The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-01-21
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Manager Of Polish Emigration
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With view Of investigating condi.
tons pertaining TO immigrants as they
exist in the Hawaiian Islands, Joseph
]. okoiowicz, of Cracow, Austrian Pc.
land, managing director of the Polish
Emigration Society, arrived in Honolulu
yesterday.
Mr.. Okolowicz comes here as the re.
suit of the visit of DIR. Victor Clark
to Cracow last fall. He plans to spend
eighteen days in going over the Is.
lands and as he speaks Russian and
Portuguese, in addition to four other
languages, expects TO have but little
difficulty in ascertaining whether Ha-
waii offers sufficient inducements to his
countrymen to emigrate here.
Very few Austrians have ever Wis.
tied Hawaii, said Okolowicz at the
Young Hotel last night, "and that fol-
the good reason that it is utterly un
known to them. There is no literature
over there dealing with this country
and Baedhker makes no mention of it
Some few have heard of it as being o
beautiful country, but they picture il
as being like dark Africa and full OF
savages. 1t will be pleasure to me
on my return to see that articles prop
erly advertising this beautiful country
are given full publicity
Among the Poles, Hawaii is per
haps little better known, but MOI
favorably. A number of years ago
when the contract labor system wa
in vogue here, some one hundred
Poles came to Hawaii They claimed
to have been very badly treated anC
when they returned home they spread
sad reports about the country, so tina
for long time if you mentioned Ha
wall to prospective emigrants there
they would hold up their hands in hor
ror and say, 'We will not go there t.
! be slaves
More Interest in Hawaii.
"Of course, our society knows tina
conditions are much different now an,
we tell them so, and now much inter
est is being taken in Hawaii.
''Our people are land hungry, an,
so they are emigrating to countrie
wnere they can get parcels of ground
There is nothing for them in their owl
country for land is too high. Again,
is so thickly settled that there is no
enough work for all There would b
no agriculture in Germany without tn
roles who go there and work in tn
fields in the summer, returning HON
| for the winter.
"For a time emigration was OF
posed, but seeing that it could not b
stopped, it was determined TO organic
societies which would, through agent
visit the countries to which the pee
pie were going and ascertain what il
ducements were offered them. | hav
just come from Canada where ther
are several Thousand of Poles. The go'
eminent there has much broader in
migration policy than the Unite
States. Instead of putting obstacles
the way of worthy Immigrants, it we
comes them, gives them land, and pr
vides work for them until they ca
get the equipment necessary to go O
their own farms.
Gin Southern Brazil there are 10000
Poles, who are happy and prosperoi
now, although for the first year Il
country and customs were so strans
to them that they gave some troubl
1t is probable that they would be di
contented here for a while, because Il
Polish peasant is conservative, he di
likes change and finds it hard to g
: used to new customs and ways of d
ing things. Part Of the work of OF
: society is to encourage them to rema
steadfast in their new homes, and
, the society does not encourage or q
/ sist them to go to countries which
not provide them with opportunities
advance.
, Literacy T st Inrocuous.
/ 81 understand that your congre
will probably pass a new immigrant,
law with literacy test This won
, not affect our people much, for eigh
: per cent. of them can read and wri
their language, and are good either
. When the Panama Canal is opened,
will be much easier for you to get il
: migrants and much cheaper.
81 expect to spend eighteen days
the Islands investigating conditions.
t will then make a report, a copy
I which viii be given to the terrtori
+ board of immigration here, and a co
n will be sent to the society.
Naturany, as | have just arrive
have formed no impressions, exec
that ] am very surprised with tlor
). lulu. In New York and Chicago / tri
@ in vain at many bookstores TO get boo
q or literature dealing with Hawa
e When / arrived here, j asked at t
a newsstand for a copy of the book {
:. titled The Real Hawaii, They S
!, they have not got it, and sell to me &
y other book which | perceive is
!, cha geography of the Islands. II
d II great pity that Hawaii is not hett
, known abroad, for if il was you 40,
o have many tourists. -