The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-03-16

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SD raufrta Uue BE- further
d.huuf Ihfu plantations aff un De-.
mote islands and thrF HrU EsutraIiy
visited BID steamboats, Uniy when they
40 to take On thr sugar. The boat ruoa
There simply in the interest uf the Own.
CO. OF the plantations. ana iboNg poor
laborers have no chance tO hear from
the world or to have the world hcsi
from them. and they will never hear
" this law. " we enact o.. unless % o.
somebody's duty 20 go and notify them.
Mr. Spooner | agree 90 that
MIR. peitigrew. Therefore. they
would be held, as they are being now
held, by force and punished and abus-
ed and this disgrace continue under
our flag. It Is for the purpose OF rem
edying that that have offered my
amendment
will read an extract from the report
OF the secretary Of the immigration
bureau.
"The men receive $3.50 a month,
but out of this $3.50 is RENTED to the
board of immigration toward paying
the laborer's return passage when he
desires to return TO China. That
leaves him Sll, but there are very few
that receive over So or 81, and some of
them even less than that, on account
of the persistent docking-for what
they are at loss to understand. 1t
would be of no use to say anything TO
the manager; he is always deaf 20 any
of their complaints. Their next COM
plant was with regard TO the number
of hours they have to work. The con-
tracts call for ten hours in the field.
In this matter | find that the men are
turned out earlier than they ought to
be, and sometimes are little late in
being sent home. | do not know what
particular time is kept on the planta
ton, but ! am very much under the
impression, from what gathered, that
the mill clock is one of a kind that
moves quickly or slowly. as required.
The men told me that since the fight
the clock had changed"
On this plantation the men rebelled
and some people were killed. That led
to an investigation. | think this is a
fair sample of the whole system.
have another report from another
plantation, which is as full as that.
Mr.. Gallinger. From what has the
Senator been reading?
Mr.. Pettigrew. | have been reading
from the official report signed by Mr..
Taylor, who is secretary of the bureau
of immigration.
Mr.. Gallinger OF Hawaii?
Mr.. Pettigrew. OF Hawaii. This re-
port was made April 81, 1897. | re-
ceived it from Joseph o. Carter, who
is one of the most capable citizens of
that country, and man of very high
character. | think that this state
Wi ha cd oil alD
of people in Hawaii.
The report shows that the overseer
would take one of these laps by the
hair, lift him up, and throw him upon
the ground; that he would go along
with club and strike and knock them
down; that he would punch them in
the side, and variously abuse and NAL
treat those people in that country.
Mr.. Pettigrew. | now read clip
ping from the Hawaiian Independent,
which was sent me by Mr.. Joseph o.
Carter, whose character is above re-
proach; who is one of the few exceed
ingly able men of high character who
descended from missionary stock in
those islands. Most of them are a
tough lot. | remember when the prop
osition first came here during Harri-
sons Administration for the anneXa
ton of Hawaii those missionary sugar
planters signed a deliberate lie and
sent it to the Senate OF the United
States to influence our action-Thurs-
ton and several of those people signed
a deliberate falsehood; they knew 1t
was false; they admitted afterwards
that it was false, and wanted to know
what difference it made. They under
took to rush through the treaty annex
ing those islands in the last days of
Harrison's Administration by sending
out a deliberate falsehood, signed by
the sons of missionaries whose fathers
went to Hawaii to convert the inhabit-
ants to Christianity and whose sons
have stolen all the lands of those peo
pie and their government beside.
Now, let us see what they have been
doing since our flag went up. They
have been importing slave labor; and,
what Is more, the pillars of the Con-
Church in Hawaii, the sons
of those missionaries, own stock in
the Eva plantation, and they have
been Boosting that they Were import
ing Asiatics who were heathens so
that they could come under the bless
ings of the influences of Christianity.
Last year they imported a Buddhist
priest and set up Buddhist temple,
because they said it made the laborers
more quiet, attending church every
Sunday while the planters went on
with this performance.
Here is a sample of the humane con-
duct of those missionary sugar plant
ers: An old man, a Spaniard, nearly
60 years of age, is also under medical
treatment and being cared for at the
Doctors house. He, too, was a plan
Lation laborer in Kau, Hawaii, and was
a good worker. One day he was in a
small pit in a cane field when three
Japs, in a mischievous mood, hurled |
a large stone upon him, breaking his |
shoulder and rendering him uncon-
scious. He was found some three |
hours afterwards. He, however, was |
given no medical attention and was |
aiken into a Portuguese family, which |
cared for him for four weeks.
The plantation gave him no atten
ion, and he came to Honolulu via Hi |
10, absolutely penniless, and still in a |
bad way with his broken shoulder. He