The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-07-27
LABOR PLENTY
IN SOUTH
SEAS


said Leybourne Davidson on the deck
sf the Maheno yesterday. "The peo-
ple over there are calling for white
Australia without thinking of the
consequences for the result will be
disastrous to that country"
The gentleman has been living ir
Ceylon for several years and for two
years past has been interested in rub
ber in both Ceylon and Malay. He IS
from Inverness, Scotland, and a mem.
ber Of the Oriental Club of London
and one time connected with the
Standard. He is large holder of
shares in several of the big rubber
estates in Malay and is familiar with
abe soil and labor conditions of that
place. He was one of the early buy
srs of shares in the Selingor Company
at dollar a share and sold few
months ago at four pounds sterling.
The same shares are now on the mar
ket at double that price. The Sandy.
croft Rubber Company, adjoining the
Selingor has just made its first tap
pings. From few trees more than
5000 the company secured ss02 pounds
Of rubber. This company paid ten
per cent on its capital of $4,000 last
year and has paid fifteen per cent this
year. Next year it expects to pay
fifty per cent for at this time only
about one-sixth of the trees are in
bearing. The shares are 800 par, and
selling at $3.50.
"There is plenty of labor in Malay
and throughout India,' he said, "be-
cause the policy of the British gov.
vernment is to keep their coolies at
home. 1t is not so long ago that the
people in South Africa thought the
best thing for that country was the
introduction of coolie labor. The mat.
ter was threshed out by the represen-
tatives from the South and Lord Cur.
ION, but when the conference ended the
viceroy announced his determination to
keep the coolies at home. You have
your labor troubles here, j am told.
It seems that while the japanese have
made good field hands they are not
satisfied. | heard coming over on the
steamer that they use Honolulu as a
stepping stone to America. Well that S
pretty good and while they are allow
ed to do so you are not going to be
sure of your supply.
FILIPINOS NO GOOD.
ssThe Filipinos will be failure, now
mark what | say, and they will be nc
good to the country in any way. What
you need here is class that will be
Of some use to the planter and of
lse to the merchant. Your Filipino
viIl want to get into the town where
he may have diversion, he likes life
with its cockfghts and will get his
fill of il even if he has to go a long
way for it, As ! understand it you
can not have contract laborers in the
sense that we have such labor in Ceylon
and Malay. There we have a mighty
control over them and when they grow
tired and attempt to run away we
have the assistance of the government
in bringing them back. And the labor
n cheap. In America without the
contract clause in your labor agree.
nents | do not see how you are going
10 compete with the countries where
the labor is so much cheaper. Queens.
land was the first to take up the cry
of Australia for the Whiteman' and
they waxed enthusiastic. The first
foolish step was to petition for law
that would end in the deportation of
all OF the alien blacks working in the
sugar industry. This law was directed
mainly toward the 5000 South Sea Is
land kanakas who were working in the
fields. The bill became Law but the
enthusiasm wanes.
KANAKAS MUST GO.
"The importation of this class of
labor ceased, practically, in 1904 and
final deportation is fixed for December,
1906. You can see how the sugar es.
tates will be affected by such n law
and how Hawaii, if the people would
but look into, and take the opportunity
offered, would be benefited. Those ka-
nakas are. the best workers for the
tropics | ever saw and they are the
best for the community because they
are spenders. Nobody ever heard of a
South Sea Islander going into a bank
and buying exchange TO send back to
the family.
Queensland is throwing aside the
benefits that have been derived from
the presence of that class of labor all
through a little sentiment and the 5000
laborers are TO be sent away. Why
loes not Hawaii reach out and get
theml White labor is dream, not u
reality in any tropical country; thou
sands Of dollars have been spent in ex-
perimentihg in this way without salts.
factory result 70 get ria Of the blacks
Queensland win spend sixty thousand
pounds in deportation expenses, The
sugar industry Ia Australia Is costing
the consumer I'VE million dollars u year
and this amount, II h stated, could De
sayed and the entire demand Of Aus
tralia supplied II The government wuul
permit 10000 kanakHs to live and work
there instead ~ t5iug 90 XII on th,
white people by inyripliHs them int,
The hfldt hH lAhuTers SO white maf
- suited fof WORK boz the Australian
tropics nor in any other part ~ th,
NsTld whore ihe conditions aTr similar
a. hAs hrrn demonstrated that ih,
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