Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-01-16
LABOR 4 PATHWAY CLEAR.

Governor Carter, sharing in the gen.
era opinion Of the planters that Ha.
wall can never become land Of white
producers, though he was wiling
enough to introduce white mechanics
instead. at once cabled Acting Govern.
or Atkinson TO send out Mr.. Pinkham
and committee of labor men to re.
port upon agricultural and labor con.
ditiOns and to spare no expense -
l.. \. Thurston's Advertiser, Jan. 10.
After reading this excerpt from tho
double.leaded editorial of Mr. Thurs
toms morning paper published on jan
uary 10Th. and recalling the cXtraordi.
nary effort made by the same paper
10 disCredit the accurate and complete
report of industrial facts made by the
pinkham Commission, coupled with
the struggle OF that paper to misrepre-
sent the purpose of the report, II Is not
difficult to draw conclusions as to why
the trustees OF the Sugar Planters AS
sociatiOn felt called upon to formany
state their position on industrial and
labor matters in this Territory.
Mr.. Thurston is spreading large
amount of ink and space in an attempt
10 cover his retreat, and make the
public think that the sugar planters Of
this Territory have changed their po.
sitiOn as result of his recent small
farm howl. lie knows that the imprcA-
sion his paper is attempting to create
is utterly and thoroughly false.
In view of the statements made by
his paper Mr.. ThurstOn does not dare
10 publish a full detail of the incidents
bringing about the action OF the plant.
ers. for should he do SO IL would put
his paper before the people in it's
proper light-an organ for the dissem-
nation OF prejudiced opinions and per-
version of the truth.
The declaration made by the trus-
tees of the Planters Association car.
ries with II nothing new to those who
have taken the trouble to keep them.
Selses Informed as to the aims OF the
managers OF Hawaiis industry. The
Planters have not antagonlzed the
small farmer. It Is true that Nr.
Thurston as an interested member OF
the Olaa plantation promotion assisted
in gobbling up lot OF Olaa small
farms and putting them under the
control OF sugar plantation corpora
non. There Is no cause why the sugar
men of Hawaii should be damned fol
schemes in which Thurston is interest
ed. The trustees of the Planters As
sociation have simply put on paper Z
record of what has been and Is theii
Industrial policy.
The only thing that should force the
declaration is the continued misrepre
sentation preached by the morning
paper In its very obvious effort to pre-
vent an agreement between capita
and labor In Hawaii based on the
statement of facts made in the Pink
ham Commission report.
No intelligent citizen can read thS
Commission report through without
becoming convinced that It Is the mos
accurate, clearest. most concise ant
thorough statement of the industrial
conditions In Hawaii ever produced
Yet Thurston began to attack It beforI
he had even read 1t over. II is doubt
full whether he has yet seen the report
though 1t has been open to the public
Thurston began campaign that raised
. suspicion in the minds of the labo,
men. He fed the suspicion that Il
might become opposition - to thu
Pinkham Commission report and VIVA
it represents for Hawaii He said thu
small farmer had been sighted ant
has been faced with the statements o
the small farmers themselyes--prepar
ed by them for the Commission report
Mr.. Thurston and his paper have
thus become an incident In retardin,