The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-10

calls and examined $4,000 school chill
drcn.
I y campaign is being made against
tuberculosis. and the United states is
carrying on lcproay investigation
which may result in tho nndIDg Of a
cure for this dreadful disease They
nave discovered the bacillus which pro
unces icprosy and have inoculated
monkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs. white
rats and horses with IT, So far only
the monkeys have taken IT, and this
VS. said TO be the first time that II has
ocen developed in any other animal
,han man. They arc now experiment.
ING Win n horse serum as an pntitoSin
On Moiokni.
In addition to the lcDcr colony on
the Island OF Molokai, the government
has now receiving hospital for lepcrs
a Honolulu, and on the island itself il
is adopting n new policy Az to tho
treatment OF icpers. In the past IT has
bcen customary TO regard them as
o"tcasts They arc now considered as
patients and treated like other human
beings There are $50 lepers In the
! hospital. Of whom five sixths are
itawaiians and the most of the re-
maindcr Portuguese and Chinese.
The icpcr settlement Ia on tongue
OF lana comprising several square miles
on the Island OF Molokai. The lcpcrs
II.
in complete community Of itself II
Is much like tho leper colony OF the
Philippine Islands, In that II has It's
own magistrate and police and It's So
cial and business life. 1t has churches.
debating clubs. baseball grounds and
a racc-track. There are two bands ana
moving picture theatre.
In the colony are four large insti.
t'tionnl homes. One is for males, an
other for females. third for hopeless
cases and fourth is Il nursery for th;,
children. There arc also about 200
other buildings, consisting OF machine
shops. storeronms and detached cot
tages occupied by lepers. Among the
schools Of Honolulu arc some for non
lcprous children whose parents are
lepcrs.
Sugar mud Labor.
Some of the pig questions OF the fu-
turc In the Hawaiian Islands have
TO do with the labor question. Ths'
is based on the sugar plantations,
which arc enormously rich. but which
require cheap labor TO handle them.
There are few spots upon earth that
produce sugar like the lowlands and
valleys of this Sandwich group
The area is not large. but the cror
last year amounted to more than ,0OQ-
100000, or enough 10 give every man,
woman and child in tho United States
Il "a.
through and leave some to spare.
The sugar plantations of Hawaii all
belong to rich corpora lions and trusts !
There are altogether stXty-five com !
pnnies, most of them chartered under |
the laws of California. The stock is |
held by 1000 persons, seine of whom |
live on the islands. some In tho United
States and not few In England and
Germany Tic corporations have an
aggregate capital of Si50.ono,c0o, and
they produce about s4O,0O0.000 worth
OF sugar n year. Some of the planta-
tons havo declared dividends as high
MS per sont. month, while others
have gone into bankruptcy.
The work Of sugar raising is scienti-
hcally done. Enormous Gums arc 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
The labor cost forms about
CO per cent Of the whole.
Asi0tics In EIawnii
1t is this labor demand that has
brought the Asiatic to Hawaii. Tho
invasion began before we took posse
sion of the island, and at first 1t was
largely of Chinese Since
then the Chinese have been kept ont
by our exclusion law. hut tho Japanese
have taken their places. and we have:
now something like $4,000 OF them
there. We have perhaps 10000 Chinese.
five or SIX thousand Koreans and some
I'ilipinos.
AS to the japanese, there are three
times as many of them as of the ma
tive ITawaiians, and altogether they
form from onc-thrd to one-half OF the
whole population.
So fer. these Orientals have been do
ns very little in voting, but their chill