Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-10

t,0oo.0Qo0 pounds. or enough to giyt
every man woman and child In the United
States round Of sugar a month all thu
year through.
/ The sugar plantations OF Hawaii all be-
long to ridh corporations and trusts There
are altogaher slxty-five compAnles. most
OF them chartered under the laws OF Cali.
,fornia' TIE stock is held by 1000 persons,
some OF whom live on the Islands. some
in the United States and not few In
England and Germany. The corporations
have an aggregate capital of sl5o 900. oDi
and they produce about s4OOo0.OD worth
Of sugar year. Some of the plantations
have declared dividends as high as I
per cent month. while others have gone
into bankruptcy.
Tis work OF sugar raising Is scientific
ally done. Enormous sums are spent for
machinery and fertilizers. About half the
land is irrigated and that at cost Of
$40 per acre. or about four times as
mucsl as similar work In Onr country.
The labor cost forms about 90 per cent
Of the whole.
Asiatics In Hawaii.
1t % this labor demaned that has brough,
the Asiatio TO Hawaii. The invasion be-
gan before we took possession Of the
islands and at first Il was composed
largely Of Chinese. Since then the
Chinese have been kept out by our en-.
ciusion law. but the Japanese have taken
their places, and We have now something
like 5000 Of them thege. We have per-
haps eooD Chinese, 5,oW or GOO Koreans
and some Fillplnos.
As to the Japanese. there are three
times as many OF them as Of the native
Hawaiians, and altogether they form from
one-third to one-hslf Of the whole popu-
lation.
So far these orientals have been doing
very little in voting. but their children
win vote as they grow up. and the ques.
tion IA what effect 1t will have as to the
control Of the government. As It Is now,
the ruling class is the Hawaiian or a
mixture Of that and the American.
Twenty out Of twenty Of the repre-.
sentatiyes belong to that race, and they
also form the majority OF the senate
The Havailans cast something like 1000
votes at the last election, whereas the
American. British and German element
cast only little over 5000. The Portn-
gness cast 1000 votes, the Chinese SO
and the Japanese fifty-three.
The Hawaiian Islands, as every one
knows. are now territory Of the United
States. They have a governor and a
secretary appointed by the president. and
these are aided by q territorial legislature
consisting Of a senate and house elected
by the people. The legislature sits sixty
days only. and the last one passed is9
bills.
Government Lands in Hawaii.
The Hawaiian islands have not proved
an Fl Dorado 10 pioneers from, the
United States. as many expected. The
truth is that they had already been de-
veloped TO American brains and Ameri-
can enterprise These came in with the
missionaries, and they have been so used
that the best lands have been taken and
the best places filled.
The government acquired about L suo-
90 acres Of public lands by the transfer
but q great part OF that was made up Of
canyons, rayines and iaya-cIad mountains
The government had about one-thrd Of
the whole. but the greater part OF that
third was no earthly good. II had about
1900 acres Of good sugar lands, but
much was leased to the sugar pIanta-
tons and was therefore not TO be disuAsed
Of until those leases ended. A mum.
Der Of homssteads were granted, but as
a general thing thess were small. and
those EAs set tbsa have not made any