The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-06-01
,.;..a States Inquisitors Finds
That They Were Not
Deceived.
MIGRANTS QUESTIONED
o,,ces of Misrepresentation
Fade Away Under Official
Investigation.

IT.. United States grand jury has
!, thorough investigation into the
-,,ios of bad treatment and misrepre-
.,.,tion, so DANGEROUSLY told by the
p,.sisps not long since, and as result
.sst investigation viii report to the
,,mnsy-general of the United states
Washington that there is absolutely
:, foundation for the Russian yarns.
Ths renort will state that it is pos
.slo the agents of the board of i'm
-;g,atiou NAV have painted conditions
Hawai- in somewhat more rosy tlnts
n, The facts entirely warrant, but
a ~. i M evidence of any deliberate
,-smnt at Misrepresentation. Neither
tbarp anv evidence, the report will
.,v of anv violation Of the contract
so- laws: no contracts, so far as the
wand iurors have been able to ascer'
Z, we're entered into before the Rus
s,ns sailed for Hawai-.
7. sppears that when the loud-mouth-
i Russians who so vociferously pro-
,,med their grievances in the Gov
snar,s office. on the capitol grounds,
!, The streets and elsewhere, found
ssmspves before the coldlblooded fed
mi inonisitors. their gertrude of III
,,stment suddenly vanished and they
6a not even try to tell the sad, sad
N thew had 50 often told to others.
There must be something in the at
uo5pbere of the federal court and or
lie grand Jury room that takes the
,xUrsnee out of the natural prevarica-
w and makes him more inclined TO
II the truth than he is naturally. 1t
MT he that Breckons is able to hypno-
In even a Russian agitatOr into for
yeng himself long enough TO deal
With facts instead of fancied grlev'
ssss and manufactured tales of abuse.
subcommittee of three members OF
he grand jury was appointed to IN
ystigate the Russian matter, and these
three grand Jurors had a large numpeI
d the Russians before them. ANA
tiese Russians did not claim that the
men were promised SO a month wages
nl the women $50 to $50. Neither
Id they say anything about any prom
ses made them by the recruiting agents
that the Russian women would be able
earn $3.50 a day picking coffee
There was nothing about an acre OF
and with a house on it. which sald
sGs and house should belong to the
Ru&an after he had worked for the
9aHtation three years. Neither was
here anything testified to about any
S4 cash to be paid Mr.. Russian II
'aSe he should prefer to take the caSf
nd let the credit-aud the hOuse-9o
lae Russians forgot all about having
ssen promised free fuel for warming
lieI houses-warming their houses II
daTa fOrsooth-and that fine hous'
tih kitchen in it degenerated into
afofgotten myth when they stood be
''ie the inquisitors and told the saO
wet story of their lives.
And so the report Of the grand Jury
aa' Will 90 forward to Washington
WI be to the effect that all the rue
a'n raised by the immj grants atte
ael arrival at Honolulu was withou
FsaneatiOn in fact and that they real
\ nave ne good grounds for complaint
.s'aaps mild suggestion may be made
'-ai Jack Atkinson was a little too
-'Aasastic and that the Manchurla1
lows brought a little too wildly t.
= Imagination the dear remembered
s s,nay breezes of Hawaij-but tina
WI be about all.
Incidentally, United States Distric
@1ofhey Breekons viii himself maxi
ssgort 10 the attorney general
~e8 about the same as that to b.
~1ce oy the grand jury.
1Ae reports viii be made in accord
4 with Instructions received from
department. of justice by Nh
g,sAons, the department Of iustic
i =. taken the matter up on accoun
W laet that a Russian newspape
., ,eW York brought to the attention
hs Jug department Of commerce an
M me charges of bad treatmen
: 'he Honolulu Russians as report
ia. /. faH at the time 10y The Adver