The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-10-25
If WAGES WERE
MADE 81 A DAY
How LONG Would me Hawaiian
Stay IN a Majority This Has
lust Struck Them.

While Mclandlcss BE- shouting 20 The
Hawaiian voters from the stump that
more immigration will deprive them OF
The wages they are now receiving and
hend them TO the poor house, be Ia. In
The same breath holding before their
eyes She lure Of a promise Of a a day
wages from the government.
From Honokaa comes report that
the Portuguese had shout decided TO
give McCandloss a try" according TO
letter recently received by a Homo.
luiu Portuguese, because Of his "a a
day wage promise. Tho local Port.
uguese Immediately wrote back TO the
lionokaa people to forget Link 5 $1,000
year promise, as it was merely hot
AIR, aud they would never get il, even
II the federal treasury wEs opened up
10 the Territory.
While Link has been shouting him.
self hoarse against what he alleges will
be the evils Of immigration and the
crowding OF the Hawaiian laborer, his
~ day'wage'promise will be the real
boomerang.
-Four dollars per day as wages would
atttrnct thousands of citizens from the
mainland to Honolulu, each one clam.
oring, as an American citizen, to be
gwen chance 10 get those wages The
introduction Of thousands of men from
the mainland, who do not have to under.
go any probationary period of natural.
ration before becoming full .dedged
citizens, who will claim they have an
equal right with Hawaiians to WELD
the pick and shovel on government
works, will act as n boomerang upon
Link and his party. The thousands who
would be lurod here by the promise of
such big wages, would not be apricul.
turists but skilled and unslsilled labor.
who would Immediately compete with
the Hawaiian for the chance to use the
pick and shovel.
This phase Of the situation will prob.
ably be presented fully TO the voters bv
the Republicans and its effect will be
to show not only the absurdity of such
promise but will show that McCand.
less Is really proposing to destroy what.
ever chances they have Of holding their
own in the field Of labor.
Professor Wood Of the Normal School.
who advances the idea of the influx Of
thousands of laborers from the main
land, by reason Of Link s big.wage
proposition, calls attention to an.
other feature in the wage propo.
htlon. He states that there are
a large number Of teachers In the ser
vice Of the Territory who receive but
$25 month salary, which is very little
more than Japanese labOrer gets on
the plantations, and much less than
the laborer receives for work on the
streets. The plantation laborer gets a
house, medical attendance, fuel and
water free. The teacher pays his or
her rent, and pays for upkeep. Fifty
dollars month is considered average
salary for teacher, yet after all IL is
not much more than the laborers on the
streets get.
Yet McCandless proposes to give Ia.
borers 81 per day. Counting three hun.
ired working days in the year the Ha.
waiian labOrers of Hawaii are billed to
received $1,000 per annum, which Is as
much or more than many Of tho average
'lerkships command. 10 is the average
u what government clerk receives at
OF even more, for 5000,
$1,000 and $l100 clerkships are more
abundant than the $1,000 ones. and in
winter clothing comes high.
This Is one of the traps to catch
voters, and In many sections 1t receives
ierious consideration, as for instance
u HOnOkan.