The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1882-10-18
EVENING.
The Planters Labor & Supply Co.

IUe fldnIeTS IduOI " supply CU'
continued its annual meeting ycster-
day, but the proceedings were again
strictly private, and nothing can he
learned except from hearsay cvi-
dcnce, until an official report is COM
municatcd to the public. We have
been favored with copies Of the
Trustees report and the Secretary's
report.
Both of these reports are able and
wcll-writtcn documents, dealing
with the subjects within their range
in mastery manner, and we en-
ccedingly regret that our limited
space will not allow us to present
them to our readers in full, but we
hope by the next annual meeting to
he in position to do that with the
similar documents which will be pre-
scntcd ut that time.
The Sccrctary's report is lengthy
document of 10 pages, containing II
complete history of the working of
the Company from the election of
the Board of Trustees till this meet.
ing. 1t shows the numerous and
persistent efforts made by the Com
pany's Trustees to secure immi-
grants from the various sources
where 1t was possible to procure
suitable laborers, and the action of
the Ministry in regard to these
efforts. TO the careful reader it
presents in clear and thorough
manner full exposition of the indie
fatigablc excrtions to establish a
suitable laboring population on these
islands, and we have no hesitation
in saying, is a valuable contribution
to the historical records of this
country during the time it covers.
The tenor of the Trustees report
may be gathered from the following
extracts: SIN making their first re-
port, the Board of Trustees of the
Planters Labor & Supply Co. in
dulgc i'll the hope that it will not be
expected of them to give an account
of any great labor performed, or i'm
portant results obtained during the
few months they have held office,
but rather that they will be looked
to for n statement of what may and
ought to be done, by the Sugar
Planters of these islands, in the
future"
"Thc Sccretary's report will show
the efforts that have been made by
the Board of Trustees to obtain
laborers from the New Hcbrides,
Japan, Portugal, Germany and else
where"
while it is denied that the
Board of Trustees have sought to
use their official position for any
private end or personal qualification,
it is firmly believed that this organi-
zation, Which is practically the only
medium or mode of representation
in the affairs of the Government
which the Planters of this country
now have, should not be powcrlcss
or silent on political questions really
affecting their interests"
"It is only necessary to refer TO the
many foolish and eXtravagant acts
of the majority of the late Lcgisla.
turc to show the utter indifference
of that majority for the interests of
the foreign and producing element
of the country"
SIN short, the Sugar Planters
directly and indirectly, pay more
than four-ffths of all the revenues
of the Government from taXationl
What do they ask in return? They
ask that those taxes be used for the
benefit of the people, and the whole
people. That honesty and economy
be required i'll all departments of the
Government, and that sinccures be
abolished and fayoriion no longer
known.
"That the administration of the
Government be carried on under the
Constitution, and the Kingly Office
he kept free from the faint of job
hing or undignifed manwuvring to
secure private and personal ends.
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