The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-03-08
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Senator FairchiId Expresses His
Views Concerning Latest
immigration.
REMINDED OF THE MoLoKANs
Thinks That immigration Money
Should Be Used to Bring Men
and Keep Them.

Editor Advertiser-The troubles over
the present Russian immigration are
very annoying for all concerned, and
are reminiscent of those heard during
the "Molokan Experiment in the
early part of 1906.
The situation at the present time is
particularly disappointing to some who
favored the passage of the special i'm
migration tax, believing it meant the
introduction into the Territory of five
thousand Portuguese families.
The Portuguese who have come in of
late years are of particularly good
class and reflect credit upon those who
recruited them.
Many of them load cane as well and
as regularly as the Japanese who are
unexcelled in this as well as earth
work. Some of them cut cane with the
best Chinese cane cutters, who were
unsurpassed in this line of work Before
the poppy betrayed their manhood.
Some of the older Portuguese, who
have grown up under the paternal plan
tation system have lost, or lack the
initiative, which the newer immigrants
seem to possess, and during the years
when the retail saloon system was
grossly abused on Kauai, some of them
fell prey to its influences 10 the detri-
| ment of their own welfare and eff
fectiveness as laborers.
The newcomers Immediately make
gardens about their homes, and offer
| to raise cane on small areas by con-
tract, so long as the combined earn
! ings go into the same family pot, or
| do other contract work more remunera-
tive than that by the daily wage sys-
TEN.
The Portuguese, as a race, seem to
fail utterly when working in eombina-
tions or cooperative schemes, which 60
beyond the confines of family, and
even in those families lacking a strong
character capable of eliminating the
suspicious, distrusts or jealousies so
likely to make such ventures failures.
In this respect they are as hopeless
ly individualistic as are the Russians,
whose troubles, it will probably be
found, are more due to suspicion,
distrust or religious differences among
themselves than to those things of
which they complain and, instead of
placing the blame where it belongs, TO
!, great extent they ''blame it on the
: dog"
y In the peaceful assimilation of Sc
many races, Hawaii has been particu
larly free from racial antagonism and
agitation, and so far has proven herself
capable of settling most of the diff.
culties which have arisen to the salts
faction and in consideration of all
: races and classes within her borders
: and she will just as surely settle the
, immigration matter with justice to the
o Orient and Occident.
But if she must be rushed in work
. ing out complex problem that will
demand the best thought and highest
. aspirations of all concerned in main
a tanning her reputation as the fairest
II feet of Islands ever anchored in any
II ocean, will it not be far wiser tc
y spend three times the sum per capita
in permanently locating good Portu
II guese family on the soil than to specu
= late in bargain lots of "Whites' who
- may make Hawaii, in some respect!
- darker rather than fairer? Have W,
, not continually repeated the error made
l. in the first instance, in that we did mo-
;. credit this race with having an aspira
!. tion for plot of ground which it nigh
Y call "homen that is common to III,
best individuals of all races
|. they are at present in Portugal, jus
d so long may good labor be had there
a but new laborers foreign in every re
o spect, without relatives of their own t.
{ meet them on arrival, cannot be re
n cruited, transported and settled amon
A. us in wholesale installments withou
Just such troubles as are now bein
r experienced and We're experienced fou
| rli x,ha
5; Chinese and Japanese were first intro
ID duced.
Mt The more foreign the new immigrar
is, the better for all concerned that h
be met by relatives who will 500
cd familiarize him with his new surroun,
no ings and thus give him the mpressio
"a. he has not come to "A land where
AZ. "must root hog or die, notwithstan,
- ing the fact that we all have TO 4
,t that no matter where we go. Many in
ill migrants make n change thinking
no hoping to cheat the laws of nature, m
an II is not always wise to awaken the
he too suddenly from their dreams.
as The object of this letter is an appe
rs. for the introduction of the Portuguese
m the class of labor intended when q
ns immigration tax measure was passe
he even though they may be more exper
10. i've, and then, after introduction,
nd secure them from going 10 the NAL
land by making arrangements 10 pl
nj vide them with homes on lands In /
fsd nelghborhood OF industries where IN
,vs may find work, " unable to supps
'l.e themselves Ia whole or part upon /
I'm plot Of land they call "home'
her In acquiring his ''home" The pr
peeiYe homesleaders should be n
,ow from the worst features of aucia
mn whore in many eases homesieadsrs la
nsr been compelled 20 pay many limei /
.om real value " d particular loi from u
abOI iiYpH of Fenlimnni OT ihmugh Il
.ing them Nlll not he lots enongh Tor
asplmnit, Yauu truly,
- 0fo, n, fAlhriiil.p
= keslis, Kauai, March o, 1910
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