Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-07-14

controlling factor.
~ NDER the head of internal devel.
opment, labor Is one of the first
matters that will be brought TO
your attention. This is because
labor is vital to our present stability
and future ability to make the most of
a fertile soil and friendly and healthful
climate.
No man can view the plantations
along the railroad on this island with.
out being impressed with the wealth
of industry they represent. You don't
want that wealth to be dissipated or
the fruit of industry wrecked any
more than we do. Reduce the labor
supply or the supply of the most eff.
cient labor and we tend toward the re.
suit none wants to see brought about.
An hours ride through the cane fields
and half.hour trip through sugar
mill will lead any man to understand
why Hawaii is forever discussing the
labor question. II is well for you to
bear In mind that Oahu Is one of the
smallest islands of the group, and
there Is mile after mile of these cane
fields on the larger islands, all Of
which demand labor.
When you have gone over the whole
labor situation you will find II all sim.
mers down to something like this: The
Chinese is the best laborer for the
cane field. For more than one reason
the Chinese are preferable to the Jap.
anese. Hawaii is farther away from
the centers of European labor emigra.
ton than any other industrial commu.
nifty on earth. The plantation inter.
ests are ready to spend anywhere from
hundred dollars to a million dollars
to obtain 100000 European laborers, If
they are able to see reasonable guar.
antee that they shall not pay the mil
lion only to have the immigrants drop
by the wayside In crossing the CONT
nent and the 100000 become hundred
landed in Hawaii. 1t is a condition;
not theory.
In contemplating other Industries
for which Hawaii offers opportunity
don't forget the coffee industry. Ha-
wall grows the best coffee to be had
but cannot grow It proftably on &C.
count Of the competition of the peon
labor OF the great coffee estates of
Central and South America.
Give us a small tariff on coffee and
you will develop in Hawaii, in the
Philippines, and in Porto Rico an in
dustry that will be the greatest Amer
lean home-builder for the tropics ever
known. II is proved in Hawaii that
coffee is the white mans industry.
The white man can and will do the
work. 1t is congenial. A tariff on cot.
fee will bring American farmers to Ha.
wall as thick as bees around mo-.
lasses barrel. 1t will give Hawaii and
the other insular possessions the kind
of a population that is needed to pro-
tect and maintain Americanlsm and
wipe out a colonialism with subject
races.
A tariff is abhorrent to our Demo.
cratic brethren, but would they pre-
fer American homes in the tropics
with tariff, or barren fields and Orr.
entails for our insular possessions with.
out a tariff? Why should they fume
over tariff falsely alleged to increase
the cost Of the workingman's breakfast
table and be Indifferent to the real
source of the increased breakfast ia.
BILE expense-the margins of profits
made through the manipulations of the
broker and middleman.
" AWAIT Is a wonder in its way.
III II has more concentrated prob.
lens than any other part of our
country. II Is bound to have In
consequence of its being the boundary
where the civilizations of the Orient
and Occident meet. To a person who
seeks to do things, to men who never
run away, who like the wrestle of prog
ress and know no such word as fail,
Hawaii's problems are an intending
source of inspiration and opportunity,
with just enough OF the opera bouffe in
II to prevent the strupgla hecomin q