The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-01-01
CONCERNS
Of HAWAII
More Porto RiCanS to
Arrive.
OTHER LABOR SOURCES
Wilcox and His Plans Pearl Rarbor
May De Opened--Gear at
Washington,
Especial correspondence)

supply of labor for the plantation
of Hawaii will be ample or nearly S
by spring If the plans which hav
been matured and are now working
toward fulfilment by George Il. Bald
win, the representative of the Planters
Association, do not miscarry. MI
Baldwin, who has his headquarters II
New York, spends much of his tim
in consultation with the heads of tn
department OF immigration here, ant
with those high in the Treasury De
partment. Mr.. Baldwin has assuret
the authorities that he has determin
ed TO have nothing to do with tn
attempts to run in immigrants, AM
has established such relations tina
there will be no suspicion of his con
nivance with smuggling labOrers. Thi
was shown in the case of the Bari
Swallow case, where the captain II
NOW held under large bonds for the
landing of nearly fifty Portuguese la
borers at a point near New Bedford
recently. Mr.. Baldwin Is securing
many Portuguese laborers from
among the millhands in that vicinity,
hut he was not suspected of trying TO
land these men, who got away so soon
that they have not been apprehended
as yet
The last shipment-that of the Por-
to Ricans by way of San Francisco,
and that of trainload of Portuguese
from Vancouver-was arranged by
him, and he has his plans made for
the sending of two more shipments
from the same ports, leaving for Ha-
waii about December 2Tth In both
cases there will be larger bodies of
men than were sent by the steamers
sailing December 14th. The class of
workers now being collected for SER
vice there is good according to Mr..
Baldwin, men who have been accus-
toned to labor in cane fields, and
they Will therefore be accustomed to
the class of work they will meet when
they reach the plantations of the ISL
ands. The Porto Rlcans may be
classed according to the views held
by many persons | have met here, as
a somewhat doubtful quantity in the
social community. They are not ac-
customed to the conditions which OBJ
tain in the Islands. They do not in
their own country work the year
through as they will do in Hawaii
but work for the crop with period
OF idleness, when they give full rein
to their passions, those for drink and
gambling. The latter may be classed
as their ruling passions and they in
dulge them TO the full whenever they
get hold of any money. They are not
a cleanly people, and will need a lot
Of teaching before they are up to the
progressive level that they must at
tain soon after coming into contact
with the working people of the ISL
ands.
There will be, however, no danger
that there may not come to the Islands
plenty of men who have known hard
work in tropical heat, for the outlook
for thousands of Portuguese is backed
by the prospect that before the end
OF the year there will be an influx
of Italians direct from their own
country, bound to the Islands. BY
reason of certain publications which
have been made in the leading New
York Italian paper, Il DiariO. there
has arisen a strong inclination on the
part of the Italians in their own
country 70 try their fortunes in the
Pacific The government has taken
so much interest in the movement
that there has been asked report
from the consul general at New York
and the italian expert, ROsai, has been
called home by the government TO
place the facts before the people In
the best light Within the past month.
according TO cables, the applications
of hundreds Of italians 10 leave their
homes for Hawaii, have been refused,
and this Is taken to mean that there
will be no permits to immigrants until
the government Is satisfied that there
are conditions In Hawaii which will
make the establishment OF an Italian
colony there possible under conditions
favorable to the emigrants Once the
assurances which ROssi said before
leaving New York he was ready to
give are communicated Co the govern
ment, there may be expected an an
nouncemeHt of the starting for Hawaii
of large bodies OF the peasants OF the
south OF Italy. One good feature OF
this proposed kind of immigration Is
that there viii be a process of chOOs-
Ing men In preparing for the sending
10 the Pacific OF these workers, The
men viii be chosen from among the
applicants who come from the already
oyeferONded farming communities,
and thus lhero viii be a. small a per
centage Of The braves from the sums
of the large cities as Is possible II
Is seldom that The anarchist comes
from tho farm and SO there appears
Uule chance that the work loving
qultl citizen ul The south viii be
transformed into tho trouble maker us
soon as he reaches a free country,
From observations madr when
rrnsslns lhe country recently there
are many reasons iur tht belief that
should ihe plan ut ltaHug small
arreaers 0f cane lU urmtr uu lhe
aharr hf followed lu auy rAtont hy
lhe planlers ana lhr ngla placed he-
lnle lhf f0uhH Farmers WI ,Nr country,
there NH hp lhr musl upsiIuhle GLASS.
NJ pulpt from lha small Wm aWpepa
W lhe alaiu ns ready NJ mulp lp va
Nail as alp lhr lialaR ana rplu