The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-01-31
January 50, 1896.
MR.. STACKER. Gazette Office.

january oV. 1880.
MR.. STACKER. Gazette Office.
viii YOU meet me at my room
tonight after ten o'clock. Do no
come before that time as thos.
hooilumS are excited and arr
looking for you.
l might give you good way Il
get rid of them. L think there i.
danger.
THE above is a copy of a letter
sent through the mail and received
by the city editor of the ApvER.
TIsER yesterday afternoonl.
The article in this paper yester-
day seems to have acted like s
bomb in the camp of the undesir,
able japanese element. They have
been living here in security for the
past two years and they fail to APP
preciate the suggestion that they
had better find employment.
From the time the first one Of
them who could read English got
hold of the ADVERTISER yesterday
morning these chaps were in a fer
ment and they began devising
ways and means to do up the re-
porter for this paper or be done up
themselves.
In the afternoon dozen of them
met in a place on Smith street and
discussed the situation. One OF
them more bloodthirsty than the
rest was in favor al anihilating
every member of the ADVERTISER
staff without further ceremony but
the conservative ones suggested a
vote OF the full house. and a meet
ing OF club which advocates some
things japanese was called for S
o'clock and great many members
were seen going into the room.
What the result of the meeting
was could not be ascertained. Its
object was to decide upon some
plan of action in suppressing any
further expose by the newspapers.
The ADVERTISER had an interpreter
present, but as he was not in his
room latter ten when the reporter
called on him in response to the
letter published above the full re-
port of the meeting could not be
obtained.
At 10 o'clock the reporter went
over the same ground taken the
night before. The japanese who
was deficient in knowledge of any
thing evil of the woman at whose
door he stood guard Wednesday
night was absent, but the ancient
freak sat in the door.
These fellows are all innocent
when their personal safety is con-
cerned, but this fellows innocence
was so excessive that 4 new laid egg
is blase old rounder compared to
it. Ii he ever gets into police
court it is a question whether he
will be able to recognize the police
man who gathered him in. The
barter shop, too, was as quiet as
one could wish. 1t may be that
the cold night interfered with bust
ness, for the proprietor sat alone in
the shop as calm and solemn as an
understudy to an undertaken.
When asked if there was any one
back in the bathing shop he gave
the usual "no savoy" reply. Pau
ahi street was singularly quiet;
not a man was to be seen from one
end to the other, and the only
particularly bright light shining
was through the windows Of the
Chinese wash house. 1t must not
be believed that these fellows
sought legitimate labor directly
they found their presence was OBJ
jectionable to the white citizens;
they are too sharp for that sort of
thing, and they are much. too
strong to work. Their fear was of
the police, and they believed there
was a possibility of a raid some
time during the night, so they
wisely hied Themselves to the meet
ing at the club house and kept out
Of the way.
The condition of affairs as pub
lished in the ADVERTISER has
awakened the people to a realiza-
ton that something must be done.
There was not a person who spoke
Of the article but what considered
It a step in the right direction. As
J prelude to a necessary reform
measure, the people have stamped
L with their seal of approval.
When the gamblers and runners
IN connection with the Japanese
1ighbinders' society learn this
morning that the reporter went