Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 166, 7 April 1891 — Japanese Immigration. [ARTICLE]

Japanese Immigration.

4«hcle I. The Bulletin of last Fati:rday contains a lengthy article 011 Jap?\nese Immigration t "to useful as weīl as on this occasion, while the Board of iimmgration is disi?*ibuting these people, to sketch m view the facts relating t,o Japanese īniinigration." Tlie article is chiellv remarkable for what it does not say on tho subject. There is a carefui abstinence from any discussion of the pollcy of filling the country up with Asiatics. Every school bov knows what the writer tells us as news, that the labor required from time to time for replenishing the marJcet should be'sought of diverse na.tionanties." The italics to market are ours, and should be prefixed with the words •' human chattel."

The Bulletin of course tunes its fiddle to suitits eontract-labor holdmg owners; and no one ft'as a right to find fault with it for so doing. We never did believe in keeping a dog and h aving t® bark oii-rBelv.es. The "-paternal oversight" of the Japanese governraent and the patient studv of Hawaiian einployers as pathetically put by the Bulletin man, is really touching—or it would be, if it'was not pos?tively nuuseous. " The present status of the matter is creditable to the Hawaiian cniployers of the Japanese, for patiently studying the peculiar habits of the people, then trying to adopt the economics of sugar production to the Japanese predilections.' > What humbug I If this is not the very poetry of grovel, then we never saw Jenkins on his knees to the big boss. | ■ ■ ■ ■

Th«n follows an extract from the report of Mr. G. O. Nacayama, lu--Bpector-in-Chief of Japaneso Immigration, who ;receives out of thc general revenu6 of this cour»try the paltry pittanc£ of $6.000 evcry two yearB, for rēpre6enting that every thing ia lovely, and %l that during the last two years thei;e has been no considerable trouble between the planters and their Japanese laborers," and we will her« take the liberty to print a liiile more from ! tbis gentlemau ? b report—not fou nd in the BuUetin—to sbow how anxious this employer of the Board of Immigration is to please his employers by niaking matters more snug for thjeni and ruugh on his eountrymen :—"There have been frequent cortiplftints of desertions si«ce the last year, whieh at one tane amou»ted to some one hui.dred caecs, but owing to the eombined efforts of the planters not to euij3loy any Japan«se without a ccrtilicate of contract cancelled or expired, and on our part owmg . to the employment of special

pulieemian for that )>at-|K>se, liave n!ready mado sotne arrests since last Xovember; ther«s ; seems to have been a gaod eheel rnade against any furtherincrease of the eame evil. 'While such efforts on the part of plarlters *and polieeiuen are greatly lioped to be coatinued. I would suggest that the T.egis!j\ture change the law so a& ta rnske the act ef deseriigpg by contract īaborers entireiy more hcm'ily pimwhahīe " Wv i given to underßtar.d Mr. N\raviinia handed the plans and sp**cinct»tions of a genuine • t ßaBtin»do Act' 7 to the Hon. H. P. B;ildwin for passage into I;nv, līiit that geotleman decli«ed ativ conncxion with the t4 Jama Act ? * n a post-erity would probably des'gnate it, and it fell thrcugh. llo\v<-vcr tiie Bulietin has hard!y trpated this zeaious official fairiy in hiding his merit©rious zeai und«T a bushel, we hope his salarv wili be raised an extra thousand next. session, and that h:s Bastinado act will be adniinistered hy himse]f in public. But our National shoes, we have patriotic, soul stirring niottoes:— "Hail Columbia"—"Rule Brittania." "Rueit Sellum." "Nox Vomic:i. , ' U AII men are free and equal," and one or two more.