The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-26
PLANTATION
LABORERS
Colonization Scheme of
c. {. Jacox.
WOULD IMPORT NEGROES
Plans to Bring Them With Their
Families by the thousand
To Hawaii.

Among the many schemes for supplying
the shortage in plantation labor that has
resulted from the abrogation of the CON
tact labor laws by the transfer of SOW
ereignty from the Republic of Hawaii TO
the United States, the latest is that of
importing several thousand negro plan
tG ton laborers from Georgia and South
Carolina
Charles +. Jacox is the originator of
this particular plan and he has already
made a definite proposition to several
plantation owners, as well as to the Ha-
waiian Planters Association to bring to
the Islands during the present fall any
where from 100 to 1900 negroes. Mr.. ia
cox is a young man, well known in the
/ city. He has spent some time in the
Southern States. where he has many rel
atives, and says he has studied the sit
uat!on carefully and is confident that he
can bring his proposition to a successful
issue.
when was in the South last year."
matter with a view of presenting it to
the plantation managers here, not an
ticipating at that time that the necessity
for more laborers would become so urg-
ent so soon. The men with whom | talk
cd. negro labor leaders and others, SEEM
ed very faborably impressed with the
idea of coming to Hawaii. and 1 am
sure that there would be no t-..culty In
securing for the Islands a large number
Of desirable laboring men within a few
months.
THE season for signing contracts IN
the Southern States is between August
and January. Most of the better labor
ers sign their contracts for the year oil
for a number of years in the late sum
mer, after the crops have been harvest.
ed. so now is the tine to send mar
among them to secure them. My idea /.
to go TO South Carolina and Northeast
ern Georgia, where the supply of labor.
ers is plentiful, and where l am well &C.
OF ainted, and secure contracts with
number of the better class of farm la
borers. l should agree to furnish then
transportation to the Islands, with the1
household effects and families. 1 SHOULD
q grantee that they would be furnished
good quarters and that their children
would find here good schools to attend
and that they would receive the best o
treatment in every respect
IN that way / should be able TO ge
the best class OF laborers possible.
should not attempt to secure my mel
ffc m the cities. for the city negroes ar
. as a rule "A lazy and good for nothing
class. The farm laborers are, on tn
other hand. fine class of laborers ambi
ticus. anxious to better themselves, E
educate their children and to have an
keep good homes. They would prove
far better class of laborers than the Chi
nese or japanese here. Besides bein
steadier and more reliable. they will com
here with the idea Of making their home
here for good and all, not to accumulat
a little money and then return to thei
old homes and live on their earnings, a
Is the case with most of the Japanes
and Chinese who have come here in III
past under contracts.
The wages at present earned by tn
laborers on the plantations of the Sout
arc very low compared with what
paid here. Field laborers receive from
TO 50 per month, while the women an
children, who work with them I'm tn
cotton fields and cane feds receive fro
$l5 to 50 per year. They are allowe
their cabins for the term of their col
tracts on the plantations and for prov
sions they are given small bag of corr
meal, gallon Of molasses and 3ik pound
OF meat per head each week. If offer,
a small increase on those rates of pa
they would be, / am sure very glad
come out here
IF the plantation managers accept n
proposition I shall go Immediately to Il
States and shall begin to ship the labo