The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-05-03
WANG HOW ON
CHINESE AND POLICE

| Editor Advertiser-There are some
ton where the Chinaman was murder
ed by the police which are applicable
| to all plantations. Most of these have
special police or watchmen whose duty
it is to conserve the morals of the
locality, and who are acquainted with
the men and the vicinage.
| The Chinese and other Oriental la
borers as rule are illiterate and have
very little mental enjoyment. They
| work very hard for ten hours out of
| the twenty-four and it is only natural
| that they should seek some amuse-
ment during the hours not necessary
flor sleeping.
| The object of this letter is not to
| advocate the permitting of gambling,
which is both contrary to law and per-
nicious to the individual, creating
| distaste of labor. But is it not wrong
| to scrutinize too closely the means
| which they adopt to amuse them
| selves?
On all plantations the hands live IN
large houses, containing from ten to
I
three or four engage in games of
chance for small stakes the balance of
the dodgers could not be expected to
move out to accommodate them. They
could not be deemed guilty of being
present where gambling was going on
as they had a perfect right to be at
their homes.
In event of it being discovered that
To- hIarS had
ten into camp there is no doubt but
their influence would be deleterious but
they would soon be elected by the
Waterman. The local policeman should
and does quickly learn of what is go
ing on and makes it his business to
eject the intruder or intruders.
In the scramble at Oahu Plantation
the professional gamblers escaped and
when the co-lodgers attempted to ex-
plain the situa ton to the foreign police
who made the raid they were unable to
make themselves understood and it APP
peared as if they w e unlawfully re-
listing the law Off -ers. They had a
perfect right to explain their rela-
tons to the houses and to those who
had been playing, if any. 1t was not
the intention of the law that all who
were found present in a house where
gambling was going on should be ar
rested as probably many of them had |
a right to be there. If fifty men had
their home in one house and four en-
gagged in a small game of chance the |
others were not guilty of an infraction |
of the law notwith standing the law |
says that every person present where |
such game or games are being played |
or carried on, is guilty of miSdemean- |
or"
1t was very unfortunate that strange |
police should have been sent there to |
make raid, especially as a human be- |
ing lost his life while merely making |
an explanation of the situation he had |
a perfect right to do.
1t was a display of very poor judg- |
ment to send posse of strange po- |
lice from a different district to make /
a. raid. How much more sensible it |
would have been for the sheriff, on |
obtaining information that a gambling |
game was being conducted at Oahu |
to have spoken over the |
wire to the manager, told him of the
facts, and let him direct the local guard |
to put a stop to it or arrest the pro-
fessional gambler.
1t is a good thing to have a proficient |
and alert body of police and in our |
population the security |
If our homes is much beholden to them.
It's singular that so many burgIaries +,
Ire being done and no one knows who
ire the perpetrators. Would not the
parties who are so knowing as to where
small gambling is being done be doing
| necessary work by getting onto the +.
burglars and their projected enter
orises? !
WANG HOW.
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