The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-08-15
JAPANESE ARE
AT TER HALSEY
Claim That He Is Unfair Toward
Them and Is Stretching Every
Point to Keep Them Out of Ha.
waii - Five oldtime japanese
Residents, Returning From Ex-
cursion, Held and Ordered De-
ported.
(From Thursday Advertiser.)

(From Thursday Advertiser.)
Claiming that they purpose, present
ing the facts in the matter to their
ambassador at Washington and will
urge him to take up the question with
the secretary of labor and the Presi.
dent, if nscessaryc he.,Iapanese editors
OF honolulu haVel logon an agitation
against the officers of the local federal
Immigration station, claiming that an
undue amount of red tape is being
mwound to hold back five returning
japanese excursionists, residents of lla
wai of long standing. The japanese
editors claim that most unfair inter
probation of the immigration laws is
being used and that this is only Il
sample of the general treatment the
japanese receive from Inspector Halsey
and his assistants and men.
The japanese editors state that this
treatment given the japanese at this
port is leading to great uneasiness
among the japanese residents, VINO are
being tempted to conclude that a stud
led attempt is being made to make them
feel that their presence in Hawaii is
resented and that their absence would
be welcomed. SIS,
Inspector Halsey, on the other hand,
tells The Advertiser that he is simply
carrying out the clear provisions OF
the law as he finds it and that the
matter is not optional with him nor
does the statute allow him any discre-
ton in the matter. s1ft the japanese
. Y.a . q. Ill l. -
1T is against the law, not against the
officers who are carrying it out.
The matter of moment at this time
is the detention of five members of an
excursion. party which left Hawaii
three months ago for Japan and the
announcement yesterday that the spe.
cial board of enquiry which had taken
up the cases had authorized the de.
POrtation of the five, four men and one
woman.
Japanese Press Unit.
'The japanese press in Honolulu is
unit on this question, - said S. Sheba.
editor of the Hawaii Shinpo, speaking
for his own paper and for the Nippu
Jill, the Hawaii IIochi and the .Japa-
nese Chronicle, which. Were represented
yesterday afternoon at a meetingi by
the editors OF the two first named publ
cations and by the president of Athe
Chronicle company. % We speak in
the name of the Japanese community of
Hawaii, which, is seriously upset oyer
this matter. We feelthat we Id not
know where we stand. We are living
peacefully here, minding our own bust.
ness and .endeavoring in every way
that we know of to become a part OF
this country. We are obeying the
laws; we are investing our money here;
we are helping, we feel, in. the general
upbuilding of Hawaii, and we resent,
very bitterly, the treatment that is be-
ing given us by the officials of the i'm
migration station.
ave feel that those officials are de-
Iiberately trying to stir MS up For
why, we do not know. We feel that
the immigration Office here is stretch
ing the red tape of the law to the very
limit to embarrass and exasperate the
Japanese. We believe that Mr.. Hal
sey is under the impression that he Will
please Washington by keeping out
Japanese coming or returning to ia
waii We believe that he is going out
of his road to make Hawaii uncomfort'
able for the Japanese. If he isn't do
ing this Intentionally, he is certainly
doing it Internationally and If he is the
kind of Il man that knows no better ne
is unfit for the very responsible posi-
ton he holds.
s.We do not want to go on record
as being kickers about every little
thing. nor do we want it to be sup
posed that the Japanese here are
.cockv' and ready to take onense
easilv, but there are some things whlch
we cannot, in Justice to our MANHOOD
stand for without vigorous protest.
eve intend to take up this matter
of the returning excursionists with our
ambassador at Washington and request
him to make a presentation OF tht
facts To the commissioner general OF
immigration and his chief, the secretary
of Labor. We can scarcely believe that
the Washington authorities VIII toi
crate any of the arbitrarily enforced
rulings of Mr.. llalsey.''
Editor Maxine Tells of Case.
Editor Fred Maxine of the Hawaii
Hochi endorsed the expressions OF MT
Sbeba. but was inclined to let Messrs.
Farmer, Moore and Burke, members OF
the recent boards of special inquiry
share in the blame. g 1t is not haiseY
altogetheE" be said. H.,
Mr.. Milking y 5Rpeeipi objection to
the attitude oX INSPECTOR Halsey is his
Attention of Tanaka, japanese who
holds certificate of Hawaiian birth
'.Mr. Halsey says that he will put nc
reliance in these certificates of Hawa'
iian BIRTH - said Maxine. He says
that Secretary Mott. smith is not care
full in issuing them, so that he will re-
Guire every one who has one to prove
all over again that he was born here
"Tanaka, - says Mr.. Max no, has al
ready been detained in the Immigration
shed for four months, although an
American citizen born, with his eertif