The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-04-26
.IN|LEI SLAVERY" AGAIN
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mankind is the manner in which the
women, many of them innocent of what
they are going to, are secured. A COM
pany of Japanese, recognized by the
authorities in charge as masters of the
women" have full management of them
and also the securing of them They
have i'm their regular employ thirty pro-
curers. Some of these make regular
trips to Japan to reinforce the stock
ade with younger women with fresher
charms. Others go about this group of
Islands, visiting the large plantations
where numbers of women are employ
ed, and surrounded by a full degree of
comfort for the plantations have made
every provision for the well-being of
their employees. Here the procurer
gains the confidence of the women by
expressions of sympathy for their hard
lot in manual labor. This ends by offer
ing them easy employment in the city
with fewer hours and more pay. Thus
scores of innocent women are trapped
and brought to the city where they be-
come hopelessly involved in debt while
waiting for the promised situation.
Threatened by the law in fear and
trembling, they are fairly driven to the
stockades to barter their bodies in sin
that they may meet the demands of a
supposed indebtedness that is enlarged
upon. from time to time in order to re-
tain them, that these human vermin
may prey upon debauched womanhood
The women are divided into gangs. so
many to each master" and are con-
Quoted to and from the stockade under
the supervision of a woman employed
for that purpose, just as criminals are
driven to and from their daily employ
ment. At two o'clock in the morning
when business must cease under
Territorial regulation, the masters" go
to the rooms of the women to gather
the blood money made in this market
house of lust. Oft times when the
amount is very small the women are
subjected to all sorts of cruelty at the
hands of these fiends, so lost to every
sense of decency, as to live and thrive
upon the ill-gOtten gains of bartered
virtue. Under the regulations a child
must be sixteen years old before enter
ing the stockade.
1t has been positively ascertained
that there are girls there-children-
twelve and thirteen years old.
The government gives a guarantee
to all patrons of the stockades that they
run no risk of infection in the pursuit
of aiding this industry" by their sup
port and presence in business hours,
for the regulations provide that the Off
Gals will undertake to see that no dis
eaSed woman is permitted in the place.
This probably accounts for the variety
of men l saw there. The hour was
early. for it was still less than 10 o'clock
and the rush" had not yet set in, but
even at that time l counted fifty-seven
white young men, none of whom could
have been more than twenty-five. l did
not attempt to count the older white
men. These lads apparently came from
the student and clerk classes; they were
by no means from the lower walks of
life. 1t was simply revolving to behold
their shameful holiness toward these
half-nude, painted, flower bedecked
women, the very scum of this moral
cesspool; but after all, vastly superior
to the sin-sodden, lust-eaten human
vipers, whose fortunate condition of
birth and larger degree of enlighten-
ment should lead them to protect the
creatures they have so criminally de-
based.