Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-17
IMMIGRATION FROM ASIA IS A MENACE
 SAYS CAMINETTI
Commissioner General Points Out Danger Of Hindu PrOpa- uanda And Places Total Year B Alien Influx At Million

] immigration, the hindu propaganda" and particularly immigration to Con tinental United States from Hawaii and the Philippines are discussed al length in the annual report of An thony Caminetti Commissioner Gen eral of Immigration made public bere today
 1 "I believe it is quite generally con ceded that immigration from the Far East is detrimental to the welfare Iof the United States. says the re- port. mot because it has heretofore been SO extensive in numbers but 1 because Of its peculiar effect upon the economic conditions and the pos 1 sitniues Of an almost unlimited in crease in volume if left unregulated ! and unchecked Our oriental immi grafton problem, arising more than quarter of a century ago. has never been satisfactorily solved the eX. clusion laws need many amendments not in purpose but in prescribed ! method
 The Hindu propaganda as yet in its infancy, is calculated to give much trouble unless promptly met with measures based upon and mod. eled to take advantage of our past experience in trying to arrange prac- ticable and thorough but at the same l time unobjectionabie plans for the protection Of the country against an influx of aliens who can not be read fly and healthfully assimilated by our tody polite Moreover. other possi- hiliues in this direction exist and it would be the part Of wisdom for us to meet them in advance, SO as to avoid many Of the difficulties and cm- l barras smeuts that have arisen iu controlling oriental immigration so far as such immigration has devel- oped It is only necessary to con slider the history Of immigration from Europe to realize how exten- sively Asiatic immigration may be cultivated and exploited and what a menace to our economic conditions these possibilities may become
 Immigration from the Near East has not yet attracted much attention. largely because i. has merged into European immigration and has de- 'yeloped along somewhat similar lines. It may reasonably be expected that western Asiaw ul be developed and exploited more and more completely by transportation companies whose business profits are dependent to @ considerable extent upon filling the : steerage quarters og their ships"
 or immigration by way of the iu- sular possessions. the Commissioner says "It will be observed that I5,Jl2 aliens came to continental from in- sular United States during the last seven years -1O94S from Hawaii, B. 950 from Porto Rico and 614 from the Philippines and that of these. 1O,74O landed at Sen Francisco. 3.- gl0 at New York and 63l at Seattle.
 Aliens coming from Porto Rico have been handled with a fair de- gree of success but those coming from Hawaii and the Philippines have given the service a great deal of trouble. the former witG regard to the admission of aliens to the terri tory and their subsequent migration 10 the continent and the latter with respect to the admission Of aliens to these possessions
 'Tt has been regarded as desirable to encourage the settlement in Ha- waii of European aliens and cores pundingly to discourage the settle ment there of aliens from the orient. tie idea being that the former does and the latter does not tend toward the Americanization of the territory. which already has a large Asiatic population Failure to retain the im- migrants secured through the eSer- else by the Federal government Of a very liberal policy is believed to be due to the fact that the conditions of work and labor are unsatisfactory and the standard Of wages too low. As soon as trcse Europeans learn that much better conditions prevail on /the continent they exercise the privilege. which cannot be denied them under the existing law, of moy- ing thereto. Alien laborers from China and Japan tied or settling in Hawaii have no such privilege . he Chinese-exclusion laws and the Japanese provisions of the inmisra- ton act of 1907 regarding laborers with limited passports being directed against their doing so II is worthy to be seriously noted however, that with respect to other Asiatcs the law contains no such provisions. SO that Hindus, Lascars, and others may soon commence if they please, to use Hawaii as a stepping stone Co tse continent. This should be remedied without delay mol only by placing them in the same category as the laborers above mentioned but also by prohibiting their landing in that territory
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