Nationality.          Male.        Female. 
Hawaiian             3,048         2,432
Part-Hawaiian        1,152         1,296
American               219           198
British                105           151
German                 152           136
Portuguese           2,066         1,534
Scandinavian            51            47
Japanese               242           155
Chinese                641           280
South Sea Islanders     15            13
Other foreigners        57            33
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7,748          6,275

Of the Japanese, 8.5 per cent. were born on the islands; of the Chinese, percentage born here, 10.3.  Of a total of 41,711 Japanese and Chinese, 36,121 are males and 5,590 females.  The figures show that the Asiatics are not at home.

The sugar industry in our new possessions has had great prominence agriculturally.  The sugar interest of these islands has had a formidable influence in the United States.  Recent events and the ascertained certainties of the future show that the people of the United States will soon raise their sugar supply on their own territory.  The annexation of these sugar islands was antagonized because there was involved the labor contract system.  As a matter of course, the United States will not change the labor laws of the nation to suit the sugar planters of Hawaii, who have been obtaining cheap labor through a system of Asiatic servitude.  There is but one solution—­labor will be better compensated in Hawaii than it has been, and yet white men will not be largely employed in the cultivation of sugar cane in our tropical islands.  The beet sugar industry is another matter.  There will be an end of the peculiar institution that has had strength in our new possessions, that brings, under contract, to Hawaii a mass of forty thousand Chinese and Japanese men, and turns over the majority of them to the plantations, whose profits have displayed an unwholesome aggrandizement.  Once it was said cotton could not be grown in the cotton belt of our country without slave labor, but the latter trouble is, the cotton producers claim, there is too much of their product raised.  A ten-million bale crop depresses the market.  Already experiments have been tried successfully to pay labor in the sugar fields by the tons of cane delivered at the mills for grinding.  This is an incident full of auspicious significance.  A general feeling is expressed in the current saying that coffee raising is “the coming industry.”  The confidence that there is prosperity in coffee amounts to enthusiasm.  Here are some of the statistics of coffee growers, showing number of trees and area, trees newly planted and trees in bearing: 

No. of Trees or Area. 
Newly 1 to 3 Trees in
Planted. year old.  Bearing. 
J. C. Lenhart, Kaupo 2,000 trs. 4,000 trs. ....  Mokulau Coffee Co., Kaupo 2,000 trs. 10,000 trs. 2 acres E. E. Paxton, Kaupo 5,000 trs. 7,000