The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-07

man ana woman We're preparing to
marry and establish a new home for
all the neighbors to quit their own
work on particular day and assist
the home-builders in raising the frame
| work of the new house or putting mn
| the logs and slab roof of the log cahi,
| Such assistance was accepted in the
merry mood in which it was given.
There was no embarrassment in the
! giving and receiving and no one
| thought of any. 1t was between
nelghbors! Yes, and all assistance be-
/ tween man and man,-those whose
| spirit is one of independence and self
respect. is between members of the
| human brotherhood
"hen, however, the relation is with
! one who has lost the sense of the hu-
man brotherhood. who regards society
as MS debtor or trustee and whose only
anxiety is how to realize on the trust
luna ana who IS without any feeling
of responsibility toward others, it be-
comes injurious to both Sides The re-
ce1ver is strengthened in his untenable
view of his claims on society, and the
SlVer becomes accessory to such mis-
chievous result When. however the
pauper becomes disabled by accident
his own fault, the relation of society
toward him changes and it not only
becomes meritorious and useful to help
him, but duty.
There is always in large communities
percentage of the population who are
barely making a normal living they
nave enough food and clothes and fuel
they pay their rent and taxes. but
nave nothing left. When times of in
dustrlal depression come or prices rise
without corresponding increase of
] wages, or there is illness in the family
they suffer and come to need some kind
or assistance. 1t may be that the de-
mand for work has fallen off so that
not only have wages diminished but
there Is not enough work to go around.
There is generally among this class
some. who have enough latent pauper
spirit to make it easy for them to slide
into the pauper status if the way is
open and if such status promises the
physical comforts of life to an extent
approaching the precarious living they
are experiencing. These are the peo-
pie to be watched; assistance for them
must have no quality of permanence;
they must be given no chance to choose
dependence and give up their old life,
which is based at least upon the the
DRY of self-support.
Expericene in England has shown
that legislation which tended to make
pauperism easy and comfortable in
creased the number of those entering
its status with appalling rapidity.
With these facts and tendencies in
view, some of the conditions indicated
which would be influential toward the
of w
of work,-regu lations and methods
which make it uncomfortable for the
able boGied to live without work.
Improvement of sanitary conditions
protection of young people from vicious
influences, and opportunities of Dor
rowing small sums of money at mod
crate rates
In the Honolulu community scarcity
of work is occasionally a cause of dis
tress needing alienation. and is espe-
cially so at the present time, with bust
ness duh and the dismissal of a number
of government employees under its
policy of retrenchment. The obvious
and best relief in these circumstances
is a supply Of work. This is not an
easy thing TO furnish with the prevail |
ing tendency toward economy among
employers.
Among the several things that might |
be done in this direction, the establish |
ment of a wood yard in the center of
some city block where the rent would |
be low, is one. Such an enterprise |
would require a manager, who would |
make purchases. take orders, look after |
the woodsawing and splitting by the |
candidates for employment. pay them |
and keep the books, and two |
horse dray, team and driver. Fire |
wood to be purchased by the guam |
tity, to be sold and delivered to pur-
chasers after being reduced to stove |
wood by the applicant for work Pro |
vision for work in stone cutting might |
be of service to some. Gunny cloth |
might be procured and the work Of |
making sugar bags be provided. The |
opportunity of doing plain sewing |
might be afforded women. OF these