The San Francisco call., 1897-08-28
A HALF-FoRGoTTEN SCHEME.

THE State Labor Commissioner for California not long
| since became international figure and suddenly rose
prominence not before attained by any State officer
in this country that department of official toll and
exhaustion indeed by the United States Commissioner
himself.
He invited by the Hawaiian Government to go down
to the Islands in ship and tell them about their labor situation
and instruct them therein from the standpoint of expert
He needed but TO look at stalk of divine the whole
situation and decided that what needed the sugar
plantations white labor from California which he would
immediately export in quantities to suit employers. 1t be-
eved that there demurrer his pIan for it in
evidence that he forced upon President Dole by threatening
to come right home and beat annexation.
Whatever the incidents may have been like all Incl.
dents affecting the fate of nations they must be left time
and the prospecting pick of history it is that Commits
sioner Fitzgerads appearance in Hawaii the i'm
portant event since Lhoho ghtened up his gee string
welcomed the first American missionaries with the kiss of
and poi and roast dog and the Kahuna to the rear
and their taro patches.
The missionaries went to carry the gospel of
gion the heather in his blindness. The Commssonary
went to upset the settled conclusion of ages wipe out the
tropics, nully climate and physical facts as lightly
Governor Budd does appropriation the State Printing
Office.
Before he went to Hawaii it had been supposed that white
men could not stand work any country where the sugar
will grow. From Porau-Prinee Penang the cane fields
have been always fatal whites Since the sugar supply
from Barbary until only natives of the tropics high
mixture of native blood with the Latin Asacs have
been able to stand the humid heat which sugar developed
in the cane.
The Scotch Daen Company found this out to It's
century and half ago, and is well settled from the
Ieche sugaes of Louisiana to the maIariasmten mills of
Manila as physical fact developed by human experience
Therefore, the greater the discovery made by Com
missioner that Hawaiian plantations, now infested by
Chinese and japanese coolies to the number of about 100000
REINFORCED by nnumerabe half and quarter the
islands the sea- be worked successfully by white labor
from California.
But why is not the movement in moon1 Desperate men,
badly equipped have been rushing to the embrace of borea
hospitality, where the slants eeby that life kers
the Kondke paces Why has the Commissioner sent
them to the sweet islands, where aloha awaits them and
the madens soft the they twne instead of let
ting them rush Dawson City, where the latest quotations
the marriage market Brides scarce to $4,000;
but few offering.
Why does not the Commissioner open his agency, make
special rates to Honolulu, and stock the plantations with
Caornan and others who seek the work and wages be
had in the land of the kamehamehas?
Various coonzng schemes to take up the
surplus and idle labor The Salvation Army busy with the
problem Various and charities humping their
skulls to find way of the difficulty Why does not the
Army the islands? Let the ne of the tambourne be
heard under the amarnd tree Surely will be peasanter to
climb palm for the bias nest than to climb the Chlcoot
Pass and get chbans for the trouble. Let the cry
to Kaoo Kapunkaaman, Keahole and Ahole!"