The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-09-06

II comes 10 an election or anything else
In which they think they can win point
by sticking together. Boyd II liked hy
the Hawaiians, and as { is their vote
that swings the election he would prob
ably get In. | am satisfied ON one point
and that Is: no haolc can go as delegate
until more Of them are here to vote They
talk about all becoming Republicans hut
that don't amount to shucks. They IN eht
say they would join the Democratic par
ty. and the result woud be the same
they will vote for who they please. We
all remember how they shouted for Sam
Parner the last time, and how they voted
for Wilcox"
Politics don't bother me half as much
as some other things" said the Early
Riser. II would rather study and learn
how to keep the Porto Ricans and others
out of my chicken yard than to go to
Congress or say who would go. l hate to
bring a pullet from the egg to the brol
ing stage merely to have some fellow
come along after l have gone to bed and
lift IT, but that's what l am experiencing
in these days. Take II in Olaa and the
people do not have adequate protection.
There is a policeman at Keaau and an
other at twelve miles, which is but three
miles distant, and from there to the Vol
cano House there Is no one. and yet
there are almost as many Porto Ricans
camped at Mountain View as at Keaau.
The thing gets tiresome when man
cannot send his children to a neighbours
house hundred yards away without
. their being held up by lot of Portu-
guese and Porto Rican hoodlums."
You should establish house of learn
ing for them and educate then in the
way they should CO." said Mr.. Loeben-
stein. DO not forget that those people
are now Americans and that each has a
vote, under certain conditions, and you
may want him to exercise his right OF
franchise to suit your plans. There are
certain inconvenience and annoyances
which one must suffer complacenty in
order to attain certain ends: you must
treat them as voters, not as if they were
ParadoXurinae."
II don't know exactly where this Por-
TO Rican labor question is going TO end"
said the Kicker. "They We're brought
here to work on certain plantations
Many of them quit work at the places
to which they were assigned and sought
, employment elsewhere and secured It,
Now the planters have decided upon a
plan that prevents their getting work
on a plantation unless they can show
their discharge papers. Men without
these occasionally find good places and
/ when told to get their discharge papers
go after them, only to be told that II
, they want work they can have II, but
they cannot get their discharge papers
until they have worked long enough to
discharge their obligations. If the place
is not congenial to them they will not
/ stay, and become wanderers, trampps and
finally worse in order to keep starvation
away from their doors. You cannot
blame the planters for their efforts to
hold on to their human property and
you cannot blame the men, whose inter-
ests are allied to the sugar industry for
refusing to employ them under the cir
cumstances. | suppose when the men
have worked out the expense of bring
ing them here that they will be allowed
to go where they please"
TT may turn out to be a case for the
United States COURTS said the Cheerful
Liar I'm the absence of a contract
these people are not obliged to work at
any one place, they have the right to get
work where they can: and If a boycott
is used against them or the people who
employ them, the authorities may have
to take up the matter. 1t was surely
not the intention of the authorities at
Washington when they permitted these
people to leave Porto Rico that they
were to become tramps and hghwaymen
Their position and that of the planter Is
rather peculiar and it is hard to say
how 1t will end."-Hawaii Herald.