Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-05
Think It Would Hurt the Sugar In
dustry.
MANY MARINE ACCIDENTS
Romantic History of the Along Fam
lily and the Interest Excited Over
the Immense Estate.

the possibility of the annexation or CUBA as
a consequence of the late political disorder
in that island OF course, we of Hawaii
are entirely opposed to such consequence
because apparently it would be the ruin of
our sugar-producing interests, which are
the life of our whole business. That is, we
believe that the admission of Cuban sugar
into the United States. duty free, which
would follow annexation, would more than
supply the whole sugar consumption of the
country. which would reduce the current
price thereof below the cost of production
in Hawaii.
On the other hand, the idea has been adj
vanced, with much show of probability,
that were Cuba annexed she would come
under the present severe restrictions In the
United States upon the employment of Chi
nese and other foreign laborers; this would,
as it does in Hawaii, so increase the cost
of production as to greatly restrict, If not
destroy the sugar business in Cuba, so as
to remove her as dangerous rival to Ha-
wall. we'll as to beet-sugar culture on the
mainland. But we distrust this. Our best
hopes based upon the manifest extreme
undesirableness of the Cuban population as
members of the American nation. To an
mex them would be like marrying our white
sons and daughters to "a tribe of Spanish
mulattoes.
We have been having an experience in
Hawaii of a Cognate sort upon small
scale, some account of which / tender for
the attention of your readers: About six
years ago. in searching for additions to our
laboring population, we succeeded in i'm
porting about 5000 Porto Ricans, including
women. They were, perhaps, not FAIR
representation of their people, and no doubt
included much of the refuse of the towns.
At any rate they proved bad to a degree,
and have far exceeded in both viciousness
and incapacity and other class of immi-
grants whom have tried. They are
Spanish mulattoes of low grade. physically
and mentally. Whether or not they are
info To hn Nnh frv a
have means of knowing. They are COM
pounded of the same races.
Plea for the Porto Ricans.
l can best begin to illustrate the social
standing of these Porto Ricans by present
ing extracts from a recent plant or protest
published by five of apparently their repre-
sentative men, evidently of low intellectual
grade. 1t is both pitiabe and pathetic in
it's statement of the scorn which the name
of Porto Rico has earned in Hawaii and its
expression of resentment thereof. 1t Is
printed in their own imperfect English:
There are not doubt that we Porto
Ricans We're and still are the objects of the
hate and odious reprimend from the whole
people of Hawaii, whose hostile attitude
has kept against us for the long term of
about six years.
1T is so thrue that there CONS with
several criminal whose bad sentiment and
immoral life bring merely the fam and bad
name they won.
Let us say that the criminals with us,
coming to Hawaii, were the very few and
that they are going away as they were all
ways the same authors and re-authorS Of
ones and another causes.
1T is to unkind for people under the
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anta,ion OF bic .o au. VIII sin,e ,nta,ieanco
to defend them.
Beside that every ignorant of Hawaii
peneVe hlihseii I'VE no4 ni uille srea. ana
conntrv occunvine a low concent and dis
GRACEFUL name in the brain of each inhab-
liant of this country, and there come the
Vlie ihsui. hot YET from tne common people
onI,, ;m,ni,ancaS 70 Uan,ai; - ~ ~,
wall
lone Burglar robbed somewhere: IL is a
Porto Rican ALI other natlonalties are oui,e
innocent and then there came Immediately
after six four or two Illegal arrest in some
of our honest countrymen whom. before see
a Judge or get an Illegal liberty of course
receive some insult sometime practically
from n policeman NAV he from a low hirst
and bad antecedent than the poors ar
rested"
IF a Porto Rican is without lob two or
three DAYS during which is going around
looking for 1t; many policemen will win a
reward giving him to their Interpretation
before a Judge who send him To iail for six
months-as a yraggan,,,',
many public works and when we are adj
mitted somewhere as I'm the .Nuuanu
Receivoir' it's patrons as Mr. Whitehouse
pay zoe per working hour to Hawaiians
and Portugueses-never mine II very old
man or to young men, and for the Porto
Rcans only l5c a laboring hour at the
heavy work.
But time will come and not here Int in
place of security we will cry the Hawaii
hospitality to a poor and and unrepresented
people"
Oeaoiy hnlie work.
Ii is to be noted that these frsr'Dg MEAD
ers for their couptrvme, are ,,,ahio =.
,ras,,t = tt ;,.,aa. =. -
ms '"''''i~e " one Mo il''u at
talheu hohofaoie reputation IN this country
And they have to acknowledge with bit
terness that they are universally desoise1
hoth for OWL ranutation and for ,aal &c
canahilifv Tho Csc Of ~ cortront W
Foycrnrne1t work Is cited ubo ,n.,,. o ~ o
only Iahorers eligible To A,nnrican citige,
shin RIt he will moi nav coraI uaeaS -,
the ircanahle Porto Rirays aithomg6 tb',o
eligible II is hoyevar In criyninaI 49, oF
violence that these nennIe have rb,eav ~