The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-13

J. kR.anianaole, delegate from Ha-
vail before the House committee on
immigration and colonization, April
rs, on excepting Hawaii from educa-
tional test for immigrants:
Mr.. Kalanianaole. Mr.. Chairman
and members of the Committee on
immigration, desire to lay before
you some of the more important rea-
sons why the educational tests for
immigrants provided for in Senat
riI 3175 and in House resolution
22527 should not be made to apply
to the Territory of Hawaii.
The evident purpose of this me2-
sure is to improve the quality of the
citizenship among the laboring cl1ss-
es of this country and to maintain Il
higher standard of living. l shall try
to show your committee that the mea,
sure will have to be amended in its
application to Hawaii, or exactly the
opposite effect will obtain in that
the handicap on Caucasian immigra-
ton into Hawaii, which we must have
to stand off the rapidly increasing
Asiatic population in that Territory.
The underlying conditions which will
make such a result inevitable I shall
endeavor to state as briefly as posi-
bic.
When the United States annexed
Hawaii it was we'll known that the
largest element in the entire pop
ulation of the islands was Asiatic.
That large percentage Of Asiatics in
Hawaii is one of the fundamental
conditions that effect all our indus
trial life and is leading and grow
ing factor in all our political and so
cial problems; in fact, today it over.
shadows and dominates all other is.
sues.
Caucasian Laborers Wanted.
To Offset this growing predomin.
ance Of the Asiatic it has become
necessary for us to find a class Of
Caucasian laborers who are by birth
and physique fitted to labor in the
climate of Hawaii and who will not
refuse to work alongside the Oriental
when given a higher wage to do 30,
and during the past five years the
board of immigration of the Territory
of Hawaii, with that end in view, has
secured about 1000 Caucasian i'm
migrants at a cost of over $750,000
10 the taxpayers. These immigrants
have for the most part been brought
fiom Europe in specially chartered
ships.
This effort of Hawaii to secure
Caucasian immigration has the APP
proval of every Federal officer and
Member of Congress who has ever
visited the islands. It's continuation
is not asked as a means of securing
cheaper labor; we seek instead the
right to continue securing the higher
priced Caucasian labor to Offset our
Asiatic population by class of agri-
cultural Caucasians who will become
useful American citizens.
We advance the following argI.
mcnt and special reasons why the
amendment asked for should be al
lowed
The census of 1910 showed the
population of the Territory of Ha
we'll to be $1,000 OF these, 1854
were japanese and 21,674 Chinese
There were 25,5S7 children attending
school, out of which 707S were Jap
anese and 1856 Chinese. The number
of American citizens in the Territory,
as shown by said census, including
citizens from the mainland and out
lying possessions was 98,157. or
these, 1889 were Japanese and 1895
Chinese, a total of 27,OS4 OrientaIs,
constituting about one-fourth of the
total citizen population.
Increase of Asiatics.
In the year 1900 the census showed
1925 Chinese and 1877 Japanese citi.
2ens of the Territory, constituting
then about one-eighth of the citizen
population, so that the advance in
the number of Oriental citizens from
cne-eighth to one-fourth of the entire
citizen population has taken place in
the space of 10 years. The census
Of 1910 also shows that of the fe-
males in the Territory of Hawaii 90
All were Orientals, the only prolific
non-Asiatic race, to wit the Latin
lace, showing 1O,73O females. The
significance of these figures becomes
more apparent when you take into
consideration the fact that the white
races other than the Latin race does