The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-06-28
eRlHLET DISCUSSES
THE LABOR PROBLEM
YOUNG MEN WITHOUT MEANS
ADVISED TO STAY AWAY
FROM HONOLULU.
sesttieites Are Teld Of the asilucina-
tiers Produces BY okslehso-
Cosmopolitan Population ct no
noIuiu Pronounced Interesting.

from the Seattle wash Post In
teiligencer. June Isl
]. I. Crawiey. q business man o.
Honolulu. who arrived In the city yes
terday says that there is much warrz
feeling in the capital OF Hawaii be
tween the missionary and anti-mis-
sionary factions The action OF Judge
I Humphreys, OF the first division. in
sending three prominent lawyers
Judge HartweiI. W. A. Kinney and s
VI. BaIiou. TO Jail for thirty DAYS foz
contempt OF court has also caused
much excitement
4 few days before | left Honolulu. >
said Mr.. Crawley yesterday at the
Rainer-Grand hotel, "the bar associ-
alton met and passed resolutions adj
dressed to President Mckinley asking
for Judge Humphreys removal One
OF the allegations against him is that
ne runs a partisan newspaper. They
claim also that he is managing things
with high hand. The action OF the
bar association was result of the
lawyers being imprisoned. On the
other side, the friends of the Judge
are circulating petitions in his behalf
Honolulu is fast becoming a wide
awake American town Large office
buildings are in course of erection:
an electric street car system is being
installed and our roads are being ma
eadamized. The suburbs have spread
out well in the past few years, and a
new hotel has been completed which
viii equal the average first-class AM
erican hotel
Il would not advise young men to
90 to Honolulu unless they have some
thing in sight or have capital. But if
man is an expert salesman or is edu-
Gated along a special line such as en-
cheering or chemistry or is of an
inventive turn of mind he can make
a success of life in Hawaii
at is true that the natives are fast
disappearing. They are not able to
cope with consumption and other dis
eases which are incidental to civiliz-
alton, and moreover. they drink great
deal Their favorite liquor is perhaps
gin, of which they consume large
quantities. They also have their ma
tive drink, okolehao, made from Tt
root fermented and mixed with mo-
lasses. rice and similar ingredients
Il is distilled liquor and takes effect
very rapidly. In recent years they
also have resorted to methylated spir-
its and ordinary alcohol with the re-
suit that a number of poisoning cases
have occurred.
THE labor problem is giving much
trouble in Hawaii. Since annexation
TO the United States, we have not been
- ~ To-
anese government has shut off the
supply from that country Several
attempts have been made to get labor
ers from other places. Some have
been secured from Puerto Rico and
number of negroes from the South
ern states have been brought out bv
the plantation owners but the result
on the whole has not been satisfac-
tory One party of eolored people was
well educated and included a dentist,
school teachers, BARRIERS and minister
When they saw what work thew were
expected to do on the plantation they
left.
THE result of this scarcity of Iaho-
has been to retard the development OF
the plantations. Practically no new
ones have been started since the boou
during the annexation. The only plan
by which white men can be employed
is to give them certain section, and
let them share in the proceeds. The
question Is win the United States al
low us to import the natives.
Honolulu is an interesting place
The civilization is older than that OF
the Pacific coast. People of all ma
tionalities are gathered there. Ameri
cans. natives, English. Germans. South
Sea islanders. Seandinavians. Portu-
guese Italians. Africans and natives
from Puerto Rico. There the study
of humanity is always interesting and
varied"