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HAWAII'S GREAT SUGAR INDUSTRY.
HOW THE CHINESE HELPED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A GREAT TRADE.
MR. WILLIAM YAP'S ADDRESS AT ROTARY CLUB
MEETING YESTERDAY.
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It seems to me that Hawaii owes a considerable debt to the Chinese in the matter of developing her agficultural resources. They have from the beginning buen pioneers in bringing unusnec inds into cultivation and increasing the output of cur The only immigrants worked Fard for little pay, making pessihte thecruation of the great sugar industry," said Mr. William Kwai Fong Yap, when he addressed members of the Rotary Club at their weekly mettang at Lane, Crawford's Restaurant yester duy.
In the absence of the President, Sir William Eornell who had gone to attend the inaugural meeting of the Cantor Rotary Club,.. The Hon. Dr. S. W. T'so occupied the chair. Besides Mr. Yup, the Club entertained Mr. D. S. Ti of the Hong Kong Electric Company while Mr. Hinwoka, the now manager of the M. B, K. was welcomed as a member.
In introducing the speaker, the Chairman said he had brou born, and bred in Hawaii and four generations of his family were now represented in the Islands. Mr. Yap was well-known for his interest in educational work there and was known as the "Fa ther of the University of Hawaii "
CHINESE INFLUENCE IN THE ISLANDS.
"Addressing the gathering, Mr. Yap suid:-Being a touris and stranger to this part of the world, I am indeed grateful of the honour in being asked to give an address before the most representative group of men, civic leaders of this city. Your Chairman, Sir William Hornell, know that I came from Hawaii and naked me sometime ago if I would speak on the sub- jeet of the Chinese in Hawail" Since I came from Honolulu, re- Fadily agreed, and so am here to- day. But before I proceed with my subject, I will speak briefly abcut Hawaii for your benefit.
Hawaii is composed of a group
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attention to the Islands on the part of the Chinese merchants and
men. China e-faring Hawaii'a. Arst market and from there was brought the first stock of clothing and household furniture, ever, landed. The fow Cinese who reached Hawaiian shores, at close of the eighteenth and the be- ginning of the nineteenth centuries. saw the country not only 48. potential market for their gecan but also possibilities, for, agricul tural development,
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They found that the lands used for the growing of taro were well adapted to rice culture and they, Bringing. introduced that grain
of eight islands and is a full fledg-their undisputed qualities of in-
ed territory, not a mere possesso or dependency of the United States of America. Oahu in the third is land in point of size, but first in importance among the islands of the group, and is the strategic "cen- tre of the United States' interesz the in the Pacific. Honolulu, capital, is situated on the southern coast of Oahu, and is a commercial American city in a, tropical setting. It has a population of about 120,000 has splendid land-locked har bour, the climate is dry and never oppressively warm, and few cities of equal size anywhere in the world equal it in healthfulness. total population of Hawaii accord- ing to the last cennus was about 380,000. The Japanese constituted micre than one third of the popu lation or, in other words, 135,000; next is the Caucasians about 80,000: Chinese 28,000: Filipince, 70,000; Portuguese 25,000 and the rest is divided among other nationalities.
as is also known the Hawaii "Melting Pot of the World," he cause the varicus racen living ther peacefully, and always working i together for the advancement of the territory.
Chinese in Hawaii in 1789.
The
The Chinese appear in Hawai almost at the beginning of the re corded history of the islands. The contact 18 first mention of their found in Vancouver's Voyages," the statement being made that American Captain Metcalfe, an trader, sailed from Macno, in 1729 for the northwest coast of North America in the "Eleanor," meant ing ten guns and munned by a crew of ten Americans and a Chinese. touching on his way at the islands of Maui and Hawaii.
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dustry and economy, they gradual-
acquired something of a foot. hold. Some of these carly pioneers inter-married with the Hawanan and as early as November 18, 1842. the first of them was admittel Ito Hawaiian citizenship. In the forties a number of others were given citizenship, This was pro- hably done to enable them to marry, as the law forhude the marriage of foreigners to Hawaiians unies. they took the oath of allegiance
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The number of Chinese admitted to citizenship up to 1852 was fifty- five and the census of that year shows seventy-one Chinese persons in Hawaii. Even up to 1500 the number was so few that they were counted in the census of that year But by among the Hawaiians. Aug. 24 1862, when the last one was admitted, Chinese citizens of While the In telling the story of his third Hawaii numbered 762. and last voyage to the Sandwich gold rush to California in 1840 drew a great number of Chinese to Islands in 1794, Yancouver 19 nu thority for the statement that the that region, the Islands were large- foreign population of the island.ly passed up by these adven consisted of John Young, Issac turers from the Orient, Davis, and certain Mr. Beid, one Chinese and
yenegade. whites. "
About this time Tajana, a high chief of Hawaii, made a trading voyage to China and on his return brought a number of firearma which contributed greatly to the BUCCOSS. of the campaigns of Kamehameha the Great in his conquest of the Islands and their amalgamation into his empire.
Seven
There followed a number of ver- ages to China under Kamehameha's auspices, when ergoes of sandal wood and a few other products of the Islands were taken to the ning ports, The Conqueror gained the idea of port charges and customs duties as a result of those early voyages for he found that much of the profit of his trading ventures was absorbed by these levies. He decided that such taxes would be road for Hawaii and instituted them, much to the advantage of his excheoner. The islands may there fore thank the Chinese blame them as the case may be, for the introduction of the doubtful bless- ing of guns and taxes.
Bandal-Wood Country.!!
Hawaii was known in China and fa called by the Chinese people even until this day as Tan Heong San," or sandal-wood country, and the few cargoes of that greatly esteemed product attracted much
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Labour Recruited in Hong Kong.
In the early sixties the dearth of field labour for the sugar pla tation moved the planters and the. government to cast about for up- ply of low-wage workers. In 1805 Dr. William Hillebrand, was mude Royal Commissioner of Immigra tion and was nuthorised to go wo China and India to recruit labour. Having noted the industry and on- already terprise of the Chineso settled in the Islands, he decided, after looking the Oriental field over, to base his operations at Hong Kong and confine his recruiting to the people of China. He was care ful in his selection, insofar as pos- sible, accepting only those of good character.
On September 23 185, there ar rived in Honolulu the first part of daisted immigrants, all Chinesa. The group consisted of 190 men, 43 women and eight children under contract to engage in agricultural pursuita. They were given free passage together with a wage of 84.00 a month, free housing, food, olothing and free medical attention. They were also guaranteed troedem from work on Sundays and thres... Chinese, bolidays, At the end of Aye years they might return to China or continue to live in Hawaii, as they chose, They were dle guaranteed access to the courts if cruelly cr wrongfully treated
By 1880, coording to the census. of that your, there was a Chines population of 370,. From thug time until the overthrow of the Monarchy thore was a considerable, immigra- |tion-to-Hawali,- espacially batwoun 1880 a 1893. The earlier ur rivals come from the province of Kwong Tung, which has a semi- tropical climato and where rico, is raised in water. As, their terms of contract expired. meux of the workers, who had anted somethin out of thein tiny wago, instead of returning to work on the augar plantations or to their native land, set up for themselves pa rice grow ars and truck farmers, Sonie al them also started merchandising in the small why. Occasionally, { throughout the Islands,. ere finds an aged man or woman who is a survivor of the immigration of the sixties, the pioneers of Chinese in-- fluence in Hawaii. The ccurac labour system` was abolished in 1808 when Hawaii was annexed by the United States.
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