The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-10-16
|HOCH| EXPLAINS
BOND POSITION
Not Opposing Japanese Purchase
But Opposing Anything Look
. ing Like Compulsion

the Hawaii Hochi, denies that Their,
is anything unpatriotic in his adyic,
4 TO Japanese laborers not to put theil
bonus money into Liberty Bonds. H,
states that he and his paper have con
sistently advocated the buying OF thes,
bonds by the Japanese as their patriot
ic duty to the government thew liy,
under, government allied with tbeil
home government in the wnr. but he
believes that only those Japanese VIII
can afford the money should 40 invest
| For the others there il another use
equally patriotic, into which they car
better place their small funds. ~.
Maxine objects to the plantation
managers inducing the laborers 10 sub.
scribe for bonds, inasmuch rs he be.
heves the laborers, in their ignorance
VIII buy the bonds under feeling OF
compulsion, which. is not the spirit in
which to make patriotic investment
AS Tor Japanese merchants and Others
with money, his advice TO them is 10
buy to the limit Of their ability to
pay. ..-,-rs-.I =
al do not see. why I am iumped
on as unpatriotic in giving the best
advice / can to the Japanese labor.
ers," said Maxine Saturday. "My
advice is not unpatriotic, while all Ha
waii was given advice by the Honolulu
chamber of Commerce that was, to my
way Of thinking, most unpatriotic un.
der the circumstances. The chamber
in whole page ad in the papers, ad
vised everyone to spend and keep on
spending, for the benefit Of the Homo.
lulu merchants, at the very time the
President and others we're urging prop,
err economy and saving. Why didn 4
these patriots boosting the Liberty
Bonds have fit about the unpatriotic
chamber of commercef'' -
Maxine explains that the japanese
feel that they must reserve some part
of their money for war fund for the
assistance of such Japanese as may be
drafted soon, The Japanese have not
claimed exemption; they hope to be
drafted and hope to be able to 70 and
fight for the Stars and Stripes. They
know that their countrymen here, as
in japan, win come to their assistance
and help support their families here
and their parents in Japan. They know
that they may 90 to war satisfied that
NhOy ASoNO ONhlhu thCUu uO TtlhlINc VINO
will want should they be killed.
Japanese Peel That Way uf,tH. .
"The Japanese feel that they must
have money for this reason, says Ma.
kino. "And that is one reason why
I do not want to see the laborers placed
in q position where they feel they
must subscribe for the bonds because
the plantation managers ask " them
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The Hochi replied Saturday to an
article in The Advertiser commenting
on the attitude of that paper toward
the bond issue. 1t said: 'G,@a,
Hochi Replies 1872
1.-THE Advertiser of this morning has
in its article concerning Liberty Bonds,
published the English translation of
the Hochi article stating that com.
pulsory solicitation of laborers to sub
| scribe to the bond with their bonus
money is not a proper treatment of
laborers 1--WE do not know who abused
the Hochi by making an abusive trans.
lation) and stated that when Mr.. Peck
and others called on the Japanese pa.
pers to request their assistance to so.
hcit the subscription the Hochi did not
accept the request although other pa
pers have done so. g..
awe are not certain whether this
Mr.. Peck is Mr.. Peck Of the Planters
Association. At any rate one Mr.. Peck
telephOned to the Hochi. However, the
editor did not answer the call and there.
fore we do not know what his bust.
ness was. We never received a call
from Mr.. Peck. Now, Mr.. Peck stated
that the HOchi does not consent to as.
sist the solicitation of the bond al
though he has called on the Hochi. This
is very curious.
"Isn't this abuse aimed TO misrepre
sent the Hochi to the white people, q
felOniOus scheme of the planters side
because the Hochi insists upon the high
er wage argumentf If this is the case
the baseness Of the scheme is a shame
to gentlemen. Fortunately or unluckily
the Hochi is not able to become 50
shameless and lacking in principle az
to suppress the higher wage argument
Of laborers like a certain japanese paper
which became an organ of planters fol-
money in 1909. 49,
"Of course, the matter Of Liberty
Bonds itself is not of the nature to BE-
opposed. 1t is plain enough from
what we wrote in our former issue that
we are advising those Japanese with
surplus to subscribe to the bond.
! THAT the HOchi is endeavoring IL
arouse loyal feeling among resident Jap
anese toward the United States sincs
the American entry to the war with
Germany, may be easily ascertained
from our editorials and articles FIRE
quently published in our issues. Be
| cause there was a rumor to the effect
that a compulsory solicitation Of labor
ers to subscribe TO the bond with theil
bonus will be made, we expressed oul
opinion in order that such a step shall
not be taken.
"However, il is our insistence thai
those who have means to afford shall
subscribe to the bond to express theil
loyalty to the United States and fol
the benefit of amicable relations be
tween America and japan. Wherein
there is some one who intended to abus,
the Hochi to the white people and :,
give an impression that the Hochi'
argument for higher wages is not right
His intention deserves hatred. 1t Il
necessary to be we'll on ones guard
because there is person, who havinI
an abusive mind, always gives mis-
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