The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-07-09
CASTLES TALK
To JAPANESE
Continued from Page one.l

IFOm rage Ou9.l
Jill, japanese daily. and another, also
japanese journal. The editor of the
Jill began to publish infammatory ar
ticles, threatening with murder his con-
temporaries who clunseled reasonable
attitude for the laborers and egging
the latter on to a strike for higher
wages-from SIS to $24 month.
The editor was once put under ar
rest and afterward released with a
warning. He mistook the leniency for
weakness and fear on the part of the
judiciary and grew worse in his riotous
writings. On the other hand a man
named Maxine with another Japanese
started a japanese association for the
protection of Japanese labor as he
said, and the laborers were made each
to pay dollar and half a month.
So he has plenty of funds and with
them he has been preaching strike
that it is now causing much anxiety
in Japan.
Mr.. Castle dwelt further on other
phases of the question, but we are OBJ
liged to hold over that part of the
interview to our next issue.
Mr.. Castle, an interview with whom
we gave in part in our last issue, re-
marked further as follows:
The report that the Hawaiian plant
ers are making arrangements for bring
ing over European laborers is not un-
| founded, but not in the sense of try
ing to replace the Japanese. Maxine
| and other agitators used formerly to
get five dollars out of every japanese
whom they induced to emigrate to
America or Canada from Hawaii, while
| the entry of laborers into those coun-
| tries was not restricted as at present.
| But this they can do no more and they
| are now trying to coax them to leave
| the islands for South America. Condi-
| tions are discouraging in South Amer
| lea for the japanese immigration. For
| there the employers are all Spaniards
who are apt to be too naughty and in
considerate with all laborers, and the
| japanese will not stand the treatment
| that will be accorded them and quite
| rightly, too. When the Japanese go
| to South America in numbers troubles
| will surely arise. and the japanese
| government is very wise in discourag-
| ing its people emigrating to that coun-
/ try. But what would Maxine and his
friends care, so long as they have
| something coming into their pocket
They stir up discomfort among the
| japanese in Hawaii so that they may
| come to them to get work elsewhere.
In these circumstances the Japanese
laborers in Hawaii are gradually thin
ming in number, while the Japanese at
| home are not allowed to come. The
planters want and must have more
| men and are thus obliged to go to
Europe for supply There is no -ques-
ton of displacing one for the other
| at all.
The Japanese agitators are the more
| ugly toward the planters; because the
latter will have nothing to do with
Maxine and his lot. They have fat
| ly refused the laborer's demand be-
cause it was the demand made through
| those agitators. The planters tell their
| men to come direct to them if they
have anything to say, but not through
| or by instigation of Maxine and other
| agitators. Between the planters and
| their men there is no trouble whatever,
and by the last cablegram Mr.. Castle
got from Hawaii he knew that the
strike was being amicably settled.
As to the San Francisco and New
York dispatches to the contrary, Mr..
Castle thought they emanated from
sources traceable to Irish labor agita-
tors. if not Makino's emissaries. In
America there are parties ever ready
to exaggerate everything in disfavor
of the japanese. On the other hand
| Maxine and other japanese of his set
in Hawaii find it to their own interest
IN naint the nlanters' doinps in as
black color as possible. From which
ever sources those kilograms may
emanate, they are all fabrications, and
the japanese public will make griev-
Gus mistake to take them seriously.