The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-09-16

2 These few statistics serve to show the
! magnitude Of the sugar business the
81 success or failure of which depends to 80
|, large an extent on a sufficient supply "t
labor For field labor In Hawai- large
, proportion OF Japanese and Chinese are
an absolute necessity, i'm so far as no
, other class of labor is procurabe to any
great extent.
other cane sugar growing countries
either possess an indigenous laboring
2 population for cultivation, or have within
/, easy reach people who are readily OBJ
, tainable for tropical field work and
whose physique and constitution enable
them to undertake such field work with
out fear of injury to their health.
The native population of the Hawaiian
Islands is very limited. and the tendency
OF the laboring class IL not towards Held
work. They make good mechanics ana
IA large portion are engaged in a variety
J of trades, but agricultural labor appears
to be distastefu to them, and the num-
, Der employed on sugar estates is SO small
as to be hardly worth mentioning. rms
being so, it has in past years been neces-
sary to promote immigration OF field
llaborcrs to the islands, and many coun-
tries have been drawn from There has
? in the past been emigration FROM Ger
many, Norway and Sweden, Azores Ma
r ,deira. Portugal Gaicia China and Japan,
= besides which British, Americans, Italians
= and Negroes 0rom the United States)
, have come in small numbers
So far as the Europeans and the Ameri-
! cans are concerned. they have. with one
! exception, been found untitled for tropi-
cal field work they could not perform it,
and never for long labOred in the fields
The one exception noted is that OF the
, Portuguese from Madeira and the Azores
who for few years after their arrival
showed themselves willing and capable
H.1I INN WfHNH-
. ed condition of their own countries no
: longer necessitating emigration, these
people now show no disposition to come
, to these Islands. OF the Portuguese who
originally came to Hawaii as assisted
emigrants those who did not 80 to the
= mainland have so prospered that now
4 they do not engage to any large extent
: in field labor. and their children, by the
= aid of the excellent Hawaiian free school
= system. have fitted themselves for more
{ congenial occupation than agricultural
" labor affords.
r The impossiblity of securing a sufii-
= cient supply of Hawaiian or other lGoor-
= crs able to endure the work in cane fields
Y forced the planters of these islands into
= a reliance on China and Japan Cor TIE
q necessary supply. The Chinese have al
ways proved themselves to be a law
, abiding, docie and industrious people, but
u the United States exclusion laws shut out
this nationality from Hawaii ~ soon a.
e annexation became AN accomplished fact,
= and our sole dancndencc 10 now placed
I on Japan for such intermittent supply of
= labor as is attracted hither by the GER
q tainty of improved conditions
. Since annexation the difficulty o. se2ur
ing an adequate supply of field labor for
= sugar plantations has been en- )rmous.
|. Chinese are absolutely prohibited. ard
II but few Japanese come while It tht
p same time numbers of Chinese and Jap
= anese leave the islands m1nIn,y
Z no show inst what the conditions; ar,
in this respect IT may be stated that from
n August Isl 1891 to .June al 1go2 352
" Ionon.so mon arrived in tba country ami
II . SSo Iaft tho country making tho tntaI
!, incr.as. in that neriod only 40 and thar
n of rbiros. 1sS mon arrived and 1 ais Ieft
il making n total decrease Of 90 sn tn w.
t was n not Increase in tho Janan.sa ana
r Cbinsse nonnIa,inr of onl,. ! 30 NOT in
cluding women which number are not
- nnc,ssoriI,, ti.ld Iohnrars aInne
when ,ha l,h,r conditions ybicn bpd
Tn N. faced oftar arr.x,tio,, ,yar. rsoliz.d
tb, pIor,,rs' Associntio,, sot ohont srdir,,
e Iahnrars an, tho continent nf tba limited
= stnt,s snroo portugm.se ,,.ro bro,,-.,r
+ rrn,, IN, naiybuorbnnd az N.y R.dford
V and some Italians w.re s.cnrad In mo
!, Isnstorr Stotas and stort,d fnr Hawaii
lbut tb,. nm, Of tbep dronned out ~, m,
way arrnss tho continent ,nd hut com
naratiy,lv tow reocbed ,bosa islands An
l ursucrossf,I o,ren,nt to rot nerroes of
II hntt,r class yas rnode ana dnoiiy about
$ oqn p,,.r,, pioa,, ,,,,,,, r,ttt ,hoir fomi
e u.s u,or, hr,rsb, b.,r, az ,.a,y ,re,, ox
=, inarso Aa,r,s tr,,,, tIi, io,inr u,er,
for Iory estahlisbod on ,ho mainland and
i,ro,,.,I,5 49, i, Ian,,,b ora broodtb IN
Hna ,b',r, ,,,t ,o,,,,,. a 80 niarta,ions
t dowonGod y, u,as h,. mo ,,,aons n o,,ns-
e 49,, ,,.i,f' ~, "V - hn,
4
, .,,ar NC ,,,.,,'5 ,,. ra,,,,,i ,ho, ,ba Great
lcortiran, had ,aa,,i, ah,,r,,a5 ali tba
% Iohnr thara ms a,a ,,''s" ms No sur-
,rms ,an ~, ""'' "''N ''''
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o ,.o,in. a,,r oo,, n,Has ~ 49, e, non6no5
q ,o thosa aha,,a r,a,,,tnr"S rhoro axis,od
$ u, ,h, -, ',,,'' ~ .ln,',,o,' tha,
. tho nrnnar u,oy ta conS,m, a nIantotion