The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-24
European Correspondence.
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Io,nnr- Febrnnrr %. 1888

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LONDON, February %, 1888.
During the recent debate on the Budget in the
Parliament Of the German Empire. the subject OF
the German Emigration to the Hawaiian Islands
came UP Tor discussion. In consideration o! the
importance Of this matter Tor Hawaiian readers,
| have uhtalued Il verbatim report of tie proceed
InE- for the p. G. ADVERTISER.
WueH the estimate for tie Imperial Commits
si1ncr ui Emigration came up for debate. DR..
FrieGrict kaIg ug eneI thc attack A. follows -
= Dunn. lac a~t years TWO v---ti- wirh German
laborers lave sal!-d from Bremen for Honolulu.
there 10 be employed Iu the su.ar-plautIIiOns of
u Company. Tins l. "A labor tit for coolies. but
not for German labOTers. Even the coolies die
within eight years. at the latest, IN these shade
less plains. The laboreTs who are contracted 10
work 10 to u hours daily, are there entirely de
prived OF liberty and free will, they have no pro-
tector and 40 assistance, it they fall out with the
plantation-owners. They lead a life like slaves,
particularly Is there are two crops annually in
those tropic islands. By this export Of German
laborers the credit and reputation Of our Nation
must suffer severely. | call upon the Commits
sioner to prevent this emigration henceforth -
Herr Hasenclever, one Of the social-demOcratic
members According to the prospectus the
conditions Of emigration to Honolulu are favor
able in fact, they are so only for the agents. but
the emigrants are there placed IN Il miserable po-
sitiOn. Formerly the Portuguese laborers in
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found then Cinnamon were imported at So, but
this was sill considered too much by the planters,
and now they enlisted Germans and Scandina-
VANS at So, with an uninterrupted working time
OF eleven hours daily, at so to 30 degrees Fahrcu-
hcit. This naturally completely ruins the people
in n short time, making them quite unfit to uc-
cept another engagement after the expiration Of
their contract, TOUR years, on account OF enerya-
ton. The law il seldom put into operation
against the plantation owners in those islands. A
Chinaman ran away from the oVerseer, he was
captured and put in chains. When several DAYS
later the government ordered him to be liberated,
the general indignation Of the planters was arous-
ed against this act OF the government. | consider
the great real estate owners, who nisled lab0rers
by false advertisements 10 %emigrate to unhealthy
countries, like the firm of liackfeld & Co. at
Bremen, as much more dangerous than the small
agents in the country. These people should not
be spared, and the lmperial Commissioner should
have taken steps to obtain information on this
subject, before this matter COMES up in the House.
In consequence of several warnings published in
the papers Hackfeld & Co. have published Il reply,
which only confirms the worst accusations for
they admit that the laburer receives Is to 20
marks per week, and nothing found, and for this
no one would 90 to Honolulu, especially as the
cost OF living there is very high. They also say
that in their defense, that the laborers are Tree to
go to California, if they were not satisfied in IIa-
wall, thereby admitting that their condition in
the islands cannot be very brilliant. These are
the evil consequences Of the endeayor to obtain
cheap labor
Herr Meyer, OF Bremen, then come to the res
cue 1.-The emigration to the Hawaiian Islands
rests on honorable conditions. | am well ac-
quainted with Messrs. IIackleId & Co., who have
engaged III laborers for Hawaii, and know them
to be very respectable gentlemen. This is al
ready proved by their contract with the emf
grants, which is correct in every respect. The
laborers are guaranteed free lodgings, good food,
a little land, and enough wages to enable them to
lay up savings if they are frugal and Industrious.
Especially for those emigrants who possessed
nothing, the conditions are very favorable. Ii is
also stipulated by contract that the labOrer can
cancel his contract at the expiration Of two years,
however, by making up for one half of his pass
age money. The climate of the Hawaiian Islands
is highly salubrious all the year round ; there is
machinery on the plantations for all heavy work.
Messrs. Hackfeld also have railroads on their
plantations, even transportable railways with IL
complete railway trains, by which the entire
transport of sugar is effected, and there are Ger
man schools and teachers, and a German Church.
1t is beyond doubt, therefore, that the accusations
made here to-day against German emigration to
Honolulu arc unjust and unmerited.'
After a few remarks by DR., WindthOrst, the
leader of the Ultramontane party, who still be-
lieved that an investigation by the Government
might be appropriate, the subject was dropped.
PORTUGUESE EMIGRATION.
The SIS. Abergeldie sailed from Cardiff on the
9th inst. for St. Michaels to embark emiGrants for
Honolulu. This vessel, however, met with an
accident to her steering-gear during the night Of
the 18th and for n few hours, becoming unmanage-
able, her cargo began to shift, and it was thought
advisable to put back to Plymouth to repair.
She arrived there on the Sth, and is now on the
point of sailing. Mr.. lIoffnung, the Emigration
Commissioner goes with her as far as St.
Michaels.
Colonel Macfarlane and Mr.. Francis Spencer,
the Hawaiian Commissioners, FAILED rom Liver
pool by the Servia on the 10th inst. for New York
en- route to Honolulu.
The German steamship Ehrenfcls, Captain
Fisher, belonging to the Uansa S. S. Company OF
Bremen, arrived at Brcmerhavcn on the 9th in
slant, from Cardiff. This vessel will sail on the ODD
inst, direct for Honolulu, with several hundreds
of German laborers on board, engaged by Messrs.
HackCeld Il Co. As the subject of German Emil
grafton 70 the Hawaiian Islands has attracted 30
much attention, since the debates in Parliament.
several German journals now publish the terms of
Messrs. Hackie!d's prospectus, under which the
emigrants are contracted. The Frankfort Gazette,
the most Influential paper of Middle Germany, in
commenting on them, Gays: "Ihese are GER
tainly not brilliant conditions, without speaking
of the great sacrifice OF personal liberty which
they involve. And If the Hawaiian climate is really
as salubriOus and free of fcvers, as claimed by
Messrs. IIackfeld & Co, we must still advise every
labOrer, DESTROYS o emigrlting, to deliberate most
seriously, whether it is really of any advantage,
and updpr those circumstances To eXchanUe Ger.