The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-01-25
HOW THE NATIVES ARE ASSISTED
Cooperative vs.. Contract LabOr-SO-
ciety Under the Monarchy-A
Bit OF Constitution History.
Annexation to the United states.
(ConclusiOn.)
Praises the Land Law.

1t provides in a liberal way for the
people who are without capital. 1t /:
particularly prepared To meet the con
ditiOn of the natives by ena oling then
to acquire holdings and hold them
one OF the systems being inalienable
holdings, which cannot be conveyed
mOrtgaged or devised. The only way
natives can lose them is by voluntary
abandonment"
Given when they desire to sell are
they prevented2''
'One of the clauses is that they can
not sell, mortgage or devise. The
land goes to certain heirs by descent
as the family line exists the prOpert y
remains in their possession"
"And when that fails?"
SIT reverts to the Government
"Ihen you have undertaken to save
the native from bimself?"
Eyes. Many natives are not thrifty.
When they want money they are
easily influenced by men who loan it
to them in order to get their land.
This law is to protect them from los
ing their holdings though they be
thriftIess and careless"
''Was this one of the first move
ments of the republlcW
Eyes. 1t was constantly the policy
of the provisional government, but
their views did not crystaliZe until
the first session of the Legislature of
the republic; that and the cable were
made the main objects of the special
session, which adjourned before you
arrived"
Annexation the Sole Policy.
''I hear it said that If the United
States do not annex the islands they
will be offered to England. Is it a
possibility"
"Our sole policy is annexation to
the United States?"
"Have you anything to say on the
subject of contract labor?"
Contract labor has existed here
since sugar plantations were started,
but of late years it has been decreas-
ing. All plantations employ a large
proportion of day laborers who are
not under contract. The necessity
and importance of the contract sys-
tenn has been diminishing for num-
Der of years"
stWhat has taken its placer"
ebay labor and profit sharing"
"Would you kindly explain the
latter?"
"Well, the Eva plantation on this
island has elaborated a system of pro
fit sharing that at present is very sat-
isfactory and encouraging. The plan
tation plows, harrows and plants a
field of cane, gives it one irrigation
and then hands it over to company
of men,"
"Not Hawaiians?"
81 don't know of any Hawaiians
taking it up. A company of men
take the cane field under an agree
ment to cultivate it and when the
plantation wants to grind the cane
they cut and deliver it on the cane
cars, which run through the planta-
ton. They receive stated amount
of money every month as an advance.
They are paid, / think, so much ton
for the sugar CANE, and when the crop
is taken off they are paid the surplus
of what they have not drawn. Their
income in some cases, as compare d
with working by the day, has been ii
large advance. In some cases they
have made $27 month in
stead of SIS Or SIS. Another sugar
plantation at HIlo, Hawaii, al
lows persons, sometimes individ
uals, to take a piece of their own land
or plantation land and cultivate it.
The plantation buys the cane in some
way, and these men make great in
crease on what they would make in
working by the day, as l understand
1t. The contract labor is valued now
mostly in the case of new immigrants
who have their passage paid for them.
For people who are here the planters
prefer to have them work by the day.
/ think there are more day laborers |
than contract laborers on the planta- |
tons, but l cannot give you the |
figures"
Woman Question Discussed.
''To return to the burning question |
of annexation, President Dole, am |
told that many of the native and half
white women oppose annexation on
the ground that they will not be
treated on an equality with the
whites"
81 think many of them feel that
way. The situation is something like
this Part of the community of white
people recognize the natives fully and
another do not. There is no change
from what it was before, except they
have lost the standing which the Ha-
Waiian court gave them"
GAS l understand it, when the mon
arch gave entertainments there were
comparatively few natives invited"
''At formal events 1t was mainly
white people and a few natives in So
ciety who were invited
p HsThen their standing has not
changed? On state occasions are ma
tiyes still invited?"
HNo distinction whatever is made :
between natives in society and white
lin the event of annexation, could
there not be some provision whereby
this equality could be maintained?
# carpet baggers did not come could
not the present status remain
ives. I think the present white
those who were born or '
nave grown up here and those who
nave lived here for many years, have
HE kindliest feelings toward Hawai-
ANS, and a great many OF them rec