The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-09
CASTLES TALK
To JAPANESE
Continued from Page One.)


Jill, japanese daily, and another, also
a japanese journal. The editor of the
Jill began to publish infammatory ar
ticles, threatening with murder his con-
temp0raries who counseled a 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 mistO0k 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 a strike
among the laborers. with the result
that it is now causing much anxiety
in Japan.
NJ. 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 I'M
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 c9un-
try. But what would Maxine and his
friends care, so long as they have
something coming into their pocket7
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 aud 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 fiat
" 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
to paint the planters doings 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.