Filipino recruits arriving on Hawaiian plantations were almost exclusively single or without their wives. The summer of 1925 about... thirty thousand Filipino men were working on the Hawaiian sugar plantations, and fewer than three hundred Filipino women had been brought over. ... there was one amusing feature about the disproportion of the sexes. It was one of the few situations I have ever witnessed where the scarcity value of woman permitted her to be cavalierly indifferent to male domination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The voluptuous Indian, with every desire supplied, whom Providence has bountifully provided with all the sources of pure and natur...al enjoyment, and from whom are removed so many of the ills and pains of life--what has he to desire at the hands of Civilization? She may "cultivate his mind,"Mmay "elevate his thoughts,"Mthese I believe are the established phrases--but will he be the happier? Let the once smiling and populous Hawaiian islands, with their now diseased, starving, and dying natives, answer the question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »