Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 398, 26 February 1892 — "PATRIARCHAL" KAUAI. [ARTICLE]

"PATRIARCHAL" KAUAI.

'-IhiHhw» >t ow pl*uUflfeU" Bii Stwi wbich rant tt tht PrC. Adfli'lkti t«j», i)aoit «tjtir«ly, inthoat ooi)tract labor, pn to pnv» w!&at Ka Leo h£t to <rften aMert* ed; tkteoßtr»et iahv it not iie* etMfsr to tbt toictr hoiiowi. Bot if oot oftb* t«oive or iboic planUtioiit M liui on!v ont ' t)«BOtt «itir«ly H ditpestet with contraet tabor> tbe ftct it tetrce)r mo#e of a protett agaiMt hond ttrvice thtn Oipuio «nertioo tbat | be * % htrd!jr ew" tvore at tbe omw of tbe PinaJerr. Oa Kaoai ateitewbero, tbere tre exceediogij kiad meo a» oDtiiagera tnd ownert of pUntatNm» wbo never haye trooble| with their hands, and there are: othere who «6 Hemlet raid of a cl«st of &ctor»: one wonld suppoee f>n#» c>f n*tur*»'» joorneyic»n i mael* them and botrhed the job. NAturf nev«*r intended ihem» Sor cvewfw of iuen. but the bond by whieh tbev rule—ai«»ne—«nahlen them to ri!antain th<» poeition cf On totue Kauai p!antationa the men art- not pworn &t: on evt?ry aent*n«'e i» flavored with an ,oath. "You O— D— Jack* ttt ,% ia the cotnmo:i, addrett of a eertain (otherwite well edttcated) Gemaan mill mana|ter on Kauai. to tbe fie)d haoda. This to a Hawaiian ie ftpecially gailing t hut any attempt to reeent it wouid laewl the cootraet aiaee in Waiuiea ioek-up and Lihue Jai! '

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