The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-08-26

their birth, do SO invariably with the object
of lettering their condition. Can il be supposed
that families can be Induced TO come here, from
anywhere under the sun, simply to become
laborers on our plantations at from six to ten
dollars a month, with no hope of building up
homes for themselves? Families that might come
under such inducements, had better be kept
away, much les imported at the public expense.
Where then are the lands upon which immi-
grants may enter and exert their skill and
industry in developing the resources of the
country? Where are the spots upon which they
may build their h,mesteads, The heritage of
their children-of those whom the country so
much needs to reppulate its deserted valleys
and hillsdes? Are they to be found in the
barren, ranless deserts, upon which the solitary
grasshoppG dies of starvation or in those large
tracts that have ben sold at from 62i to IS
cents per acre to speculate upon, and whose
value is estimated 1t hundreds of dollars per
acre (the treatyhaving passed) but which in any
event are out & the question as regards immi-
grafton ; or shal the immigrant look to those
other large trcts, the crown lands, most of
which are held n long leases at q NAL rental,
to be ruined sr the profit of the lessee. and
to be returned hen the lease expires or sooner,
when the wooo are gone and the land is a
waste?
Would it ns be wiser TO put the horse
before the cart, and to expend fifty thousand
dollars for the Encouragement of agriculture, by
acquiring, even by purchase if necessary,
arabic lands ~ I- - :--:s--.s9 u tha
crown lands and hcse belonging to the govern
ment coule be mde available for immigrants,
immigration of tt right sort would come of
itself. Say one Kindred acres to a family, to
be paid for at tie rate of $l.25 per acre,
after certain Improvements had been made.
But to do this puId require several things.
First, a proper OPPOSITION and energy on the
part of the Miniscy; then the establishment
of a land Office e present the government is
confessedly ignorar as to its own lands) where
description as to location, capabilities, and
every information which an applicant may
need could be had. A few weeks since a family
of nine persons .rrived here from Oregon,
practical, hardy tanners, with sufficient means
to settle but they'eturn again to their homes
Disguised, and all for want of information
about lands, whicheould not be had.
To encourage agriculture, inducements should
be afforded to ente into agricultural pursuits.
Where is the marEt, or what can our people
cultivate to send tmarket? If the Legislature
would set apart $40 900 out of the fifty
thousand for the erection OF q wooden and
cotton manufactor; the country might not
only save the larg sums annually expended
for imported cottongoods that might be manu-
featured here, but induce thousands of our
people to take upthe cultivation of cotton,
upland as well as sesisland.
1t is very fine t make fourishing speeches
and air ones orator, and eloquence and preach
e" Cultivate! plant raise crops!" but nobody
is prepared to say what crops, and where.
We beg to suggestthat the plan should be-
encouragement of agriculture first, and after
wards immigration.