The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-04-18

st must not lie thought that we
have cheap labor here. consider that
on the whole I is a high paid labor.
far higher than IL is in most States of
the Union. The lowest paid of any
Portuguese, Spanish or Russian Iabor-
er is $22.01 a month. house rent free
water free. doctor and hospital free.
fuel free. They usually have u plot of
land for . garden free. The .Japanesc
aud other workers on lie plantations
send large sums OF money home.
have said that tho lowest wages are
S22.00 month, but most of the labor
is done now on the contract system.
and 4 great many men in cutting cane
or planting make from $1,000 To $1,000
q month, IN addition to the free house
and the other thiagS mentioned above.
'Thcic is another thing t. be re-.
membercd. That is, that the Orentas
who have come here have come ia
touch with Western civilization. aud
while neither japanese nor Chinese are
coming now, yet those who are here
are learning Weste-n ways and being
enIightcnel with Western ideas We,
Of or church, have nearly fifty bows
studying in universities IN Ghna ami
tie United Statas. The late rroyis-
i3ral President of China was FIVE yolIs
in enc of our church schools. Tha
chief Justice under the empire was
also from our school here. aftcrward Z
a graduate of Cambridge. England. The
min ng engineer OF province in China Z
is also another Of our boys. after grad
uating ut Columbia. a Chinese woman
of great Intelligence told me that our
Honolulu boys had rovolutinnizcd the |
University of Shanghai, not only ~ I
teaching them sports and giving the = 4
Western ideas. but bv teaching them .
patriot SIN. The late revolution m .
China really spang from Honolulu.
No Substitute for Sugar.
81 have gone into details in rather .
q rambling way that you may iudge
of thcsimrortancc Of this "clos roads
Of the Pacific As ! said before. no
crop can be substituted for sugar. We .
can and do produce pincapplcs bu. 4
there is only limited demand 10
them. We can and do Irodrce ccfra,.
hut we clnnot compel with Brazil.
We can send certain number of
lunches Of bananas to SAN Francisco.
but we cannot compete with Central
America If the duty On sugar is mG-
terribly reduced, most Of the white
people viii have to leave the Islands,
and Hawaii Will be ruined as Jamaica
was by the action Of the British gov.
ernmcnt IN the early part Of tho last
century. ! have no financial interests
whatever in sugar. do not own onl
share of sugar stock, and ! am indie
pendent for my salary upon the pep-
lie here, but ! know the United States
thoroughly and know the situation
here
Hawaii Melting Pot
"llawaii is melting pot for tn,
nations and races, and rs Professor
Blackman of Yale SAYS, people of dir
ferent races are living together in Ha-
wal ON terms of greater intimacy an
kindly relationship than anywhere else
in thn world, 1t is serious thing no.
only for Colorado and Gal fornil an
other pieces in regard to the beet sugar
industry, but it would simply plraly2e
industry IN the lslauds of every kind
II seems 20 me that because of tn,
Treaty of Reciprocity and annexation
that the United States owes s9mcthin!
TO these Islands. We imported TWEEN.
ty-cight millions of dollars worth Of
goods from California last yenr-hly,
grain, horses, mules and general sup
plies. 1t would be considerable loss
to California if these were stopped,
The Hawaiian-Amcrican steamship line
depends entirely for its return carEoes
upon Hawaiian sug r, and with FREE
sugar this line would have to 90 out
Of business. So would the Matsm line
In fact, American steamship ] mes mpy
he counted as those which do business