Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 163, 2 April 1891 — The New Inilux. [ARTICLE]

The New Inilux.

The landing of a fresh bateh of over a thousand ~Japanese chat-tle-slaves, making the number of arrivals wiihin a month over 2,000, is a matter for serious refiection on the part of the entire working ciass, as well as the trader, whose very existence depends on the maintainatice of an independent working elass in meehanieai and laboring work of natives and fc>reigners of European birth or dtscent. The value of any industry to a eountry, is just the measure of support it furnishes towards building up a sturdy independent population who wiil settle down 011 the land arid develope its resources. In this country every handicraft and manufacture has been laid under contribution to sugar. by the reciprocity tmty;—the exceptions being where a of our > agricnltural rāw products are admitted free to, ihef United States under that treaty. The Bugar-planter h#s received more than his due meed of <»nsideration and puhhe money at the h ands of his country. and his industry if constant)y the s«bj*ct of legislative j ampering to the excuisien of any other enterDrise. The f«ur corners ®f the «arth and •eean hm been scoured and

"«eanneel at puMie expeuyt*, i.u or<iei' to indu]ge his epieupean ts?te f,)i varietv in the raee and coir,plexion of his laborers. Eveu now recruit*n£ agents ate exp€<?ted with fre»h iii)portation§ from China and of people frorii Goa—aithough this lattffr m 1881071 is expected to prove fntile, as ihe P©rtugese authorities are knewn tō have '■ expressed thdr i displeasure at thē way in whieh I immigrants have formerlv been ] treated. 1 The planter combinati©n relies; from year to year upon upholding' thei]p supremaey in the Legisiature by manipalating thē elections— hiring itien from their businesses as the tail of delegations, and working on tlie impecunious and tricky among those who are elected, and it must be confessed that in the l»st Legislat\ite they got their work 111 fairly -w.ei]; I»nt the game is becoming niore "trans~ parent and therefore hss likely to beu>me a safe one to play. The happy-go-lucky oharacter of the labor supplv, and tho gen'eral featiires ef our co;itrart-iabor system should ineluee the p!:inter to deeide that the present plan of conducting the businpss is floomed, and that there yet frmains the employment of non-AsHatic labor, eith«i;r 011 a co-operative, or a eontracting basis. His gryceful aeceptance of an ihevitable situation will do more for the planter in F this labor crisis than any amount of futile {> kicking against the pricks."