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withdrawn. and the atmosphere about
him would make a cold storage ware
house seem like a hOthOuse. This is
because the material resources OF Ha-
wall are inelastic and cannot be devel-
Oped or extended. except on limited
lines Like the table d'hOte dinner OF a
French pension, there is enough for
twelve regular guests, but only enough.
and an unexpected addition Of guest
compels each Of the others 10 do with
out portion Of his dinner The annual
crop Of 100000 tons Of sugar viii sell in
New York in good years for $4,000. 000
and in bad years for $4,000. 900. On this
foundation there can be sustained an
expenditure OF so much for dividends
to nOr-residents, SO much remitted TO
China and JaDan and Portugal by Ia
bOrers,, 50 much for factors, merchants.
middlemen, mechanics, doctors. law
yers, divines and public officials. and
there is nothing for the "Malahina.
His bread must be taken out OF the
mouth OF the Kamaina, and 20 this the
Kamaina, impslled by the instinct of
commercial self-preservation, most
strenuously objects
Hawaii has neither iron. nor copper.
nor lead, nor silver. nor gold. IN her
waters swim no exportabls fish. On her
hillsides 70 available timber grows. Her
few fertile and irrigable valleys are
too valuable for sugar to make il pos
sible 10 raise cereal or vegetable az
a profit, and the ravages OF bugs and
worms drive most horticulturists into
bankruptcy, except those who raise
bananas and pineappIes. These latter
grow TO perfection, but are too per-
ishable 20 bear transportation to the
mainland. Flour, potatoes. beans and
salted meats can be landed from Cali
fOrnia cheaper than they can possibly
be raised on the islands, and even fresh
meats come in cold storage and COM
pete with island beef and mutton. COf-
fee can be grown to- perfection. and
II is the finest favored coffee in the
world; but il cannot be raised with
hired labor because. like hops and
grapes and small fruit. il requires a
large amount Of labor at certain times.
and planters cannot afford TO carry the
labor over the entire year. and there
are no population centers 10 draw from
at certain seasons
Possibly the cultivation OF sisaI and
cacao may change prospects 10 some
extent; but as conditions now exist no
industrial development Of Hawaii IS
possible except in the direction Of su-
gar. Against the probability OF such
development there is the possibility OF
Cuban, OF Philippine and Porto Rico
competition. and the constant devotion
of larger areas on the mainland 70 the
growth cf the sugar beet.
And with all these factors accounted
for. there remains the ever present and
slowly growing labor famine We may
reason and mOralize, and beg, and
threaten and deny and asseverate. but
at last the undeniable fact remains
that white men cannot or at least viii
not labor in the cane fields Every
steamer TO the Orient carries away
some Chinese. and against their re-
turn or the incoming OF others in their
places collectors and courts wave the
flaming sword Of the exclusion act. At
present japanese labor is used, but
the Jaos are not 50 industrious, 30
faithful OF so effective as laborers as
the Chinese, and the day Is not fa-
distant when the growing power OF the
labor unions will be turned IN the direc-
ton OF demanding that Cinnamon and
japanese be placed on an. equality OF
exclusion
We may sentimentalize about II as
we will and prate about the fatherhood
of God and the brotherhood OF man.
but nevertheless cane sugar never was
raised. and it is logical 10 presume new
er will be raised. except by African or
Asiatfc labor. The African viii not
work IN the tropics except under COM
pulsion, and il we exclude the Asiatic
from the cane fields by excluding him
from the country in order TO make. a
market for the labor Of servant girls
who won't serve. we down our tropical
possessions TO the fate Of Jamaica and
the Bermudas.