The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-07-31
Continued from LIST Pa0e)

Number S.--The number, nationa-
lily and residence of all mechanics
now employed in the Republic.
The report Of the Commission on
this subject has already been print
ed and lad before the Legislature.
Number 1.-The rate Of wages paid
to such mechanics, etc.
The same remarks apply to this
as to Number 2 above. The Com.
mission is satisfied from Inquiries
made, that the wages paid on plan
tations is substantially the same as
is paid by other employers Of the,
same kinds of labor, due allowance
being made for the free quarters,
and in some cases other advantages
enjoyed by those working on plan
tations.
Number 1.-The prices received
by Hawaiian sugar planters for raw
sugar.
On this subject the Commission
has nothing to report at present..
Number 6-The cost Of producing
sugar, etc.
The Commission is not prepared
% report on this matter at present.
Copies have been obtained of the
detailed reports made by four plan
tations to their stockholders at the
end OF the last season, and less de.
tailed statements of the cost Of pro-
luction have been furnished by two
other concerns. These all differ
more or less, owing partly to lack
OF uniformity in the way in which
the facts are arranged and the re
suits given and it seems necessary
to have further information and
from larger number Of producers
before it will be possible to arrive at
satisfactory answer to this ques-
ton. 1t is probable that some OF
this information can only be obtain
ed by means of oral testimony OF
witnesses summoned before the Com
mission. As was stated in the earlier,
part of the report, the Commission
has not, up to the present time,
summoned any witnesses nor taken
any formal oral testimony.
Number 7.-Whether or not an
in 'reased number of agricultural
and other unskilled laborers will be
needed in the near future, etc.
The report on this subject has
been already printed and laid be-
fore the Legislature, being the last
report that was presented previous.
to the present one.
Number 8. The trials that have
been given to co operative produce
ton or profit sharing in the produce
ton of sugar, rice, etc.
Nunaber 9.-Whether or not sys-
tenn of cooperative production or
profit sharing is feasible, etc.
Number Whether or not such
system OF production has ever been
adopted in any other country stu
ated similarly to Hawaii, ate.
These last three questions have re-
ceived a great deal of consideration
at the hands OF the Commission, and
the conclusions arrived at are stated
in the report on Cooperation and
ProGt-sharing, already in the hands
of the Legislature.
Number Whether or not there
is anything in the climatic or other
conditions in this country which
render it physically impossible for
Europeans and Americans to sue
cessfully engage in field labor in
this country.
This question the Commission has
no hesitation in answering in the
negative This subject is dealt with,
in the report on the Coffee Industry
(see pages 81, ~, % and 24.) Atten-s
ton is called to what is there said,
particularly to the concluding para
graph on pages % and "a, regarding
the salubrity of the island climate.
Any one who has ever seen Ameri-
can farmers at work in hay field in
summer time. will hardly need any
further evidence. Could, the re-
Enumeration Of agricultural labor in
this country be in any way increased
to figure that would equal or lit
tie exceed that prevailing in the
United States, and corresponding
amelioration be secured in the social
conditions attending plantation life,a
and especially,if from the position
of hired hand, there was the same
chances to rise to more independ-
emit condition by obtaining land in
fec and becoming an independent
proprietor, the question of the abil-
ity of the white man, and OF the
American especially, to do out of
door farm work in these Islands,
would not be likely to be again
raised.
Number IS.-If Europeans and
Americans are found capable OF per-
sonal field labor, whether or not it is