Home Rula Repubalika, Volume I, Number 3, 9 November 1901 — LOOKOUT FOR THE HOBOS. [ARTICLE]

LOOKOUT FOR THE HOBOS.

Quite a large number of this undesirable class of people have come to the Islands of late, and the police drag-net is daily rewarded with a liberal haul of these degenerate specimens of humanity. Although the police warned them off the capitol grounds a short while ago, still a number of them may be often seen now on the same grounds and other public parks, sleeping under the trees after a night's wandering and prowling

about people's homes ill quest of food and possible plunder. No doubt many of the recent robberies can be traced directly to this vagrant el.iss of men, who in most either came as stow-aways or worked their way unsatisfactorily before the mast with the ulterior object of getting discharged at this port. From the time Kamebameha the Great laid down his law, "Let the old and the weak sleep on the highways unmolested," until the late dvclopments of the advantages of so-called Western civilization, we were not obliged to close the d« of our Island homes at night: but we do warn you to do so now if you do not want the hobos to walk in upon you unawares.