. Hawaii, past and present . ese, an exclusionwhich here loses point since they do not, as labour-ers, compete with the whites. The Japanese areexcitable and restless. The Hawaiians and thePortuguese are too few to supply the labourers get from $22 to $30 a month, andare given, in addition, comfortable houses, fuel,water, schooling for their children, medical at-tendance, and usually a piece of land to wages of the most unskilled, therefore, amountto about $40 a month. Furthermore, a new sys-tem has arisen and is growing in of land are let out by th
. Hawaii, past and present . ese, an exclusionwhich here loses point since they do not, as labour-ers, compete with the whites. The Japanese areexcitable and restless. The Hawaiians and thePortuguese are too few to supply the labourers get from $22 to $30 a month, andare given, in addition, comfortable houses, fuel,water, schooling for their children, medical at-tendance, and usually a piece of land to wages of the most unskilled, therefore, amountto about $40 a month. Furthermore, a new sys-tem has arisen and is growing in of land are let out by the plantations tocompanies of labourers, who do all the cultivation,becoming partners in profits. When these com-panies do their work well each individual realizesfrom $70 to $90 a month. In addition to all this,the plantations have installed a system whereby thelabourer receives, entirely aside from his particularwork or contract, a share of the profits, amount-ing, in good sugar years, to a considerable sum. 4 i •* krmm i. Sugar Cane in Flower—Will be Ripe and Rcacty toGrind in from Six to Eight Weeks COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY 71 On well managed plantations profits are good ingood years, few being over-capitalized, but anyserious increase in the cost of production couldnot be borne by many. The abolition of the dutyon raw sugar would permit perhaps a third ofthem to continue, with greatly reduced profits—with no profits at all except in favourable years—whereas it would undoubtedly kill the cane-sugarindustry of the Southern States and of PortoRico, and the beet-sugar industry of the plantations would have prepared to go outof business when the law reducing and finally abol-ishing the sugar duty was put through by the Wil-son administration, had not the war caused unex-pectedly high prices. The final retention of asmall duty has given the planters new hope. The commercial cultivation of pineapples is anindustry of comparatively recent introduction, al-though pine
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