The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-12


nent for them TO come here from the
South.
Furthermore" he says. "a prejudice
has always existed in Hawaii against
the importation of black labor, which
has found voice in at least one occasion
in a special resolution of the legislature
opposing such immigration. There are
social reasons that make the negro an
undesirable settler in the islands. The
Hawaiians are not allied racially with
the negro. For these reasons, political
and social, Hawaiian public sentiment
considers it undesirable that an ele-
ment be added to the population that
would be certain in time to disturb
the existing happy conditions and to
create OF emphasize unnecessary pref
udices.''
SHOULD NOT DISTURB MAIN IN
DUSTRY.
The commissioner finds that all the
planters do not favor Chinese and
points out some objections to that
class. AS to Japanese he also sees OBJ
lection, and finds that the Asiatic
labor checks the emigration of eau
casions and limits the market for white
labor land thus tends to hinder the
building up of a strong, self-governing
community in the mid-Pacific. Were
Hawaii virgin and unoccupied Terri
hot IAx,
American interests would permit a
single Monaghan upon its shores. But
now there are established industries
and interests urging their claims. The
Asiatic labor, that labor cannot be
at once without running the
industry, and with it the economic
prosperity of the islands for many years
described limit the industrial possibili- |
ties, and no community, white or yell
low, can obviate these limitations. Ger
tain other conditions, sociological
rather than material, still further res
trict the Industrial effort in the ISL
ands. That labor policy is wisest
which, while recognizing existing con-
ditions and the natural limitations to
productive enterprises already mention
ed, strives to maintain the economic
of the Territory with the
least possible sacrifice of the interests
Of the Caucasian working men,"
WHITE MEN IN CANEFIELDS.
The commissioner says that but ten
Der cent of the labor of the plantations
could be furnished by white men, and
'urther that no supply of the kind Of
abor needed can be taken from the
states.
He says: Italy furnishes large
share of the field hands employed in
Louisiana, and japanese cultivate the
1eet sugar fields of California. The
after state furnishes a ready market
or all the agricultural labor that up
o the present date has ever reached
is borders, at higher wages that the
ane industry can afford to pay. Am
rican farm hands cannot be employed
nd small farmers from the States will
lot occupy and till with their own
ands, cane lands in Hawaii, until
ONE economic resolution is accom-
lished by which workers are made to
move freely from higher to a lower I
market and from more profitable to {
ess profitable fields of production
He says also that white labor is !
hysically unable to perform some of {
he plantation work. Also economic |
sasons have caused the preference for
-siatics and he cites also a number !,
f tests made with white labor which
Sc unsuccessful.
CHINESE LABOR WANTED.
The report also says that the plan ]
ers are opposed to one class of labor {
RS, like the Japanese, for there is al
eady danger of a shortage. What ,
hey want most is Chinese labor for I