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Show " ' ""I " f ' voter, of whom native of t o I nit. i States form but IT, per cem. In L'O years' time the total number of vntrr will Is- tT were the iuot b.vpltahlo people on I ';..i'.V " . ;-: .' t'.;',': . .slL jl lithe cortb. When white men flrot ri'P . .??-''':if;'''':' --'.fa (ff J came to the Island everything that rQX?A - -. ' v . t;V-v V.i: 4''vV--';U J2?& the Inhabitants possessed was ' r '-;?.. t : VX'-" :7v:'''' :;;vjl';V'. ;'v!' , freely placed at their dlsposU ln. iv VivVl JsX&2 jtt&AJZS A native would turn r.or to N'Sf -v'S'y' V : :: "5' the strnnger from over the ,as his .hut i :'b&pJ&r ami )t content, leaving his wife to &V:l'.sr.-'- ' look after I bo vMtorV comfort, whll-t fc:')Tr:f' work nnl ba-J the primitive man's 0W- h-.- 8oui.-ljt hhelter eluenlu-n- Thero won ! vct',-''rv' v'''''ff' 'A'tV'j iVt''''''j llk. f..r It They eiiltiva to.l tho tnro no restrletloQ f-C upon the foi.-l.-n.-r- -'OA'-R.' llviAf .i'v IM.ts, from w hl.h they l.-rlv.-.l their May. nor aon his nrtloni. NVo.JlerM to --:Ji'55-; i.'..V tj&X?- ; '-'"f ''.'iV;;'';''V--'' hlef foo.1 mpplv, nol they nave their Mote, IIiIn hlmple open-Inn. IwlneKH wns V,'' ervlef for xhort Kpellh u loiiHtiiliouU nhui d and the Ishiuders paid dearly for v1 j' -V i--'f.lf- V . A" "'tV '.'-'. ' -i.Cj.0. n: the fwrtt. They have always chcrlsh-d their klndnca. '--v'V 'i.'-' V-'-V n passionate love "of the sen nod excel as Aiuonif tbe first w hite men to make ''' ' '' 'v ?-' i -''. Iltthermen and In hnndllun small boats. fettleiucDt In the archipelago were Amor- i ' V Heyond these eauy Inborn tbey conld not ler.o tnlMdnonrle aod senfarlnc men. "iyf;' V.7 i-v, be indneed to exert themselves, and tue Most of tbe came from H'.iton and Micor plonti-rs acMn learned thnt the na- M"-lrilty nnd until reeent years the nn- kl.SriaA...-j,t'rJjCJ, .:..i-4.y.V.T F.iSi j J ft..U j nvo population , 0iild not be depended oil thes entertali.ed the deluxlnn that Jb.M- ' " I to furnUh the Meld bonds nettled. With W.N U.. Ir p; I,,. j were the luost hospitable people on j the cortb. AVben white men Ort J came to the Inland everything that the Inhnbltnntti possestj Tins freely placed at their dlKposli Ion. A native would turn oor to ttio ntrnncer from over the n-as iU ihut and 1t rontents. leaving his wife to look nftor the visitors' comfort, wbINt h-.- nought shelter eluew here There wna no restriction Fet upon the foielvner- lay. nor up-in hla nrtlons. Needlens to state, this simple opcn-hamltHlncKH was nhutt-d and the Islnudcrs puld dearly for their Undue. Amonif tbe first white men to mnke fettleiuent in tbe archipelago were Amer-ler.n Amer-ler.n mt!dorjnrlc aDd senfarlnc men. Most of thee came from H'iston and l-lrdty nnd until reeent years the na-thes na-thes entertali.ed the deliiMlon that ItoH-ton ItoH-ton wus nn Independent rminirv aud called all Americans UuMonlniis. Those early comim were reiolved with croat favor by the Klne nml eneourued to make homes In the Islands. Large rmnts of lanl were -nade to certain of thein. Hp.-elal trndlnc privileges w ere oon to them. Iiaurhters of the uoldett aud of tbe royal faintly were Riven to them In marrlape. Tbey were admitted to the council of the DBtlon. and, In short, treated as favored t hlefs. In mot cases these Boston cottiers repaid the natives by renderlrjr tbe most valuable services to tbe country. They pave wise advice to tbe rulers. Introduced the fhrlstlno rellclon and spread education among tbe fonimon people, so that In n single gen-er.itlon gen-er.itlon the most astonishing R'lv.ni.e In the paths of rdvlllnntlon was made. WtilKt tbe representative cf theso old American families In Hawaii were the chief mover In subverting tho monarchy and brlnsln about the annexation of tbe country by the I'nlted Stales, they took no -ii' tlon nrnlnst tbe poverument until It fell Into tbe band 4 of unconstitutional and Immoial rulers Early In the lnt century n New Fns-l:ind Fns-l:ind sea cniitalu llscerned the commercial commer-cial posslblllth Intent In the extensive stands of snnd.ll-wovd trees thnt the Is-ItDds Is-ItDds contained. IJc set urtil a couces- 7uOZfs2?2zn Tlns-sSjS&cxi: aaoIcrZcz Totem, if whom natives of t o I'nlt. 1 Stnt.M form but 13 per ccrjt. In L'O years' tliee the total Diimbrr of voters l!l Is-four Is-four or five tliue? greater, nod the pros y.ect Js that the proportion of n.it lvr-l-,rn Aroerlcntis anions lln-in will be much i.itmll.T than It Is no.v. No se.-tion of the t nlt.1 States has n Ijpiilatton k.) mlxf.l an. I iiro-.itialous tm that of Hawaii. of 1 (.. t.ual onrnber, enln.ated t about lil.nili native Americans Ameri-cans account for slightly more than .i pt-r cent. The KannUa-, who nr" on the ib-cnane. and the half breds number ap-proxlmatoly ap-proxlmatoly y3,niMi; the Portuguese and other IjiiId people ;.-,.rsM. The majority of the population, more than lOn.Ono of It, In fact, Is Chinese aa.l .Tapani nr. the latter nunds-rlng about 7r..O(io. rj !,, ehl!-tlren ehl!-tlren of thi-ve orbntaU ui;i, nulfs m.as-ur.-s are taken to euuntei-a -t ibe pn-i ml ing development, form n puAerfut. If nit a tlnitilnuit. element of the ltly i.-olltlc In the comparatively near futiin There Is little isrcaslon for oppreben. slon on the score ot the future ('huuve clllxenshlp. Tho rrnjorlty of Chir.anien In Hawaii arc re?i-ctahlc neulTs of th" comiuunlly who are (iItoiis of mailing their children American In the true sense of the word. The i l,ln.te lis are the brightest uDd most prondslag In the pursue purs-ue schools. UiisIdos meD find the riil nose youths best tpiallnod to till positions of trust nnd Intelligence. A large proportion pro-portion of this race In Hawaii are prop-I prop-I rtyowners, nnd therefore dlswwd 10 1. law-abiding supporters of thu constituted authorities. Tbe Japanese of Unwell, on the other hand, display In a marLed decree the trnits which distinguish them In oilier parts nf the world. They ore bumptious nnd tjuaiTelsoiue, entertain an cxnuver ate,) Idea of the power of their cuntr.: nnd cherish ull (iort of wild dreams of lbs exj anlon by ron.-iicil. No doubt (heir government eocouraces: this iend-ney to jingoism, anil It Is nulle pof-ihle woul.l atteniii. It a fair opportunity offered, to rerrt-at In Hawaii the laeties who , have made Korea nn appanage of S m noiv have n practical monopoly of the labor. I Whilst the planters were gathering labor fiom China, Japan nnd Korea, they roadJ efforts to procure men from various ports of Kuruie ns well as from Porto Rico and America. Only In the case of tbe Portuguese Portu-guese hnve these endeavors l-een eomplotelj successful They have beep, on the whole, the most desirable of all laborers Imported Im-ported Their practice Is to brlDg their families, and the women a,od older children chil-dren do a respectable share of work. As a result the monthly earnings of a Portuguese Portu-guese family will often amount to 5iu or more. They are very thrifty aDd soon nccumululc enough to buy a little property. prop-erty. As roon ns thin Is o?slble they leave the cane fields and become Independent Indepen-dent cultivators. In this way the Portuguese Portu-guese have almost entirely drifted nwoy from the plantations and the anil contract labor laws of the I'nlted States have prevented pre-vented fresh Importations In recent yours. In the past several movements bave been started with n view to Inducing iiruall farmers from the mainland to Kettle ou the soil. So far success bus been conspicuous ly absent liom these projects. Colonies of Americans have generally resulted In the formation of sugar companies. Capital has erected a mill In the vicinity of the colonists, after ecurlng llodr agreement to put their lands Into cane, and ultimately ultimate-ly has substituted for t heir labor that of Orientals who are paid fiS a month Ur the colonist has found In his land on opportunity op-portunity for speculation nnd Instead of working It bas sold It to some neighboring plantation. Then a detrimental condition Is the natural repugnance of Americans, to do manual lubor in n coimtry where such wotk Is olnmst entirely performed by coolies of colored races nnd w hiles are em ployed as overseers and managers There Is nothing In the climatic or physical conditions con-ditions to prevent nn American from making mak-ing n comfortable living from a small holding say 00 acres n Hawaii. la tbe newly opened portions of onr Far West there are many hotter nnd more enervating enervat-ing places In which American farmers work hard nnd maintain good henlth. The sidl In extremely fertile nnd many crops for which a good mnrkef exists are entirely en-tirely Dogl.scted or lnadoo,untey cultivated The government has recently Interested Itself In this question and former Seeretary of the Interior James C.arOld, as well as Mr F. H. Newell, director of the Rocluma-llon Rocluma-llon Service, went to the territory a js-nr ago for tbe purpose of Investigating lh rltuatlon and devising plans for miJslDg the settlement proposition more nttraitlve to tha American farmer of morli-rute means. It Is believed that largo tracts of public laDd can be reclaimed by Irrigation Irri-gation and may bo disposed of under the Homestead law In such a way as to obviate tho objections that have militated against former colonization movements The lands, whrn water Is supplied to them, will be ns richly productive us any In the Islands nnd well adapted to tbe growth of pineapples, fibres and other crops for which a ready market may be found. The government project hardly embraces tbe hope that Americans will replace the foreigners In the cane fields Much as such a consnmmatlon Is to be desired, the possibility of It Is too remote for serious consideration. Tbe most that Is to" re expected of the movement Is that It will b- a ctep In the direction of the Americanization Amer-icanization of the Islands nnd thnt It will crent? ,a losven of desirable citizenship to offset In some degree 'he future, increase in-crease In the furelK"n-lorn voter. This Is Hawaii's most vexing problem. Only a smnll per cent, of the orientals lu the territory nre at present entitled to the suffrngn, but cery child lirn In Hawaii Ha-waii since June, Hmki, will enjoy the full privileges of American clllren'hjp upon coming of age The school children of tod iy will control the political affairs of the country 20 years hence. There are at present hardly more than Vi.OW) work and had the primitive man's dislike dis-like f..r It They cultivated tho tnro fields, from whbh they derived their thief food supply, ami they gave their service for short spells as roustabouts a: the ports. They have always cherlsh-d a passionate love of the sen nnd excel as llshermen and In handling small boats. Heyond those easy labors tbey could not be Induced to exert themselves, and tho sugar planters soon learned thnt the nn.-I nn.-I live population rou Id not be depended oil I to furnUh the Held bonds nettled. With tho approval of the government, they turned to China, and tho response was prompt and satisfactory. Chinese emigrated emi-grated to Hawaii In a constantly Increasing Increas-ing flood until lh government been me alarmed at their numbers, especially as the tin'lve population was steadily ibs. creaslng The Chinese Influx was t hoeked nnd the planters were required to draw the greater part of their Imported labor from Japan. 'J he event proved that this measure Involved the process of Jumping from the frying pan Into the tire. tJrnd-nally tJrnd-nally the Japanese element expanded until un-til It Is now the most numerous In the country and represents -13 per cent, of the total population. Whilst the Japanese, Japa-nese, have been rtllclent lnlorers, they have exhibited n tendency to be aggressive aggres-sive mid unruly. The present disturb- j niices In the sugar districts are by no means tho Orst chargeable to them. Riotous Riot-ous strikes In the past have been carried on by them when the other worker were peaceful and setls!le, F.ven the Chinese have never Joined thoni In these nglt.a-tlons, nglt.a-tlons, which lime niori' than once 1 ailed for tho Intervention of the Japnnese con-h-.iI. The majority of these Japanese are drawn from the cities of their country, und many of them are of the hoodlum (lass. 1 hey nnif gradually pushed other nationalities out ol the tuinr lield, and slon from the crown and entered upon the business of carrying the wood to China, where a gnat demand for It existed. 'J his was the beginning of a cousiderablo trade and the Inception of Hawaii s commerce. One of tbe effei ts of tbe movement was to bring Chinamen China-men lo the Islands. They came In smnll number at first, were well received, and proved to bo law-abiding and useful members of the community. In fuct, the Chinese have never caused fny trouble Iti the country and have contributed con-tributed hugely to Its prosperity. One of their number Introduced the sngar-01 sngar-01 ne and ran n rude plant for Its reduction. re-duction. It Is not too muib to snpj-ose thnt this primitive enterprise wat the forerunner nnd foundation of Il.iwnll s great Industry, nlthougli many years claused before large sugar plantations Were established The next stuge In Hawaii's com nitre hi I development nnd prosperity came toward the end of the first half of the nineteenth century, when the American whaling fleet thnt worked the northern pacific began to call at the Islands. At the outset they came only for provisions, water and simple sim-ple supplies, but sisoq It was decided that the Islands afforded excellent trying-nut grounds, nnd reducing dejts were plunt-ed plunt-ed ol several points. Iluudreds of vessels ves-sels colled every year and spent on on average S-IW encb. At Its height this traffic was a source of great proilt to the Islanders, but It was not without Its drawbacks. The pallors of these vessels wore not altogether a desirable lot. They brought disease nnd rum, and by cheating cheat-ing tbe natives 11 nd nbualng their hospitality hospi-tality Impaired tJt. k,iimJ opinion which they had cntertnlnod of the while man'7 The whaling trade declined, and In tho eurly seventies was suddenly extinguished by a terrllle storm Ihut destroyed the greater part of the diminished licet. Fortunately For-tunately for the Islands, the sugar Industry In-dustry begun to take on Important proportions propor-tions Just at this time. Pn vloiis to the Introduction of sugar planting there- bad never bi-vn any considerable con-siderable liemnnd for lal-or In the Islands. The natives hnd not been accustomed to |
