The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-04-30
TO MAKE MONEY
Koha1a Correspondent
Has More to Say.
Doesn't Pretend to Know it All. !"
Merely a Business
Proposition

Mr.. EDITOR:-In your several criti-
cisms of my few remarks in a recent
letter, bearing on the present and fu-
ture conditions of the Islands main
industry, especially regarding its labor
supply. you make the sweeping asser-
ton that most Of those who do not
agree with your reasoning are either
mercenary or selfish" creatures at
best. bent on making money regardless
OF all other considerations.
l DO not think in this wicked, selfish
world OF ours you will find many poor
Dhilanthropists. II is only when they
have wooed and won dame fortune that
they can afford 10 be philanthropic and
generous. Now. Mr.. Editor, / do not
think you came 10 these Islands for
fun. any more than your mercenary
friend did. l frankly admit that /
came here TO improve my condition in
life and to make money. And ! fancy
your motive in coming here was the
same. You hope TO make money by
your pen. And I hope 10 make it from
sugar. In connection with your bust
ness you adopt all the most modern in
ventions in the art OF printing in order
10 cheaper the cost of your production
and successfully compete with your
rivals, but you do not give pensions to
the several employees your modern
methods have thrown out OF employ
ment. You only adopt these methods
TO encourage applied science and with
no mercenary or selfish object in view
oh. no, You are engaged in your
business for profit, Mr.. Editor, just as
much as I am in mine.
Those engaged in the sugar industry
OF these Islands can point with pride
TO their modern methods Of cultivation
and manufacture. all of which has en-
tailed immense OUTLAWS of money TO &C
complish the desired results. / take is
sue with you when you make the state
ment that I OF any of the planters have
ever posed as "know-it-all individ-
uals." On the contrary. in order TO
make the industry the success it has
been. as an intelligent class of men.
they have sought the aid Of science 20
assist them IN the development of their
business. and they have readily adopt
ID theory in connection with their own
practical knowledge and experience.
Your smile of the small farmer, who
Cultivates his few acres. having been
assisted by theoIizers is in the main
correct. but is Il not q fact that the
brainy men who have done so much
for agriculture in the United States
and Germany are professors of the
art. attached 10 regular agricultural
bureaus. which are supported and
maintained by their respective Govern
ments.
You call my attention 10 the double
rate Of wages paid white labor over
that Of the negro in the vast domain
Of the Southern States" VIII you kind
" further enlighten your correspon-
dent and your numerous readers from
the census which you quote as TO the
particular labor the white man per-
formed. Your correspondent spent q
short time some years ago inyestigat-
ing the sugar industry. especially re-
garding labor. and the wages paid for
the same. And he did not ar that time
see any white men employed as labor
ers. The proprietor OF the plantation
whose guest he wasl. in fact. informed
him that in connection with ordinary
field work they could not afford TO en-
ploy white labor but that all positions
CT trust and responsibility were filled
by white men
Your quotation from Louisiana
sugar planters experience and COM
parison Of cost Of production between
the Southern States and the Straits
settlement NAV be the case at the pres
ent day. but IL was not so few years
ago. Then sugar was raised cheaper
than in any other part of the world
and though they have cheap labor
costing little more than SIS PEI
month. however, they also have
brainy men there, TOO.
But the altered conditions Of tbs
Straits settlement and adjacent islands
are not difficult 10 answer. They useC
10 find ready market for their prod
ret in India. but the bounty-fed sugars
Of Europe. even that same sugar pro
/ duced from the beet. which is so much
richer in its saccharine content" thar
The natural sugar cane. and which hai
/ made the sugar cane planter "stant
aghast with awe" AZ the wonderful rev
elation Of science. II viii truly requiri
4 much sharper pointed needle thar
your statement. Mr.. Editor. TO pune
tire his brain, so that he can under
stand il all
/ II is news. indeed, TO me that an,
one ever sneered at the profitable pro
/ dHCtiOn Of sugar from the sugar bee