Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 319, 9 November 1891 — Co-operation in cane Culture. [ARTICLE]

Co-operation in cane Culture.

j in the UnlieHn (Nov. 4) editorials J we notiee au aliusion inade to the 1 j (•o-oi)ei'ation stnided in liawaii nei! \ ni eane e.ulturc whieh we «pi'oie: | ; " Praetiealh- the sanie has [ ; heen tried on eane phintations ok !' | llawaii. hut usua!!v some. Thustf*r j i Jiand w.ouhi ifrP eonfrbl' and foree' i tho smaU eootractors to ?vtiiv." j l Tue above tunnsh<'s a texl npon i | whWi a vohuuo e.tuid !>v writteu ! i thwouhi e\pi,tin away ih'» need-1 | Ie- 1 -::. of se- kine: tu foi-t uior<' ] j «'henp healhen ia'»or in ? Ji;k eoun- ' try. Phe BuU«tin !»ever uUer< i <l.tru- ! er words :ind fuJlor of meaninp thnn < that ' houie maKter hand \y<»ul<i >ut \ ''<,r,f-ro! :"il\d i 'h• 1 -mall m'onl;rae- j lors <o retire.' "i'lie experio.c;it «.. - -u v« , u\-\<'o hone^Uy «>n ihe pun ot !.he ; ~ hfirt*r\c<»p: :»i onlv one oi* two i iuBianees. 7m„.7" a.l*! ways pi.\yed * ;n <louhlf> piu t v aud the ! re{<uit :s iliai with M lna j <»x' o;: , K • : tw» }»:ani4itl«)us the eo M «>pcrar.ive >y .-vm »»roper h?»s pa*£«*l j aw ,( y, .! • to the-■■o>uitV f;\! mer j i

The natives and mabjr foreigtv ers lust all the|r lands and years of labor, througb tbe tricks and ehieanery of the tC master hand.'' We knefw of one individual native planter," who was fōrced to sell out at a 3©ss just aa he was about to realise on what had eost him over two hundred thousand dollars, the same estate realizing a net profit from the immediate erop thereafter totheuew purehasers of at least one hnndred and fifty thousand dollars. The master hand was banker and age32t in this instance, and they hav© been and are the master hands ia partnership with the plant*tion or null owners. Hltd the eo-operative plan .been carried on fa£rly as is done in the Freu£h West Indies, and other Bi»gar producing countries. and not &8 patterned after the Spanisb West Indies, M-operation would have bee& successful, our plantations would be running on an independent bases, irrespective of treaties. tariffs or cotflpetition ? and without any difficulty as regards more eheap labor. There are plenty of working people, who are m *he comitry to-(lay, who will willi.nely rejieve onu plantation owners from the difflculty in whieh they iaiagme they are in. providing they are willing to forego a ]>ortion of the - unprecedented profits whieh they have heretofore unjustly sapped out of the soil and frora the labor of their peone. W« know of a large number of oiir preaet&free Cbinese popa!ation v who would witiing contract to do all tbe jjlaōtang 6n the co-operative plnn, Us hfiis been done all alosgai is&naio, if the hānd ,# wiH, & we eay ag?ee to forego soroe of the profit« that are and eau be made Out of sugar even under our present difficulties. The diflieulty of our sugar industry is not so mueh the want of eheap labor as it is the want of a J liUle more fairness in the division of profits between the ' 4 master hand," who works a little an<l wants aU, and his co-worker, tho "peon,'' who does all lhe delving and pinehing. ainl stnrving, for his .share of the work x No amount of Hieap labor ean eyer reiieve such a elass of | people as our "ui-a;sfer Jiands/' The | want of eheau lnhor is chronicwith them,*as is the chrohic desire to<ret all, and so Um<r as this last so lonp; will ihe cry be hcard. | The i»nlh titi has v - perhaps. inad- - ventēntly told tho, truth. l>ut it is {neverthcles« the truth, that the i | meahs o{-.Haveiiling thc prt*sent dilli- | | wa« and is in the hands of j j-th'e ■•master hands" vvifhout any j Tf the "master hands M | j will dr\>p a !Htlc tireir ro* | J:jlßlf6fishlp eo'ineelion to the ge-1 , thc ]>tubi>n will* soon dk-' : s«»ive and .i\vav. and ! wo:i!d resunio rheir nainr:u «iwav puwl without tbis i whiinperioir al)out ani.ini piliUo ' tor a tew nvo»'«-.ar«d a vli^a|H*r-e'h'eup i .Johns. t «♦ - - •••