The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-19
ALL WORK
TABU.
lmmi grants Are
Looking for
Snaps.
TWO SIDES TO
EVERY STORY
Strong Young Man Would Make
Good Citizen if He Had
a Nice Job.

There are two sides to every story,
and the story of the eight American i'm
migrants who arrived here from Boston
liam steamship Warrimoo on Saturday,
is no exception to the rule.
They told their tale of having been
lured to Hawaii to work on the sugar
plantations under false representa- tons
and their story way published in the
Advertiser yesterday.
+ The other side of the story is differ
ent. The plantation people have another
tale to tell.
The eight American immigrants, upon
arriving here, refused to go to work on
the plantations, claiming that they were
not meeting with the treatment they had
been led to expect. They claimed that
the agent in Boston had promised them
from $50 to $25 per month, and that
they would have a furnished house for
every eight men. Incidentally, they did
not go to the plantation to see whether
they would get what they wanted or to
see what kind of life they would lead
but refused, Immediately upon their ar
rival mere, TO even go TO see what
plantation was like.
E. r. Adams, acting for the Planters
Association saw the men at the wharf
and said whatever the Boston agent who
hired them nau agreed TO do the planta-
lions would carry out. But this did not
seem to impress them, and one of the
men finally said:
I'VE didn't come down here to work
on the plantations, anyway. We came
because we thought we'd like the trip.
j. B. Atherton, in discussing the mat
ter yesterday, said: The plantation peo-
pie are getting used to this kind OF
thing. They are willing to import white
laborers into this country, and. as a
matter of fact, considerable number
of white laborers were being brought
here Many of them come with the in
tention of going to work and making
their homes, while others come with the
idea that they will find haven of rest.
that they will get good wages and have
to do very little work for the money
Many of them are hoboes, tramps, loaf
ers, only looking for soft snaps
'sThese eight Americans would not
even go to the plantation and see what
the conditions were like; they refused to
work as soon as the vessel locked at the
wharf They managed to get free trans
pcrtation to a country of. which they mad
doubtless heard great deal and which
they were curious to visit.
.sThey no doubt thought that in these
Islands they could live by very nttle
effort, and imposed on the plaptatlon
people for their transportation.
II know that the charitably inclined
people of this town are always willing
to help a man when he is out of work,
and that their Sympathies are no DOUBT
aroused by the fact that there are eight
Americans here who are doing nothlnS'
| and who had to sleep out on lumber
pile for the want of beds. In my opin-
| ion, however, these men do not want to
work unless they can pick their jobs
! George Carter who went down into
! his pockets to supply the eight American
| immigrants with something to eat mas
| altered his opinion of them somewhat
Still he does not regret having furnish
| ed them with food for they were hun
CRY, even if it was from their own fault
| Two of the men called at the Advertiser
| office yesterday and objected to belns
called hoboes. They referred to story
in an evening paper and said that they
were anything but hoboes.
IT would make you an honest, up
right citizen" said one, ''if / were only
given a good job"
| The man who is anxious to be a gooi
citizen if he only had a good job is Wal
! ter Kenney. He gave an account o
himself in about the following language
| whole eight of us. A fellow, the agent
/ said that we would have easy TIM
| of it out in the Sandwich Islands. ant
| that we would not have to work Yer,
hard We were to get from $50 to s25
month and the eight of us were to iiv'
in a furnished house, with all our disle
and cooking things thrown in. Our foo'
was only to cost us about couple @
dollars a week, and If we liked fruit al
we had to do was to go out on the plan
/ tation and pick all the oranges and ba
nanas and pineapples we wanted.
well, 1 was only getting 50 a week IL
a foundry and / spent Sc of that for m,
board and lodging every week. 1 spen
the rest in having a good time on Sattr
day nights. l thought that If / got on
| to the Hawaiian Islands maybe l coult
save some money, because out on plan
| tation l would have no chance to spent
much Yes, $22 a month is not as mucl
as $50 a month, 1 know, but then l want
ed to see the Islands and thought tina
/ / would like the climate. l sold my win
ter undertook hing and an overcoat
Vancouver, knowing that I would no
need them down here.
Now / am very anxious to get worl
in town. Where would you advise m
to look for it? Stevedoring? Isn't tina
pretty hard work? / am afraid tina
some of us are not strong enough TO
that. I noticed the natives at work oil
the wharf today; l don't think that
could do that work very well. No,
have learned no trade. ] am about
/ wears of age and an American, but
haven't any trade or occupation II
| cant get work here 7 will have to g
away. If I slowed away on steamer
would they put me to work when the