The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-25
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81. 80 to the immigration companies in
Honolulu, payment on money adj
vanced by them for laborers' passage to
this country, will be discontinued. ex-
cept where the laborer desires it to he
continued.
Manager McStocker of Olaa has told
his men who struck to take their con-
tracts and get out, that he doesn't want
them around, and will replace them at
his own convenience with laborers of
his own choosing. The Japs several
hundred in number, don't relish this and
are anxiously requesting to be allowed
TO hama hama. Their moe moe streak has
left them.-Hilo Tribune
TROUBLE WILL BE SETTLED.
There seem to have been some slight
emeutes" at various times and places
on this Island during the past week. as
wen as on the other Islands of the group:
a state of affairs which was only TO he
expected at the period of transition from
the old to the new political and Industrial
regime. On the whole. however these
troubles have for the most part settled
themselves when the misunderstanding
which occasioned them was corrected.
In most cases desire OH the part of
the japanese contract laborers to secure
their cancelled contracts previous to pro
ceeding with their labors caused a sus
pension of work, and wherever this was
granted them, as at Waiakea, they set
tied down quietly to earn their bread ..a.
the old stand as free laborers. making
no disturbance when ringleaders. who
had stirred them up to serve their own
enos, We're discharged by the plantation
management.
The real leaders and directors of the
japanese everywhere are acting with dis
cretion and good faith. and Will probably
be able to guide their countrymen
through this critical period to the sat-
lsfaction of all save the deliberate and
malicious misunderstanding Tribune.
PEOPLE WOULD BE HELPLESS.
The Japanese on the plantations in this
district are beginning to show their teeth
and to the average citizen who has given
the matter any consideration the prob
am IS serious. Now that these laborers
are Tree men, should they for any rea-
sen invade the town and ransacix houses
the people would have to throw up their
hands for the want of proper means of
resistance. The events at Puma and Wal
akea during the past few days have been
sufileient to indicate what may be ex-
pected at any time. 1t is to be hoped
tlat the time may not arrive when il
VIII DE necessary to put an armed force
IN the held against the strikers: so Ions,
as they do not injure property or take
me there VIII be no occasion for it. at
the same time Captain Fetter and Lien
tenant Horne should not delay organiz-
ing their militia company-Hawaii Her
MILITIA FOR HILo.
4 sufficient number of names for a
company of the National Guard in Hilo
mas been secured, and the petition with
the names appended, is now in the hands
Oh Governor Dole for disposal. 1t is 10
ne hoped that it win meet with a better
late than its predecessors. which have
an suffered burial without resurrection
IN oincial pigeon-holes. 1t seems likely
LA mere VIII be more or less occasion
Tor such an organization to show itsaIf
from time to time in the future upon
lhls Island; and while no serious dis
.uroahce is really apprehended, the pres
ehce or a body of men able and willing
70 uphold the laws and protect property.
may prove the ounce of prevention which