. The literary digest. the Ha-waiians are not found. They are painters, carpenters, black-smiths, machinists, engineers, teamsters, sailors, clerks, book-keepers, editors, market-men, cattle-raisers, sugar-planters,fishermen, school-teachers, and clergymen, and they fill most ofthe clerical positions in the Government. They are employed inthe telephone ofifices, and a majority of the pressmen and com-positors in the Honolulu and Hilo printing-offices are heavy work in foundries, and in lading and unlading vessels,is done almost exclusively by Hawaiians. The last census showsthat
. The literary digest. the Ha-waiians are not found. They are painters, carpenters, black-smiths, machinists, engineers, teamsters, sailors, clerks, book-keepers, editors, market-men, cattle-raisers, sugar-planters,fishermen, school-teachers, and clergymen, and they fill most ofthe clerical positions in the Government. They are employed inthe telephone ofifices, and a majority of the pressmen and com-positors in the Honolulu and Hilo printing-offices are heavy work in foundries, and in lading and unlading vessels,is done almost exclusively by Hawaiians. The last census showsthat out of the male Hawaiian population of 11,135 over fifteenyears old, about one thousand were carpenters, which makesabout one to every eleven. No other race of people elevated lessthan a century ago from savagery can make so good a showing. The manners and customs of the Kanakas are described atlength, and the conclusion reached that they are by no means theundesirable citizens which they are sometimes represented. The. NATIVE WOMAN. large numbers of Chmese and Japanese who have settled in theislands present a more serious problem, which, the author thinks,can be solved, however, by abolishing the contract labor systemunder which those people are imported and held in a conditionworse than slavery. The breaking up of the great plantations,owned by corporations, into small farms of two or three hundredacres each, to be owned by white men and worked by a few menfor each farm, is suggested as a means of creating that desirableelement, a large middle class of small proprietors. The mildness and healthfulness of the climate, the fertility ofthe soil, and the great industrial and commercial development ofthe islands is praised with all the enthusiasm of a recent still greater possibilities of the wealth to be obtained fromthe growth of sugar, rice, coffee, bananas, and other products, isshown by the fact that only 25 per cent, of the fertile land is nowcultivated, and not
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