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Show STUDYING JAP PROBLEM Conditions in Hawaii to Be Made Subject of Special Report. WASHINGTON Dec. 27 A report on Japaneue conditions In the Hawaiian Islands Isl-ands will be made to PreHldent .Roosevelt by Frank P. Sargent, Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, ae a result re-sult of his recent visit to the islands. Commissioner Sargent today expressed the opinion that there are fewer Japanese in the Hawaiian Islands now than there were two years ago, a greater numbor having come to America In that porlod than arrived In Hawaii. Mild Saito, tho Japanese Consul-General at Honolulu, intimated in-timated to Mr. Sargent, thnt the Japan-oso Japan-oso Government discouraged Its people from coming to the United States because of its knowledge of the conditions existing exist-ing In this country, especially on the Pacific Pa-cific coast, and it was approhonded that the coming here of great numbers of Japanese might induco a prejudice against thorn that would bo embarrassing. The Commissioner of Immigration found that, the owners of sugar, pineapple and other plantations In the islands are in serious need of labor, and many Japanese Japan-ese are coming to tho Islands to work on them. He says that It Is the cfTort of the Hawaiian planters to diversify tholr labor, la-bor, so far as possible, not confining It to any ono race, but getting poopln from all quarters of tho world. A second shipload ship-load of Portuguese will arrlvo at Honolulu In a short time, and It In probable that these Immigrants will make tho islands their permanent home. Many more plantations plan-tations would be operated on tho islands if It were possible to obtain tho necessary neces-sary laborers, but up to the present tlmo labor has been scarce. It Is expected that the arrival in tho Islands of Ifiuro-.pean Ifiuro-.pean laborers will be a solution of the Hawaiian labor problem. .i |
