The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-05-28

7 mis- lutiNNtS lumer viii Aeau
enough for garden purposes, free fuel
water. and In many cases pasturage 70
a COW. with free schools. etc. Nothing
can better demonstrate how eager tn
planters are 70 bring in a worthy clas
OF Americans than the fact that thel
are willing 20 maintain a department
I'm America that this change may bt
brought around systematically so tha
only those who are willing TO worl
and work faithfully should so TO tbs
Islands. also. that no one should 20 or
q wild goose chase 10 find no work for
him. as there must be q place made in
advance for all who so. The under
rate OF wages uer day is somewhat on
ser hv the fact that the work goes on
dav I'm and day out wear in and year
out and the tCileT need never miss a
DAY unless he so desires. 7 have been
assured by the Government and by
President Dole that it is their desire
fard have no doubt but that IL viii be
included I'm his recommendation that
the Legislature should create a depart
ment for the Introduction Of Ameri-
can labor.
T could have taken orders for many
hundred men. hut T deem Il thorough
Is unwise i'm the interest Of labor and
the planters TO undertake this in
slirshOd. haphazard way. However. 7
viii fIl one OF two orders for about 50
men with families. I had the pleasure
Cf picking ont the site for their homes
and assisting 70 draw plans for their
houses beginning that may mean
the end OF the controlling position Oc-
cunied hv the japanese upon the Isl
ands I would not advise. under any
circumstance that labor be sent there
10 be paid by the day ar present. as II
may ueCessirate their competing with
the penal contract laborers: but If they
can De sent under a profit-sharing
proposition. which I said before the
planters are agreeable 10. and If the
standard Of wages can be maintained
so as 70 make il an object 10 American
labor Hawaii today opens the greatest
market in the world for the American
waEe-earner. as. outside OF the cane
fields the coffee industry, which is on
y I'm its insipiency, is one OF the most
healthful and remunerative ocCupa-
tiors
There are now about 5000 acres
coming under cultivation. and that s.
600 acres has done more to bring in
the Anglo-SaSon than all the other in
dustries combined. II is naturally the
pursuit Of 8 man with q family. as the
ratio Of labor increases in the picking
time from about l to and s 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 10 draw-rhe school children
are not in numbers enough to save
the crops. The coffee industry has an
uncertain future unless q change in the
labor system is brought about. There
are 10000 OF 10000 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. an of which I believe
VIII De 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-
tion Of The treaty viii have I viii
briefly state that in my opinion the
same would mean q death-blow 10 the
introduction Of Americans into the
Hawaiian Islands for the fact that the
only thing that remains between the
absolute assurance Of the Americans
Supplanting Asiaric labor. provided
the former proved satisfactory, is the
wages TO be paid. ard if 40 per cent or
from the present profits. I should ad-
wise the laborer 10 stay at home, and
the planter viii undoubtedly turn again
TO the Asiarics, for il is cheaD labor.
There is an appropriation OF $50
600 70 assist immigration other than
Asiatic.' 10 pay the passage Of the wO-
men and children taken under the 10
per cent clause, in other words there
is q regulation which compels the plan
ter 10 import 10 per cent Of all con
tracJed labor from America OF Europe.
The Government assured me that they
would gladly spend the money in
bringing the families Of the Ameri-
cans. and they now stand ready; be
sides. the planters viii advance the
passage money on all who may be sent
10 them.
1T is useless for the people Of this
country 10 attempt 70 blind themselves
TO the fact that every country has its
quota OF unemployed persons: it is use
less for the theorist 70 insist that de-
pressed economic conditions do not
exist and vainly propose measures far
beyond the grasp of those principally
affected by way Of remedy. Therefore,
in the interest OF wage-earning multi
tudes OF this country I simply suggest
a means by which from $1,000 TO a
much greater number may be trans
formed from nOn-producers 10 produ-
Gers and consumers 10 a greater eX-
tent and even il they are now pro-
ducers. their places viii be filed BY
those who are non-producsrs. and in
looking TO a foreign land for these op-
portunities I do not consider in the
strictest sense that these persons cease
to be American citizens and cOmpO-
nent parts OF our commonwealth. as
they become the customers for Ameri-
can consumption. and though they may
be temporarily geographically divorced
they wiz simply look across the Pa
cific during brief interval before the
American flag floats over them again
in their island home.
let Us see 10 what extent the sugar
industry OF the Hawaiian Islands inter
feres with the beet industry Of Califor-
na. OF which I an as thoughtful as
any one. We have vast consumption