The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-14

for all time-they are not built that
way
1 have long believed that the reject
ed stone will yet become the corner
stone that will ere long make Hawaii
prosperous and happy. I believe that
there is a body OF laborers close to the
portals of Hawaii, several millions in
number, who may be drawn on, with
out affecting any particular community
to any appreciate degree, to aid, sue
cor and deliver her from labor shortage
and forever make her independent and
self-reliant. The fact that these labor
ers have from time immemorial yearly
produced millions of bales of cotton and
thousands of tons of sugar Is suffi-
cient endorsement of their ability to
do equally as well for Hawaii. And
the further fact that they have done SO
! on wages by half smaller than paid by
Hawaiian planters argues well for a
ready acceptance by them of the more
lucrative inducements offered in the is
lands.
| l refer to that sturdy, Industrious
Woodworking and Godfearing class of
laborers who people the Southern plan
tations: who from year to year till
the soil and know nothing but hard
and faithful work; who have made
their employers rich by their Drawn,
diligence and faithfulness to daily la
Dor; who work because they know
nothing but work. and who expect to
work to the end. L particulariZe be-
cause l do not wish this overwhelming
percentage of Industrious and produc-
ing Southern plantation negro labor
ers to be COMPOUNDED and classed with
+lA md
towns and labor not, as some of those
unfriendly disposed toward negroes in
general will endeavor to do.
Already many corporations and mu-
inequalities are turning their attention
to these Industrious and plodding
Southern plantation negroes, and seek
ing them as desirable auxiliaries and
principals to aid, upbuild and expand
their schemes of development. Only
recently British Columbia province
set apart a body of land to be occu-
pied and cultivated by a colony of one
hundred and fifty families of Southern
plantation negro laborers who had dis
posed of their effects in their sunny
southland to better their condition in
the cold and rugged yet inviting and
promising northland.
This is only one of the many in
stances that might be cited, going to
show that the much despised negro of
the South is not without friends who
appreciate his worth, and who are
ready. willing and anxious to welcome
him as co-worker in the development
of inviting fields. His day of resur-
ection is at hand and soon many hands
will be outstretched reckoning him
to come their way to aid in some need
ed work. He is hard worker,
steady Garner and ready spender,
and withal a thorough American who
wastes no time on strikes or boycotts,
but who at all times will be found
loyal to his employer. 1t can not be
denied that there is much discomfort
and unrest among the sturdy and bet
ter class Of hard working and prQdUc-
ing negroes of the South on account of
certain well known existing conditions
there and that many of them are cast
ing about for some genial cline where |
in they may better their condition
and otherwise. There would
not be in any one community enough
of these people with nerve and energy
sufficient to make an exodus TO long
distance to result in producing a labor
famine in that particular neighborhood,
and that is as it should be. From
each locality would come only a few
families together bound by blood and
associa ton and therein would lie their
homogeneity rendering them capable of
forming a congenial circle of their
own. Perhaps. in few instances the
migrations might expand to the exc
dus of whole church community led
by their pastor as was the case during
the Kansas exodus of 1S7S-9- And even
IN the latter case there have been in
stances where the best citizens Of the |
locality babe GoGspeed to the migrat-
ers. Fortunate indeed, would the Ter
'ftory of Hawaii be. were its planters
md citizens able to induct a few thou
sand families OF the kind herein speci-
led to cast their lot within it's con-
ines I say families. for when they
ocate as families as distinguished |
rom individuals there Would be GER
ain ties that would make the stay
pleasant and lasting. And be 1t noted
hat in families Of this kind the wo-
nen and children are also serviceabIe
lands in field work.
Millions Of dollars are paid annually |
o the coolie Iaborers Of the islands Of
which only a very small portion reach
g American channels Of trade. In