The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-03-11
JAPANESE PRESS COMMENTS
ON LOCAL CURRENT EVENTS

those who try to attack the integrity
aud honesty Of the district attorney
who has been doing good work among
the Japanese. We think that he il
sometimes overzealous in prosecuting
those under suspicion after their first
acquittal. When once the eyes of the
district attorney Is fixed on a certain
man his destiny is settled. Invariably
he goes to Jail. This proves the power
and capability Of this department How
ever, we can not see why the same
person should be charged with a SINH
lar offense after first acquittal.
"These defendants are mostly poor
people who can not afford attorneys
fees and they take their medicine by
pleading guilty. We have heard of the
third degree and the water cure and,
although the methods of the district
attorney are legitimate, still we feel
that they are somewhat of hardship
on the poorer defendants who are
forced to plead guilty. Nobody should
be prosecuted twice for the same Of
fence. This is common law"
Jill on Russians.
The Nippu Jill is particularly bitter
on the planters when it discusses the
Russian immigration, and under show
of sympathy for the immigrants tries
to work them up TO still greater dis
satisfaction with their present condi-
ton.
1t says: "The Russian immigrants
are dissatisfied. About 800 of them are
determined not to go to work on any
of the plantations unless the terms Of
fered them in Siberia by the agents of
the board of immigration are offered
here. We admire their determination
and hope they will insist and make the
planters keep their promises. Their
condition is such as to deserve our SYM
pathy- Parting with friends and rela-
tives in Europe they came to Manchu-
ria and there they were induced by
the agents to leave. What they dream
ed to be a Paradise they find to be a
land of very small wages and one
where they will be in debt all their
life, with no prospect for future pros
perity for themselves or their children.
They thought that the United States of
America was a free country where they
could lead Independent lives and pros
per. 1t is therefore natural that they
made up their minds as they did. They
were driven into the immigration sta
ton, then to the planters shed and
then were crowded into little dirty
steamers and taken to the plantations
and to unsatisfactory homes like cattle,
to work under the burning sum-, What
they dreamed to be good wages was
only 80 CT 80 rubles and their neces-
stiles being high, they found them
selves slaves for the rest of their lives.
Naturally they are angry and dissatis-
fed. We sympathize heartily with
them. We hear that they will immi-
CRATE to the mainland of America. We
wish to, tell them that they belong to
the European race and have the free
dom of going anywhere they like, a
privilege other races can not enjoy.
"The japanese, who have built up
the sugar industry of the Islands and
who should have special privileges, are
forced to work at small wage and
are tfodden down. The United States
prohibits them from immigrating to
the mainland and gives the planters ev
cry chance to Cypress them. The Rus
SLAMS are not barred from going to the
Coast as they please. On the main
land, unskilled laborers receive from
So to So so a day where the climate is
good and where there is rich soil wait,
ing for farmers to come and till it.
The present trouble is what the plant
ers Deserve
Chronicle on Russians.
The Chronicle takes the other stand
by saying: "The prediction of the
Chronicles fulfilled by the trouble
which the Russian immigrants are MAX
ing. They did not come here for the
purpose of labor, but because they can t
make living anywhere. 1t is only
natural that they should cause trouble
instead of going to work. The people
here have lost faith in Japanese labor
ers, but the Russians are proving them
selves worse than any other laborers.
The authorities should not have wasted
such lot of the money they obtained
by taxing the people by importing
such laborers. With such large num-
Der more of Russians coming there will
be no end of trouble.'