The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1872-10-09

should be afforded to those who possess the neces-
sary ability and enterprise to enable them to be-
come producers when in position to work for
their own account and profit instead Of for hire.
look npon 1t as impossible that the Govern
ment should, as Mr.. Dole seems to think, con-
duct the measure of immigration alone; it can
not bring foreigners here-as settlers, support,
or find occupation for them when they are
brought; this must be done by individuals per-
sonally interested, and acting in concert; what
the Government can do is to second the efforts
of agriculturists and Others requiring supplies Of
labor, give them its countenance and support in
the legitimate introduction of new blood into
the country, introduce and advocate in the Legis-
lature such measures as shall tend to bring our
waste and unoccupied lands into cultivation, and
faithfully carry out all existing, aud especially
sanitary laws. When it has done this, it has ac
complished all it eau: the rest must be left to
private enterprise.
Is the writer on this subject in the GAZETTE a
stranger, that he asks what is the reason that
natives can be found 10 work on the guano
islands. or in the whaling feet, but not on the
plantations Z In the first place the question is
not fairly stated and IN the second, if he is not
new among us, he ought to know that the reason
why some prefer the guano islands or the whaling
feet to the plantations is, not that the planters
are tyrants and monsters of iniquity but because
the sum of sixty or seventy dollars advance,
placed at once time in the hands of the young or
thoughtess, with the prospect of similar sum
at the expiration Of perhaps year, not to speak
of the excitement of foreign voyage, is too
tempting bait to be resisted. The truth is, the
greater part Of the population is engaged either
on its own private enterprises, or on the planta-
tons, and they are comparatively few who seek
temporary foreign employment.
Mr.. Dole is perhaps correct in his belief that
with our present population we have reached our
greatest amount of export, but he appears to
have failed in discovering any remedy to restore
our waning fortunes. Now, if the capital created
in the country, instead of being sent out of it
for employment elsewhere, were embarked in new
operations here, if it were devoted to the intro
duction of a laboring population and the estab-
lishment of new plantations, for which we have
ample room, our difficulties would vanish, our
independence would be preserved, and our ma
tional prosperity would go on progressively
increasing we should see thriving little towns
grow up about the plantations, as is now the
case in the districts of Makawao and Waikiki,
not connected with them being bene-
fitted by their mere existence.
This is question for the consideration of our
successful planters and merchants-if they en-
ploy their surplus capital in the judiciOus extern
sion of their enterprises, or in enabling others
to embark in new ones, our prosperity will be
assured. On the efficient cultivation of the soil
hangs our future and it is to the interest of every
member of the community to promote 1t to the
utmost according to his means and lights.
l must conclude this communication by wish
ing God speed to the able and earnest writer in
The P. c. AdceHiser, who signs Weltevreden =
may his success in his undertaking equal his
desires