The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-12-29
Kohala, Hawaii, Dec. %, 1894.

lin discussions, like the foregoing,
the differences of opinion usually arise
from misunderstanding of terms, or
definitions.
There is no such thing as purely
| "physical labor" Even the animals
use brains, and differ in their work,
by the use of their senses.
If laborer, whether of the Occident
or the Orient goes into the cane field,
he must use his brains, and all that
the brain demands. A good brain, the
Americanist's brain, for instance, will
at once demand machinery, and in
crease the product of his labor by it.
The negro laborer of the Southern
States of America, will stick to the
old plow, and refuse the gang plow.
The Intelligent white men will use the
"gang' and greatly increase his work.
Which earns the money: the man or
the machine? In the majority of
cases, the negro is not intelligent
enough to use the "reaper;" the white
man is.
The average rate of farm wages to-
day, in the Southern States is, with
out board, white men $1,000 per
month; negro 1926 per month, and
this rate prevails if the last census is
correct), in the very States where it
has been held, for nearly century,
that the white man cannot work. Our
correspondent says that ''for tropical
agriculture the dark-skinned races find
their proper sphere" The Census of
the United States contradicts him,
| and if he is still not satisfied, let him
write to the immigration bureaus of
all of the Southern States, for further
| information. The out-of- door laborers
| here, in our streets contradict him.
| So will men who have worked here on
| the land. The laborers ON the extern
| sion of the Oahu Railway give con-
elusive proof Of the ease and comfort
with which the white man can work
| in the tropics. The reason why the
white man does not do manual labor
in the tropics, is that he can use his
|
the dark-skinned men at work. But,
as countries are becoming more thick
| ly settled up, he finds that his own
manual labor, aided by machinery, is
often the most profitable.
Even in purely manual labor, the
| intelligent white man using his brains,
will excel the yellow and black
races, just as the white men of the
North, excels his neighbor of the
| South, because he has better
habits of industry. 1t has been re-
peatedly proved, in the southern Am
erican States, that when two men are
raising cotton beside each other, on
the same soil, and with the same cap
| ital, one will make money, and the
other lose. We saw, two years ago in
Florida, a ten-acre patch of Sumatra
tobacco, raised by a white man and
| his children, the crop of which paid
| for the land ten times over, in one
year. Beside him were number OF
men, using colored labor, who lost on
their tobacco crops. Brains" made
/ InO ulncIChCCJ ohN LAAC A1NS sum ASN
nothing to do with it.
Karl Max and his Socialistic lin a
! bad sense) followers, have left out the
use of brains in their discussion of the
labor question.
If our correspondent and others
would read Mr.. Mallock's book on
Labor and Popular Welfare" re-
Gently published, he and they would
discover something TO think about.
The Eva plantation has demon
strated what can be done by laborers,
if their brains and ambition can have
play. Race power is only brain power,
with energy behind it.
The most backward farmers of the
Eastern States of America are often
those living in the rich lands. The
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