The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-05-16
ALL Immigration
IS PRECARIOUS
ONLY MArrBR or TINE UNTIL
rERRIToRrAL BOARD WILL
HAVE TO QUIT.
tFIom satarday's Advertiser. }

(Fiom Saturdays Advertisor.)
Assisted immigration 70 Hawaii will
have to cone TO an end some day. This
is just as certain as that oriental immi.
grafton has come to an end" 10 the
opinion Of DR.. Victor Clark, superiR.
tendont Of immigration for Hawaii.
"what viii Hawaii do theni Well,
if by that time We have not established /
a procreative citizenship, ] don't
know"
Doctor Clark believes that one great
work Of the immigration bureau now
will be to satisfy the laborers already
here His plans as outlined include a
careful watch of the immigrants in the
country, especially those who arrived on
the Orteric; a watch to see IL they are
workers or shirkers; a watch to see that
they receive fair treatment, not only
from the plantation managers but from
the plantation lunas; a watch TO dis
cover signs Of dissatisfaction among
the immigrants, in order that steps may
be taken OH the start to adjust all diff
iculties until the newcomers are ia
miliar with conditions and settled down
as component parts Of the population.
"If we find that some are especially
provident and industrious and want to
better their condition, we will try to
settle them on a homestead instead of
allowing them to go unnoticed to the
Coast, said Doctor Clark. The work
of the market superintendent will come
in here
Democrats Less Friendly.
In explanation of his statement that
sooner or later will come the word that
viii shut off forever such immigration
activities as are now carried on by the
board of immigration, the superintend-
ent states that the work of the board
has always been more or less precarious
and that it has only been because the
authorities at Washington were favor
able to the bringing of white laborers
to Hawaii that any work has been pos
sible. If the strict Interpretation of
the immigration laws applied at New
York were applied here, probably fifty
per cent of the recent arrivals from
Spain and Portugal would have been
barred out The first arrivals from
Portugal in the latter day immigration
work came under the special auspices
of President Roosevelt; later immi-
grants have come with the assurance
that the department of commerce and
labor favOrs the bringing in of white
laborers to Hawaii and is inclined to
tolerate conditions under the circufn-
stances that would not be allowed at
any other port of entry.
"We could shut out every one of
your white immigrants, if we were not
friendly" is remark said to have
been made here by Inspector General
of Immigration Keefe.
The question now is: How long is
Washington going to remain in this
friendly attitude toward usf Just so
soon as that attitude changes, biffi Pau
for the work of the immigration boardl
There is every reason to believe that
the Democrats, if they should gain con-
troll next year, would be less friendly
toward Hawaii g present policy than
have been the Republicans. Even the
Democratic control of the house now
| threatens the work of recruiting Eu-
ropean immigrants. The congressman
from the South, who will have a great
deal to say, are unfriendly to all for
eign immigration, especially that from
the south of Europe, despite the fact
that the southern States are in need
of labor.
Race Question.
At recent convention of employers
of labor, called by the Governors of
some of the southern States, the trend
of sentiment expressed was distinctly