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The CuairmaN. Running where?
Mr. CuanpLer. To Honolulu. ;
The CrairMaN. To the Philippines?
Mr. Cranprer. No; but a great many are coming to Honolulu all
the time who want to come in.
The Crarrman. There is another problem of the United States, the
Hawaiian Islands, the latest example in melting pot experiment, the
most complete of all of them, more mixture than any other country I
know of, who are marrying and producing children right along who
are citizens of the United States; and as they receive education and
find opportunities are limited in the Hawaiian Islands they are bound
to push this way, whether of Chinese, Japanese, Polynesian, Filipino,
or what ancestry. There is a problem.
Mr. Cranprer. That is the greatest melting pot in the world.
I am rather familiar with it, because we have been running steamship
lines over there, and we have been refusing and doing everything we
can to discourage the bringing in of those people, because we do not
think they are as adaptable to our needs or will meet our problem to
the extent the Mexicans would. That is why we have taken that
attitude on bringing Filipinos and other admixtures in.
The CuatrMaN. Yours is one steamship company to be highly
commended. I wish I could say as much for others running up
further on the Pacific coast.
.. Your newspaper—I did not see the editorial—did not seem to
like the little interview I gave out or speech I made, where I stated
“Congress should save California for the Californians.” I think I
would have done better to have said “Save California for the Americans.”
 Is it not a good plan to save that country on the coast which
has that tremendous growth, and where you expect to manufacture
(n the cities of the coast everything needed by the increasing population
 on the Pacific coast, to try to keep the reservoir for that
Posterity coming on at the rate of one million a year increase over
deaths, than to suck in the Mexicans or any other type that does not
amalgamate and intermarry with the American type of people?
Mr. CuanpLer. Precisely; and that is exactly the reason that I
have been going against my own personal interests in advocating
the letting in of the Mexican peon, as I explained. It is costing me
Something like a quarter of a million dollars a year, and I have been
taking that position because the alternative of the Filipino and the
Porto Rican yellow negro would be a problem, and a terrible menace,
and I think I subscribe to every word you say in declaring that we
should take the least of two evils.
But we must have laborers, and it is seasonal labor we require.
The Mexicans do not come here to live, they do not come here to mix.
We have not any crossbreeding with the Mexican people—never did.
Mr. Bent and I have been living in Los Angeles all our lives, and I do
not remember and neither does he remember any considerable number
of admixtures. They do not intermarry like the necro with white
People. They do not mingle. They keep to themselves. That is
the safety of it.
. The CrAtrMaN. You think the time will not come when they will
Intermarry?
Mr. CuanpLer. They never have.