Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-03-23

1884 the foreign-born element increased
from 10, 25S to 36,575, and an estimate for
January 1900 is 81, 900 foreigners and chill
dren of foreign parents, while the native
population has decreased at the ratio of
three deaths to one birth. there being less
than 30, 900 natives on all the islands at the
present time.
The Portuguese and Chinese become
good citizens and are industrious and peace
able, but the japanese are uneasy and
turbulent. They could give Debs many
points in stirring up strife and sedition, as
they are pugnacious, vain, impudent, slow
witted, and prone Co rioting. A COMPARE
son of the Chinese and japanese is found
in the fact that the Chinese pay taxes on
real estate valued at 81, LAG, 301, and on
personal property valued at 50, POS $3.50,
while the Japanese, numbering 1000 more
than the Cinnamon, pay on real and per
sonal estate combined seq, BOZ The Chi
nese element will soon excel all other ma
tionalities on the islands in coffee raising
truck farming, fishing and merchandising
Many are marrying native girls, as the ma
tive women realize they make better hus-
bands than the native men, who, if they
cannot get clerks position, prefer to sit
in the shade with wreath of flowers around
their necks and fan themselves. Whoever
may come or go, you may depend that
John Chinaman has come to stay in Ha-
waiian America
The ethnography of the inhabitants of
Hawaii may be concluded by giving the
American element the first position socially,
financially and executively. The English
and German population are more conserva-
tive, but follow the suggestions and plans
of the Americans. Neither Of these races
will increase very rapidly, but will retain
the capital and governing power of the
islands. The small per cent.of Firms, Aus
trians and Portuguese will lose their ident
ity by intermarriage with each other and
the native element. The great ma jority Of
workers must of necessity be Asiatic, prob
ably Chinese or Malay. The sugar, coffee
and rice fields will never be cultivated by
emigrants from Europe, or from any part
OF cur dominion, except by the races indigo
nous to tropical territories. The natives
are slowly but surely receding from the
homes Of their fathers Civilization. with
Its whitening effect on the indigenous races
of this continent, is enervatng the vital
forces of these simple children of the tropics
and soon the potent wave of destiny shall
close over them forever
The industrial features and the results'of
the Hawaiian social problem are of the
greatest Importance to the people of the
United States. The civil, administrative
and financial interests of the islands are
governed by an industrial oligarchv that
dominates indirectly every interest per
tanning to the prosperity of the different
races of people living on the islands. / do
not write these facts with an invidious or
captious motive, for | can conceive of no |
plan, under the unique conditions in which |
all are interested, that would have pro-
duced a more polite result The beginning |
of this concentrated assumption of power !
dates from the passage, by our govern
ment, of the act which RENTED to the citi- |
zens OF Hawaii all payment of duties on |
importations of Hawaiian production. |
purposely quote this so-called reciprocity |
act, as the Hawaiian government has con
tinued to collect duties on our expectations
to their country ever since 1875, when the |
act became operative.
The expectation of Hawaiian sugar in
1873 was 2j0S0, 1872 pounds: in 1850. 3d..
5s4,S pounds; in 1885. III. 35O,314 |
pounds in 1890, 259, 79s, 4G2 pounds; in
1919, 294, 1S4,Sl9 pounds; in 1898, go |
l5S,232 pounds The following items rep.
resent the amount of the articles named |
exported to The United States from 1875 to |
1873 inclusive: Rice, pounds, 1859, 269 ,145; |
coffee, pounds, 1,7S3, 22s; wool, pounds,
$685., 1856; hides, pieces, 553, 535; goat
skins, pieces, 5ll 1914.
The above statistics, and any others
which may follow, are all taken from Gus
tom house reports at Honolulu. In 1880 |
to 1883 all the land available for cultivation
or pasturage on the several islands. except
Molokai-the leper island-was either pur-
chased or leased for 40 years by the sugar
magnates and cattle kings and the islands
have remained a close corporation to the |
present date and will so continue for the |
following 20 years, with the privilege of re-
newing the leases at the option of the
lessees
There are now in operation so estates
where sugar is made and 10 others where
cane is sold to those who manufacture it.
The investments in sugar plantations and |
machinery, irrigation plants, railroads for
moving the crop to the mills-(there are no |
other on the islands)-quarters for q. 900 |
coolies O and other fixtures, represent a |
capital of 10000, 000 of which amount |
the Americans control 500, 500, 0OO The |
census of 1896 shows there were ON the |
islands 1906 Americans, 1888 British and |
1904 Germans, These figures include both
sexes and all children not born on the
islands. Americans who own their homes.
1872; British, 1857; Germans, 90.
The above three elements constitute a
triumvirate that has controlled the wealth
and destiny of territory nearly as large
and infinitely richer in agricultural produc- |
ton than the state of Connecticut. The
amount OF duties on sugar alone, that the |
United States has remitted to the owners |
of these 80 sugar plantations since Jan. 30 |
1870, to the present time is a trife mora |
than 500 600 900 The supar cult,ro e |