Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-17
CARTER IN N, Y.
TALKS OF FREAR
INVESTIGATION
Tells New York Times There
Was Nothing to Charges
Made by Kuhi0

ex-governor George r. Carter tOlG
! the New York Times that the charges
against Governor Frear we're based or
nothing.
This interesting statement, especial
! ly interesting as viewed m the li5ht
of what Carter told, or tried TO tell
/ Secretary Fisher, is contained in q
! long interview published in the Times
O. September "a. The interview says:
EX-Gov George r. Carter Of Hlwai
/ arrived in this city yesterday from Ho
! nolulu, after having made severa
stops on the way across the continent
from San Francisco. Aside from 20
litics. he said there were two things
that were of keen interest in Hswali
now: One, the investigation into the
administration of Governor Frear
which Secretary Of the Interior Fisher
is conducting for President Taft; anI
the other. the fact that much. of the
| labor that has been imported to work
the sugar plantations doesn't stick
aid so just now the sugar growers are
short of hands.
Business is very good generally in
y
the Belmont. However, We are eX-
pecting low prices in sugar, on account
IF the big production in Europe. There
is nothing we can do but make our
expenses less. The crop in Hawaii
win be of the average kind.
Labor Troubles.
The laborers that have been i'm,
Torted from time to time In The l:.St
few years from Portugal 11vo proved
cause for worry, and our labor sitIa-
ton is still difficult We still bring IN
the Portuguese, but it seems that as
fast as they arrive IT. Hawaii thew
make their way to California. 1t is
like shoveling daylight into dark eel
lar. 1t looks now as If We shouldn't
be able to permanently take care of
the labor situation until after the open.
ing of the Panama Canal, which Y III
Iiobably bring inning .ints direct 70
San Francisco.
Il don't know the figures as to the
number of Portuguese We have import
ed, but they are large. Anyhow. tIlry
steamer that leaves Honolulu for San
Francisco takes NOE than 1:'9 Or so
away. in my opil m t:Iese immigrants
are using US in order to get their pas
sage paid as far as Hawaii. Our terri
torial government taxes us to obtain
money to pay the passage of these peo-
pie to the territory, but no agreement
is signed. The immigrants are left to
do as they please. They are absolute
" free agents. OF course some few
take to working on the plantations,
but the proportion is small.
FiIipinos Doing Well.
ION the other hand, the Filipinos
who have come % Hawaii to work are
doing very well, contrary to what
everybody prophesied at the beginning
| cannot explain this, unless it is that
the are affected by IN environment Of
energy and effort. The labor scarcity
is not so serious as it was while
ago, but at the same time it is a seri-
Gus prohlem-more to worry over than
the price of sugar.
THE appropriation made by the
Legislature for the importation of lab
cTers is now practically exhausted,
and there is an agitation on foot to
stop chartering vessels and giving free
passage to the islands. doubt very
much whether the next Legislature
vii carry on the appropriation.
When I left Honolulu. Secretary
Fisher, whit went out there to in
vestigate Gov. Frear, had been there
two days. This matter of the investi-
cation of the Governor has been
harmful for Hawaii. For eight months
Gov. FFear has been waiting for
President Taft to reappoint him or
remove him, and every question of
policy has been at standstill. Now,
whatever decision is made, some
body's feelings are going to be hurt.
Both sides sent delegations to the
Chicago convention indorsing Taft,
hoping to win the support of the
Administration, and the latter seems
to have flirtedi with both sides. |
don't think either side was encourag-
ed, but the delay and indecision has
been very harmful to the territory
Just what acts of Gov. Frear are
being investigated" Gov. Carter was
asked.
That is something most of us
Charges were preferred by the Ha-
waiian delegate to Congress, Prince
kalanianole. Unsatisfactory admin
istration was the substance of them,
and they were answered a month ago
AS matters are now lined up, the
native Hawaiians on the one side. and
the whites on the other. Most of the
former are backing the Prince and
they seem to fully believe that Presi-
dent Taft is going to sustain the
charges. Gov. Frear is backed by all
the intelligent people of the terri
tory"
But there must be something on
which these charges are based. even
if they are false" was suggested.
Nothing to Charges"
There is nothing" asserted Gov.
Carter AS near as | can ascertain,
the trouble comes from personal diff
ferences between Gov. Frear and the
territorial. delegate, and the worst
feature of the situation is the feeling
of the natives that if Taft was not 60
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