Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-01-11
KEFFE MAKES
STATEMENTS
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place where their credit is good,
their chance of dealing elsewhere is
small. The cost of supplies varies
on different plantations. | have a
full lise of the prices.
Such Russians as | found there
at work are as good laborers as any
in the world, but they will not stay,
and the reason they give for leaving
is that they are paid insufficient
wages to furnish food.
"White laborers are paid from $22
to $24 a month. Asiatics are paid
SIS month. Twenty-six days of 10
hours each constitute month and it
is rarely possible for man to get
in a full month. Women and chill
dren are employed at still smaller
wages. The men working in the
mills have 12-hour day and re-
ceive about 50 a month more than
those who work in the fields.
Filipinos Won't Do.
Just before | left, there arrived
1875 Filipinos from Manila. They
were brought by the Mongolia. Their
ages ranged from Is to 65 and they
were about as poor specimens of hui
manity as | ever saw huddled in one
group. Most of them were diseased
and the diseases were of peculiarly
repugnant types. Several of them
were suffering from senility and they
included consumptives, cripples and
idiots. AS they came from Ameri-
can territory they were all landed,
which is their right under the law,
There are plenty more like them
where they came from"
The commissioner-general would
make no further coment on the Fill
pinos, except to say that the subject
would be dealt with in his report to
Washington. Another matter that
he will take up is the immigration
of Japanese women of the coolie
class. They comes as the brides of
Japanese already located in Hawaii
and in this country. They have been
pouring into Honolulu at the rate
of 80 to 100 on every steamer, and
every ship from the Orient brings a
score or more to this port.
Proposed Legislation.
At the union labor banquet he said
in speech:
''As the immigration laws now ex-
list, it is an utter impossbility to
keep undesirable aliens, especially
Asiatics, out of the United States.
Defects in the Chinese exclusion law
are responsible for the coming into
this country of Orientals who are not
entitled to land. Many Chinese land
in Canada after deposting a $500
head tax. Canada gets the $500, but
in IA great many instances the Unit
ed States gets the Chinese.
Il am of the opinion that the i'm
migration authorities should be given
the power to decide the right of a
Chinese, or any other alien seeking
admission to the United States, to
land. AS it is now Il Chinese or 9TH
er alien may take his case into a
court where, with the aid of skilled
attorneys he oftentimes succeeds
through some technically in gaining
admission to the country in direct
violation to the real meaning of the
rules of the Federal laws governing
the entrance Of aliens.
Would Remedy Laws.
"One solution of the present defect
in the exclusion laws would be to
have the law so amended as to per-
nit of only one Interpretation. The
immigration authorities are opposed
to Hindus entering the United States,
not because they are Hindus, but be-
cause they do not come up to the
moral or mental standards
set by the officials. The immigra-
ton laws are sorely in need of
recommend the same
physical standard that Is demanded
of applicants for admission into our
army or navy be required of all
aliens seeking to enter the country.
81 am strongly of the belief that !
the exclusion laws will be so amend !
ed by the next Congress as to satisfy |
the people of the Pacific Coast.
am also quite sure that there will
be a general change for the better
in all immigration laws by Congress
during its next session."