The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-06-22
(From saturdays Advertiser, ,

a ulrecl denlal on the part OF Con
sui General Uyeno that he either ad-
vised the planters not to aecede to
the demands of the strikers or ad.
vised his government that the strike
leaders were anarchists; the arresting,
arraigning and admitting to bail of
those leaders indicted the previous day
for conspiracy to emmit murder and
the loud claims of these same leaders
that they are assured of financial as
sistance from Japan and the Pacific
Coast, were the features of the strike
situation yesterday. 1t is reported
that meeting of the strike leaders
was held on Thursday night at which
difference of opinion arose as to the
advisability of continuing the strike.
Negoro, who is said to have advised
peace, denies that any such meeting
and any such sentiment are facts.
An uneasy feeling is felt among
some of the shareholders of the Hawaii
plantations that the demands to be
presented by the laborers there to the
Planters Association are to be sum
marily turned down, the association
members having instructed their repre-.
sentatives that the planters of Hawaii
the planters of Oahu in meeting all
wage raising requests. 1t is feared
that any direct refusal to listen to the
requests from Hawaii win result in a
general strike on the Big Island, a
strike that would be harder to handle
than this one on Oahu. The Planters
Association officials have given out no
intimation of what they propose to
do, however, and it may be that the
uneasy feeling is unjustifed in every
way
The strike here is beginning to affect
the local stocks, Oahu, Eva and Waia-
lua having shaded off during the week.
Oahu opened the week at $31.75 and
sold yesterday down as low as $29.75;
Eva has gone off a quarter and Waia-
lua from $92 to SOL.
While the leaders in the movement
profess to be still in most sanguine
frame of mind, the nerve.racking week
they have had has pretty thoroughly
cowed them. Maxine is the hardest
hit. He is commencing to acquire the
look of cornered rat, showing his
teeth but watching anxiously for some
hole to crawl into and some means of
escape for himself. Negoro claims to
be looking forward to the time when
his supply of sureties has run out and
he can go to Jail. 81 am tired out, "
he announces. "Tired physically, that
is, not tired of the fight" 1t seems
not improbable that he will have his
wish before long.
Consul Contradicts Gable.
Consul General Uyeno contradicts
absolutely the information obtained
through the Associated Press that he
had advised the planters here to stand
out against the strikers, who were led
by anarchists. Mr.. Uyeno issued a
statement to the Japanese press and
to representatives of the white dailies,
the substance of his statement being
that he has not AS yet forwarded any
detailed information concerning the
strike to the Japanese Foreign office
or to Washington.
The strike leaders, through informa.
tion of their own, state that they have
reason to believe that the Foreign OF,
fee has information which discredits
them, but believe that this information
came from some source other than the
Honolulu Consulate. Negoro advances
Jht tncOIy lHdt ISullOI oHebd lOIBeu
cable in the name of the Consul and
forwarded it to Tokiol" For Har.
ward graduate, this is good.
Strike Funds from Coast.
81 have just received cablegram
from the mainland assuring us that we
may depend upon getting money to
keep us going from the whole Coast, 4"
boasted Negoro. Gan the japanese
from Vancouver to San Diego are with
us. We are getting funds from Japan,
also. Japan may be poor, but there
is money enough to be secured there
just the same to support thirty thou
sand strikers here. We can stay out
just as long as necessary. The planters
claim that they can afford to lose one
year IS crop, but they seem to think
we do not know that to lose one year IS
crop is to drag out the loss to the
plantation over three years. We are
losing only sixty-nine cents day.
They are losing the profits of three
years on their investments.
''The Japanese are going to win. In
the japanese lexicon, want to tell you,
there is no such word as surrender
or impossible. They can put us in
Jail. rather wish the time would
come when / can go over there and
rest up. / am getting worn out and
a cool cell does not seem uninviting.
But we will not Surrender Ma.
poleon, Nelson and Togo are not in
the surrender class.
Makino's Mixed Citizenship.
Maxine is getting twisted up in his
claims to Japanese protection. Yester'
day, the Japanese Consul General re-
quested the authorities to look through
Makino's papers to see if there was a
passport there for Maxine. His claim
to protection hinges in the first place
on what proof he can produce that
he is japanese subject. The pass
port was found and shown TO the
Consul.
This was all right, but unfortunately
for Maxine there turned up during the
day sworn statement by him, his ap
plieation for naturalization as an Amer.
lean citizen, in which he claimed that
he was British subject, "A loyal ad-
herent of the House Of Guelph This
declaration Of intention was made fn
May, 1904, and was subscribed TO by
Maxine as Erred X. NJ. Higgin-
botham -. Apparently he is British
Hinninbot ham and "A Japanese Makino