The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-09-15

vi believe IN iha ftHfiflioa n ST.
migration fanihf irin lhlt country.
sm embossed a. 10 Aflsiif immIfinliGd
| fsiniha in feffi / on oppond 10 tht
tuforsar immigration coming into this
| country that in not homogeneous With
eur home people and Tat We can not
asrinilhtr 40 not believe that you
ran accomplish thlt result hy any make.
shifts. believe that % attempt 90 %
20 IL only tcmpofzlha. and no result
will be accomplished. I believe there
arc but two wars in which this unca.
tiOn can BE- reached and entirely solved.
and that is 90 pass n prohibitive law
against the Asiatic coolies coming into
this country nj al, and 90 fer ne the
European nations are concerned ! be.
licve that the wise position 20 take with
reference 20 this matter e. tn adopt an
educational test that will largely elm.
mate the races from Mediterranean
Europe, and will not interfere TO any
material extent with the races OF north.
ern Europe coming in here-raees Of
whom we can make good citizens.
Now, that was the proposition that
came before this house. That was the
proposition that the senate OF the Unit.
ed States presented TO the. country, and
that was the proposition that the com
mittee on immigration of this house
presented TO the house. That is the
only question that the people Of the
United States want legislation in refer
ence too. The people who believe in
restriction in this country, the people
who believe in maintaining a homo
geneous race of people, the people who
believe in protecting the labor at home
from the pauper labor of Europe, do
not believe in and do not want the
makeshifts written in this bill. They
want straightout, honest, fair declar-
alton and fair restrictions of immigra-
ton, and they do not get it in this bill.
"You can say what you please about
the important administrative conditions
in this bill. That is mere drop in q
bucket of water. 1t is a matter of lit
tie importance. But the real questions
that the country called on us to legis-
late about have been stricken out of
this bill and have been abandoned.
Why, they come here-the gentlemen
who bring in this bill before the house
with great parade that they are
legsating to keep the Chinese out of
/ California, and what do they dot They
bring in a provision here authorizing
the President, if he sees proper, to re-
fuse to allow japanese to land on our
shores who come to this country from
our colonial possessions.
"There are only few hundred thou
sand Japanese in all our colonial pos
sessions. There are millions of Japanese
in Japan itself, and yet, with all thiI
hurrah, all this pretense that you are
legislating for the benefit of the people
I.,H n,1s Ill IL II
, ing the japanese to come from the Ha
i waiian Islands and the Philippine
: Islands, and you leave the door wild,
a open to the millions of Japanese in ia
pan, and no power ON the statute book
; to stop them. Is that restriction O.
Japanese immigration7 Not at all. I
is merely makeshift. On the othe
\ hand, the increase in the head tax from
u 50 to $4 amounts to but little 1t ma,
i, be that it will help the administrator
Z of affairs. 1t may be that it may brin
J a small amount of revenue into tn
u treasury but everyone knows that ha
II considered the question at all that tn
u, head tax within the present limits Q
IL within the limits of the 81 put on it b
A. this bill is not paid by the immigraI
If himself. but paid by the steamship con
N pany, and the increased tax will nc
e prevent a single other immigrant frol
n, coming into the United States. The
u why should we go before the countr
d parading this bill as if we were accom-
4 plishing something for the people of tn
a, United States along the line of restric
g ed immigration7 1t is fraud and
e. sham and a shame, so far as those me
s. are concerned who believe in restrictin
y immigration and protecting our peOpl
O. at home. There is nothing in the bill
there is not one line here, that carrie
out the promises to the people in tha
respect or to better the present cond
ID tions. On the other hand, it will reall
n be an impediment in our way in I'll
~ future. 1t is a bill that goes to I'll
Of country as a pretense, and it will /
is necessary for those who believe in re-
CT restriction of immigration-an hone
restriction of immigration-frs to {
if to the country and show that this bi
es is pretense and sham before we ca
n. get the sentiment that will bring abol
re an action of legislation that we need.
lg Asiatics -Desirables.
.. In 1907 John Sharpe Williams
NJ Mississippi was the leader of the Der
81 ocratic minority in the house. Sin,
II tuut lllHe ne mas Deen elevated 10 III
h. senatorship and is now one of the lea
ne ing spirits of the Democracy in the u
he per house. He, like Underwood,
nv strongly in favor of restrictive feature
ed evidently believing that those only wi
en- are eligible to citizenship and WI
Ily might readily assimilate with the A
ON glo-Saxon people, should be permit,
We to come here Speaking particular
he with reference to Asiatics, he said
On. the debate mentioned, as follows:
on of questioned in California Il
es- precedent is made to question it sor
I'D day in Mississippi / can not vote
ne lodge in the President a discretiona
VS., power to be used as a bludgeon to for
ng sovereign state to forego its SOW,
me eign right to maintain separate scboo
l am with the Californians, Mr.. Spea
Tho er, upon the subject of protection
led the white labor of the United Stat