The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-06-21

that there Is no danger In the WorlC
OF any revolution or any fatal clasl
between the natives and the white
men who are on the island now, o.
at any time to come.
Perhaps no islands in the world
are more fertile than the Hawaiian
group, and they are bound to become
great trading ports for the United
States As is well known in thi;
country, sugar is the staple product
and, permit me to say, that it is also
the most valuable product. Those
interested in the cultivation Of the
sugar plant are realizing almost an
nually y immense fortunes on their in
vestments. At present they are hav-
ing considerable trouble in getting
their crops harvested and cared for,
which prompted number of the
planters to import a large force Of
Southern Negroes and Porto Ricians
to take the place Of the japanese and
native laborers who had deserted the
plantations owing to a misunder-
standing between the planters and
themselves. Under the old law con-
tract labor was used by the planters,
but when the United States laws
went into effect contract labor was
no longer legal, and owing to the bad
treatment that some Of the laborerse
had received under the contract sys-
tenn tn most of them deserted the
farms as soon as the islands had be-
come part and parcel of the United
States government, which caused all
Of the troubles on the plantations.
Speaking about the imported Ne
groes | find at present quite few of
them on the islands, and | observed
that they do extremely well. While
there are quite a few on the various
plantations, yet they do not stick to
the plantations on the islands as they
do IN the South, and the most of
them are drifting back 10 Honolulu
and the other large seaports, where
they are employed by white citizens
at good wages as servants and other
kinds Of menials. The natives do not
make good servants, hence the col
ored man is much in demand in the
larger cities, and like most of US.
they prefer soft snap to hard Job,
and especially when the snap pays
better than the job. l think there
are in the neighborhood of 1900 or
1000 American Negroes on the isl
and at present, and they are con-
stantly going there from San Fran
cisco. One of the shrewdest and
most sagacious politicians on that
island is L. McCant Stewart, a New
I ork Negro, who, by the way, is not
only a shrewd politician, but one Of
the ablest lawyers on the island. Mr..
Stewart, IN my opinion, is destined
to become one of the leaders of the
islands for two distinct reasons.
First, because he is an able, shrewd
and sagacious politician, and second
ly, owing to the fact that he is a
black man and has more influence
with the natives than has the white
man with the same amount of abil-
lty and shrewdness.
''From what | have discovered, the
natives will intermarry with either
the whites, blacks, Chinese or Japan
ese, and some of the foremost people
of the island at present are the off
spring of natives and Chinese inter
marriage. Under such circum-
stances | am inclined to think that
the natives will soon be a thing Of
the past, and the mongrel race will
be the result. The language that
they speak is easy to pick up, and l
understand that the cOlored folk
from the South, who have mingled
freel y with them, find it no trouble
to learn their language and speak the
same as rapidly and fuently as the
native boy, who has been taught to
read and write English; and with
the command of the language at
their hand, a great many of the i'm
ported Negroes will soon become so
closely identified with the natives
that they can pass themselves off as
such and thereby get favors and III
tluence which would be hard
for the white man to get.
Summing in all up, ] am firm
ly convinced that the Hawaiian
islands promise to be one of the
greatest island possessions that the
flag of the United States ever foated
over"
Mr.. Davidson left for his home
last Monday evening much pleased
with the brief visit to his old home
and the many visible signs Of i'm
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