The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-22
COFFEE INDUSTRY.
REPORT OF THE LABOR COMMITS
SION TO THE DEPARTMENT.
Its Importance to the Republic of
Hawaii, and How it Night Be
Greatly Improved.

Washington, June ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Mills, at Honolulu, has sent to the. state
department report on the labor COM
mission on the coffee industry in Hawaii.
The commission says there is now labor
enough to supply the coffee plantations,
but that the supply may fail at any time,
and the coffee industry be seriously Grip
pied.
1T has been apparent" says the COM
mission. that our moral and political
institutions are altogether too dependent
upon the single industry of sugar IN
other countries governed by able and en-
lightened men, persistent and far-reach-
ing efforts have been made to induce
desirable immigration and create Giversi-
fled industries. Here, however, there has
been stagnation and Indifference OF public
opinion on these subjects, owing largely
to the dominant power of the native
monarchy, which was hostile to pro-
gress.''
An upbuilding of the coffee-growing in
dustry is urged, though the land ten
ureS, the commission says, are not salts
factory. Leasehold interests only can be
obtained. and no large number of Ameri-
cans and Europeans will accept them.
Much business is done on credit, and
planters with only lease-holds find it diff
ficult to obtain this credit. The system
diScourageS Asiatics, as the Chinese, who
are large cultivatOrs of rice, will swarm
are sure of success. There are now $500
acres in coffee plantations, but if, as
proposed by the government, a wise and
satisfactory adjustment of the land ten
ures is secured, there would be in a few
years ZOO acres of coffee. Then more
laborers would be needed.
The commission says il cannot con-
slider the question of labor as it relates
to coffee without being confronted with
the fact that it is intimately connected
with the social and political problems
To%r
nations which lie on either side of it.
The time has arrieved when it must be
determined whether Occidental or Orien-
tai civilization of Hawaii must be in
substance, if not in form, occidental or
oriental. The native POlynesian supplies
more than minority of the laborers
needed by the country, and will assini-
late itself outWardiy, at least, TO what
ever stronger civilization gains Suprem-
acy here. To the west IS an oriental
civilization which, with the exception OF
wholly unprogressive and undemocratic.
To the east, there is an occidental civil
cation which is active, progressive and
advancing on all lines toward the best
development of man. The dominant
party of Hawaii desires to assimilate its
social and political life with that Of the
occidental nations. It desires political
union with the American republic for the
promotion of republican methods
The commission says the sugar interest
has not improved the body polite by
reason of importation of inferior labor
ers.
1t is suggested that immigration from
the United States is very desirable, and
it is recommended that an agent be sent
to the United States to encourage the
best class of immigration. There is
strong sentiment against any more
ASiatics.
The opening of the trade with Puget
Sound and the Pacific northwest is re-
commended by which an exchange of
Hawaiian products with those of the Pa
cifc northwest may be made.
The reciprocity treaty with the United
States is highly comm ended as having
done a great deal for Hawaii.