Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1898 — WARNED TO SHUN HAWAIL. [ARTICLE]

WARNED TO SHUN HAWAIL.

The Islandh Are Overrun -with Im - peCnnious Adventurers. “Tell all workingmen to keep away fro;n> Hawaii,” is the warning of Robert W. Shingle, the Hawaiian commissioner tothe Omaha exposition, who has been in. Chicago for the purpose of conferring, with Commissioner General Peck relative to the display that is to be made at the Paris exposition by America’s new territory in the Pacific. “Since the visit of the United States, troops on their way to Manila there has been a great rush for Honolulu, and the city, and, in fact, all of the islands are now overrun with impecunious strangers. I have just received a letter from ,1. B. Atherton, president of the Sugar Planters” Association, in which he urges me to. make it understood that there is no field for commercial employment in Honolulu' or the islands, and that the only possibleopening is for a limited number of farmers, to do plantation work at $lB or S2O a month.”