The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-28
THE HIGH WAGE
DISTURBANCE
A Correspondent Riddles the
Statements of the
Maxine Letter.

| terday morning, relative to the higher
wage agitation, its origin and policy
and it certainly looks from that letter
as if the public did not understand Mr.
Maxine or Mr.. Maxine did not under
stand the public. He seems to realize
that neither the planter nor the citizen
at large, take any stock in his agita.
ton. He does not seem to realize why
this is SO. The manifest reason is that
Mr.. Maxine is using methods and
means that never carry with American
citizens.
The TRANSACTIONS from the organ of
the higher wage agitation 1.-THE Jill
which have appeared in the local press,
have unquestionably dished Mr. Maxine
and his agitation for good and all with
the citizen population. He says these
| TRANSACTIONS are eolored but any man
OF average sense can see for himself
that with all due allowance for exag-
gerated translations, the whole move
ment headed by Mr.. Maxine and his
associates is tinctured with buIldozing
| and threatening methods and you would
| have to eliminate these translations, not
| In part, but in toto, TO eliminate that
| spirit and tone. Of course the animus
| of the attack is directed chiefly at those
japanese and japanese papers which
| will not fall in line behind Mr. Maxine,
but the bulldozing is not limited to
japanese.
How does Mr.. Maxine s organ for
this agitation, the Jiji, start out2 On
| the fourth of December last. it hands
| this out to the public:
Planters, listen to US. If YOU do
not accede to our demand, all Hawaii
viii be turned to darkness. Our patri-
otto spirit will burst upon your heads.
There are only two things to be de-
clded and that is whether you increase
the wages or not. We have no time
for consultations or for study of con-
ditions. - This is but sample of a
series of articles in the same tone Now
Mr.. Maxine, what do you and your as
soeiates mean by handing out such
stuff as thats Are you surprised that
an agitation beginning with that spirit
has received no recognition from the
planters. OF course it has not, and
what IS more, when You started working
on those lines, You shut yourself off
from the consideration of every self
respecting and iawabiding citizen.
Mr.. Maxine and his associates have
however specially devoted themselves
10 the intimidation of those japanese
and japanese papers who won t fall in
line behind the higher wages associa-
ton under his leadership Mr.. Ma
klno s organ, the Jill, hands this out,
for instance. to the Shinpo and Chroni-
Gle, (the Japanese papers that do not
agree with his lordship):
Heaven viii descend upon their
heads with an iron blow. IF they con-
Time to act contrary to the Iaborers'
interests they viii not die their natural
death. Before it is too late. prepare
for an honorable DEATH" and at the
mass meeting on the seventh of Jan
uarv, Mr.. Maxine introduced to the
audience Mr.. Kako, who said of the
dissenting Japanese: "The seventy
thousand japanese must exterminate
these japanese who are traitors. /"
The issue of the eleventh of January,
the Jill, says: 'sTake up the heavy
iron hammer and get rid of the odious
fools who are the planters spies and
traitors TO our people. We
shall never enjoy our full rights and
privileges until we exterminate these
planters spies. And in the issue Of
the thirteenth of January, the Jill gets
off the following poem:
" You, the planters spy on shiba-bu
turf
Know nothing of duty or respons
Utility.
You are the enemy of the seventy
thousand japanese,
Beware Of the shower of fists
What does Mr.. Maxine mean by such
language We understand, according to
the Maxine dictionary, that all this
talk is figurative; that when his
organ announces to japanese who do
not think as he does Beware Of the
shower of fists that probably means
Beware of fstful Of chrysanthemums
or cherry blossoms equivalent to the
English saying Hand him d bouquet. -
But the audiences at the mass meet
inss, who responded to talk of that
Kind, evidently did not understand
their own language and rose up and
shouted xiii him, strike him to
death referring to japanese editors
that were being roasted). and said
Smash the Offices of the Chronicle and
the shinpo-'i The truth is. the average
white man, Mr.. Maxine, thinks it is
effrontery on the part Of yourself and
associates to come forward and hand
out TO white readers the transparent
explanations Of such talk that Won do
IN behalf of the Higher Wages Asso>
eIatlon- What you are doing or trying |
70 do IS to menace and threaten any
s2ranese who viii not do the bidding
OF the Higher Wages Association, which |
probably. IS in the control of a half
dozen men ike Mr.. Maxine.
Mr.. Maxine is off IN his reckoning II |
ne thinks that talk and action Of that |
klnd Is going 10 wash here; and moth. |
ing shows more his audacity or his |
stupidity than an attempt here On
American soil and under the protec- |
ton Of the American flag. to openly and /
pabllely run any agitat ton, on these /
baIldozIng lines. He IS very audaeious
or very stupid 10 think that the aver |
age man cannot see through the motive |
tone and methods of the agitation az |
once, and treat it accordingly. Ii is re
freshlng, IS It not, to read Mr.. Maxine = /
statement IN yesterday morning : issue /