The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-08

/ he rapid decrease OF the Hawai-
labor, rendered some source of labor
source was China. Subsequently the J
Labor Bulletin "a, Chart 258, shows
the progress of the Introduction of
Asiatic labor and the rapid decline of
the Hawaiian race.
| Labor Bulletin "a, Chart 264. shows
the relations of the Sugar Plantations
to different classes of labor for ten
years.
Labor Bulletin "a, Chart 261, shows
the numbers engaged in mechanical oc-
equations at the last census.
Labor Bulletin 54 Chart 261, shows
the numbers engaged in gainfuI occu-
pations.
Labor Bulletin 54. Chart 26S. relates
to certain mechanical operations.
| AS is shown, the Chinese have had
| little ambition to interfere with higher
employments. Some became small re-
| tail merchants. The larger Chinese
mercantile houses based their business
| largely on the operations connected
with the growing of rice. The Chinese
have maintained a good name for in
tegrity.
The Japanese were introduced under
the expectation they would prove Of a
similar character to the Chinese. The
result has been disappointing.
The japanese have numerically be-
come upwards of half our population.
and more than half when the effective
force of production is considered
They have eagerly adopted the prac-
teal material ideas of Western civiIiza-
ton and subjected themselves to
severe courses of training and educa
ton for their Individual and race adj
vancement. This spirit of emulation
seems to have been quite thoroughly |
imbued in all classes. The Japanese
have a remarkable faculty of organi |
cation and execution
Against the Japanese aggression we
have:
First: The native and mixed Ha-
waiian population, easy going, mild |
and even indolent, kindly and unable
to form any lines of resistance.
Second: The Portuguese who are
Flooding and domestic. have no c3he-
sion for resistance.
An improved condition of the original
Portuguese immigrant and the edUca-
ton of his children quickly removes
him from competition with the Japa-
nese in the cane fields The Portuguese
cannot be counted on for aggressive
resistance to the japanese
Third: Tie Chinese. By exclusion
by return to China and by natural
causes, are becoming reduced i'll nLn-
bers Rice culture was their peculiar
business Exclusion crippled the Ecsi-
lion of the Chinese. and the japanese
took their places on the plantaticrs.
Finally the Japanese. having become
the great rice consumers, have about
put a finishing stroke on the Hawaiian
rice business by refusing to consume
Il, and demand Japanese grown i'm
ported rice, though ga IL per cent
higher in price.
One more evidence of japanese en- /
erprisa in their purchase of the Cap f
ain Cook coffee plantation, related I'M l
Ter the title of Coffee" t
Neither the Japanese nor the JaFa- \
lese government could question any I
move which would tend to restore and /
the supremacy of the white &,
md aboriginal races in the Hawaiian l.
stands, particularly when the problem
f national defence is raised. +
The plantations expended over $780, ,
90 90 in bringing Porto Ricans into the
'erritory to relieve the labor situation.
IN page 80. is a summary of the ex-
erience of the plantations with this =
ationality and their estimate of them.
The committee will not con ',Inn the =
'OrtO RlcanS as a DOOy, put never WAS
community cursed by a larger per
ent of worthless Migrants. public e.
harges in hospitals and iails, and das-
ardly murder tnan come from these s
eople.
Portuguese from New Bedford. n
lass. and vicinity were induced to C
ONE at an expense of $4,000 These -
eopIe. accustomed to town life re- III
Ised to remain on the planta tons. ne
Galicians from Europe were induced
, come. From the day of their ar ~
val they made trouble, as they did II
OF desire common or field work. They 30
lit III
Here are three disastrous attempts IN
ON every point of view, not only 81
ON that of the plantation, but of the
migrants themselves. ed
Farm labor is scarce the world over, oe
III to date there has not been one pc
ngle Indication that labor. accustomed Gt
town or city life. will work on plan IN
tions. 1t seems generally conceded
ey will not seek farm life, even in Gel
e United States proper. tn
The only possible sources we know of ref
r white labor are from the island 7
sessions of Portugal. where the To- raj
en1rloynlent Is AGRICULTURAL and the an