Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-05-15

conditions here and Japanese ..-.. ... -
through the Post Office and banks amounted toll in
1912 100000 in 1913, and in 1914 $2r3O00Q0.
The maintenance by Japanese of the purity of their
stock is one of the remarkable facts that merits consdera
ton The Report of the Registrar General for 94 Classics
by the marriages of the year OF l4o marriages 1906
aye Japanese Japanese One American married Japanese
bride did also Spanard One Japanese married
Hawaiian and three japanese married pure
Hawaans These figures marked contrast to the inter
marriage of the other OF 20 American III
red American brides II married pure IIawaans 25 married
Caucasian Hawaian married pure Chinese and married
Chinese-Ha Out of 102 Chinese 81 mar
riedkDre Hawaiian married Chinese Hawaiian women
only So marrying of pure Chinese blood While 1896
Japanese married Japanese only two married out
of their of 806 brides of pure American British,
Hawaiian Portuguese and Spanish blood 206 married groons
of other than their have not secured adequate
statistics but considerable inquiry leads infer that of
the whole number of Japanese families in the Territory in the
vicinity of O0 there must be less than 100 that have married
Hawaans. t .'.-7.
B. During the past years, due the trt admnistra-
by the japanese Government of The enhA Agree
fresh labor immigrants have from Japan Thou
sands women however have been allowed to marry
husbands already in the Islands Theresut is that large ma
jori of the perhaps two-trdsl married Whle
some abuses have doubtless attended the coming of many
picture brides yet the results on the whole satisfactory
universal testimony of the Plantation Managers is to the
effect that they prefer married bachelors, erelor
principally because the younger wives aid plantation work,
.bu chiefly because the conented steady,
more digent free from yenereal diseases In the
employment of and assignment of work other things being
equal preference usually given to having families
There general agreement the opinion that most OF
plantations regular prostitution exists and also that the
japanese free from venereal diseases than any
other Some of the physicians and managers made
ngy strong statements this point In the city OF Honolulu
however situation reversed Japanese prostitutes
being found in relatively large number recent investigation
of the redght district showed that of lo7 prostitutes, 81
were Japanese .s. ~ ~ .>="
ss5 Examination in detail OF more than dozen camps
showed that that should be abandoned They villages
rather than camps few plantations still of the old
barracks rule however they have been entirely given
Each family a home for itself if the family small has
kitchen homes being covered by single
roof Large families have an entire building The houses have
each plot of ground In these cultivated
but the still far from universal The apparent ndit
ference many Japanese families the appearance of their
homes whether inside without of the surprises OF
visit Japanese peasants distinctly inferior to Portuguese in
this respect though superior Flipinos Portuguese vii
lagos appear rule attractive being we'll provided with trees
and flowers while Japanese villages rule distinctly
attractive There however much difference between the
various plantations in this respect.
Particular inquiry made in regard Japanese financial
relations learned that while work that lasted from years
given regularly recorded contracts contracts
for shorter periods merely verbal covering work that would
completed in the of few months The fine relations
of mutual good will displayed by this arrangement
highly impressive The adjustment also of of payment
that the aborer shares with the plantation the advantages
disadvantages of large small crops and also of high or ow
prices sugar evineed desire of the managers deal fairly
with labor and the confidence of labor the honesty and
fair dealing of the managers.
The fact that while Fpinos, Portuguese Porto Ricans
and Others rule given only day labor the contracts are
given largely Japanese speaks volumes for the superior ability
and fidelity of Japanese labor. = ..*
T. The financial prosperity of the japanese also cause
of surprise In addition wages every laborer is provided
free of house. all tools fuel and medical Treatment
AS already noted during the past few years the housing
engagements have been greatly improved cost to the plana
tons hundreds of thousands of dollars from
Japanese working show that while the minimum earnings
for year-receiving only day wagesamounts to about
the total expenses of living for single amounts To- about