The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-19

rifice OF moral power and intensified
by the wrecking of physical health.
Just prior to the adjustment of the
stockades By order of Acting Governor
Coopef,sfhere were. according to the.
epo4foe report /, 500 swafnensseinf. the
stockades. Yet there are but 1850
women on the Islands. This shows that
out of every eight women on the ISL
andS one was in the StockadeS. To
account for this it is necessary to say
that more than rs per cent of the In
mates of the stockades were native
Hawaiians, Chinese and Japanese. But
the explanation shows the Chinese ana
Japanese in a tar more unfavorable
light than would otherwise be appa-
rent.
One out of every four Chinese wom-
en- on the Islands was an inmate OF
the steckades, while one out of every
! two Japanese women was. The Ha-
waiian women ranked next to these,
but the proportion of them in the
stockades was not half so great as OF
either Japanese or Chinese.
| 1t was once the custom to operate
factories and mills as much as possible
by whites. mostly children, in the day
time, and by Japanese and Chinese at
night But this custom has passed.
! Japanese, Hawaiian and Chinese men,
women and children now work side by
side with white men. women and chill
,dren.
But it is a shameful fact that very
! few white men do hard work. They
make their children do it for them.
The tropical climate is very enervating
to the white man and makes him lazy.
In consequence there is child slavery.
White men between forty and fifty
years of age, what is considered the
! prime of life elsewhere, do very little
work. From two to four hours day
/. is the average. They viii do only the
| lightest kind of work, and most of the
| time they rest. The white children go
to work at in the morning and work
until in the evening. They do about
ten hours work every day.
There is money in children IN Ha-
wall. Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiians
and whites all agree to this. If man
has three children between six and
twenty years of age he is Independent.
If he takes good care he will not need
to work after he is forty years OF age.
4 Six dollars a week, say. the wages OF
three children will amply support him
At worst he will not need to do more
than two hours work a day in the
heavy tropical climate so long as his
children can stand ten hours of oppres-
sive toll daily.
These facts prove that Hawaii is
morally doomed The Asiatic canke1
is firmly rooted in the moral fabric OF
the new Territory. The weak are ex-
plotted in every manner by the strong
and the strength of the strong is theiI
evil. The degradation of the women
and children is attributable to the
Asiatics, but the corruption of the in
telligent whites cannot be ascribed tf
this, and to what the corruption VII
tend cannot be pointed out with joy.
Prospects of cheap labor are already
dawning upon the United States
through the Hawaiian Islands. This
dawning appears beautiful to the pc
nurious class of employers. but disma
to all others. Yet it is in its beautiful
!. aspect that the Asiatic curse is ap
pealing to the gigantic corporations o
the United States at the present time
1t remains to be seen whether or no
the real situation in Hawaii will be
come known to the people of the Unit
ed States so that they may preven
their own moral doom.