The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-15

III bAol LEI / Elk from Hawaii dealt almost
N exclusively with the sugar planters their
1V1 laborers, and their farming and bnsiros.
methods. with especial reference to some paralels
between the Hawaiian sugar planter to-day and
the great cotton planters of our own Southern
States fifty years ago.
Perhaps II is partly fanciful, but the parallel
seems TO me to extend even to mental bent and
physical bearing. One of the planters talked
with looked as II he might have stepped incarnate
from the framed portrait OF some Southern con-
temporary of Toombs and Davis | find too that
many OF the Hawaiian planters have met are dis
tnguished both for the same intense interest in
public affairs and for the same exquisite courtesy
which marked the old-time Southerner and as in
the Old South. numbers OF them travel in Europe
and in some educate their children there
Furthermore. was interested to find the Hawaiian
promotion Committee recognizing this similarity
TO the South in one or two notable respects: The
social life in Hawaii is altogether delightful"
says one of their booklets. lone is reminded in
many respects OF the old ante-bellum days in the
South where hospitality was proverbial, while as
In many parts of the South also. family spirit
links closely an important faction OF the inhab-
itants."
Another Repetition of Southern History.
ihere is also a striking parallel between TWEEN
tieth century Hawaii and the e-bellum South
IN the attitude toward manual labor. and also in
the difficulty OF getting small white farmers-due
grade labor OF another race which stopped the
tide OF healthy white emigration to the slave
South and sent thousands of our own non-slave
holding class TO the North and West The eli
matte and natural resources OF Hawaii" | found
an authority declaring. ARE highly favorable to
the development of that class which is the back
bone of every American State. namely, the plain
people, property owners OF moderate means with
thrift. energy and high civic ideals. But while
natural conditions are favorable. the artificial con-
ditions. those OF human control, social and other
wise. such arise from the preponderance of
orentals. are nmical. VIII the pioneer white
farmer bring his family TO n community composed
largely OF Asatcs or the poorer grades OF Latin
races? VIII he be content TO labor in the fields
where of his now act
seers employers and where coolies or peasants
are hired for all manual work."
The Mongrclization of Hawaii
In this condition find Hawaiian sugar planters
blindy anxious to make a bad situation permanent
by repeating the laws against importing Chinese
coolies. just as the old files OF De Bows Review
show that largely attended industrial conventions
in the South ffty years ago were anxious to repeal
the laws against importing African slaves. And
Just as IL is fortunate that old shareholders
did not succeed. so 1t is fortunate that the Ha-
waiian planter Will also fail. The unrestricted i'm
portation OF slaves would have made the South a
yeritabe Haiti. and war itself was a better fate
Here on Hawaii the mingling OF Japanese. Chin
esq., whites and native Hawaiians has produced a
seemingly unlimited variety OF mongrel types,
picturesque indeed TO gaze upon. but ominously
unsatisfactory when considered the basis OF
future Hawaiian citizenshp-a situation sugges-
tive OF the most serious menace to the future of
our Southern States. namely, the development OF
n similar population among us. inheriting the bad
qualities OF the most vicious and depraved OF both
Caucasian and negro, their condition the more
tragic because while bound by all the limitations
imposed upon the black man, there nevertheless
runs equally In their blood the PRIDE aspiration,
and uncurbed ambition which the long ages have