The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-12-12
HIS STATEMENTS
sCToKEN IGNORANCE

Withdraw ChSap labor f-om the
cane fields and in ten years the Ter
Fitory viii not have a population Of
$4,000 people
Either atT. Tenney was speaking -
random or else he displays a lack OF
knowledge Of the history of the mol
EN- world that one would not expect
from q MAJ CT his standing in the
community.
To any che who has studied the de-
vslorment CT the United States. pa--
ticularly the great West, it is sei;-
evident that if cheap labor. whiyh
means the Chireee and Japanese.
could ell be Withdrawn from Hawai-
tomorrow thee Islands would in ten
years have more than double the PRS
ert popul-t ton and it would be con-
posed Of most desirable white people
from the States and from Europe.
NJ. Teure~'s cry Of cheap labor IS
simply a repetition of the ante-bel'rm
crv Of the cotton planter of the Sou,h
when slavery was threatened And
vet the South he's been more p-o--
porous since slaverv was abcl'-h 1
'han che eve- was when slaverv exist
ed or ever could have been while It
EXISTED More cotton, far more. is
raised bv white labor in the S"u'a
t~d7v than &c raised by negro labor.
Not only thot hut diversified indus
tries which followed the de-t~u-t'o1
Of slavery hive rsde the South ri'h'r
than the old time nlarters evar
dreamed of. While Hawaii might SUI
fer for tine h. the cutting ID of
the large rlantations she would vow
ru'cklr recover and go forward with
for more ran'd strides than sha cen
ever hore to do with one industry
conducted with cheap l4bor.
This settlement is well illustrated
~ the growth OF Southern CALIFORNIA;.
Twenty vea-s ego Southern California
was given cvar TO cattle ard 70 who't
growing. There were mon IN South
crn CALIFORNIA twentv wears 400 who.
Ike Mr. Tenpev. declared th"t with
M nas~irg awav of wheat grow
irg and cattle raising the country
would be ruined and the population
reduced But instead of that what do
we frd. Large land holdings in South
EN- California have practically passed
away. II is a country CT sm@ll far
mers, the ho'dirgs being principally
OF Eve to twenty acres.
Let US comma. the growth of these
counties of Sou-h"rn California from
1890 to 1919 with thu growth of co17-
ties in Northern California where
l"-ea lad holdings devoted TO Ths
cultivation Of wheat still prevail. The
seven court'es of southern Ca'ifo~n'a
show IN increaes of 1O2.s59 In popula-
ton from 1890 20 1900, o. an average
Increase for all Of a t-ife over Il
per cent in the ten wears. This is fer
the counties Of SIN DIEGO. San Bar-a--
dino. Orange. los Angles. Riverside,
Ventura ard Sarta Barbara.
Turn now to the nine counties cf
Rutte. ColuSa Glenn Nara S9-cm7,
Sacramento. Suttor. Yuba ard solaro
n Northern California All of there
ccurti~s are ccua'lv as capable ~
"g-icul.u-al productions of oil kinds
as are those of the South Napa a"1
Sorcma 40 esrarialiv famed for Their
wirae. while Butte and Sacr" me~to
ard ore or two others claim that their
oranges are SUPERIOR to those CT
Southern California But the large
lard holdirg- eth mairtain in these
northern counties, wheat being the
staple p-cduct as sugar is here. |
Chap Chinese labor is ured so far as
it is uoesible TO use it to the exclusion !
OF white labor In the Southern
ccu7ties practically all the labor Is
white labor.
These nine northern counties only |
Increased 1889 IN population from
1890 to 1900 In fact four of the nine. |
viz: Butte. Co'usa. Glenn and Yuba /
counties actually lost in POPULATION
rom 1920 to 1900. the percentage }:
less being AS for Butte COURT. 1875
for Colusa and Glenn and los for |
Yuba.
The total population OF the Sou'h-
en- c~u-tias in 1900 was 9n' .'s2 md !
cf the North~rn 1sS IO1. Take out the
-~--t- - e9eh division hsv'-g = cit. /
w; Los Angeles in the South arl
in the North and the pop
rl-t'~n cf the rem7'ps-- S-u'h-rn /
in lsao was s9.SsS and of the
rem7inirg Northern ccu-ties 117.76'. !
the excess fo- the-e remaining North
ON eou-tl~s +, 1890 berg 1864. Bet /
in 1904 the conditions had so changed. /
'hro1sh small land holdings il tne
southern counties. that those ccnntie5
hid an excess II population ove- tia
Northern Ct '0.7o2, N ether words the I
six counties in the South had CARED /
2S.5ee more in population in ten
Years than tia eight oo1niies In the +.
North all ii IN being ru-elv sgricul- |
tursl including Los Angeles couay /
with the remaining ccunties in the I