The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-05-26

days work for a good days pay but
II must be done Systematically and
gradually, as there must be great
changes wrought before this can be ac-
complished. inasmuch as it necessi-
tates the planters to build homes for
them, etc. There is one condition I'M
der which American labor should be
introduced and which the planters are
agreeable to. and that is ON a profit
sharing basis-giving TO labor a GER
tain field where 10 to 100 can co-op-
eratively cultivate the same. 1t takes
between Is and Is months in which to
harvest the crop. and the planters are
perfectly willing 10 advance them a
monthly allowance of. say, between
SIG and $40. to be deducted. without
interest, when the sugar is marketed.
This includes a home, with land
enough for garden purposes, free fuel.
water, and in many cases pasturage for
a COW. with free schools. etc. Nothing
can better demonstrate how eager the
planters are to bring in a worthy class
of Americans than the fact that they
are willing tor maintain department
in America that this change may be
brought around Systematically. so that
only those who are willing to work
and work faithfully should go to the
Islands; also. that no one should go on
a wild goose chase to find no work for
him, as there must be a place made in
advance for all who go. The under
rate of wages per day is somewhat Off
set by the fact that the work goes on
day in and day out, year in and year
out, and the toiler need never miss a
day unless he so desires. I have been
assured by the Government and by
President Dole that it is their desire
(and have no doubt but that it will be
included in his recommendation that
the Legislature should create depart
ment for the introduction of Ameri-
can labor
CT could have taken orders for many
hundred men, but I deem it thorough
ly unwise in the interest of labor and
the planters to undertake this in a
slipshod, haphazard way. However, I
will fill one or two orders for about so
men with families. I had the pleasure
of picking out the site for their homes
and assisting to draw plans for their
houses-a beginning that may mean
the end of the controlling position oc-
cupied by the Japanese upon the ISL
ands. I would not advise under any
circumstances, that labor be sent there
to be paid by the day at present, as it
may necesSitate their competing with
the penal contract laborers; but if they
can be sent under a profit-sharing
proposition, which I said before the
planters are agreeable to, and if the
standard of wages can be maintained
so as TO make it an object to American
labor Hawaii today opens the greatest
market in the world for the American
wage-earner, as, outside of the cane
fields. the coffee industry, which is on
ly in it's insipiency is one of the most
healthful and remunerative occupa-
tions
There are row about 5000 acres
coming under cultivation, and that s.
900 acres has done more to bring in
the Anglo-Saxon than all the other in
dustries combined It is naturally the
pursuit of man with family, as the
ratio of labor increases in the picking
time from about / to 6 and 8, and as
the labor upon the plantations in other
industries is being used at the same
time the coffee should be picked, there
is no surplus upon the Islands from
which to draw-the school children
are not in numbers enough to save
the crops. The coffee industry has an
future unless a change in the
labor system is brought about. There
are 10000 or 5000 acres on one island
alone of the finest coffee lands much
of which has been taken up under long
lease from the Government or pur-
chased outright, all of which I believe
will be in coffee in a very few years,
and the amount of help necessary to
pick this crop for two or three months
in the year will be enormous.
Regarding what effect the abroga-
ton of the treaty will have, / will
briefly state that in my opinion the
same would mean a death blow to the
of Americans into the
Hawaiian Islands, for the fact that the
only thing that remains between the
absolute assurance of the Americans