The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-01-23
SHIOzAWA
GIVES HIS VIEWS
TELLS WHAT HE HOPES TO AC-
CoMPLIsH THROUGH WEEKLY
HAWAII SHINPO.

Inc nrSt issue Oh the weekly HAWAI-
Shinpo has just come from the press.
The star some days ago announced the
determination of the proprietor, c. Shi-
ozawa, to issue weekly edition of his
daily Japanese paper, and gave some
of his ideas in relation to its scope and
field. What Mr.. Shiozawa has to say
for himself on this subject is thus pre-
scented in the salutatory of the paper.
| Whatever grudges a laborer may hold
against his employer or an employer
against his men, from our past twelve
years experience in these islands
among the plantation managers and
Japanese laborers, we would unhesitat-
ingly attribute the cause, nine times
out of ten, to mutual misunderstanding.
That impossible barrier of difference
OF language looms up between them
and often plays disastrous mischief, to
the cost of both parties. Many diff
Guilty in the past would have been east
ly averted, or in fact might never have
had cause to happen, if the parties had
understood each other. Much of the
bad blood which generally arises be-
tween a thoughtless manager and his
headstrong laborers could be diverted
if they had a better understanding. In
support Of our contention, we could
quote many instances and enough to
fill volumes. The Japanese laborers
are, as a rule, very tractable The
deep rooted relation of master and SER
want under the feudal system yet pre-
walls among them and generally super
sedes their ideas of modern freedom
The unreasonable lord" is likened to
a crying child, as a thing which they
have no power to contradict. The aV-
I erage Japanese laborer would rather
submit meekly to any moGe.,Lte unreas-
onableness of his master than to pro-
test and have trouble.
The Weekly Hawaii Shnpo has as
it's chief aim the attempt to overcome
this difficulty by publishing in its Eng
lish version the feeling of the laborers
Z toward their employers, and likewise
the side of the employers in it's Jap
anese columns Every well founded
, and reasonable complaint written by
and sent to us from any laborer on any
of the various plantations, at each of
which we have at least one regular cor
respondent, will be faithfully translate
ed and inserted in the English column
where it may be called to the attention
= of the manager of that particular plan
tation. Likewise, whatever commune
cations we may receive from the side
of the employers will receive our hon
= est attention and be carefully translat-
ed into Japanese that could be easily
read by almost any laborer and repro
duced in our Japanese columns. In
short we expect the paper to be at all
= times a happy medium through which
harmony shall be effected between the
/, parties, the harmony which should al
. ways exist on a well regulated plan
tation between it's manager and labor
erS.
The Honolulu Chamber of Commerce
and the Merchants Association spend
= thousands of dollars annually in adver'
Using the Hawaiian Islands. They
know that the country is not fully un.
derstood by people abroad The per
= feet climate of the mid-Pacific is no
n universally known and appreciated
n BY some of the uninitiated, it is ever
n supposed that the islands are still in
re tested with savage tribes who would
: be glad to make big luau out of {
z, we'll cooked missionary. good man,
of them still believe the Hawaiian girl
to be one and all hula dancers. Ou
public spirited merchants know it is in
furious to the well being of the coun
- try to let outsiders believe that the isl
ands are only fit paradise for lazars
|. This is the reason for the anxiety the!
have and the heavy expense they go t
every year to put the country in 1t
true light, before the outside world
,, Though most of the oriental countrie
70 are either in a half-civilized or bar
, DdHOuS Sldle, luOuSH the dNSld5 oHP
anese you meet here are ignorant la
bOrers, though the cholera and tn
p black plague were first introduced, o
a at least popularity supposed to hav
AZ been introduced, into the country by
6, vessel which had come directly fror
% Japan, still, if you conclude therefor
~ that the Empire of Japan is compose
w of barbarous and ignorant populac
>" and is always infested with dreadfr
iG N
.. choice between you and those hast
people who condemn Hawaii and ii
people from it's geographical position
-. by it's wandering hula girls ant noto
10 rious leprosy.
Through it's weekly issue, the Hawa
: Shinpo will undertake a similar cham
pionship in behalf of Japan and he
- people by placing them before you /
their true light, as the Chamber {
Commerce and the Merchants Assc
citation are trying to do in behalf of tn
Territory.