Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-13
LETTERS
THE FILIPINO AND THE PLANTA.
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Editor Honolulu-Staf Bulletin, ..>4
.Sir:-Perhaps there is no better,
healthier. happier and suitable place
for the Filpinos in Hawaii to live in
than the plantations Honolulu. can
bluntly anticipate them. ID the rotten.
est place for them to start in good
life, as they may think properly.
In the plantation, although afforded
backward by the records and tradi-
tons of the progress of the wage.
worker toward Industrial independ-
ence and honorable citizenship and
thigh.wage how complete win be the
fusion Of the characteristics Of this
eongIcmerate mixture OF different
races, shall hold the territory under
their sway, In order to form the Amer.
lean citizens In the future: how stead
fly are the laborers carrying on the
contest for emancipation from the np-
Ipressions OF the caeiques and the i'm.
Eperfous shirkers. For in the planta'
tons no .freemen shall be Seized or
imprisoned, or, dispossessed or out
Elawed. or In any way brought to ruin:
for the plantation syndicates will not
20 against any man. or send against
him, save by legal judgment OF the
law: 20 no man viii they sell or deny
or delay right or Justice. but the motto.
riolfs2 caciqness and the imnerious
strikers OF the g1yerniaAct and some
az the crarkys foxr ciElIers in Honn-
|luln pretending to be honest end cieaa
IN conscience but consequently with
out backbone when comes tha pfinci-
pies OF Justice and honesty. v I'LL toier.
ABLY perpetrate.n For, without labor
ers there viii be no seyfs who Will
tili the coil. So that In the plantation
q wage-earner Is never abused. They
are readily helped with justice and
honesty. They are treated with due
respect and Kindness by the. syndi.
Gates; but not by the employed shirk.
ers and caciaues There is no hunger
in the plantation: !z;.gt-zz..e.- ~
Justlffably. while the occurrence is
censcientiously true a few OF the Fill.
pinos and others become unfaithful.
and iuertly perpetuate3 to neglect In
paying what they owe In plantation
stores. Consequently / found among
the few, would owe so much in the
stores and when they thought of their
daily earning Of seyenty.seyen cents a
day each, and imagine how much har'
der they work in the heat of the SUM-.
then came dissatisfaction. They be-
came lazy. Some were induced by
the force Of; cruel blunde and disease
Of 1aziness, to quit plantation work
and neglected their dutygto pay when
they Owe. Though ave can never
blame 8 law man. For it Is his busis
ness to be diligent only when his ston.
acii Is empty He might think this
way $3.50 s. s.. 1, 4t ~ - Z. h.
Suppose earn $2250 q month. 4
have four Sundays that do not work.
These are the only exceptional days
Il enjoy pleasure. healthiness and rest
Sometimes I become fnAigued because
.of hard Iab0riso chat 81 ans forced to
have four or seven sdays 'In0e-moe'
4 rest) month; together with my
SUNDAYS and moe-nioes win have
eight or eleven days that do not
work during q months labor. sup.
pose pay ms; board and laundry for
Sc 4 month; altogether will only have
left from my monthly earning per.
haps SOL or 1926 Better 90 Homo.
lulu, fihd lob there. 1sags 81. As @.zs95e: .
But when he comes here the only
work he finds Is the pineapple mills
work which lasts only for three
months. For Honolulu is not place
for poor people. It is place for the
rich men and government employees.
And the Filipinos here are not so we'll
treated like In the plantations.
Y II we are not treated equally In this
city, let us stay In the plantations
where we are treated more like men,
where we are real independent OF our
works. And II the sugar syndicates
can raise our daily earnings OF
day each. This Is what most OF the
pineapple syndicates are paying their
laborers, like the Hawaii Preserving
Company. i believe not only all the
Fflipinos; but others will rather stay
In the sugar plantations than IN Homo
lulu. or 60 to Alaska or United States.
Rightfully 4 can say that, for the
laborefs, Wahiawa is one of the best
plantations In Oahu. % For in this plan
tation neither a shirker nor cacique
is allowed There Was once found
shirker who always acts like brute
when he gets drunk He was a de-
crepid luna, who can hardly run an
errand for his boss, and report his
own routine. However, he should not
be blamed 50 much Nor, he is a hard
headed, ,loquacious. worn-out, weather.
beaten but humble old guy: He is
only one who is called a maleontent
prince of old Spain.
F. LEOPOLD THEODORE.