Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 270, 29 July 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

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newspapers here, and illustrates the total laek of principie and tbe absolute want of gentlemanlinesa in the men who were put into power by John L. Steveus and the U. S. S. B*>ston, The SUr printed a bl*nk form of a Iab >r-contract between the Guatemala g>vernment agent, at present in this city, and Japanese la’oorers, who shou!d desire to try the.r furtune in the Central-American republic* The Star claimed that the contract was j>icked ud in the street, and tliat it theref<»re considered il its Iegitimite prev and pnblished it. a!though it njust have been obvious even t<) tne depraved roind of the Star scribb'.er thal it wsg an nnwarruntable prying into trie affairs<>f pnvate persons and of a distinctly private nature. We have Iearned that the coutrjct real!y was picke<i up iu the street. aud that it belonged lo the Japam-se Coi.sul-General Mr. Fuji, who lost it <>nt of his carriage. It has, u<.doubtedix been a malter of great 8urprise to that gent!eman—who perhaps not yet fully has realized the nature of lbe loeal beusts —to find published in a Hawaiian newspaj>er, a private document belonging to him, and if the raatter was not of amall moment to all the parties iuterested, we think that the Consul-Gen-eral would have a great deal better cause to eall ,the attention of the Hawaiian Minister of F.>reign Affairs to tbe unwarrantable insult offered~him than h« Mr. Blount over the notorious cane-matter. We do not know who picked up the contract, or who handed it <>ver to the Star, but we believ« that all f>ir thinking nien will agree with us that »iich violation nf all decency fails little sh<>rt <>f being criminal, and should at onee and for all be st;«mped as being the action of a cur and not of a man. Tbe pvblicatinn of tlie contract in ilse!f does n»t annoy any of th<>se «nierested in the slighlest degree. Tne Star or any other paper could have obtained a copy of that eontract from tbe proper sonrce at any lime f<>r the asking of it and it ne» ded not todisgrace itself by becoming a partner in something whieh borders on petty iarceny. The propositions and business here of Captain Ferguson have been fully commented on ui the Holomua as well as in the Star and even Mr. J. T. Waterhouse who again has rushed into print ought to be able to ses that the whole matter is an ubsolutely private affair between the representativea of Japan and Guatemala and th«t it certainly does not eoneem Hawaii <>r the Hawaiian puhlie in the least. Wby Mr. J. T. Waterh<>use. an S 'American citi«en from Van Diemen’s I.and—wishes to take a hand in the matter we do not understaiid.We alwaya thoūght that he was the ehampion of eheap labor and would sympathize with anybody who w«s in need of tbat accommodation. He needn’t wr»rry though over the departure from here of a few Japs—there will be plenty*cheap ehinamen left to build *‘viHas” on his Pearl City iote and his dreame of great dividends on that properly (when we get annexed!) need not be disturbed by the proepecte of “blsckbirding in Hawaii.” t