The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-18
ALONG THE 1AMAKUJA COAST
ON THE MAIL COACH LINE

cts, and swept down, $50 strong, upon
the Filipino quarters, where they made
IL uncomfortable for the little brown
brothers and their little brown wives.
BY the time the plantation police
arrived there were seven Filipinos
wetering in their gore with sundry
hacks in their heads and arms, more
! Filipinos under hunks with Japs reach
ing for them and still more Filipinos
hitting the high spots throughout the
scenery. At the present writing ten
Japs are waiting trial under 5000
bonds and the Filipinos are rapidly
resigning their Honomu positions. No
one besides the three Filipinos who
! told me these particulars appears to
know anything of missing Filipino.
How do you like this countryS"
] asked, after all the sanguinary de-
tails had been threshed out.
! ''No very much. Rice five dollar
one sack. Manila three dollar
| Particularizing, l was informed that
a man and his wife and two babies had
hard scratching on SIS a month. A
man in single blessedness could kaukau
for eight pesos month, which left
him enough to dress on and lay his
| regular Sunday wagers around the cock
pit l was also told that regular work
| for three years would earn as bonus
yearly raise and free transportation
to Manila at the end.
At Honomu the three slid out on the
road, just in time to raise their hats
and bow low to black bearded priest
Learning in Double Shifts.
Honomu, besides being one of the
| pleasant spots along the road, is also
a great academic center. Here are
located the two schools for the chill.
dren of Japanese residents whose means
allow them to send their offspring to
boarding establishment. The road
runs between the schools, the Christian
on one side, with it's racks full of
wooden guns and its little chapel, and
the Buddhist establishment on the
other, with neither signs of war MOI
J church of peace visible. At these
schools are gathered the children OF
the Japanese elite, from Olaa to Ho-
nokaa. 1t was on a Saturday that
stopped long enough to compare the
external evidences of Christ and
Buddha as shown by the two school
buildings and one noticeable thing
struck me. The Christian school was
closed for the day and baseball was
going on in the yard; the Buddhist
! school was "in'' and the classes were
reciting. Further down the road the
same Saturday l passed other schools
Government schools were observing the
holiday; not single japanese school
was.
Japanese go government school
Two O'Clock pau, go Japanese school
Saturday go Japanese school all day,
explained my driver. This leads ia
more reflections upon what is going to
happen when these doubly educated
and tireless Japanese children get to
the ballot box.
The Saloon Question.
/ / am told that the saloon question is
hwisely answered in this county,. that
there are enough saloons to handle the
trade without cutting each others
throats and that the illicit selling is
kept within bounds. That there are
enough along the Hamakua road is GER
tain, that they keep out the blind pigs
! is not so certain. found one blind
! pig without looking for it. The prob
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tween Honokaa and Hilo, so / am in
| formed by kamaainas.
Every hamlet has its saloon and the
majority of them, are sorry looking
! dumps. The vice of incompetence has
none of the gilt that goes with it in
! the cities, the saloon interiors being as
bare of ornamentation and mirrors as
a carpenter shop. Most of the places
/ /, - ;tnl
! l can not say. what custom these
places have after dark, but at no one
of them did / see an oriental on the
Z buying side of the bar as / passed
! one after another during the daylight
hours. They were Hawaiians, always
! Hawaiians. whose horses were tied up
outside and whose money went over the
bar inside. l only saw one really
drunk man along the whole forty miles,
and he was a Hawaiian.
/ There is a saloon and a wholesale
house there in Laupahoehoe. When /
passed the saloon at six o'clock it was
dark. "Broncho, the proprietor, was
/ home at dinner, but on his steps sat
score of Hawaiians and two or three
! Portuguese waiting for him to open up
again. After l noted this / had pro-
1 hlbltlon argument Win haole resi-
dent who stated first that he would
favor law to tabu intoxicants to ka-
nakas and who concluded his argument
by declaiming against any law that
would allow missionaries to import iq-
nor from the Coast and would operate
only against those poor kanakas who
never had money enough to send away
1 for anything Having thus run the
gamut of anti argument he concluded
by instancing the damage done in Mis-.
sissippi through prohibition, in which
State every store is blind pig. Even
the photograph galleries sell booze, and
every man drinks rot-gut;"
( His arguments were unanswerable,
but / could not help wondering, in my
silence, who in the State of Mississippi
I ever voted hard enough TO put the place
dry if every man drank rot-gut and ey.
cry merchant was booze seller.
The Sanitary Campaign.
At every camp along the road the
hand of President Mott Smith, Of the
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