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Hlaweii, and they can not take care of them there. When I was
there they had a problem to take care of 25,000 Porto Ricans for
whom there was no work, and the result is they shoved them off onto
the mainland, and I want to tell you that of the Filipinos and the
Porto Ricans that are in California to-day, they are the scum of the
earth. That has been brought on by forcing this on them, and I can
see the viewpoint of these people. They want to get some labor that
is not a menace to their women. [=The
 CraIRMAN. Let me in there a minute. The Hawaiian Islands
are an experiment in melting pot mixture, all within four generations
of time. Hawaii is a territory of the United States. The people
there can acquire citizenship. If they are born there, they are born
to be citizens, and there is your melting pot to feed your California.
You will not escape it. California can not escape from what all
wd from the earliest days of Egypt has shown. Keep that in
mind.
Mr. Tayror. That is what we are trying to get out from under.
Mr. Box. Just one minute—I am not treating you right, because
you are the man to make the statement—in response to my colleague
Mr. Free here, he states as if the present situation in Hawaii was
chargeable to the refusal of this committee to permit Chinese to come
in there. I have given some attention to the immigration history of
Hawaii. They have been raking the earth for labor for 50 years
before they asked this committee to let Chinese in. So that none of
their present troubles can be charged to the refusal of this committee
to let them bring 40,000 Chinese coolies.
Mr. Free. To explain that situation for the record, their proposition
ra to bring in Chinese over a period of five years and then return
them.
Mr. Box. And let them bring their families. I was on the committee
 and I asked some questions about that.
Mr. FrEE. Everyone brought in was to be returned in a period of
five years.
Mr. Box. I will get that resolution and put it in the hearing. The
gentleman generally knows what goes on in this committee, but he
did not hear it all then.
Mr. Free. 1 said there was a 5-year limit. Then, when they did
not get those Chinese that would come in to do that work, they went
out, and in my judgment they have got the scum of the earth there
now and the greatest social menace that Hawaii ever faced.
The CuatrmMan. And the reason they did not get the 5-year
Proposition, the reason it was turned down, was a very similar reason,
that the United States having had such a distressing experience with
bondage, could not very well afford, and this committee would not
dare send out a proposition to let people be bonded into the country
to serve in industry or anything of that kind. That was the reason
for that proposition. i
. Mr. Tavror. I will say that what Mr. Free said is absolutely right,
In answer to Congressman Box. And I would like to say this: That
a8 you pointed out, Mr. Box, the situation in the Hawaiian Islands,
Where they said that if the Chinese were shut out these other people
would come in, is exaetly what did happen.