The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-06-28

tillerv is mooted. they strike out at once into declaim-
ing against the = promiscuous sale Of liquor rs II
a distilery and a crog shop were one and the same
thing. Would not the natives. they say, If piles oil
barrels Of okolehao covered our wharyeS, and our
s,ore-bouses were stored with this Equor-wouid
not the natives steal Oh wouli not a boy
steal an apple Very likely. if they could get a
chance. and till found out and punished but II a
native occasionally would steal a bottle, or suck at a
hunc-hole, and get q" tight on a gill Of pure okoie-
hao. would it not be better, at AL events, than taxing
4 teapot full or = caIabash full Of hell-broth home, 10
poison the whole family. and murder the baby on ITS
mothers breast;
announcement Of native industry and acquisition
Of agricultural immigration are the two principal
requirements for progress and prosperity. To create
and foster the first it Is necessary to point out some
product which the native has the capacity ana desire
to cultivate to invite the other, it Is necessary TO De
able to hold out TO the immigrant the cultivation Of
certain agricultural products as certain ana remunera-
tive. To do this IS the object Of the X. II. Agr'cuI-
tural Society. Experiments are seldom remuneratlVe'
because on account Of their uncertainty they cannot
be largely entered into. The small farmer cannot
run the risk Of time, labor and expenses. To expert
ment. to introduce, find planting time. mode OF euI-
tivation. capacity Of soil. etc. is the business Of the
-AEIltuliulEt4 NhNICNF- II ~ N"N NN1
developments OF agricultural resources have to pro-
coed and extend their radii to the the different islands.
To foster instead of cripple the usefulness Of this in
stitution is the duty of legislation. In the public
document, dignifed by the .f3rsrtiSer by the name
of Ministerial Budget, which according the Poly
neSian. is not 10 he supposed a dignifed budget. but
a simple collection of suggested expenditures and
receipts the appropriation for the Agricultural
Society has been altogether omitted, although esta-
blshed by law. 1t is rather strange TO read IN the
budgetv document the recommendation, that " the
agricultural and planting interests should receive
every encouragement within the limits Of legislative
discretion and find in compliance with this wise
suggestion the small appropriation for the very Insti-
tuition, whose sole object is the furtherance Of "agrl-
cultural and planting interests stricken out. 1t is
stranger vet that : no better means can be devised
for the introduction of habits of labor among the
Hawaiian people, than to make that '' large class of
men and women slop- tailors. A man without spec
tacles might see that the Hawaiian race is too straight
backed and free limbed to bend over or under that
goose. The omission of the appropriation is an
to the wisdom and the memory Of the wise
founder and earnest promoter of the Agricultural
Society, the late Chief Justice Lee. 1t is a gra-
tuitous insult to science, which, without salary,
the world for the useful products of agri-
culture it is an insult TO labor, which content
with the salary of a ministerial shoe black, has de-
voted energy and life to the great object. Person.
ally and individually, the budget may be of little
consequence to any one. but every man of sober and
sound sense will damn a budget which stoops to
appropriations from useful Institutions, and
strikes at the root Of Hawaiian progress in
AGRICULTURE.