Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-19

indigenous TO the soil and needing on
ly to be given opportunities for de
velopment, has caused less trouble
than the other islands from an immi.
grafton standpoint, though represen
tations have been made that owing to
local conditions certain immigration
thereto from adjacent islands and
elsewhere should be prohibited or
made subject to strict regulation.
Trouble Given Service.
I Aliens coming from Porto Rico have
been handled with fair degree OF
success under rule II, but those com
ing from Hawaii and the Philippines
have given the service a great deal
! of trouble, the former with regard to
the admission OF aliens TO the terri
tory and their subsequent migration
to the continent, and the latter with
respect TO the coming Of aliens to the
mainland from the Philippines only,
, the immigration service having moth
ing to do with respect to the admis'
sion Of aliens to these possessions.
Hawaifs Experience.
ut has been regarded as desirable
in the past to encourage the settle
ment in Hawaii of European aliens and
correspondingly to discourage the set
Element there of aliens from the ORR
ent, the idea being that the former
does and the latter does not tend to-
ward the 'Americanization of the ter.
ritory, which already has large Asia
tic population. Under this policy,
ayaiIing themselves of the exception in
favor OF states and territories to the
induced immigration clauses of the
law contained in section of the act
of 1907, the board of immigration OF
Hawaii has induced many Europeans,
especially Spaniards; Portuguese and
Russians, to migrate to the territory.
During the said period, however, many
of these have left Hawaii and come
to the mainland-2,S60 Spaniards, 3
414 Portuguese and 1,010 Russians
liable XIV, or about 81 per cent of
the number immigrating. This fall
ure to retain their immigrants secur-
ed through the exercise by the fed
eral government of a very liberal po-
Icy 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 these Eu-
ropeans learn that much better condi-
lions prevail on the continent they
exercise the privilege, which can not
be denied them under the existing law,
of moving thereto. Alien laborers
from China and Japan settled or set
Ting in Hawaii have no such priyi-i
lege, the Chinese-exclusion laws and
the Japanese provisions of the immi-
grafton 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 Asiatics the law con-
tains no such provisions, so that Hin
dus. Lascars, and others may soon
IL they please to use Ha-
wall as stepping-stone to the contin--
emit. This should be remedied without
delay, not only by placing them In the
same category as the laborers above
but also by prohibiting
their landing in that territory.
AmericanlzatioH Of Hawaii.
The thorough 'Americanization' or
Hawaii is a matter which demands
serious consideration and careful and
action. 1t never will be &C.
complished, in my judgment, under the
present incomplete, haphaZard meth
eds. Conditions should be made such
as to invite the proper kind of lab
orers to go to Hawaii from our own
country il possible, and laws should be
enacted that would induce them to re-
main there as part Of happy and
contented population; anything less
than this is not fair to Hawaii or to
the mainland, especially SO much OF
the latter as is nearest to that ter
ritory. In this connection attention
is called to the fact that of the 1882
aliens shown to have come from in
sular United States to the mainland
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