The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-04-09

extent of the land in question. Thes : cases have to be righted, but wheneve l possible l make no changes in tn
 Spanish titles. We have all the olC
 registers, very fortunate thing. I an
 gradually making charts of the variou!
 districts which are of great assistance to me in preventing the regranting oi
 part of a piece of land already register ed
 We very much need school teachers
 In our public schools. We have appoint
 ed the only person here who seemed fit.
 ted for the position, the wife of ar
 American who came here to settle She
 is the only English teacher in our pub lie schools. l wish we had more. We
 also need very much a civil engineer
 He could help me much in the measure
 ment of lands, and could acquire much
 good land in payment of his fees. Il
 would be better for him to work on his
 own account and not be a government
 employe, so that he could be entirely in-
 dependent. We also need a photogra- 1 pher and a dentist, both of whom,
 think, could be kept busy.
 ARE NO LABORERS.
 There great difficulty here is the lack
 of laborers. Every native is land
 owner and farmer. A man may know | how to bake bread, make shoes or build
 a house, yet such a thing as regular | baker, shoemaker or carpenter is un- | known in Guam. You may be kept | waiting weeks for a pair of shoes, or a | chest, or pair of trousers, because the
 man engaged to work for you has to harvest his corn, or build hut on his ranch, or plant his rice. Did you ever imagine what the conditions would be if every one were rich? Who would make our clothing, build our houses, 1 cook our food? We should have to do these things for ourselves, unless we repaid somebody else by work for help ing us in the time of our troubles and necessity. These are the conditions in Guam.
 If you had farm producing sweet potatoes, cocoanuts, corn, yams, taro, chickens, pigs, coffee, chocolate, sirup of cocoanut sap, vinegar, cider, sugar, beans and pumpkins, would you go to work on the road for 50 cents day (Mexican), or hire yourself as farm hand for $6 month and board? The
 
 therefore called by some lazy and worth less. I have seen them on their planta- tions planting cocoanut trees, which, when once bearing, will give them q sure and steady income, besides culti- vating their sweet potatoes. tobacco corn, etc. am sure should do as they do. I do not say it is for the good of the island that such conditions exist. The roads and bridges are bad and nobody wants to mend them. Formerly all such work was done by convicts sent here from Spain and the Philippines. We need laborers and need them badly.
 It would be an excellent thing to ira port 200 or 300 Chinese I have seen them work in Hawaii, and I know how industrious and frugal they are, and what good husbands thsy make when married to natives. The descendants of Chinese on the island have proved themselves to be excellent citizens They amalgamate well with the na- tives. The Chinese are good rice plant CTS, and we have much land here which could be cultivated in rice and sugar Rice and sugar cannot be brown by in dividuals. Even the cultiva ton of coffee on large scale is ar irnpossbility with out laborers. I never saw a country in which coffee grows better, even down to the very level of the sea. Yet nobody makes a business of coffee planting, ,l Each has his little patch and none is exported.
 Many young men have conre here and gone away discouraged, simply from the | fact that if they do acquire land they ,an get nobody to work for them, and it | Is serious thing for a man with only 1s two hands to get living out of the 7arth. Workmen do not come here, be- | cause they can get better wages at ! nome. Chinese would be a blessing | They would not compete with the na- ives and would help us all besides argely augmenting the amount of rice md other necessary food produced on he island.
 We literally have no smarket, not jingle store where you can go and buy | bushel of sweet potatoes, or a dozsn If oranges, or a fowl or turkey. You nave to beg people to sell you things They don't want money. They get pre- erved fruit, which they really do not leed, and rice from the traders in ux- 'hange for their dried cocoanut. We ound that they were very anxious to ,et ships tobacco when last year sup ,ly of tobacco gave out, so several Of he officers laid supply of ships to- ,acco and exchanged it for chickens, ggs, etc. It was the only way to n- luce the people to bring them. They eeded them for the consumption of heir own families.
 In Samoa some of the enterprising raders had solution of their own for he labor problem They said: "If the atives once cultivate a taste for gin nd rum they will want money to buy hem, and will hay etc work for it.' fortunately they were unable to estaD- sh trade in strong liquors. It Is for idden by law, or at least it was. I ont know what the Germans will do I ) make the islands pay. But the trad rs did get them to acquire a taste for ( nitation laces, made-up clothing, etc., ) that during our last visit we saw | , awing machines and dresses trimmed T ith taWdry cheap laces or ribbons, of- n soiled with cocoanut oil, at lovely | f agopago, where before the women had I cen content to dress in simple lavalvas l I tapa, or bark cloth beaten by them- , lives from the paper mulberry trees. I hope the government will realize the ,