Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-01-27
OlAA PORTO R|(ANS
THOSE NOT WORKING
MAKE ALL The TALK
INTERESTING LETTER ON THIS
CLASS OF LABoR-MucH LIKE
CHILDREN - CAN BE
COMMENTED.

olaa. Hawaii. Jan. 2S.-The Porto
Ricans at Olaa are doing very nicely
and we have at present about 400 all
told. including babies. We have more
this year than we had last We haven't
room for all the new corners. In Octo-
Der and November good many left,
as the mill was not working but Of
course McStocker kept them busy.
Three weeks after the few went away
they all came back. For the present
they all seem to be comfortable and
happy. They are gradually getting the
potion of going back to Porto Rico
The trouble with them is that they are
homesick and want to get back. not for
the sake of Porto Rico but Just TO SEQ
their amigos (friendsD. II they haa
their friends and relatives out here
with them | will guarantee that the
Porto Ricans would stay on the Ha-
waiian Island for good. But II is the
| FIRST time that they have emigrated 10
such a far-off island as Hawaii, and
having left their amigos behind they
are asking for them. Some have moth
or. brothers, sisters, and other rela-
tives that II an effort could be made
10 get them over here you will have a
fine class of Porto Rican citizens on
these islands.
Ever since the Porto Ricans made
their first movement to get the United
States government or the Porto Rican
government to send for them and take
them back to Porto Rico, | considered
that II would hurt the island very much
for good many reasons:
|. The Planters Association paid
over a large amount of money to get
them here. End. The plantations arc
In need of the laborers. 3rd. They
work cheaper 4th. They are good
workers. 5th. What money they earn
they spend on the island and 1t is In
circulation all the time, and 9Th. Their
health Is much better than when they
landed.
In Porto Rico they are paying for
field laborers from 40 cents gold 10 80
cents per day and on the railroad "a
lEtulb anu VI pei lOi AtiN W. ~
Now look at the differences; some OF the
Porto RiCans now are getting 81 per
day and at very easy work on some oil
the plantations on those Islands ant
III they were in Porto Rico they would
have to work very hard for the same
amount. Porto Rico as matter Of
fact does not want them, as Porto Rice
is over populated and Governor Aller
thought that the emigration of 10000
could not harm the island. OF Cours,
they say that the Porto Rican has beer
failure in the Hawaiian islands but
think they have not. How is II thai
they have not been failure at Olaa?
The Porto Rican laborers are a very
peculiar class of men to handle. They
Iare lust like children and perhaps they
will do things that child OF seven
won't do. They are as rule hot
beaded. They loose control OF them
selves very quickly but If you take
them to one side and talk to them and
, explain to them that they are doing
wrong and they must do the other way
as you want them to, they Will lister
= 10 your advice and behave. ! will ad
, nit that good many of the Porto Ric'
ans in these Islands never worked II
, Porto Rico and OF course they though
that they could do the same in Hawaii
, These are the ones making all th'
noise to get back, but the working
class is quite satisfied.
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