The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-01-07

understood race like the Japanese,
but quite devoid of the persever-
ance, cheerfulness and thriftiness of
the latter.
So much for the excellent char
acter of the Javanese workman"
And what [ have here described
was the average record on all the
other plantations. And SO far
from the results being found very
satisfactory" there was a general
consensus of opinion, freely ex-
pressed in the public press through
out the colony that, upon the whole,
the introduction OF the Javanese
element had been q dismal failure.
The experiment was made in con-
| sequence of the passage of an Act
of Parliament prohibiting all
further recruiting of Polynesian
labor on and after the 31st of De-
cember, 1890. Shortly afterwards
| the news came from Batavia that
the Dutch government were about
to put stop to the emigration OF
Javanese coolies, and any one who
has been in the Orient and Knows
how jealousy the money -grubbing
Hollanders guard against foreign
encroachment in their colonial ter
ritories can quite believe that the
report was we'll founded. AS for
the Dutch government az any time
being themselves the purveyOrs OF
the plantation labor shipped to
Australia, Lyndhurst will par
don me if say that he is altogether
at sea. The laborers were obtainde
through and supplied by private
mercantile houses, notably Messrs.
Guthrie & Co., leading firm in
Singapore, and all that was requi-
site to render the contract legal
was that the men should sign their
agreement before certain Dutch
official.
The very pronounced antipathy
of the Australians against all col
ored labor, as demonstrated by their
legislative measures during the last
few years has always been the
stumbling-block to the sugar in
dustry of tropical Queensland. In
deed, the problem has not beer
solved to this very day. But past
experience has put it quite out o.
question that the Javanese should
be preferable to either the Polyne
sian or the Chinese laborer in the
cane field. Quite the reverse.
: I do not say, Mr.. Editor, that
!, suspect your correspondent of be
ing DESTROYS of going out on a fruit
less and expensive wild-goose chase
7 to Batavia as delegate of the Ha
: waiian planters, or that he wants
/ comfortable little job for SOM
friend of his. Such unworthy mo
tives are furthest from my thoughts
[ do not say that his advice has no
t been given in the very best mean
g ing In the world. and that probabl.
7 he thinks the plan feasible. But
do say that if his proposition i
founded upon mere hearsay, he ha
s been entirely misinformed as to tn
s actual facts, or if be speaks from
e personal observation, then his ind
$ vidual experience must have bee
slngularly brief and entirely eS
ceptional one, and the horizon q
IS his powers of observation decided.
b limited.
if One word more in conclusion.
y has fallen to my lot, during m
= organizations around the world. t
:, come into contact and have dea
# ings with a great many alien races
To all patriotic Hawaiians, to thos
g who honestly have the future we
\ fare of the natives at heart, sa
+ that they will rue the day whe
q the first shipload of Javanese ar
% landed on these islands, for NOR
= undesirable element than the M:
). layan race Ito which the Javanes
really belong) could not possibl
10 be added to our already too hetert
d geneous population. Stick to tn
Jap-if you can get him. Salts vel
, bOrum.
). VIGGo JACOBSEN.
1901