The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-04-01
THE PASSING OF. CHEAP LABOR.

Southern hemisphere exchanges reports and discussions of
the results the Queensland industry of the employment Of white
labor exclusively 1t represented that the planter has experienced
twofod disadvantage the labor costing and the product of each
being less than when the kanakasdported their native isles
agocOnsued the working force Where the kanaks had
harvested and quarter day for each the white
labor has produced tale of but and quarter day. and
black labor will be allowed back neither limited that
consequence the deprivation of semee gangs inferior
the sugar industry of Queensland will be abandoned There
little discussion of relief from the available Hndufeow of
the people who stand "a mis-
giving the intelligent naughty Indian would need be treated
with Difference usually expected from plantation What
urged substitution the obsolete reliance upon cheap labor %
combining intensive cultivation and the extended of labor
saving appliances in field and mill
Queensland is only of countries though further the
than of them where industrial revolution working the
great industries The handwriting the wall everywhere gn
flying the doom of every industrial system depending labor of
place demandabor that its movement from
m to another not immigration but mpoaons destined to 90 the
way slavery The quicker that any country recognizes this revolution
being of fuhmen the will arrive at the stage
of effective twentieth century civilization
From tropics semi-topics Aaic even, the cry
swelling every breeze of scarcity of cheap labor produce the
staples that are the greatest in demand in the worlds markets 1t is
the problem of the day for cotton and coffee rubber and One
things heard this regard that the Chinese found
wanting in effectiveness for rubber production They are said to be
careless in the details that tapping for instance they are apt to
coming be better esteemed than Drawn and had
that scientific culture of products which today essential
if the yields quantity and quality to be obtained? And that
for labor with these better equipments adequate compensation must be
Moreover cheap being exhausted by the
modern development of sebarbarous and secluded
mankind Home industries and public improvements in those countries
rapidly absorbing all the labor they possess and the scale there
rising the in the countries where invention and progress
of Whether still higher of
living not the coming apace when the that pow and
fields receive his fair proportion of the harvest and
his to be worthy his hire must possess the intelligence and
him the category cheap flesh and blood No
country avaing scientific methods will be without labor for
when the trained mind and muscle for modern in
and being thus fitted offered such will enable
of civilization for which they eligible
Capital may the occasion anohert may be
through system entirely that combined with prohtshang
will the conditions of industry The
industrial revolution will not be stayed Yet labor itself will hasten
the by methods of force violence coming by the
evolution of human Commerce well society interested
equabe distribution of the proceeds of natural
The Honolulu business recently had foretase of
the coming citizens employed premium
cheap labor standard skbreas upon neghborng panta