The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-12-12
NEGROES WILL CONE HERE
THE SPECIAL EM1sSARY FAVORs
THE ISLANDS.
Rev. Cook Says He VIII Advise Mem
bers of His Race to Emigrate to tn,
Territory.

What is believed will prove the first
step in the Wholesale immigration of
negroes from the Southern States to the
Hawaiian Islands has been brought
about by j. Il. Collins who went to tho
states some months ago in the interest
OF the various plantations in the kohala
district Hawaii. While Mr. Collins did
not succeed in inducing many people to
return with him to the islands he
aroused considerable interest and as an
evidence of their interest in the PROPOSE
ton made them by Collins, the negroes
selected Rev. John Henry Cook, one of
the most prominent negro minister in
Mississippi to accompany Collins here
and study the conditions Rev. Cook
mas passed three weeks looking into the
labor and other conditions and is now
tully qualified to report inteligently to
the other members of his race. He will
give them a favorable report for he
speaks in most enthusiastic terms over
what he has seen
Il shall certainly tell the colored peo-
pie, he said, that they should move
TO these islands. | think the Hawaiian
Islands is the best possible place that
they could find. In fact, ii is the idead
spot for the col6red man. | only wish
that l had come here ten years ago
ana learned what the place was like for
l would have moved here then sure.
IN the first place the wages offered
VIII be the biggest inducement. Down
IN Mississippi where | come from. the
people don't get steady work. They get
little work in the spring when the
scraplng time comes in the cotton fields
and then they work roundabout for a
little with the crop in fall and about
FEBRUARY for a few months they get
more work But if it rains they don't
get much to do. Wages is good while
they work but the work don't last.
When the boys go to the various plan
tatlons they some times get through i'm
week or two and then they have to go
to some other place looking for work.
The wages for a farmland all year
round is SO a month.
But over here it is different. Thew
give them wages at $40 q month to-
gether with houses and medical atten-
tlon free. | saw the houses that the
plantations put IN for the Japs and the
quarters are in most cases far better
than what the negroes have back home.
The trouble is that the negroes are
sort of skeptical over the offer made
them by the plantation people, and
don seem to realize that It Is as good
as ii really is.
The climate is another thing which
makes this place good for the negro.
Ihey don't have any such cold and heat
mere as we do back east and the negro
does not like the cold. This talk about
MS not being able to stand this climate
is all bosh. He can stand it and it is
Just the sort of place where he will
thrive and get along we'll He can Ger
talnly work i'm as hot climate as any
other race in the world. / visited the
plantations in the KohaIa district and
watched those little JRps working and
will say that the negro can and does
do almost as much work as two of them
are equal to.
Another reason for the negro coming
mere is that the hours are not so long as
in the states There some times he has
to work from daylight until u o'clock
at night. He gets extra pay for this
but it makes no difference whether ne
Is tired or not he has to work. Down
here ! see that the workers in the cane
fields go to work early but they knock
on In the afternoon and get home long
before dark. As to cutting cane the
colored man is able to do that sort of
work for he can do as much work as
any other person in the world. The me-
gro is able to do his work steadily when
1t Is given to him and he don't listen to
agitators and go on strikes all the time
or else quit work in the midst of the
season and go away some where else.
| am gOr" to advise the people down
there to come over here and | think
that | will induce a great many to do
So
That Rev. Cooks statements regard
ing the strength of his race are true Is
amply proven by his own splendid
physique. He stands feet 10 inches i'm
height and weighs $50 pounds and he is
about the average size of the negroes
in that part of the country. Another
colored man also accompanied Mr. Cook
here but the former secured employ
ment as carpenter in the Kohala dis
trtCt and remained
Rev Cook will accompany Mr.. Col
Inns back to the States on the Zealandia
Friday. Mr. Collins has been ordered
by the various plantations in the Ko-
hala district to secure so colored fam
lilies 10 work in that section. This will
mean that at least 100 laborers will be
imported They must be here within 60
days.
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