The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1882-03-22
Meeting of Planters.
MONDAY, Maruh 10th

NlOOluiS VI totIIOt0r
MONDAY Maruh 10th.
| In response 10 an invitation that has been uni
versally extended by the Chamber Of Commerce TO
the Sugar Planters of this Kingdom, the following
gentlemen met at 10 \ N. on Monday, the 10th inst.
in the anteroom adjoining Hawaiian Lodge No.
p. T. and A. NJ Messrs. S. n. Castle, J. H. Patty,
p. n. Makee, ]. c. Glade, A. S. Hartwel Elderts,
Motley, F. A. Schsefer, j. B. Atherton, H. Macfar-
lane P. C. Jones, Jr., z. S. Spading Z. P. Adams,
| 4. Dreier, G. n. Wilcox, X. Kinds, Robert Hal
stead, A. Unna. J. Gurney, Soper. Luce, J. X. Nc
Kenzie. Burchardt, Kynnersley, r. A. Macie, jr.,
Koelling, DIR. Thompson, c. n. Cooke, W. o. Smith
| S. L. Austin, J. Austin, John D. Spreckels S. T.
Alexander. J. Woods, g. T. Holmes, W. H. Corn
well, wetmore H. Deacon, A. H. Smith J. Wright,
| H. p. Baldwin, A. J. Cartwright c. +. Hart, W. II.
| Bailey. W. G. Irwin, W. Forsyth Grant, H. NJ.
Whitney, H. Maertens W. II. Rickard, A. Hanne-
/ burg, DIR. McGrew, G. +. Holmes, W. T. RowelI
! G. w. C. Jones, Halstead, I. r. Walker and A. S.
! Wilcox
Mr.. p. c. Jones, Jr., proposed that the Hon. S.
| n. Castle take the Chair. Carried unanimously.
! The Chairman proceeded to open the meeting.
| He thanked the gentlemen for the honor they COLI
ferred on him. He briefly explained the object of
this important meeting. II pertained to the whole
| interests of the country, particularly the sugar
planting interests and he asked whose property in
| this Kingdom does not depend upon the planting.
/ The revenue of the country depends upon it. He
! therefore urged the gentlemen to be wise in what
they did, TO efectually perpetuate the inter
ests of the country. He would now ask that two
Secretaries @r z Se aPROinted; ms dor,i,,,,., u-
| Schaefer and T. r. Walker. Carried.
Ihe chairman then called ON Mr.. A. S. Hartwell
th make few remarks Mr.. Hartvell said in sub
stance:
MR CHAIRMAN: appreciate the honor of being
asked to address an assembly like this, and while
cannot undertake TO make full or fitting state
| ment Of the situation, and of the business to
which you Will give your attention. will try to
present an outline for which you will soon supply
the practical details.
| IL was my fortune to be born and brought up in
country where public debate is free the air.
| The training which the American boy gets from
| the debating clubs and lyceums and from the
| example of the town meetings does more to make
INN a good citizen, and SO 20 keep the public
peace, than any quantity of military Would do. All
I the landwehrs and landsturms Of GERMANY are
| like chaf compared with public spirited and
public debating community.
Repeated attempts have been made in past wears
to form Planters Association, but with no sub
stantial result. For the first time in the history of
| this country, men who may properly be said to
represent the agricultural interests of these islands,
laying aside their daily at the busiest season
/ of the year, have assembled here in Honolulu for
the purpose of consulting together for the common
| good. 10 my mind this convention of planters is
most significant of meaning. The results of its
deliberations ought to be, and think will be- I'M
/ portant and far-reaching.
| 1t is high time that men who desire the pros
perlty OF this country, or who care to secure and
protect whatever they may have at stake here,
/ should meet and consult together and devise and
adopt measures which will subserve the interests
Of the entife community. There is wonderful
| power IN organized and combined action. Fifty
men of intelligence and good repute in commun-
lty may exert themselves for public objects with
little or no effect long as they act separately
but acting in concert and mutual understanding,
| the results they accomplish are beyond com
! parison with their disunited efforts.
often call to mind the remark made by Arnold
IN his Lectures on Modern History, upon the unfor
tunate ition of that country in which the best
as 1t is chilulsh to stand by and complain as long
/ as we who complain are seeking to shirk or cast
upon others the responsibility of improving mat
ters appeal TO you, If that is not precisely what
has been going on in this community No govern.
mert on earth, not even the autocracy of all the
R1ssias, sustain itself still less can promote
the interests of its people, rnless it shall have the
support of the great body of its intelligent non
o!hee-holders. l submit to you that we have left
our affairs too much to drift they might or else
Tor me government to attend to. To illustrate
possibly the bad habits of its parents or possibly
the tendency here, one of my little daughters
few years since, talking about the rain coming
into new room that had been made. said. papi
don't you think the government ought to stop
n.
ready TO point out defects in the government we
have failed to formulate and present our views
anu suggestions IN such shape as TO command
oineial attention In other countries, even in i'm
PerlaI Germany, there are great parties, repre-
senting more or less fully, all classes of the peo
pie and preserving the equilibrium of power.
They are IN fact the main-stay of the government
itself. 1t Is for want of such out-spoken parties
that Alexander LII. is to-day practically a pris-
oner IN his Own house, and is said to be contem-
plating aOdeation; as soon as he can get up cour
age to 80 through the ceremony of a public
coronation. IL Is time then, aay, for us 10 Law
aside the habit of placing upon governmental
shoulders all the responsibility of looking after
our affairs, and to undertake to attend to some
thing more than quarterly accounts
1t may seem strange that Planters Associations
were not formed here years ago. The great indus
trial interests of other countries are renresented
and pushed forward N this manner Who in the
United States does not feel the benefit of their
Agricultural and MECHANICS Fairs >? Not only in
the new and improved methods of cultivation thew
bring into public notice, the stimulus they give to
usefnl Inventions and to the introduction of finer
breeds of stock, but in the gain which comes from
the interchange of views among those who are
engaged IN like avocations. The recent Conven-
tion Of Cotton Planters and Manufacturers at
Atlanta, Georgia. has brought together men from
all parts of the United States, producers buvers
factors and all concerned IN the reinstatement of
King Cotton. That convention has probably done
more for the welfare of the Union than any poll
teal party could do. Ii will be no lpht thino
even IN this small country, for planters and mer
chants TO meet each other once a year for the
social relaxations. But You have not now met for
social pleasures. of late calumnies of the yilest
nature have been spread broadcast by interested
OF irresponsible persons, directed against the entire
labor system of the country. Newspapers of a
certain class abroad have not even spared the pri
vate characters Of our most respected and honor
able citizens. persistent effort is making TO
induce the world to believe that a species of
slavery is IN vogue here. II has seemed useless
thus far 20 refute these calumnies or TO point out
the Infamous character of those who have pre-
tended to reclte personal experience of ILL treat
ment here We know, and every who has the
means and wish TO examine the matter knows. how
gross these misrepresentation have been But
unless tEey met by the planters acting as n
body, AMI not by fugitive letter-vriters such
reports may eventually accomplish their object
city Treaty. There is the entire labor pr,ble,n
upon Us, and II requires concentrated united
srortS % solve. Does anyone imagine that all the
sources for obtaining suitable labor have been
exhausted am convinced, that while the friend
ly and and cooperation of the government Is
essential ms matter OF getting laborers will never
be attended to ehectually, until the planters
attend to II themselves. For this purpose tncerf
of action is necessarr
luis association can also accompish mucl b,-
lis active aid in an effort to obtain renewal ~
the Treaty, or the making of another Treaty Of
heclproclty. Other pressing reasons for forming
this association will occur to all of ror Or7sT
methods of planting and cultivating cane and If
manufacture are susceptible of immense imprure
nent, Sugar producers and buyers hope. can he
brought nearer together. No one r,reter,Is fi,af
our labor laws are perfect or that their af1ui1,is
trat1on Is Tree from defects But when atteulnsa
al legsilatlon are mades planters are not at hand
repreeptsd BY some responsible courniffse fbf,rgh
whom their views can be rnre known - fI,r i~--