Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 310, 27 October 1891 — [Illegible] are Supported by the Sugar Industry?" [ARTICLE]

[Illegible] are Supported by the Sugar Industry?"

(" nder the.al?Qve titie the P. C. J. 1 veriisi3asi an editorial position, that tho whole iii thr produc--1 ion of sugar, while the impression acertain only r. ww are interested. The P. C. A. may be right, as far as they look upon the few i)lantation those immediately • • h thcm in the sugar industry of these j>land, as being the country. We know, that C. Advertiser have argued aj^endeavored to maintain that the sugar-baron3v and those immediately interested wiih them, whole country. Heretofore, the} r have nsed: tßēgovernhient and the people, not W a party ifiterested with them, but as a ftieansi pnly to serve them and their interests in the Fugarindustry, ignoring tL: rights a!i4.interests- that"' the gov< v *.v 'ent theni and in the Bugar industry, bv avoiding the just payment of their taxes to the government and t a fair percentage <»f \vages to the wage earner. The , : iiion or ixjopressioD of a certain ' lass i& correct 4;hat, when compar<'d with the entire population, only tew are really interested. We ;■$ «ertain, that if the sugar was io cease to-morrow, whole the Hawaiian portion of oor }.ormanent population v would be

than $t present, : '-;ālwming the extent of'their interests in sugarandhow Jitt!e they are affected by its downfal!. The Hawaiian populaiion arid liaW' otheF9 earn ou ly a uieagße pitt^u v ce frq«a the sugar HKluBtry. They wort and toil, fbr the sugar baron's interest t and to that extent they are interested in eugar. The laborer ean do the sarae in any other Tn(āiu9tiy, and in some, with decidedly moro _ odyantago to ni mself. The mannerin whic& the sugar iiidußtry is prosecuted here is bet woen two clapses—tbe one who in- ( veātfi in it as a bueiness and the ma\i, or maehine, whieh he employs to work for him. The one bas an iiitereet as owner and is entirelv JitS)rent from the ot-hera, who»i inter*Bt, if interest it may be enllcd. ? > that of a laborer fof waj!eK, iust an animal is > worker ior thc ■ svimo mwtcr. This interest of tbo neh and poor, of the master and |

servar>t. whieh v)ught to 1 idontieai aud eqnitable not the saine iivtere.-t that eiaimc>l V»v the P: P- ' ' * . C. Adverliser. The eīoleinl pictiire hēld up to view by our oontenipor.iry only appiies directly and vitally to a few moneyed j>eople ; principally made up of men interested_ in sugar as owner not as laborers. The voters of the country are the ones that will be the snfferers, if the sugarbarons and those interested with him, are not p!aced in a position to be fairer in the division of the profits of this industry. The one wlio is Ihe really intereBted in the sugar mdustry, before the McKinley tariff bill struck it like a tornado, were the one who Bupplar»tcd all the white laborer with the Asiatic peon labor. This system toward bot!is foreign white and Hawaiian laborer has always been the policy of tbose who contre!Led and owned tht sugar industry of the country. It was the same, when the owner was receiving his five hundred to a thousand dollars a day profit, it would have been the same, irrespective of the operation of the McKinley bill; it will always be the same with the owner, —in the sugar or any other industry.

"Vitally" the same division of interests oān be traced throughout the entire connection between the owner knd the employed in the sagar business. 1. Those engaged ::i the transportation, &e. T are sugar *sl: owners, and his hired man; 2. Tbose eiigaged in furnishing plantation suppiies, and who farnish goods. &c., are the sugar owners and his hired peons. 3. Those who draw the dividends and who go abroad to spend it. except for what they are actually obliged to githere, are the sugar owners, without his laborer in this instance. AU through, the one engages in sugar and supplies evērything for himself, and even for his laborer; the other simply slaves for the master. and receives his wage3, and that is often deducted for one cause or another, untii the laborer has nothing to receive. This *ives a idea of the intereBts tbat the people in tbis country are supposed to have in the sugar interest — it is divided, iike everything else in this world | at the present time, between the| classes, who hold all and desire more, and the masses who have nothing and are to get less.