The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-04

| the board and threatened dire ven
geance on the heads of the members if
they fought back.
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A REMEDY WHICH NEVER FAILS
D:arrhoea should be cured without
loss of time and by medicine which
like Chamberlain s Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy not only cures
promptly but produces no unpleasant
after effects. 1t never fails and is
pleasant and safe to take For sale by
all dealers. Benson, Smith & Co., Agents
| for Hawaii.
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the plantation requires that the laborer
| turn in two dollars a month. At the
end of three years or thirty-six months
the total of these two dollar payments
amounts to $72, which is considered a
small price to pay for a house and lot.
which becomes absolutely the holding
| of the laborer. Apparently the Rus.
' SLAMS. who are childlike in their ignor-
ance of the value of American moneys,
contracts and agreements, have entered
/, into such agreements, hut when the two
F, dollars is deducted believe they have
not been fairly dealt with. I
Plain Truths in Russian.
| Governor Frear has received sug-
| gestion that the board of immigration
prepare carefully compiled statement
of prices of food supplies, wages on
| plantations. difference between day and
contract labor, and exactly what each
laborer receives and the method of OBJ
tanning supplies at the plantation
stores, to be printed in Russian, so that
| the agents in Manchuria may give the
emigrants an official pamphlet contain.
ing the proper kind of information be-
fore they leave their homes. The sug.
gestion has been made, also, that these
pamphlets be given to every Russian
making application to come to Hawaii,
| and that no man be recruited as an
emigrant until it is ascertained that
he thoroughly understands conditions
here. In this way the territorial repre-.
sentatives would have no necessity to
make statements and the immigrants
could not then accuse them of having
misstated facts.
No Misrepresentation.
The latest information from the board
of immigration agents in Manchuria is
that nothing but the absolute truth is
being told the emigrants and that, as
a matter of fact, it is actually not nee
essary to promise anything beyond free
transportation to get all the laborers
required. A. L. C. Atkinson, writing
to Richard Ivers, chairman of the board
of immigration, under date of January
25, from Dairen, South Manchuria.
states that the Russians there are anx-
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Mr.. Ivers forwards copy of por-
tion of this letter to The Advertiser
with the following note:
To Correct Impressions
Editor Advertiser: - In connection
with the repeated statements mode by
some of the recently arrived Russian
immigrants now in this city, to the
effect that they had been "fgreatly de-
ceived'' by the representatives of the
board of immigration now in Man
churia. in regard to the inducements to
be offered them upon arrival in this
Territory. the inclosed extract from q
letter received by the board from A
l.. c. Atkinson nav prove of interest
as bearing upon this phase of the sit
uation. Yours truly,
r. IvERs,
Anxious to Come.
The extract from Mr.. Atkinson IS let.
ter says:
"With regard to my complying lit
orally with your instructions as to in.
ducements mentioned therein | feel
that ! am on the safe side for the rea.
son that in all of our examinations
we are offering absolutely no induce
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who apply and who are DESTROYS ia
emigrate 70 Hawaii. ] would say for
your information that this rule has been
adhered 10 rigidly, as ! believe it to be
the best. As n matter of fact the PEG.
pie have heard from others in the Is
lands and have come 10 us with let
tiers showing how well certain family
Is doing out there in Hawaii, and then
express their desire 20 me TO join them
In each ease where we have examined
people we have received petitions. let.
tiers and kilograms from those sections
If the country and ! have sent advance
agents 20 engage rooms and say that
we will bc there ON such and such a
date 10 examine them A. soon ms WI
get there We are literally swnmped
with applicants. in many Instances
have asked them what they know about
Naval ana whether anyone has ever
promised them anything iheTo, aud
ihey all rplg ihai what they hu0W
NJ TIE county IL what hey have heard
from ps0pe already there and shat
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pa one hoe offered ihrm any Induce
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