The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-27

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Information similar to the above re-.
garding The Territory OF Hawaii is sup.
piled by Table b. During the year
21g3 japanese applied at Honolulu,
1853 of whom were admitted aud thirty.
four debarred. All but SIX of the 2l93
applicants had passports OF the 21S7
holding passports 20G9 We're entitled
thereto under the definitions set forth
i'm the table and ttS were found upon
examination not to fail within such
definitions. OF the 2O69 entitled to
passports, 413 were former residents
andl656 were parents, wives, or chill.
dren of residents. The us not entitled
to passports consisted Of two laborers
and 116 nonlaborers who were neither
former residents nor parents, wives or
children of residents.
Chinese White slavery.
After reviewing a number of cases
of attempts to evade the Chinese exclu-
sion law, the commissioner general
says:
A class covered by Table two to
which particular attention should be
called is wives of United States
citizens" Such women are admitted
upon the theory, not that they are
citizens (for not being of a race mem
hers of which may be naturalized they
can not acquire citizenship by the in
direct means of marriage), but that
their husbands, being citizens, are en-
titled to the care and companionship of
their foreign wives. OF these wives"
eighty-nine applications We're consid-
cred, eighty beng admitted and five
deported The claim is &. favorite one
under which to import Chinese slave
women and girls, who bring an exceed
ingly high price in this country for use
in houses of i'll fame-frOm S2j00 to
$4,000 each But this is not the only
method adopted in this nefarious but
exceedingly profitable business For in
stance, in December last party Of
stowaways was captured after being
surreptitiously landed at San Francis
co from the steamship Manchuria, such
party consisting of eight males and
seven females. The men were coolies
of the lowest and most ignorant type,
and the women were being brought
in for sale as slaves. These seven
females ranged in age from fourteen
to twenty-one, and it appeared from
their testimony that they had been
coaxed or forced aboard the vessel,
some at Hongkong and others at Yo-
kohama The entire party was slowed
away in the hold of the vessel, and
was kept supplied with food and water
by some person or persons on board.
/ The fifteen aliens were deported, and
proceedings have been instituted look
ing to the pros 2ution Of the parties
implicated in the smuggling
Exclusion Law Deficient.
Mr.. Keefe, in his concluding pages
GA llItSSGS III liz lOllONllAt1 WI No his
opinion that the Chinese exclusion law
needs strengthening:
THE foregoing review of the situa
ton discloses some causes for con
graduation and optimism, but many
reasons for feeling that the present
statutes are wholly insufficient tc
maintain the long and frequently avow
ed policy of excluding from the coun
try lGborers Of the Chinese race. Re
cent years have witnessed a remark
able improvement in the administra
ton affecting this matter, and possibly
the methods hive been brought as
nearly to an ideal point as may be eX
pected under the adverse and tryini
circumstances Therefore, | believe
that it can not reasonably be expected
that there will be any diminution II
the immigration o. Chinese, but tina
there must be realized and concede
that, unless some change is made Il
the law, such immigration will cor
.+outI,- increase i'm the future"