The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-03-21

laborers canvassed we found fewer
than other nationalltles,
and less than q dozen were born IN the
United States. They were ScandlnaV-
ians (Norwegians, Swedes ana RanesI,
Germans, Irish, Italians, and Cahad-
ians, in about the order mentloheu;
In Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, anu
Nebraska, n majority OF TINS CLASS are
ScandinaviaDs, while farther SOUTH we
find more Germans and IrlSn. III
idaho and Washington the Iaborlng
class IL almost wholly scandinavian,
save in the fisheries where are many
chinamen working for SlI.oO per
month. California has representatives
of all European nations, as well as
greater per cent. of Chinese and Jap
anese labor than any other state: me
most steady cheap labor OF the Cnlted
States is a class CalsO made up OF many
nationalities) Familiarity known as
Hsection hands," being the squads OF
six to ten men who have charge OF X:
p. tracks, by divisions into sections OF
about six miles each. These men, Tor
the most part, have families, ana ire
ouentIv remain for several years in
one position. In the East, South and
the Middle States the wages pald 90
not exceed $14 per month with ooard
in any quarter !; while in the West so
is sometimes given. On the southern
Pacific and branch lines, through
Texas. New Mexico, Arizona, and
Southern California many MexIcans
are used, and are paid the neat sum OF
SI3 with their "Chili." OF all these
the Swede is by far the most indust-
rious, sober and reliable. A SWede
Iaborer, with his family around him,
is steady, honest, moral, has some
education and makes capital cltlZen.
No more hardy white man can be
found on the globe than he, and ne IS
better adapted to and prefers farming
above other vacations. In his native
land, the Swede is subject to great and
sudden climate changes, extremes OF
heat and cold in some localities, so
unsettled and disagreeable as rule, to
make the country an undesirable
abode. But, though he prefers the
northern districts of the United states
. he is found in several localities down
south, notably, along the COLORADO
River in Western Texas where the
thermometer frequently rises to l0Odg::
in the shade, and that in the midst OF
harvest. There are some in Santa Re,
in Arizona the hottest place on Gods
earth, barring Arabia), and in the eX-
tremes of California. They harvest
wheat i'm Kansas with the thermom-
eter resting between 80 and 30 degrees
in the shade, and live in the Dakotas
and parts of Minnesota, where 1T
sweeps up to 103 ami 1Oi degrees.
Farther south we find them in Chi
huahua, Mexico, Havana, and even
Nicaragua, where prominent state
official, at present, IS Swede. There
are Swedes at Jaluit In the Marshall
Islands and, / understand, they nave
lived on Mill and Ponape, right about
the equator. In Samoa some are
found and we have q few here. But
the Pacific Ocean has received more oil
the mariner type of Swedes and Few
or none from the rural districts.
Therefore, a practical test of their
merits as farm laborers-has never been
made here. L consider the Swede the
most efficient, desirable and available
white laborer within reach OF the Ha-
waiian Islands. would not advise the
useof Italians; Mexicans are preferable
Nor would / advise the importation o.
Swsdes from America. They can be
broughtfrom Sweden with their fam
ilies) without trouble. To further IL
lustrate the habits of the Swedes,
will saw that, out of the population O
Sweden QS90), A, 7S4, 9S1, 3,S66,599 live
in the rural districts, and CREATE
number are dependent upon farming
for a livelihood. 81, 212 emigrated Il
other countries in 1890, most
them going to the United states
With regard to education Sweder
occupies a very prominent place
Primary education is compulsor!
for all children of the country, an'
this principle Is so strictly APP
piled that in 1884 out of 1885, 30
children of school age, only 10, IA
were not under tuition. Christlan1t.
was introduced about the ninth cen
tury. anG now claims the whole coun
try. The established religion Is tn
Lutheran, and there are Baptlsts
Jews, Methodists and Catholics, mum
bered in the order / have given. Th
farming class is poor, and the agrlcu
tural laborer earns a mere pittanct
Twelve dollars per month would be
road to certain fortune in the eyes {
MANY q Door, but industrious, farme
of Southern Sweden, where the popl
lation is thickest. The only thing l
the way is our lack of seasons; br
there are Swedes, Norweglans an
Russians in this country who seem [
thrive on perennial spring weathe
A little encouragement offered ia
hardy husbandman along the Cattegs
would secure for Hawaii sufficieI
labor. and that of the very best cha
acter, would insure the productlN
prosperity of the country, and, in IL
end, give her a colony of either
steady, economical, honest, moral,
lasting benefit to the country al
society; each one q staunch support
of good government, and a patriot
the truest type. L.