Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-30
Chinese Make Strong Plea
For Admission Into Hawaii
Petition Presented By the United Chinese Society for Special
Arrangements for Admission to Territory Rings With Good
Feeling and Loyalty to Flag and Constitution and Asks No
More Than is Accorded to Other ASatiC Races

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their wives and families with a view
To permanent location and many child.
/ rem born here are today filling posi-
! tiGns of Importance and trust. Schools
aud colleges were never closed TO
! them ana they were quick 20 learn
! this advantage and have risen - tire
extent that the highest schola site hon
Tors have been divided with them in
The schools and colleges.
Loyal to Stars and Stripes
The loyalty pf the Chinese. Hawai-
| ian born and these who took up their
residence here. is attested. IL is stated.
| by love Of sthe islands, reverence OF
1.-the constitution and flag. and that Ii
| Company OF the LIST Hawaiian infan.
| try is composed, officers and men. en-
tiTeIy Of Hawaiian-boFn Chinese and
| IL the largest Of any company in Tia.
waits militia. IN the public schools
tgd Young women of Chinese parent.
T age are engaged as teachers and per-
| form the. same duties as their Anglo .
Saxon sisters
Conditions Differ From Mainland
In no state. territory or possession
! Ct the United States. II continues, exist
conditions of commerce and labor
such as are found in the Hawaiian is.
lands. Here there is no competition
between Chinese and white labor and
| therefore there can be no conflict, and
| Chinese labor IS needed In the rice.
sugar and pineapple industry and as
sistants in stores and offices OF Chi
nese merchants Here, with the en-.
ception Of the sugar industry, the
greater part Of the life is Oriental
Chinese. Japanese. Koreans and otir
ers of Asiatic birth.
As realty tax payers, while in 1873
there were but $50. the least of any
nationality. the assessed valuation Of
their real property was $2.eS4.250, and
personal property assessment was
$2.224.647, far greater in proportion TO
the population than any other Oriental
nation.
While the population Is less than
fourth that OF the japanese hundreds
iof the Chinese own their homes.
stores, sugar fields. pineapple planta
tions. rice paddles, and their stores
and homes are in conformity with
I American ideas and ideals As bust.
fnessmen they are highly regarded not
| only locally but with mainland busf-
ness houses. Ninety per cent OF the
goods carried are of American manu-
facture With the same conditions as
other Oriental races enjoy. IL Is claim
ed, imports of American goods by Chi.
tnese merchants would be in excess OF
SI0,000,00 annually.
Succeed Under Difficulties
Ii tells of the losses sustained in,
the fire of 1886. amounting to $1.500,-
600, and in 1900, amounting to $4,000
600, but their bare word that obliga-
lions would be met in time was accept
ed by wholesale and commission
houses and that word was kept. BY
close economy they Iiquidated their
debts and built up business anew.
The Chinese of Hawaii are a law
abiding race. Tong wars have never
been nor do they exist in Hawaii. The
tongs and societies are purely benevo-
lent. they care for their own sick and
INDECENT
Morality Stands Very High
! They point with justifiable pride to
the morality of the men and especial
ly women, of whom they claim 80 per
cent are virtuous and conduct them
wives, mothers and daughtera. 1t con-
tinues that a census OF Iwilef showed
that of fD7 women inmates 81 were
of Oriental birth. hut not one was OF
Chinese parentage. The marriage law
is held sacred whether performed ae-
cording to old Chinese custom or
civil law or by those who have eubFac.
ed the Christian faith and that II is
only in rare and unusual cases that
the divorce courts are sought.
Feed Conservation Argument
The petition further advances the
argument that the president has APP
pointed commission on food eonser-
vatiop; that there are $4,000 people
in the islands who consume on an
average 60 pounds Of rice a month per
person: this quantity is not now rails
ed in the islands but hundreds of thou
sands Of sacks are imported from ia
pan annually. Rice is now raised at
a loss while with Chinese labor 1t
would be profitable and reduce largely
the eports and make the islands
more nearly self sustaining in goods
OF home production.
The petition closes with "a request
for special agreement between the
United States and the Republic Of
China relative to Hawaii, and not ask
ing for privileges for the Chinese in
the whole United States, and with
these words:
Trusting that American Justice
will be accorded to us. The constitu
ton and flag of the Emitted States are
ours TO live nnder: respect and obey: I.
to you we look for protection: to the
United States we give cur loyalty.
That all men be equal under the law
Is the petition of all the Chinese OF
Hawaii
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