The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-04-18

I cratic, generous, and patriotic. 10
destroy the industry of the Island.
would be far-reaehing calamity. be
eause. ms Crossroads of the Pacific.
our civil zation, our educational inst
tutions and our Americanlzinp inhu-
ence 90 far and wide.
"Let me give YOU one point. Twl
men who had been in Cuba told me in
1907 that they would wager anything
that Cuba would be annexed in five
years. They told me that they had
been all over Cuba and the American
Sugar Company was buying up every
piece of available land and that they
were 50 ANXIOUS for free sugar that
they would seek to bring about a revo.
lution that would neccsstate anexa.
ton. ! told them that | did not be
lieve IL; that the people of the United
States would not stand for the annex
alton of that number of Spanish
Americans and negroes. They were
quite positive that it was going to be
done.
BENEFIT of Sugar Trust.
''rhc American Sugar Company is
now blclk of this movement for free
NNHifi iffhuft litN hHDW y
that they would make the profit and
that the consumer would have to pay
Just as much as he does now, and that
tie revenue of over fifty millions OF
dollars year would be lost to the
treasury OF the United States.
az believe that if the frauds of the
American Sugar Company had not been
exposed thar they would have endeav-
cred to have carried out their scheme
for The annexation Of Cuba.
a. As soon as the beet sugar indus
try and tine Hawaiian and Louisiana
sugar industries are knocked out by
taking of the tariff, the world IS sugar
supply would De so affected that in
my opinion sugar would go up in
price. instead of down.
"Asking your pardon for this long
letter. and with kndest regards,
Faithfully yours.
"llENEY b. RESTARICK,
"Bishop OF Honolulu.
al would add to the above that in
accordance with the desires of the
authorities at Washington, the planters
and sugar men here have spent large
SUMS in trying to get white labor. All
incomes above a certain amount are
levied on by an income tax for the
bringing in of white labor. But of
course under the laws of tho United
States any contract with such labor is
impossible and many of them take
free trip from Portugal Spain, or Rus
Fin, to tlr Hawaiian Islands and some
of them before they have done IA stroke
of work, 90 on to San Francisco, and
many more, when they have worked
here n few months. They have used
the assistance of the territorial govern
mcnt, (givcn through the money de-
rived from the income taxi to get this
far on their way to California.
" AGAIN. Alaska Gamers and others
have had frequent agents here to get
the labor away, Filipino, Portuguese,
Spanish and Russian.
Raises Point of Labor.
eff peopls would only consider that
the tropics produce staple articles, such
as sugar, coffee, and so on, and that the
production OF these articles need GER
tain class Of labor, and that the Hawa-
ian Islands are in the tropics and have
to compete in the production of sugar
with Java. Cuba. and other countries,
which could increase their production
and which have no restrc-
ton as to labor, il would readily be
stem that the tariff taken off would
mean the ruin of these Islands from Il
commcrciai point of view.
1.-TWO congressman here. on separate
occasions, have said to me, these large
holdings must be broken up, and the
people must have the land. One of
tho men was from Kansas. said to
him, 'why do not You break up your big
farmss' 'and besiGVs, | asked, what
would you produce on these lands if
divided upl' OF course he could not
tell, nor can anyone else | have been
all over these Islands and know all
about hon N~steads and small holdings,
but there is not a white man living who
could make his living expenses from
the land Many have tried and all
have failed. When homestead is
taken mp, the man works on the plan.
tation for a living and uses his small
homestead rs n side issue. There is
not much tllable land ON the Islands,
anyway for they are all mountains in
the middle and the strips around the
saa are the fertile parts.
In spcaking of wages, ! did not
mean that the Japanese got $22 a
month, They get about SIS with room
or house, fuel, Doctor etc.
Bonus for Laborers.
GIN addition to their wages the
Planters Association have AN agree
ment that each year they will give to
all employees n certain percentage of
the earnings Of the plantation. Last
year tSjng good one with large crops
aud high prices, this addition was thir-
teen per cent, which increased the
wages Of all considerably
GA man from California recently
said TO me, saw women working on
the plantations and they told me they
only got S14 or Sl5 MONTH. L said
to him, did you ever hear of the women
I in Pennsylvania working on the coal
dumus for less ~money when YOU think
that those women get SO many things
frCel' Moreover said, those
japanese women are married, and they
are working simply because they like
work and to add to the family income
so that they can send more money
home to Japan or save it for invest
mcpts hero. The work is light hoefna
and as they ware used to working in
the fields in their own country, it is nc
hardship, -
Means japanese Colony