The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-01-13
Governor Frear 10 Be Asked by
Leading Chinese to Act as
Arbitrator. F..
PARADE WILL NOT BE HELD
Leading Merchants will Sign Pc
tition and Present 1t to Chief
Man in the Territory.

The talk of the fanatic element among
the Chinese has become exhausted and
now the more commonsensed amongst
them are beginning to be heard, The
threats to blow up the consul and the
doing of personal violence generally are
things of the past and other plans will
be brought into force.
Chief amongst these is the idea of
petitioning Governor Frear to act as
an arbitrator. The petition will not
be carried to the Capitol grounds by
wild mob of five thousand, however,
but will be taken to him by two or
three men in quiet and proper spirit.
They will lay their case before him and
ask him to approach the consul and
see if something can not be done to
mitigate the evil which they assert
exists at present. They don't want the
consul to repeal the census tax but
they want him TO do one of two things
either to show them the authority he
has for collecting the tax or else to
write home to his government stating
that he had received bad advice and
that these twelve thousand Chinese,
men, women and children in Hawaii,
are not the revolutionists they were sup
posed to be but are merely har work
ing people trying to earn their living
and respecting the laws of the country
they are living in.
History of the Trouble,
The whole history of the trouble real
" dates back to the time when the
"a s,11 ,N 10 frfn Ergt
asked that a census of the Chinese in
Hawaii should be taken. This was not
done. however, on the grounds that it
would really be useless to do it and
also that the cost of the census would
have to be partly born by men who
were engaged in field work on the plan
tations and who could i'll afford the
money. During the reign of the next
consul the matter was again brought up
and was again turned down, on the same
grounds. Both documents requesting
the taking of the census were then
however, available for inspection but
in the present case this is not so. The
consul, VINO is now in power here, took
a diametuaally opposite course. Instead
of being guided bys the leading men
who were in close touch with the local
conditions, he took his advice from mer
who had never before been consulted
This led to the course that he is nov
taking as, had he stuck to the advice
given by the old counselors, then tht
census would have been turned down il
exactly the same way as the previous
ones were.
cit is deplorable state of affairs,
commented one of the leading Chinese
merchants yesterday. ''I have taker
no active part in it because 1 could
see from the start how things were
shaping and knew that my advice woulC
be turned down. Just at the present
time over eighty per cent, of the Chi
nese in Hawaii are branded as revolu
tionists Men, women and children are
included in this sweeping statement
On the face of it this charge must b.
a ridiculous one, but unfortunately on
government at home does not look a
things in the same light as yours does
! If the consul brands us as revolution
lists then that is what we are until h
| lifts the veto. All that we ask is, tina
he will send a document home statinI
that he was misinformed and that VT
are not as black as we were branded
This would settle everything and tn,
whole business would then be pau. w
don't want this fight. We want peac,
and then things will go on just a
smoothly as before, Our present idei
is to take a petition to Governor Frea
and ask him if he will act as an arbi
TRAITOR for us with the consul. / don
know if such at course is possible or not
but we hope that it is.
"We received a special cable, o
rather the Chinese Society did, from
the officials at Washington announcing
that commissioner would be sent dow
here TO inquire into the matter an
also to try and fix matters up. ! don
know when he win be here but it wi
be probably by the next boat or afte
our New Year. From what unde'
stand the consul has received a cab
stating that as he started the row h
must finish It. This seems as thoug
the authorities on the mainland weI
not entirely against us and that thel
is still some hope Of having the ma
ter patched M.