Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-02-14
soME RESPECTFUL ADVICE.

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We trust the following advice will be
received in like spirit to tina, in which
j, is offered 1t is based upon con
vcrSations with several gentlemen thor
oughly oonversan, with japanese labor
in most Of its branches, together with
the obtainable reading Of works on
Japan and its people
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kWGiy We do not need to insist upon
mere justice before the law. The rights
of contract laborers are fully and firmly
maintained by the Hawaiian courts
Downright i'll usage is no, common
reproaoh to the plantation managers ON
these islands BIT the Japanese are
said to need very different manage
mcnt from that required to make Chi.
nese labor effective. The Chinese has
to be driven" The Japanese cansoi
be driven. Driving makes him
either rebellious or despondcnt He
means to work faithfully and he may
safely be allowed to work In his own
way so long as his own methods do
not soconfiot with amanager'sroutine as
to render other labor less productive.
1t would be of course impertinen,
for newspaper writer to attempt to
dictate in the details of plantation man.
agement; we have no such intention,
but we earnestly desire that plantation
managers shall be impressed with the
Importance of helping by their ability
rightly to initiate this new immigration
movement and because plantation
managers must whether they
like II or not-a major portion OF the
responsibility for making Japanese i'm
migration to these islands popular So,
while we recognize that every mana
ger must decide for himself, according
to his best light, what course he must
pursue, we trust that every manager
will fully realize his responsibility and
inform himself to the fullest extent pos
sible in everything that may make the
best pecuniary result to the plantation
synonymous with the greatest comfort
and contentment among Japanese la
borers.
JAPANESE HOUSE SERVANTS.
1t is confidently hoped that the arri-
val of number of Japanese house ser
wants of both sexes, some trained and
all readily teachable, will have whole.
some effect upon those Chinese house
servants now at work here. Many
households in town have Chinese" "help,"
whose cleanliness, faithfulness and
efficiency are all that could be desired ;
and, although most of them ask and
receive too high wages, there is no COM
plant of these. But, in many families
in Honolulu and throughout the islands,
the Chinese domestic is household
tyrant. He "bosses" the kitchen, is
exacting about his hours, is insolent,
" strikes" frequently, sometimes with
his fists leaves often without warning
and is far too often a pestilent fellow
whose room would be better than his
company If the climate (and the la
Dor market) did not make him n
necessity.
1t is true that some Of the Am
ericanlzed" Japanese servants now in
town are not all OF them satisfactory.
Some are Incorporate, Others lazy, and
perhaps majority of them are sadly
degenerated from the proverbial eff
cheney of the Japanese house servants
in Japan.
Those who know them in their own
home represent the Japanese servants
as "ideal-" But it is scarcely to be
expected that they will ever prove SO
thoroughly satisfactoryhere The Japan
csc servant is nearly always special.
ist" and household retinue is often a
small army. Serving is trade almost a
profession) with great many branches.
Cooks, stewards, body servants, house
cleaners, chamber maids, nurse maids,
gardeners, are more distinctly classed
than in Europe even, and far more
distinct in the duties expected OF
each class than are American ser.
wants even in the South. And while
Japanese services, is often nearly
perfect and sometimes it is ideal,
it is commonly cumbersome piece o,
machinery-and quite impossible here
In the large japanese cities, servant.
are obtainable for small wages and
board themselves. Their food and
lodgings cost them at home far les:
than they could possibly obtain the like
for here and so, OF course, it is idle te
expect such cheap service here as tn,
wellknown cheapness of Japanese la
Dor in Japan might lead many to hops
for. 1, will be necessary also to teach
these new servants to do varied worl
and according to American and Euro
pean notions, not modified las in Japan
by the life amidst which they hav,
always lived.
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