The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-26

Pova in Tyrol. 1t was to this place
that one De Lucca went TO lure from
their homes the supplemented peas
ants. III he found a boy toiling at
trade he would tell tales to him or the
large sums paid to those of that craft
in other countries. The lad would
listen and each time he heard the
story his belief would gain strength.
Finally De Lucca would offer trans
portation to and work in the land
where, according TO his honeyed tale,
labor was so literally rewarded. Those
who gave him heed were sorely
tempted, and few that he set out to
secure escaped his wiles.
The Evening Post of San Francisco
editorialiZes on the matter in part as
follows:
A party of Tyrolean laborers sailed
on the steamer Doric yesterday after
noon, enroute to the Hawaiian Islands,
where they will work on the planta-
tons. These laborers were starving IN
their own country and accepted the Of
Ter OF the plantation agent to furnish
them with work for specified time at
a monthly wage about twenty times the
amount they would be able to earn in
their poverty-stricken native land.
This agreement included the sustenance
of themselves and their families and
transportation to the Hawaiian Islands.
The party was conveyed across the con-
tinent in bond to comply with the law
of the United States prohibiting the
landing in this country OF the pauper
labor of Europe.
While awaiting the sailing OF the
Doric from this port some of these
Tyrolean pauper laborers were inform
ed that If they worked on the Hawai-
ian plantations they would be treated
as slaves and subjected to the same
rigors that they were compelled to en-
dure as slaves in Austria. They were
told that they could get work in this
city at dollar a day, owing to the
circumstance that American laborers
of the same class receive S1.50 and 81
day-they were assured of immediate
employment, in competition with the
American laboring man, and they final
ly decided that they would defy the
American immigration laws by staying
here
Some of these pauper laborers ac-
cordingly hid themselves until the
Doric sailed, and the authorities are en-
deavoring to find them for the purpose
of shipping them out of the country.
some of the hypocrites, who are howl
ing loudly and constantly for enlarged
rights of American labor" The Elk
aminer,' for example, has denounced
the transaction as IAN abduction" and
charges that the Tyrolese are contract
slaves forced TO give their labor for
1--WE years to the plantation owners of
Hawaii.
AS "A matter OF fact. no laws have
been violated by the transportation
companies, but they are being violated
by those who are aiding the escape of
pauper laborers from the Doric. The
officer of the deck of the Doric was per-
fectly justified in ordering the Austrian
Consul down the gangplank when he
attempted to interfere with the laws of
the United States. IL was the bust
ness of the Austrian Government to in
terfere with this pauper immigration
before the emigrants left Austria. 1t
was in perfect accord with the laws OF
this country that these pauper laborers
should be taken out of the United
States, for the Government has forbid
den that they shall land here. The au-
Federal and municipal. acted
in refusing to interfere in this
matter, and the officers of the transpor-
tation companies were justified in or
dering the Examiner" reporters to at
tend to their business of yellow jour
nalism.
The Examiner" has found another
mares nest and will now proceed to in
cubate the eggs. in the hope OF hatch
ing Government mule.