The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-01-11
Four Hundred Coming
To the islands.
THE EXAMINER EXPOSED
San Francisco Call 0snoUnces Nau-
seating Fake Philanthropy
of That Paper

/ Commenting upon the TACT thhI IhOIe
Porto Ricans are coming to Hawaii and
upon the miserable conduct Of the San
Francisco Examiner IN preventing most
of the last lot from reaching here the
Call, says editorially:
Dispatches from San Juan, Porto Rico,
announce that the steamship Arkadia has
sailed from Ponce Tor New Orleans "haV-
ing on board 400 Porto Ricans, slXty-iNe
per cent of whom are women ana chill
dren, destined for Hawaii"
That little item of news is a matter of
some concern to the people OF California
and particularly to those employed as
workers in our farms and orchards. Not
long ago, as will be well remembered,
number of Porto Ricans engaged for work
in Hawaii We're brought across the con-
trent. FL ON the time 1t was known they
were coming, a yellow journal of this city
began working up a sensation, charging
that the Porto Ricans were being car
RED into slavery. BY the exercise of it,
peculiar tactics it managed to induce
good many of the number to break their
engagement to go to Hawaii, and to stop
in this State. They were without money
without skill in our kinds of labor and
could speak only Porto R!can Spanish
They thus became competitors with Cali
forn.a labor and were of necessity COM
PEELED to accept any wages offered
Moreover, as may be clearly foreseen
they are likely to become charges upon
the charity of the communities that re-
coive them.
All such considerations were as moth
ing to the yellow journal. Having made
n fake display of philanthropy by pro-
vCking the Porto Ricans to refuse to go
to Hawaii, it then undertook to make
another by providing work for them. The
means by which it sought to do that
~, l,t.
the following telegram which 1t sent to
the editor of the Coast Advocate:
San Francisco. Dec. IS.
George p. Schaefer, Halfmoon Bay,
Cal: viii you assist us in doing kind
ness to stranded Porto Ricans by giving
immediate employment or Il good home
for enc of them?
Are ild-mannered, strong young men,
speak only Spanish and can do plain man.
ual labor. Telegraph answer.
Commenting upon the action of the yell
low faker, the Coast Advocate says: ut
created a hullabaloo, stopped the men
and women from going to occupations
where they could have earned a comfort
able livelihood, and where they would
doubtless be much better off than in the
land they left; and now appeals to the
public in well turned phrases to assume
the care of the unfortunates whom it's
grasping lust for trade has thrown help
less and penniless among a strange peo-
pie, of whose ways and customs they
are intensely ignorant. If this
bombastes furioso in the journalistic field
were sincere in it's efforts for the amelio
ration of the condition of these people,
why does it not send them back to their
own country, announce the fact that 1t
has done So and await the praise that
might be bestowed We're the public salts
fled that the act arose from disinter
ested motve?'
After a further exposure of the meth
DDS of the yellow journal, the Coast Ad
the past people who could not afford to
give five cents without imposing hard
ships upon their own, have been caioled
into giving five or more dollars" to some
protege of the yellow journal; and con-
cludes by saying: at is time this in
cubus upon the American journalistic
world should be called down. 1t is
nauseating."
That is the record made M by the yell
low journal in dealing with the first num-
her OF Porto Ricans engaged to work in
Hawaii; and now another company of
Porto Ricans are on their way toward
this city. Surely It will he worth while
for the public authorities, the labor
unions and all concerned to see to Il that
none Of them he stopped in this state to
he either placed as competitors with orr
own workers or else nade charges upon
puhlic charity One fake Of that KIND is
had enough. Let us not have another.