El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-03-09

viii reorganize Honolulu as TO its sew
erage and drainage. There are district
I physicians, who make house to- house
5000 visits and filled 10000 prescriD-
lions They received 5000 calls and eX-
amined $1,000 school children.
A campaign is being made against
I tuberculosis, and the United States is
carrying on a leprOsy investigation
which may result in the finding of a
cure for this dread disease They have
discovered the bacillus which produces
leprOSy and have tnOculated monkeys.
RABBITS, guinea, pigs, white rats and
have taken II. and this IS said TO be the
first time that 1t has been developed IN
new experimenting with a horse serum
on AIoIoIzai.
In addition to the leper colony on
the island OF Molokai the government
has now a receiving hospital for lepers
at Honolulu. and on the island itself It
treatment Of lepers. In the past it has
been customary to regard them as out
casts They are now considered as pa
uents and treated like other human
hospital Of whom five-sixths are Ha-
waiians and the most Of the remainder
Portuguese and Chinese
The leper settlement is on a tongue
OF land comprising several square
miles on the Island Of-MolOkaf- The
lepers have a colony Of their oiWn.
and this is a complete community OF
Itself. 1t IS much like the leper col
Ony Of the Philippine Islands in that
IL has its own magistrate and police
and its social and business life. It
has churches, debating clubs, baseball
grounds and a race track. There are
two bands and moving picture thea
ter.
In the colony are four large institu-
other for females, a third for hopeless
cases and a fourth is a nursery for
the children. There are also about
200 other buildings, consisting Of ma
came Shops, storerooms and oetaened
cottages occupied by lepers. Among
the schools OF Honolulu are some for
non-leprous children whose parents
are lepers.
Sugar and Labor.
Some Of the big questions Of the fu-
ture In the Hawaiian Islands have to
do with the labor question. This Is
based on the sugar plantations which
are enormously rich, but which re-
quire cheap labor to handle them
produce sugar like the loWlands and
valleys of this Sandwich group. The
area is not large, but the crop last
year amounted TO more than billion
pounds, or enough to give every man,
woman and child In the United states
a pound Of sugar a month all the year
through and leave some to spare.
The sugar plantations OF Hawaii all
belong to rich corporations and trusts.
There are altogether s. companies,
most Of them chartered under the laws
Of California. The stock Is held by
1000 persons, some Of whom live on
the Islands, some in the United states
and not a few IN England and Ger
many The corporations have an ag-
gregate capital OF Sl5Q,0OO,0Ou, and
they produce about S4O,OOO,OOO worth
of sugar a year. Some of the planta-
uOns have declared dividends, as high
as percent a month, while others
have gone into bankruptcy.
The work Of sugar raising Is scien-
tiflcaly done. Enormous sums are
spent for machinery and fertilizers.
About half the land is irrigated, and
that at a cost Of $40 per acre, or
about four times as much as similar
work in our country. The labor cost
forms about so percent OF the whole
Asiatics IN Hawaii.
1T is this labor demand that has
brought the Asiatc to Hawaii The
invasion began before we took pos
session Of the islands and at first II
was composed largely Of Chinese
Since then the Chinese have been kept
out by our exclusion law. but the Jap
anese have taken their places, and we
have now something like $4,000 OF
them there We have perhaps 10000
chinese, 5000 or 5000 Koreans and
some Filipinos.
As to the japanese, there are three
times as many of them as OF the ma
tive Hawaiians. and altogether they
FORM from one-third to one-half Of I
the whole population
So far these orientals have been do |
ms very n-Ge In voting, but their I
chlldrep-Wlu vote as they grow up, |
and tne question is what effect 1t will /
nave as to the control Of the govern
menU As IL is now. the ruling class I
IS the Hawaiian or a mixture of that I
ana the American Twenty out of % I
or the representatives belong to that /
race and they also form the majority I
or the senate. The Hawaiians cast |
something like O,0OO votes at the last 4
election, whereas the American, Brit /
lsn ana German element cast only a /
Itue over 5OeJ. The Portuguese cast /
zOOO votes, the Chinese $40 and the I
Japanese So
The Hawaiian islands. as every one 1
knows, are now a territory Of the I
nited states They have a governor /
4nu q secretary appointed by the pres /
loIlaL legislature, consisting of a SEN
ate ana mouse elected by the people. /
me legislature sits 60 days only, and /
the last one passed 169 bills.
Government Lands in Hawaii
me Hawaiian Islands have not l
proved an 81 Dorado to pioneers from /
the united States as many expected
The truth IS that they had ALREADY /
been developed by American brains 4
and American enterprise. These came I
in with the missionaries, and thew
have been so used that the best lands j
have been taken and the best places /
filled
The government acquired about l.