The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-02-07
MAY SEGREGATE
OUR IMMIGRANTS
Proposition to Prohibit Exodus
from Territory to Coast
of LaborerS.

Because of the exodus of spaniards
and Portuguese laborers from Hawai-
4 to the mainland in ever-increasing NUN
/ bers, it is charged in California that
labor conditions ON the Coast are heing
disturbed within the meaning OF the
immigration law of 1897 and that ~ a
result il is probable that the President
will be asked TO issue an executive
order forbidding their landing in con
tinental United States.
Roosevelt, when President. acting un.
der the law of 1897, issued an order
Larring entrance to japanese aud Ko-
rcan laborers from Hawaii, and If the
Spaniards and Portuguese continue to
pour into California from Hawaii, labor
leaders, it is said, will ask that the
President issue a similar order 20 that
of Roosevelt's, applying it to the Span
lard and Portuguese laLorers.
The immigration laws provide that
Mt any time when the President is con-
vInced that aliens are travelling to Ha-
wall, or any of the other insular pos
sessions of the United States, in order
that they may pass from thence to the
mainland, and that their coming to
the United States disturbs labor cOndi-
tions, he may issue an executive order
barring the aliens in question from the
mainland, if it is shown that they are
laborers.
Roosevelt issued his order barring
the door to japanese and Korean labor
ers from Hawaii, only few weeks after
the passage of the law, with the result
that the departure of laborers of these
races from Honolulu to San Francisco,
or any other port in the United States,
was eifectualy stopped.
California Festive.
Now it appears that the Californians
are becoming FESTIVE because of the in
creasing number of Spaniards and Port
uguese laborers removing from Hawaii
to the mainland.
Hawaii is liIened to a huge funnel
through which the laborers of Spain
and Portugal are poured on to the
mainland at the expense to Hawaii of
something like eighty dollars a head.
1t is generally conceded that some
thing is wrong IRON the economical as
not fair to Hawaii that its taxpayers
are forced to pay enormous sums to Sc
cure labor only to see these carefully
selected laborers vanish beyond their
ken few weeks after landing in the
Islands.
Since annexation, IL is charged, Ha-
wall has never been given fair deal
on the immigration proposition. Al
! though by the Organic Act of tae Terri
| tory the Chinese residents OF Hawaii
are forbidden to enter the United
| States, where they are not wanted, the
/ powers that be insist at the same time
! that the Chinese cannot come to Ha-
wall, where they are wanted. The per
petual policy has been that of the dog
| in the manger.
Bringing in Filipinos.
Instead of the Chinese, who have
proved the best workers and peaceful
and law-abiding residents as a whole
Hawaii has either had to spend great
sums of money bringing European lab
orers to the Islands, only to see many
of them depart for the mainland, or tc
be content with Filipinos, who are in
ferior rs laboreTs, and so far have
shown themselves far from being peace
tul or aw-abiding
1t is asserted that if the Philippines
ever cease to be a possession of the
United States, the immigration laws
that will be passed applying to Fill
pinos will be far more ngid than thos'
! applying to the Chinese at the presen
time, and yet they are regarded a
quite good enough for Hawaii.
: On top of all this apparent discrimi
, nation against Hawaii, it is now pro
posed to do away with some at least o
) the tariff on sugar and SO materially in
jure the great industry ON which tn
prosperity of the Islands is builded.
(. the tariff is removed, even in part, i
: would be considered only fair, it is as
I. serted, that congress should take tn
restrictions from Chinese and other i'm
/, migration, as far as Hawaii is concern
ed, so that the Islands would be en-
3. abled to compete successfully with othe
I sugar-growing countries where chea
. labor abounds.
There appears to be no question tina
if sugar should be placed on the FIRE
list it will be strongly urged on cor
, gress that the only thing that coul
I keep the industry alive in Hawai-
would be the opportunity to work on
its own salvation by throwing open tn
y labor markets of the world to the suga
$ growers OF the Islands. Ii the tart
Il be cut--as is probable--it will be urge
r that Hawaii be protected in the labo
}, 1t has.
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