The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-19

to work, and I doubt very much if the
real working negroes, from the south
ern plantations, could be induced to
come SO far. Personally should be
opposed to the trial of the experiment."
J. A Gilman, of the same house, said
that he did not think it possible to Sc
cure the class of labor that the plan
tations would require for the fields
here. He said that every attempt
which had been made in the past has
been of such nature that it has dis
couraged the planters from making any
further moves to secure field help from
the South. He said that the men who
would come so far away were always
the undesirable ones
F. A. Schaefer, of f. A. Schaefer &
Company, said he was decidedly OPP
POSED to any attempt to fill the fields
with negro labor. The principal OBJ
lection which he would make, he said,
was that the negroes could not affiliate
with the Hawaiians, and the wishes OF
the native people in this regard should
be consulted to some degree. He said
the experiments which had been made
were of such a nature that they had
produced an i'll effect upon the minds
of the people in the business, and he
would not be in favor of making any
attempt to secure such labor.
Henry Waterhouse, of the Henry
Waterhouse Trust Company, said that
he would not give reasons for his opin-
ion. that such an endeavor to make
homes for the negroes of the South
would be undesirable, other than that
the experiments here have been un-
successful and his opinion. formed while
travelling in the States, led him to the
belief that it would not be wise to in
troduce this element into the life of
the Islands
Mr.. Pfotenhauer, of Hackfeld & Com
pany, said that the experiences Of the
past controlled him in the opinion that
there should be no efforts made in this
direction, and that he would not favor
such an addition to the field labor.
F. w. Macfarlane refused to discuss
the matter, other than to say that his
opinion had been formed from that of
Manager Wells of Wailuku, who had
in his employ a number of the laborers.
and that they had all left or proven
entirely unsatisfactory
w NJ Giffard expressed the opinion
that there had never been in twenty
i've years, an Importation of negro la
borers which was satisfactory to the
plantations. He said there had been
at all times tendency on the part
Of the workers to fight, and in one in
stance when the hands had all disap-
fight between themselves. He said
that the negro workers always refused
to work with the other laborers of the
and the result was that
there was discord. He thought the
Hawaiian people would be completely
alienated by the bringing in of this ele-
ment, and that there could be no other
result than disorder.
w. o. Smith, the secretary of the
Planters Association, spoke of the ne
gro as factor in the plantations as
he had witnessed the experiments dur
ing thirty years past. He said: "I
think it was in 1872 that the first at
tempt to have negroes work on the
was made, and then the
result was not satisfactory. Since that
time there have been many other trials
70 secure their labor and every time
it has been without good results. 1
greatly doubt that there could be es-
tablished a number of laborers of this
nationality here without great care in
selection, the bringing of whole com
munities with their preachers and other
so that they might build
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