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IP IS A' ' What is Best for Maui is Best for the News if you wish Prosperity Advertise in the News VOLUME XVIII WAILUKU, MAUI, H.T., SATURDAY, JANUARY 0, I9J2 if NUMBER 46 Another Almost Intervention THE NEW JOSS. Schoo M Champion Bowler Garden Island Spills More Hot Air About Bowling. Attack f 1V Hay Stannard Baker Takes Another t Slap at Hie. Planters. '.,' " "Htininn Nature in Hawaii : How tho Ft'W want the Many to Work for 'Them -Perpetually aw! at Low . Wages," is the tittle of Hay Stan . nard Baker's article of his Hawai ian series, which appeara in the "January number of the American jMagazine. Mr. Baker quotes from the local t' 'papo,. school commissioners report and from personal conversations. Some of his remarks are as follows: As I have already shown, practi cally everything in Hawaii depends ,upon the sugar industry all the wealth, the fine houses, the beauti ful buildings, the smooth automo bile roads, the extraordinary chari table and benevolent institutions. And the sugar industry depends largely upon the labor of these for- i't ft tuinnlna i-wafl.T Tnnilifti3n up- W. on the land: it When Hawaii was admitted into Chi- the American union, no more nese could bo brought in. Therefore, . the Hawaiian planters turned to tho next great source of labor, the Japanese. An aristocracy does not care a whit where labor comes from or what it is, so long as backs and biceps are strong, ami souls' are sodden and unambitious. But a democracy in its rough way desires .'.not merely workers, but associates , and neighbors. And the democracy .oPthe Pacific Coast, where the Jap anese were also crowding in, began to protest and expostulate. The Jap anese were coming too fast, there was no time to get acquainted or to arrive at mutual understandings; they could not associate with them. Consequently tho Japanese stream ' was cut off , both on the mainland inland in Hawaii. The planters had already been bringing in, at large expense, ship ments of Portuguese peasants and this' was now continued, but the supply was still inadequate. So they tried bringing in ignoraut Porto Ricans, ignorant Koreans, ignorant t Russian peasants from Siberia, and, VJ i ... . Li. , more recenuy, consmerauie num- f bors of underfed and diseased Fili-"-'u..;-pinos. y'vi'iy So urgent is the need of labor that ..'--'lwn amvii-titn imTnicrrntirm lllll-PflllQ are maintained in the inlands. One $ -x3 P"vately supported by tho Plan ts fora' A aannintfnn I lia .ntlifti liv tit ft Territorial government, and both expend very largo sums of money yearly. 'As a matter .of fact, both of. the bureaus represent tho plan ters' interest, one being tho right hand of tho . Planters' Association, tho other the left hand. The purpose of both organizations of course, is to to get cheap laborers, but' the Territorial bureau represents what may be called the progressive element among tho planters. It seeks to bring in white men and to offset Oriental immigration by that of peasant white labor froin Europe. ( It hopes thus to "Americanize'' the islands. It lui3 tho hearty support 'of men like Governor Frcar and Dr., Victor S. Clark, who is the leading spirit on the Territorial board and who is intensely in earn- J(rest upon this subject. The bureau -;t of tho Planters' Association, on tho ! other hand, is bringing in Filipinos ' . in spite of the objections and 1 'i warnings of th medical authorities. ( MMmai. wlin fnvni- lvliltrt immiirm. tion are having to meet all sorts of difficulties. In tho first place tho Asiatic element in the islands is now v V overwhelmingly predjtmnate, ana ( Continued on Page 6) Large Force Held Ready For Trouble at a Moment's Notice. That the United States has been for months on the verge of interven tion in the troubled politics of China, was the information brought by the army transport Sherman, when she arrived in Honolulu. Ac cording to officers on tho transport tho United States government has been holding a force of approxi mately fifteen hundred men in readiness, for immediate service in China ever since last October. Nothing was spared in order that the expedition as planned in Wash ington might bethoioughly equal to the stern task it was. designed to accomplish. Men -from other regi ments in 'the Philippines were ex changed into the infantry and cav alry commands selected for tho Bervice. A detachment of signal corps men and another from the hospital corps were detailed, out fitted and received their orders to hold themselves in readiness to move at a moment's notice, as early as October 15 last. According to tho information ob tained the expedition was to have been made up of the entire Thir teenth Infantry under the command of Col. Frederick W. Sibley, a squadron of the Seventh Cavalry under the command 'of Lieut.-Col William J. Nicholson, a battery of field artillery, a detachment of the signal corps from F company, and a detachment from the hospital corps attached to the military hos pitals in Manila. In speaking of the matter one of the officers of the Seventh Infantry said that whilo the orders were kept very secret, some knowledge of them leaked out in tho city while the transport Sherman was lying at the dock awaiting orders to hurry the force to China, but that nothing de finite was made public. The offi cers and their ladies then on board the transport were ordered to hold themselves in readiness to remove their effects at a moment's notice in order to clear tho ship for the mofe warlike force. Tho commands selected by Gen eral Bliss in response to the orders from Washington were kept practi cally under arms for several weeks and then, as the apparent need for intervention diminished, the strain slackened and officers and men of the detachments were allowed more liberty. ' While nothing definite could bo learned from officers- on board the transport yesterday, who were evi dently of the opinion that discretion was their best policy, it is under stood that tho expedition was to have sailed for Tien-Tsin, and was to have followed pretty much tho course taken by the allies during the Boxer troubles back in 1900. This time, however, history did not repeat herself and tho commands, whilo still under waiting orders when the Sherman left Manila, had abandoned all hopo of any "fun at tho front." Wailuku Union Church. The dedication of tho new Wai luku Union Church will bo on Sun day afternoon, January 21st. The Trustees of tho Church take occasion through tho Maui News to extend to the public a cordiaj invitation to be present. They will send out no other invitations. On Saturday at 3 o'clock tho Council for the theological examina- a " . - 11 ' J- -ki .1 Telegraphic News. La Follette Opens Campaign. MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 5. La Follette opened his campaign here with a speech by Brandies of Michigan. LA SALLE, Jan. 5. In a speech here La Follette declared that monopoly destroyed the integrity of NEW YORK, Jan. 5. The Outlook comes out with a statement that Roosevelt will not be a condidate. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. Taft eays he will not allow mud throw ing at Roosevelt during the campaign. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. A bill appropriating $50,000 for fight ing tho fruit fly, has been introduced by Kahn of California. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. The remains of' Bob Evans, tho fighting admiral, will be laid at rest with full military and naval honors. PEKIN, Jan. 5. Yuen Shi Ki declines to go to Shanghai to dis cuss the peace proposals, but invites Wu Ting Fang to come to Pekin. Honolulu News. HONOLULU, Jan. 5. The Murray case has. been passed up to tho Grand Jury which sits Monday. All tho newspaper's demand his resignation from the Board of Supervisors, but it is tho general belief he will not resign. The promotion committee and aides will meet the Cleveland pas sengers with leis. Chang Chau has cabled Kuhio asking him to lend his aid in the recognition of the Chinese republic. Judge Perry will be married in San Francisco. Two tons of New Zealand butter has been condemned by Blanch ard, as containing Borassic acid, and will be sent back. , Dr. Sun Yat Sen has cabled hjs acknowledgment of the congra tulatory messages from Honolulu, and says he will do his bust for the new republic. HONOLULU, Jan. 4. Supervisor Murray has been held by the Coroner's jury for the death of the Porto Rican. Tho testimony was to the effect that Murray was sitting in the auto, and' that whilo the man was three feet from the car, he swung out and hit him hard enough to injure his own arm. Chauffeur Bolin has been discharged. Mrs. Fred Church has petitioned for a divorce. Spanish immigrants make Berious charges against officers of tho Willesdeu. The charges will be investigated. Diptheria has again broken out on Kauai. Wu Ting Fang has appealed for aid from tho Chinese bore, for those who are carrying on the Red Cross work in China. tion of Rev. Mr. Dodge will bo held at the Church. Those invited to take part in tho proceedings aro tho Union Churches of Maui and tho other islands, a large num ber of individuals and other local pastors, v The public may attend this Council. On Monday at half past seven at the Church, admission to which will be by ticket, the Rev. Robert Elmer Smith, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Honolulu will deliver his popular lecturo, "The Philosophy of the Hustler." This is one of the best lectures ever heard iHTOD 1 Minor in New York Mall. business. in Honolulu. Thero has not been a lecture of the kind delivered on Maui for tho last ton years. Every one ought to como to hear Mr. Smith, as he is a' very well known speaker, and for years was in tho greatest demand in New England and tho East as a popular and Chautauqua lecturer. His press commendations are among the very highest. Frederick J. Stanley, the Oriental Traveler and Lecturer says of Mr. Smith "His public-efforts evidenco wide research, thorough preparation and heartfelt enthu siasm in his message," Hawaii In For Another Airing of Her School Troubles. 111LO. -December 29. For the, past couple of weeks the county at torney's department and Sheriff' Pua have been working quietly on the investigation of charges, which, it is feared, may work out into the worst pchool scandal which tho Islands have ever seen. The in vestigation culminated last Thurs day morning in the swearing out of a warrant against Principal Wilson of the school at Hilea, Kau. Tho charge is one of criminal -assault upon more than one of his girl pupils. The Ililea affair was first brought to the attention of the county authorities a eouplc of weeks ago, when Lillian Wilson, tho daughter of the principal, was arrested to- fgether with one Kahaule Aipu, a young Hawaiian, for committing a statutory offense- According to the law, the parties in such cases may, when. they legally marry, escape the punishment otherwise meted out on such a charge. It seems that the Wilson girl and her lover tried to take advantage of this way out of then- trouble, when they ran up against an unexpected snag in that the girl's father declined to give his consent to the match. As the girl was only seventeen years of age, no marriage license could bo issued to her, except with the consent of her parents. The Kau authorities therefore decided to let the law take its course, and Lillian was sentenced to incarceration in the industrial school for girls pending the rest of her minority. At this point tho plot thickened, for the girl protested that her father had been guilty of a serious offense towards her. Tho sheriff rushed over to Kau, and arrived there just in time to stop the girl's being sent to Honolulu in the steamer. Tho sheriff assisted by Deputy Sheriff Kekaula, immediately pro ceeded to make a thorough investi gation, during the courso of which statements wero taken from Lillian Wilson and from four other girls, all young Ilawaiians or part-IIawai-ians. Tho allegations made by these girls were so serious that tho authorities wero for some tiine un decided what nature of a charge they should enter. The evidenco given spoke in tho plainest of terms. The girls stated, one after another, that they had, at one time or an other as the individual case might bo, stayed in the same room with Lillian Wilson, when Wilson had given them wine to drink, after which more serious happenings had taken place. Tho character of the testimony was such us to induce the authorities to press a chargo of rape against Wilson. The" Wilson girl named no less than seven school girls, who, she claimed, had been staying with her and had been vic tims of as well as witnesses to her father's alleged offenses. Sho add ed that her sister, Violet, was an other sufferer, and that she herself had run away from homo merely in order to escape from her father. Wilson is an American by birth. Ho has been in the Islands many years, having entered tho service of tho department of public instruction in ISO I. He taught for several years at Kalapana, where he is said to have had trouble with some of the parents of pupils, and has been tho principal of the Hilea school since September, 1901. He holds a first class primary certificate. His wife, a Hawaiian, has been teaching With its usual exuberance the Gat'dcn Isami publishes an account of some recent bowling matches, in which Ed. Deinort figured. We take it for granted that our contemporary has tho score right at least, as it would really be too bad, should they thus explode, and later find thai the score was twisted. Mr. Deinort did not hae the highest score in tho re cent match with Kauai, as stated by the Garden Island, and in fact Ed was away off in his bowling OI1 that occasion, and u-n urn pnnfi. dent that his natural bashfulnesss'rO would never allow him to pose as a; champion. This also must have originated in the over fertile brainy of tho newspaper man,, who was eager to grasp at any straw to offsef tho recent beating Kauai received at . the hands of tho. Mauf bowlers. Wo ! give herewith the nnmnnt. nf thai. matches: Mr. Deinert, of Maui, a member . of tho Puunenc Bowling Club, is spending his vacation with relatives here. Mr. Deinert holds the highest individual scoro in tho recent Maui Kauai Contest, for tho. Maui team, while H. Wolters .enjoys this dis tinction for Kauai. The courtesies of the Kegel Club 1 1 , . t-K iiave neen extentlea Mr. Deinert jr .1.. !.... 1 ... ... . - - .'fj uuiing ins visit and on Saturday . 'A night he was the club's guest. Dur-: If niv livtuiiiB, suiiju memocr sug- gested that as the two holding the highest scores in the representative teams wero present, it would bo in teresting to pit tlietn against each mi 1 AP other in a final try out. The sug-.-v! gestion met with (such favor that,' tho Mr. Deinert did not profess to .... uiiu wiia uiuiumuur .i.'; with tho alley, he would stand pat and "do or die." .It is sad to relato however, that ho died tho' game. Tho following scorps, give somo idea of Jiow it happened: ?vf Wolters.. 199 155 I5fi 153 1R4 Si7 Deinert.. 151 1G0 jl74 134 140 702 Mr. Deinert bcinn nossessed with a letter from thef secretary of the Maui aggregation, it would seem " . that the above scores have an official' ring. E. F. Deinert, Maui's chamnion bowler, for tho second time within ri. fk week, was put down and out at the. 'fy Kegel Ulub last Tuesday evening. ' 'i.h fill . L' 1 ... ..... V una ume ms own lather did the trick. Tho scores weru such up to tho last inning as to make it look pretty dubious for Deinert Sr., but nu "lammij Buiyuu wiin ins guns. r.. li.. i i -ii. i- . ... .... . .. - - - - " v u . . Uliuilbu UUU the winner, it is said by somo that only tho presence of tho sheriff kept tho roof of tho building on. I ex- pected defeat by other menbers," said Deinert Jr., "but I am sur prised that 'dad' could do it." Mr. Deinert didn't seem to mind his "beating" a bit however nor did anybody else. Ho is very much pleased with his reception by tho club. A proposition is in tho air which may eventually materialize into a reality, to the effect that thero bo -uAxiieiueni ran mgii at this point, u- When fllO 1'IQt vnll climvrul ",1.,.1 another Kauai-Maui Contest, thin . -f time to consist pt three or five games two host out of three, or three best out of fivo, one game to be played each Saturday. ti . Somo Lahaina people aro much interested in tho Maui Library in Wailuku. in the Hilea school sinco September. . H loin ri -v1 'ar . .v m