Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-03
They ARE DOING.
Affairs Of Iowa People Taking Place In Iowa
Towns.

vantages are all on the side OF the work
ers, for the reason that the plantations
are at the mercy Of the laborers, and
inc little Asiatics know 1t. Any strike
would succeed If the strikers only held
out for a short time. Labor was never
scarcer. and the plantations can not
afford to lose a single man. Unless some
arrangements can be made for getting
more laborers into the country it is be-
lieved that wages will soon have to be
advanced to $50.
1t is a remarkable fact that but few
races of men can be depended onto en-
gage IN labor occupations and pursue
them steadily day after Gay and month
after month. After the white races and
the. African negroes. there are probably
no others. save the Chinese and Japan
ess. 1t should be remembered that the
importation of negroes from Africa to
America was due to the Unsuitable
greed of the Spanish Adventures for:
gold. They ensiaved the ma tive Cards
and worked them in the Central A.neri-
can mines, but those unfortunate people
like the other, the American native In
fdians could not endure theiconstant tot!
and hardship to which they We're ex-s
posed, and they died in such great num-
bers that the Carib race has been ex-
Terminated.
Some Portuguese traders who We're
little better than pirates arrived in
West Indian ports. about the year 1909,
with lot of African slaves. These
proved to be 80 strong and enduring
that they We're able to survive the toll
of mining and thus sit was that the
slave trade in the new world sprung up.
White men possess the greatest powers
of entrance, but the African negroes
have the greatest physical strength.
The Chinese and japanese are physical
ly feeble, but they are hardy and per-
and wonderfully Industrious,
and 1T appears that all the worlds great
work IS to be done by these four races.
The American Indians have but little
endurance and are unfit for work They
have Wonerful capacity for special ex-
ertion, and on the warpath theycan go
for days with little or no food, running
Hor fighting, as the case may be, but
they need a long season OF rest and
feeding to make UP for it, AT least
three fourths of the wild Indians time
is spent in ielleness or sport. Confined
in prison, the Indian survives but few
Years and dies of consumption.
The native Hawaiian and the aver
age Filipino can not be depended on
for any serious and constant labor.
This vas made apparent in the fact
that the plantation work for long per-
iod of time on those islands has beer
done by Chinese and Japanese immi-
grants The mixed races In the West
Indies are very poor laborers. and the
development of all those countries will
REQUIRE a large influx of capable and
industrious laborers.
Should the negroes in large numbers
be departed for purposes of labor from.
the southern states. their places Will
have to- be- supplied with reliable work
Eers. AT the present time there is some
OF Italians. who find work
on the plantations just how satisfac-s
tory their services are does not APP
pear; but 1t is possible that would help
TO solve the labor problem should there.
be. an extensive deportation of the ne
yrnes