The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-18
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tracted some other method of securing 6
| livelihood.
With annexation, labor contracts be-
came illegal, and laborers brought here
often elected to shift for themselves
/ rather than go to the plantations. a few
! years ago a beggar was practically I'M
/ known any of the Islands. The Ha-
/ waiian would rather have starved than
I to ask for aims, for there was always
/ plenty to be had in the fields and valleys
| without the asking. Life then was not
a problem, but pleasure, and the hap
py-go-lucky native had no fear of the
! future. Now begging is getting common.
| The police We're not needed in those
days fer the detection of crime. They
We're used more as the spies of the Varj-
! Gus forms of government which succee l.
ed each other in rapid succession just
the United States. The police system .or
4 time was as complete and as perfect
as that of Russia or France not in the
detection OF crime, but il the search for
treason and plots against the govern
ment.
the pay of the police. or with the hope
of reward for the detection of some
conspiracy. No stranger arrived but his
business and history and intentions were
known within twenty-four hours.
No thought was given to any CRIME
government, and police records show ali
almost total absence of thieving and kin
dred crimes. The Chinese, it is true,
were much given to gambling, and still
are. Frequent libations of saki on the
part of the Japanese often make them
quarrelsome, and arrests We're required
TO quell the beIligerent spirit induced by
the drink.
Now all this is changed. The open
residence is an exception rather than the
rule. The coming of the Porto Ricans
and of the lower classes of the Ameri-
cans has brought it's inevitable result.
Doors are barred at night by the mer-
chants
There has been hardly a day for tn.
last six months in which some form o.
larceny has not been reported to the pc
lice. Burglaries are frequent, ana nave
increased alarmingly the past few weeks. |
The police seem powerless to stop this
epidemic of crime and lack of money
has made it impossible to increase the
police protection. There is now believed |
to be an organized gang of thieves at
work In the city. a few days ago thieves
robbed the United States mail on board !
an Island steamer, and their booty Is
at $4,000. Hawaiians have lost :
their former distinguishing trait of hon
esty, for they form almost as large a
in the courts as other ia
Lonalities
stitution. II is composed largely of ma !
tives, who do not understand the ways
Of the American criminal and cannot |
the meaning of this new
reign of terror. There are also Chinese,
Japanese and Portuguese policemen, mi
L very few whites.
For parade purposes the police force
s very good There is a mounted squad,
both bicycle and horse, and the natives
ire the finest built men in the Islands. !.
cor actual police duty they are of little
Ialue. For the detection of treason and
political crimes they are as good as in
ormer days, and apparently do not I'M
lerstand that their usefulness in that di-
'ection is gone.
In the meantime the people of the Isl
snds have taken the matter into their
'wn hands, barred their doors and lock-
d the windows and are preparing to re-
list the attacks of the new element
which their former feeling OF security
las drawn hither
FREDERICK O'BRIEN.