Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-08
Tells of Brewer Co.'s Plantation Contracts with the Small
Growers-Denies Stories of Immigrants Turned Out of
Territorial Station Because Wouldn't Go to Certain Plan
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sugar at cents provided the yield
was IS tons, he would make a profit
OF $542j. Forty tons yield woulC
make a profit of $43.2j; 81 tons would
make a profit of 1925. With sugar
at 4.50 cents, he would make from q
yield of As tons, $67.75; 40 tons, he
would make a profit of $5525; from
50 tons, he would make a profit oil
$42.75. | didn't take it any higher
than that because thought 4.50 cents
was high enough. In reference to the
Pahala contract, with sugar at 4 cents
they would make 1858 a ton.
Fisher: Now, in figuring what the
mill would make, do you credit the
mill with INTEREST,",
Ivers: do not, but | credit the
mill with depreciation.
Fisher: At any rate.
lvers: Well, in that connection
would charge as much as usual: Or.
dinarily speaking, everything on the
plantation has to be renewed inside
of twenty years. think possibly sew
/enteen years might be fair; but a
great many things on the plantation
will have to be renewed a number of
times. However, | figure about per
cent. would be fair rate of deprecia-
ton.
Fisher: Six per cent. on what?
! lVers: Six per cent on what a good
mill would cost.
! Fisher: l suppose you figure main
tenance and repairs?
4 in hok
figure what we actually spend on
maintenance Any expense for better
ments are not figured in this account
at all.
Fisher: VIII you send the stenogEa,
pher a memorandum of the lRgdres-
/ wish to get them correctly. / would
like to get the basis of Your profit
to the mill, If yoH have no objection.
The San Carlos Contract. g.
lVers! No objection at all. There
is one further feature. 1t is contend
ed that the San Carlos Milling Com
pany is far more favorable with their
contract than any contract that has
been offered here. The San Carlos
/ Milling Company contract with sugar
at four cents, pays $40 as against
| $3.50 here, difference of $3.50.
Fisher: $3.50 better than here; la
, Dor conditions are more favorable
That brings me to the question of i'm
migration here. You are bringing in
"a good many Filipinos now?
lVers: immigration has nothing to
do with Filipinos. ...
Fisher: Who brings in Filipinos?
Ivers: The planters.
Fisher: have been. told that there
| has been a great deal of abuse OF
that
Ivers: In what way?
Fisher: Well, in the character of the
men who are induced to come here
the fact that they are not subject to
the same restrictions or examination
that would be accorded them if they
came from a foreign country.
Well Examined.
lVers: Well, Mr.. Secretary, these
people are examined over there before
their departure by the Federal people
in the Philippines-the most rigid ex-
animation is made.
Fisher: Is that done under the Phil
ippine government?
lVers: 1t is done at the request of
the planters and with the cooperation
of the Philippine government, but at
the expense of the planters.
Fisher: In other words, if there is
any justification for the complaint,
that could be checked by calling the
attention of the Philippine government
to it, and showing that their officials
imposed at least the same restric-
lions as the immigration officials
here.
Ivers: Yes.
I Fisher: Now, there. has also been
good deal of complaint called to my
attention and some of it | may say
by men officially connected with the
plantation-men in the actual and re-
sponsible employ of the plantation,
who have told me that they did not
like to come out openly-who said
they thought there was a serious
| abuse in the manner in which the i'm
migrants which have been brought
here from the mainland mean from
ortside-have been treated Upon and
shortly after their arrival. That is to
say, that these people have been turn
ed loose here in many instances,
where they have been left without
employment for period of two, three
or more months. during which they
had little or nothing to depend upon
and were compelled to accept almost
any old thing. What do you know
about that?
Statement Called Untrue.
Ivers: l consider that not only
that statement not true, but that it is
malicious statement. Under our law,
we can provide and take care of these
people for only a reasonable length of
time-somtimes a man arrives there
and is offered different places of en-
plryment and refuses to accept them
he merely wishes to remain there at
the expense of the Territory-there
have been a few such cases, where
they have been forcibly removed from
the station-those cases have been ex-
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