington, via San Francisco and
other places. During his stay here Mr..
Kcefc has made tour of the whole
/ of the Islands and has visited in all
twenty'one plantations, a lumber camp
and one or two factories. AS to what
the nature Of his report win be he is,
OF course, unable to disclose at the
present time.
f, 90 1 hardly know to tell you the real
truth, he remarked last night ~
have been getting facts and figures
IRON each pace l went to, and until
have been over them all aud made
my compilations, | am not in a position
to say what really is the state of
affairs.
The work is to start, however, as
soon as the boat leaves Honolulu. and
Mr.. Kecfe hopes the report win be
ready for publication about February /.
As to his impressions of the Islands iu
general AS place to live in, and also
as useful asset for the United States,
his ideas are entirely favorable and
he seems to think that as place of
residence the Islands are the nearest
approach to perfection that it is able
TO get anywhere in the world.
Some Remarkable Arrivals.
81 have Already expressed my opinion
of the Filipino as worker he said,
"but the bunch which arrived yester-
day are the most remarkable lot l have
ever seen. The outfit is absolutely the
i worst | have ever had the privilege of
laying my eyes on. They number one
hundred and eleven all told and are
made up of one hundred men, six women
and five children. Their ages range
from fifteen to sixty-fve years, and
they are deficient in many ways. One
old lady is totally blind and another
one is blind in one eye. Some of the
men are suffering from a disease in the
legs which renders him unable to walk
at all and none of them have ever done
DAYS work in their lives.
g As immiprants they are n most nm.
desirable class None of them seem
nrite riqbt in tba bead-T don 4 mean
to saw that they are insane but they
somehow or other. do NOT seem To he
all here. They are stnpid and dull
Their nbvsine is ont of tbe ordinary
and tbev do not lool, nc if tbev conld
stand tbe slightest hardship Of anv
lkind On ma5,ing innniries AMONGST
) tbnn, found +bst some of +bom bsd
y,ori,od as barheTs and others ne Clerks
| bnt tSare wa was NOT n singIo instance
,,,horo nv, af +bo,,, oJrri+ted +bat +bey
, had o,.a, dono an,, rnonnoi ,ro,I, a. alii
BESIDES this tbev are absolute manners,
!, ro+ ono of +hon, ba,,irrr dollor
II t.Tt,a ,,,o,,,e,, oro ,,,,H,. on5 sal, loo1,.
1 ;nc, and so ora tho tohiid,on and tbo,,
I @ m an o,as. Ia,I,i,l, iot +innt ba,,o
. 90, 'ho h,oI, pHHr Iro,,obt bara Tro of tbem
: Jioi v m oe'n a. DiU"S", 80 ond ,,,ero h,riod
u.eu "" one way ~, ~ "aant "nu 49, ~"
, az az 1e", anu a" - tne -, I'nn+ ;n
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I"ai"ntl"e ioi ioui 'eei u'yS "
IheS urS goIhs 10 ueveioP SnS ,4 s'.,.
can haIoiy pe HoiiuTieu !uallSe tnSC H. H.
i; !hem down as uIueslrap!gs Mnen Gnis
Is specimen oi tle men % .n"' oi are Det thS
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