The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-07-27
PLANTATION
LABORERS
Colonization Scheme of
c. {. JaCox.
WOULD IMPORT NEGROES
Plans to Bring Them With Their
Families by the thousand
TO Hawaii,

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Among the many schemes Tor supplying
the shortage in plantation labor that has
I,,,u.,.a ,ro,o rho abrooatioo of tho con-
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dhct laeor laws by tne t'ansier VI soN-
Iereignty from the Republic OF Hawaii to
the United states, the latest Is that Of
,,,,,r,t,,, so,oraI thousand NORM n1an-
ttuoh lauorers lroi" St"Ib'h anu '''"l'
Carolina.
C-InrIes H. Jacox Is the originator Of
,,t. ,,or,t,,,,o,. ,,,,, and a., Ia, .Irood,
mo POI '
made delnile proposition 10 several
plantation owners, as well as to the Ha-
v,ai,an pIanters' Association tn bring to
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t'e ls'duus uu' ms 't ne P ie"e"t - -
"here lroH lVo " l'oVO iies - ~ ga
cox Is Eouhs ll'n' wen h.u"' =" w
Guy, ne naa epS'' SUM 'li'', ~,
9outheri SUES, ""', ne n's "'a o., ~.
ul'Ves' anu suSs ne mas 49," wv. .r
uatoh carciuly anu 10 'O,'i"eil' li'i' nv
cau pi1hs MS pioPOSi''o' " =" s'N'Ss9iui
issue.
neh ! was III liie SUN ','t year
shiu ne laSt eNc.ihS' loohtu UP 'ne
matter WIN view vi p'cSenti's u "
CcIpu'Ihs "a, ti'"l '.ile ti'at tle "cceseltS
lo[ more laporers "oulu pecuine 81 u,s-
ent no soon me men WIN whom 'aih-
co. NEGRO iaool iraueI9 anu o,hels' seei,i-
ca very iaporaply impressed WIN 'he
iueh Oh coming 10 hawaii "iu am
sure that 'here "ouiu ne no .''"cuity III
securing ior lhe is'ahus iarge huiiDer
vi esIr7pie po'ihs men "i'iih le"
months.
ne season iot signing contracts IN
,le southern SUITES ~ pet"een AUGUST
anu January. Mosl Oh tne oet'er hpor-
ers sign tner contracts LOT the year or
lor number Vi years IN the iate sum
nier' aiter the crops nave peeh harvest
Gu, 80 no" ~ inc tine u seIiu man
hihohs 'heh 10 secure them. My laea ls
10 go TO south carolina ana Northeast
erh Georgia, Where the supply OF LABOR
ers is piehtilui' ana "here am wen ac-
ut aih'eu' anu secure contracts win u
hummer Oh 'he better CLASS OF larm Ia
oorers' should agree 10 1urnlsh them
transportation TO the ISLANDS, with Their
househoid eHects ana families. l should
Guarantee that they would be furnished
Eooa quarters ana that their children
'ulu Hhu mere good schoois TO attend.
ana that thcy would receive the best of
'r,atlleht IN every respect.
IN mat way should be able to get
the best class of laborers possible. /
'-'''H'" H't ut'eHlpl 10 SECURE my men
tth the cltles' Tor the city negroes are
as RUE lazy ana GOOD Tor nothing
Guess Inc iarm laporers are on the
other hahd. line class OF laborers, ambi-
nous anxious to better themselves, to
eoucate their chiidren ana TO nave ana
Keep good homes. They would prove
laf oetter class OF laborers than the Chi
nese or Japanese here. Besides being
Steauler ana more reliable, they viii come
mere with the ldea OF making their homes
mere Tor soop and all, not to accumulate
a niue money ana then return TO their
0lo MONIES ana I'VE on their earnings, as
~ the case with most OF the japanese
ana Chincse who have come here in the
l'asI under contracts.
The wages at present earned by the
laborers on the plantations of the South
are very low compared with what is
PAID here Field laborers receive from s.
TO w per month, while the women and |
cNlldren, who work with them in the |
cotton lelds and cane feds receive from
$40 to so per year. They are allowed |
their cabins for the term of their con- |
tracts on the plantations and for provi- !
Slohs they are given a small bag of corn
meal gallon OF molasses and Sia pounds |
OF meat per head each week. II offered |
a sfnah increase ON those rates of pay |
they would be, l am sure very glad to
'ome out here.
'li the plantation managers accept my
proposition ! shah go Immediately TO the .
states and shall begin to ship the labor
'rs nj once, probably by way OF San
Francisco, ut the same rates as We're
lald by the United States Government
'or sending soldiers across the CONT
lent, In tourist sleepers from the Atlan-
lie TO the Coast and steerage from san