Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1910 — WHITE IMMIGRANTS FOR HAWAII [ARTICLE]

WHITE IMMIGRANTS FOR HAWAII

Ruaaians and Portnxueae Be*innln* to Replace the Orientals. "Honolulu is encouraging to the utmost immigration of whites to the Islands,” said Antonio Perry, associate justice of the supreme court of Hawaii and former member of the board of education of the islands, according to the Los Angeles Herald. “The country is succeeding to a degree that is most satisfactory to the planters, for we find the white laborer is far superior to the Chinese and Japanese. The Russians have proved themselves especially adaptable to work on the plantations. Five hundred Russians arrived from Siberia four months ago' and more than 800 Portuguese were brought from the Azores islands at about that time. In fact, we have an agent, C. 4* Atkinson, recently secretary of the territory, who makes his headquarters in Siberia and before many years there will be great numbers of Russians settle permanently in the Islands. We are no longer threatened with the yellow peril. “The educational system of the Islands is second to none in the United States. Considerable attention is paid to the development and care of the youth. We have a juvenile court conducted in a similar manner as that of Colorado. The youths who are charged with wrongdoing are separated from the more hardened criminals before and after they are tried and until they begin the service of the sentence imposed upon them. “I am not much of a booster,” said Judge Perry, “but perhaps it would not be out of the way to say that Honolulu is flooded with visitors and as a consequence is building up a great tourist trade that in point of annual revenue is becoming an important figure with her. This trade, however, is greatly impaired because of lack of steamer accommodations, and the coastwise law passed by Congress, which prohibits carrying a passenger from one elty to another. The Philippines have had this law suspended. We are asking Congress to suspend the operation of this act for a limited time until ships can be built to carry tne trade.”