Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1851-08-23
Il 479 $40 43S a


Total 479 $40 43s 4sI3
Owing to the density of the population,
Barbados is the only Island of the West
Indies, which has not suffered by the eman-
cipation of the slaves. In 1914, the export of
sugar alone was about 46O. 900 Cwt. AT the
same rate of sugar production, the 1897,
600 acres in the Hawaiian Islands, ought
to export 16, ,S39, ,447 Cwt. which at only
cents per pound would amount to S37, 720,
36l annually.
But ii may be said that this comparison is
unfair. as it assumes that the whole Of the
Hawaiian soil is fit for cane cultivation. 1t
assumes no such thing, but merely that rela-
lively to the whole, there is not more of the
Hawaiian Soil unfit for Cane cultivation,
than there is osthe Soil Of Barbados. The
votes par, of its Soil to the pasturage of4Sl3
horses, mules sc. itaffords pasture, besides
for numerous cattle, and exports Rum, Mo-
Iasses, Arrow-Root, Aloes. Cotton, Ginger.
Cocoa-Nuts, Logwood, Hides, Tamarinds,
Cocoa and Coffee.
Where so small an Island exports so much
it is not surprising that it should have TO i'm
port largely of the necessaries of life for the
sustenance of its inhabitants. These Islands
would probably be under the same necessity
ifthe population should increase to ,473, 1862
which hold to be just as possible, as that
the population Of Barbados from the partof
a ships crew, landed in 1905, should have
increased to l22, 1913 souls, on the 3rd June
1914. Great Britain is the richest country
on earth, although it has to import largely
of the necessaries of life Barbados, is COM
paratively the richest of the West India Is
lands, although it is in the same condition !;
and the Hawaiian Islands might be teeming
with wealth, although in exchange for their
Sugar, Coffee, Tobacco, &C., they should
draw much of their supplies Of grain Sc,
from Oregon and California. According
TO my ideas of political economy, it is just
as certainly the shortest and easiest way for
a nation to become rich, TO con6ne itself to
what it can make of the best quality. and at
the cheapest price, as it is for an individual
to follow the same maxim buying what he
does not make, from his neighbors, who can
make it better aud cheaper than himself.
Upon this principle every nation will support
not alone the population for which it can
raise food, but that and the farther population
for which it can buy food.
From this statistical statement, the con-
clusions which draw are the following.
I.-That the hopes of the wealth, Power,
and Glory ofthis Kingdom depend exclusive
ly upon its-agriculture.
2.-That the Hawaiian Islands afford
wide field for capital and labor, in the culti-
vation of the soil.
3.-That that field is a virgin field, hither-
to neglected aud unproductive.
4-That those who have formed, or'rather
are forming plantations on these Islands,
are public benelactors, and that in granting
them every possible encouragement, the
Government will only do its duty, and con-
suit the best interests of the Hawaiian peo-
pie.
5.-Thatt the Royal Hawaiian Agricultural
Society is an Institution eminently calcula-
ted to give wholesome direction to the
industry Of the inhabitants and to promote
all the substantial interests of the King
DOM
6.-That all the friends ofprogress must
wish well to the Royal Hawaiian Agricultural
Society,
cannot imagine how any man o. COM
mon sense, or common loyalty TO the King,
can be otherwise than friend of progress,
where the sin of the past has been Wis iner-
tie, and where all the hopes ofthe future de-
pend upon Strong pull and pull altogether
in the direction for1rards.
The first star that has arisen to shed ray
Of hope on the desiinies oi these lovely, and
naturally rich, Islands, is this same Agr,-
cultural Society, and however little can
aid it, individually, can bid il as ! do bid II,
very cordially. God speed.