The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-01
ANARCHISTS
On KAUAI
A Japanese Society
Is Broken
Up.
WANT WEEKLY
LABOR PAYMENTS
News Items Of Current Interest
From the Garden Islands
! Lively Press.

LIHUE, Kauai, Sept. 2a.-The Car
den Island" says:
II the Garden Island" has not ac-
complished anything noteworthy for
the community Of Kauai, it is achiev-
ing and is partly succeeding in sup
pressing a Japanese anarchists So
ciety. For the last two or three years
a society existed among Japanese la
borers in this island. 1t is called Cherry
Club and has it's headquarters in Ka-
paa- This club was gaining influence
among its countrymen step by step un-
til today its membership is roughly es-
timated at 500. This club has been
always an instrument in unjust deal
ings, especially in shaving the gentler
sex
Should there happen tri1e trouble
among -its couutrymen the club shall
not miss the chance to step in to inter-
fere, in order to have a lions share Of
the victim.
Peaceful storekeepers and law-abid-
ing members OF japanese communities
have been always its victims. But
they had to stay silent in fear of its
Influence and revenge. Under the cir
cumstances, no evidence was, of course,
forthcoming, until the Garden Island"
recently published very strong COM
nlents against its existence and its
dealings. The comments were heartily
welcomed and endorsed by the Japan
csc communities, and many words of
encouragement are forthcoming Our
representative recently had an occasion
to interview the head of the club and
argued with him in the strongest and
most straightforward manner. 1t is
still in doubt what policy the club will
adopt, but it is understood generally
that they are making preparations to
disband. What way they should choose
makes not the least difference to us.
We are aiming and are prepared to
fight the common enemy of the society.
"Be just and fear not" is and shall
ever be the motto of the Garden
Island
WEEKLY LABOR PAYMENTS.
The system of weekly payment in
plantations is advocated as an improve
ment to the present condition of jap
anese laborers. The root of the evils
which cause the desertion and wander
ing about of Japanese laborers from
one place to another originates from
their being trusted too great length
OF time. The ignorant class of people,
of course, naturally buy above their
means. They do not stop to reflect be-
fore they buy little luxury; and some
times they stay home on account of
sickness a part of the month; and they
find themselves at the end of the time
deeply in debt. They go to japanese
hui (Tanomashi) and there borrow
money with high interest. Thus they
go in debt deeper and deeper till they
have finally to run away from place
to get out of their trouble
A man runs away and his numerous
creditors come down upon his sureties,
whose destiny is, also, to follow the
steps of their first comrade.
Thus. one follows another and desert
the plantation where they should have
done we'll If only long credit system
never existed there.
Should the weekly payment system
be adopted in different plantations.
storekeepers will find a mans credit
and character standing good at the
end of week. Otherwise they can
shut down on him to the mutual ben
eft. Under the new conditions all
business dealings will be done on cash
basis and win clear away all unprin-
cipled usages and customs prevailing
among the class of people such as Ko
or Tanomashi. There will be no more
creditors chasing their debtors at the
dead of night. Nor will there be held
meetings at one or two o'clock in the
morning time after time, as they are
practiced in different camps at present.
There will be less number of poor
hands who sleep half of the time in the
field. Weekly payment system will
tend to break up all Tanomashi and
such unprincipled schemes; and will
brace up the laborers, besides prevent
ing them going into debt. They are
not paid lump sum at once, and as a
natural sequence of affairs it will not
give chance to deserters to carry away
any fortune from his honest compan-
ions.
The laboring class viii get their food
and clothing much. cheaper for cash,
than they do under the credit system,
because. then, the merchants need not
calculate the leakage" on accounts.
1t will affect their small finances more
than imagined.
On the other hand: Plantations do
not pay out cent more than they do
now, but they shall have more men
going to work and shall have better
work out of them. At the same time
the assertions and wandering away
will disappear.
Laborers viii do away with their ha-