The smaller percentage of Chinese laborers on estates is due to the fact that the Japanese is the cheaper man. Japanese are coining in by every steamer from the Orient. and must continue to come or higher wages must prevail. The number of laborers on sugar estates in 1896 (the year of the census) could not be procured at the Immigration Bureau. presumably because the figures would make a worse Showing. I subsequently procured the figures from Thrums Annual. which came out after that letter was written. I have here a table showing the percentages: in 1878 each thousand of the population was composed of the followingelements: Natives. 835.
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