The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-12-13
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outbreak Of cholera in the island of
Madeira. We cannot risk bringing any
immigrants from that island so long
as this disease exists there, consequent
ly our present immigration viii be con
fined to smaller parties, and we cannot
at any reasonable expense bring them
by a special vessel from Europe.
owe can, however, bring small par
ties at about the same per capita rate
as has previously been paid, by way of
Tehuantepec. The main difficulty has
been to secure connecting steamers on
the Pacific side. There are many lines
prepared to carry immigrants at low
rate of passage from Southern European
ports to ports in the Gulf of Mexico.
We have hesitated to use the Tehuan-
tepec route because the sanitary condi-
tions on the isthmus are not satisfac-
tory. However, by chartering a steamer
of our own over which we can have
entire coutrol, we can practically assure
ourselves against yellow fever, which is
the principal disease to be dreaded from
Mexican ports.
Quarantine Provisions.
'Such a vessel can be fumigated
thoroughly so that no mosquitoes will
remain aboard, and as there is no port
of call after leaving Salina Cruz until
the immigrants arrive in Honolulu, they
win be subject to what is practically an
absolute quarantine for twelve or four
teen days, which is longer than the
period of incubation of this disease
One advantage in the Tehuantepec
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est the Panama route, which will ulti-
mately be the channel through which
we may expect European immigrants to
come to Hawaii All the progress we
can make in establishing communica-
tion in this direction will facilitate
later immigration.
IAN immigrant ship via Cape Horn
comes to the Islands without in any
way facilitating subsequent passages by
the same route. Every body of immi-
grants we bring across the isthmus
gives MS added experience in handling
immigration through what is likely to
prove a permanent channel, not only for
passenger traffic, but also for other com
mercial intercourse.
Introduction.
"'By bringing immigrants in smaller
parties their arrival causes less dis
turbance in the local labor market at
Honolulu, and their distribution TO their
places of employment is easier. 1t is
not our desire to bring laborers to Ha-
wall so rapidly as to cause the displace-
ment of any of the resident Caucasian
population The most serious problem
we have to meet is the movement of
ysrlf 10 Iall 20 ha
This labor is not only lost to the Terri
tory but by competing with resident
| labor in California, and in some cases
by creating local problems of distress
in San Francisco, il causes a prejudice
| against the Hawaiian immigration pol
! icy on the mainland that is decidedly
unfavOrable to our work.
cit must be our constant study in
Hawaii, in view of prospective legisla
tion and as matter of public economy
so rapidly as possible to create condi
tions that will foster voluntary emigra
tion from Europe, or from the mainland
| One of the means of doing this is t
encourage such transportation lines al
we are eNperimentally establishing via
Tehuantepec. However, Hawaii viii
! probably have TO assist immigrants fol
a considerable period, if she expects
/ To get them Even were the wages, il
proportion TO the cost of living, as higl
in the Territory as they are in the
mainland States, immigrants woult
come 10 those States in preference I,
Hawaii on account OF the Comparatively
low cost of transportation. Few Euro
!, penns Of the laborng class can pal
their passage 20 this Territory In thi
respect Hawaii is boz the same position
ns Australia aud New Zealand whicl
have always had to assist immigrant
from Great Britain, although the labo
conditions in those countries are conad
B. eahly better be- rule, than those u
the mother country
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