The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-23
THEY DON'T
WANT WORK
HiIO Full of Loafing
Japanese.
A DANGEROUS NUISANCE
Board Of Health and Police Called
on to Enforce Vagrancy
Law.

HILo. Hawaii. July 21-The Tribune
be- a human characteristic confined to the
haole: the Asiatic IS afflicted with
bacillus in its chronic form. Since
the abolition OF the contract system for
plantation laborers on these Islands there
have been several outbreaks of the dis
ease at various times and places. and
the plantations quite generally along the
coast are now feeling the effect of it, and
some of them are meeting with no in
cor siderable difficulty in carrying on their
cations, varying anywhere from a day to
a week, which now one gang, and now,
another. insist on taking. In some cases
large numbers of laborers leave the plan
tstion entirely, and gradually drift into
Hilo. the Asiatic quarter of which they
are already crowding to overlooking. How
these people live nobody knows; probably
IN the same manner that the riff-raff of
all races do. They are touts. pimps, gam
blers, sneak thieves, bummers and dead
beats. 1t is well known that it has never
been the better class of Japan peasantry
mem" in fact. 1t has been rather the ref
use of the bigger cities, and especially Of
the seaport towns. OF late this has been
more especially the case. once freed
from the contracts here they are particu-
larry inclined to earn their bread by
h.sr- he
brow.
IL has come to be a serious question
whether Hilo is TO be allowed to become
the headquarters of this element, which
Is at the least undesirable, and except
when steadily employed a nuisance and
even a danger. They are fired from
the plantations when they won't work
They should be routed out OF Hilo unless
I they can prove that they have some le
climate legal means Of support They
will not make the highway their home
long, IL they are barred from all othel
resting place, and they will probably pre-
/ fer even the unwelcome labor of the suga
plantation at fair wages to breaking rocl
for the State at no wages at all.
Their presence in Hilo under presen
&C nditions is Objectionable for anothe
reason. They crowd the Japanese hotel
and houses until they remind one of tn
Kinau on one OF George Beckley's favor
lite trips. In this respect they break tn
sanitary laws Of the Islands and endan
ger the health Of the community-a mat
ter that could be .easay remedied by tn
Beard of Health. and the superfiuous Jap
hustled out and made to seek home an
labor outside of town.
As long as the Board Of Health and tn
police force merely ignore this state G
affairs, or connive at It. We may expeC
n steady stream OF idle and WORTHLESS
Asiatics journeying from the plantation
ard taking up their abode with their cit
cousins. God knows that the country
J only excuse for having this whole Japar
csc incubus upon the country is the pie
that they are the only available and CON
} potent plantation laborers to be secure
I n sufficient quantities; IL they are to I
} allowed and even encouraged by incomp
I tent or careless officials and executive d.
\ partments. TO be not laborers, but loafir
4 vagabonds. the future of the Islands
not bright.
! We do not believe that this use Of the
Industrial freedom is looked upon wi
favor or encouraged by the promine
men among the japanese here. by the in
4 migration companies. OF by the officials
the Japanese Government. New Jap;
is. however. becoming a very democrat
a nation. The demagogue. who, as i'm mo
- other countries, should be wearing a ST
u ped suits, earns an easy living by playil
- upon the credulity of his fellows and tie
ing them fairy stories, seeds which dro
ped into the rich soil OF ignorance, be
n much fruit; while the wiser counsels
the men Of knowledge, worth and 20
4 ton. who but few years ago were loo
ed up to with respect and followed vi
4 humility, are ignored. 1t is this tenden
= toward demagoguery of the Japans
q common people that will prove most ds
gerous TO the Islands. Its beginning III
q should be repressed with n strong hal
and the Government should show.
q earlier the better, that the off-scourir
OF japanese seaports are not To be allie
q eel TO hold the prosperity of Terrific