Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-29
JAPANESE
PAPERS in
WORDY War

The appointment OF L. E. Pinkham
as governor of Hawaii has served to
arouse the local Japanese newspapers
to a fighting pitch, and translations
from these publications give evidence
that they are going after one another
with hammer and tongs through the
medium of editorials and comment.
The Hawaii Hochi and the Hawaii
Shinpo at present occupy the center
of the stage in this WORD war and
the stand taken by each paper with
regard to the appointment Of Pink.
ham, which seems to be identical in
each case, has caused the digging up
Of the proverbfal Ratchet which was
suppose to have been inferred years
ago. The "Pinkham Nightmare"
which appeared in the Sunday issue
of the morning paper. and which was
said to have been translation OF
an article appearing in the Hawaii
Shinpo of the day before, has been
taken by the Hawaii Hochi as q basis
for argument, and under the heading
sHochi Remarks" that paper says In
a recent issue:
The pride of the Hawaii Shinpo is
its temporizing measure, and 1t would
seem that its work along this line has
served to make it famous. In other
words. that paper will secretly report
TO the English newspapers anything
that has happened among the Japan
'ese, thereby affecting itself to q point
where it becomes dangerous paper,
its stories, however large, having no
effect upon the local Japan
csc residents. That the Hawaii Shin
po attacked the appointment of L. E..
Pinkham as governor Of Hawaii was
not taken from its own principle but
because Of its performing serpile SER
vice for the Advertiser. The Shinpo
is hooking and scandaling Pinkham.
and we will prove the statement In
the following:
In the issue of the Advertiser last
Sunday morning, that paper published
an article called "a Pinkham Night
mare, claiming that the same had
been taken from the Saturday issue
of the Hawaii Shinpo. But the funny
thing about this matter is that the
same article appeared in the Sunday
morning issue of the Shinpo. Sup
pose we grant that the Saturday is
a mistake. which should have meant
Sunday. The Advertiser is printed at,
four o'clock in the morning, while
the Shinpo goes to press at seven
o'clock in the morning. Anyone will
admit the impossibility of transferr-
ing the writing three hours previous
from one paper to the other, and we
are therefore inclined to think that
the original story came from the Ad-
yertiser, which sent the same to the
Shinpo to be put in previous issue
OF that paper, but, as the Shinpo could
not get what it wanted, put it in the
paper of the following day"
Speaking CT the Hawaii Shinpo
taking service from Others the Ho-
chi goes on to say:
The Hawaii Shinpo claims for
the sake of the principle which
sounds very pleasant to our ears.
Still, deep in its heart, that paper is
actually disregarding the interests of
so 900 Japanese residents in the Ha-
waifan Islands. 1t is doing very faith
full service for the planters, and en-
joying monthly allowance of $3.50
from the planters association. Con-
sequently, when any problem might
arise between the capitalists and the
laborers. the Shinpo will resort to
the methods similar to those which it
used at the time of the last strike.
These methods are not to the advan-
tage of the Japanese The nature of
the paper is very unprincipled, and is
regarded as such among the local
Japanese.