Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-06

| cane is brought to the factory on rail-
| roads and some of the estates have miles
| of railroad tracks Steam plows are used
| and the irrigation works Of vast ex-
| tent. Connected with some such estab-
| lfshments are pumps which lift millions
| OF gallons of water day, often carrying
| it over the hills from one valley to an
| other. Reservoirs are built to hold the
water, and on one plantation there
! more than forty miles of fumes. The
soil of the sugar lands is analysed from
year to year, and just the right fertilizer
| is added to make them produce to their
| fullest capacity. The labor on the plan
| tations is organized under overseers and
| foremen, and the cost of everything is as
| carefully estimated as in one of your great
| American factories"
Chinese Labor Preferred.
How do you get. along with your la
| bor?" / asked.
! I'VE are doing very WELL" said the gov
| ernor. But we should be far better salts
| fed If the people here would not insist
upon the same labor laws for US as for
| the United States. The conditions are diff
| trent and what is good for one place Is
| not good for another. This will be found
to be the case sooner or later as to the
| most of our outlying colonies. White
men cannot do the every day labor of the
tropics, and our conditions are such that
labor of certain classes is best performed
by. Chinese. We should like to have a
limited number of Chinese We want
enough to develop the islands to their
fullest capacity. and no more. The num-
Der should be limited. and when the sup
ply falls off through death or immigra-
ton we should have the right to import
others to take their places. AS 1t is now
we can import Japanese, but not Chinese,
and we have now about 10000 Japanese
in the islands. They do not make good
| la borers as the Chinese They are not so
reliable, nor do they make as good citi-
zenS."
do you have labor unions among your
Celestials?"
Not in the sense that the word is used
in the United States" said Gov Carter
The Japanese always go together. They
may be said to have one great union of
their own. The Chinese have their or
CARNATIONS, but these are more like social
clubs than our trades unions. There are
now and then strikes among the people
of both races. but we have, on the whole,
fewer labor troubles than you"
rs there any chance for the poor white
man in Hawaii?'
Not much for the common laborer,"
replied Gov. Carter. The Japanese and
Chinese will work more cheanlv than ba
and almost equally we'll indeed the
white man can't work as well In the
tropics as either the Chinaman or jap
anese We use white men for our super
intendents and clerks We do not want
them to do the hard work"
Chances for Young Americans.
What are the chances for young Ameri-
cans in the Hawa Ian Islands, GOVERNOR"
There are opportunities for young
Americans everywhere" was the reply
and there will always be places for the
right men in islands. Nevertheless. 1t
must be remembered that the country there
Is about we'll taken up as In any part of
the United States. The islands have been
settled for many years and the opportuni-
ties of a new and rapidly developing coun-
try are lacking. We prefer to have a few
high-priced good men rather than many
poor men to do our work, and the wages
are l think, higher than In the United
States Overseers and foremen are now re-
ceiving 800 and upward per month Sugar
boilers and engineers 500 and upward, while
the plantation carpenters and blacksmiths
are paid from $50 to 800 All the high-priced
men on the sugar plantations have their
houses and flrewood furnished. There Is
good demand for mechanics In Honolulu
but even there the Japanese and Chinese
| compete. AS to clerks and bookkeepers
they are easily gotten, and the wages are
not much higher than in the United States"
Men With Money.
How about men with money? Are there
many opportunities for good investments?"
Yes, but the conditions are not far diff
| ferent from those of other parts of the
| United States 1t takes large capital 20
| operate a sugar plantation and the best Of
| the sugar lands are taken up and In cult
walton. There are some opportunities In
| coffee growing and in raising pineapples
| and other fruits for shipment to the Unit
| ed States The available lands are COM
| paratively few. The islands all told have
an about one-fourth large as the
state OF West Virginia and very large
proportion In mountainous and uncultivable.
| Such of the soil can be used Is, in many
places. exceedingly rich; but, as 1 have
said the best lands are already owned
| and have been so for many years"
Are there not some government lands?'
Yes there are altogether about 1000 700
| acres but much of 1t is sterile or inacoes-
sible or covered with lava. There are per-
| haps 100000 acres that have some value,
| and half of that amount Is good land The
| government is anxious that it's lands should
be taken up by small planters. but. at 100
| acres to the man, they could accommodate
| comparatively few people"
| Uncle Sans Lepers.
| what you doing with your leper
! colony, GOVERNOR
| 1--WE have our lepers on the island of Mo-
| lokai situated north of Lanai Island on
| the other side of the Pailolo channel Mo-
| lokai is a narrow strip of land about seven
| miles wide and thirty-nine miles long 1t
J is of volcanic origin, the eastern part of
| II rising more than half a mile above the
| sea- The leper settlement is on a low
peninsula, on the south side of the island.
| II has some fertile lands connected with 1t,
including few thousand acres upon which
| sugar might De grown The lepers are
| supported and cared for by the people OF
| the islands. We think that they should
| be in charge of the United States govern
| ment and directly under the marine hos
| pital service Our leper colony should be
| made an experimental station for the study
| Of leprosy and Its cure. There 10 q gov
| eminent leper colony an island off the
coast of Porto Rico and other lepers are
supported by the government in the Philip
| pine Islands. The disease is a terrible one
and Congress could not do better than