Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-04-18

Vgut ! doubt not You VIII NC " W'hkhhN ~
perhaps YOU may I've less helpless.
| must not blame cattle-or cattle men
Jolly ges,d fellows, brave and hospiteble men r
fot all the inealculahle harm that has been
done sheep and goats and fire and wanion
wool butcher, "a few Of them Christian
managers and fores, loving agents. have
whistled on the dance OF death. hut the
cattle OF cattle men and the wild cattle OF the
upands, undtsturbcd by governmental wool
ga,herers" since the evil first became obvious,
are responsible tot nearly all the damage.
AN right Mr.. Alarmis,, cries Cyniens OF
Dontkaikus. as he sits at his desk OF lounges
over his counter can right. hut what arc YOU
going to do about Up"
"Nothing-I am neither handling the
peoples money nor spending that of a wealthy
corporation nor have either land OF money
Of my own"
"What acHhi you 10 II you could -
"Spend money =
"When, where, how ?"
Now, on every island in building walls
and fences.
1t goes without saying that a wholesale
crusade against the cattle men OF these Islands
is absurd. They have vested rights in real
estate in buildings, in horses, cattle, sheep,
goats and swine that no power Justly may
deprive them Of hut the state has 4 right to
and ought to pass and enforce laws compelling
cattle men to keep their stock off government
and private land, by Jcndfng hti, o'p".
think it has right to compel cattle men to
fence stock out from the sources OF running
streams and the immediate water shed. From,
its own remnan, of forest land the state may
Justly exclude live stock.
| Perhaps there could be no further lawful in
reference with the existing privileges OF cattle
men. 1t is too late to get back the immense
tracts that have slipped from the control o
government into tina, of wealthy cattle men
| II may I've possible to make them see how ruin
Gus their pas, and present policy has been and
is but the public power and public duty enc
| there.
| think fencing around the headwaters and
| sides Of perennial streams or those intermittent
streams that have valuable springs along thei
courses would perpetuate a valuable proper
ton of fores, growth. Excluding live stocl
from government forest would save still more
| Wise plantation arrangements will cease indis
criminate hrewood cutting, and conserve thei
water supply. by protecting their forests
Small private owners who combine common
sense with common good taste will plant trees
protect their fern lands, and save the finest o
their still standing timber.
All this applies, please remember, to ,hos,
rocky forest areas unavailable for cane planting
or general farming and are far more valuable, a
an aid to equable rainfall and as protection 70
water supply, than they may ever be as stool
ranges.
was saying aloud something to the allow
effec, when the clatter OF iron on the ston.
trail caused Sooner to prick up his pensiv
ears. Turning, was glad to see the Away
pleasant face of canny James Ren,on of tn
Union Mill, at whose generous board hat
taken my last Kohalan meal the noon before
lie hal promised 10 Join me somewhere ahoni
the trail but my unusual early rising AM
Sooner's phenomenal three miles an hour ha'
made his stern chase a long one. We wer
in thicker woods, iern-fringed and shaded b
full grown trees and underbrush. There, 70
the frs, time, saw the poha bush and taste,
lis acidulous fruit. The red oha glowed o.
every side, and here and there were bread O
narrow glimpses Of the low lands near Hawai-
/ haze and white flecke'd channel beyond it. w
passed two OF three home looking houses, wit
vegetable patches and flower plats aroun
them, with dairy cattle near and sleek lookin
horses quietly pasturing. 1t was rocky ye
fertile section, capable, it cultivated by inte
ligent hard work, OF supporting healthy
happy and numerous population. AT leas,
thought so, and my companion thought S
also; though perhaps neither OF us coul
have satisfied himself how Caucasian, wit
his infni,ude of artificial wants, could hav
united the knotly puzzle.
But we both forgot all else earthly as SUD
den turn in the road revealed. above bas
of dull gray clouds, the snow'capped peak {
, Mauna kea, outlined upon the Furnished sky
titanic pearl upon wall Of opal.
The cloud belt SO exaggerated the appparer
high, OF the summit that its 10000 feet
al,i,ude-we were then nearly 5000 feet abo'
the sea-seemed FIVE miles OF sheer ascent an
the horizontal distance less than mile.
Mr.. Renton says tina, in the two or tire
score OF times he had been over the Waims
trail he had never had so fine view OF Il
mountain. | saw it few hours later and
seemed more tame lin comparison) than Puncl
bowl to Tantalus.
An hour later We were eating some Of MIR
Renton's excellen, sandwiches, and drinkir
: some vile coffee, in the "Waimea Hotel, Il
= wretchedes, Chinese restaurant have seen G
the islands-save one in Honuapo, Kau, whic
is entitled to the superla,ive dispraisr Of beir
= at least as bad.
The distant view of Waimea is charmin,
II suggests possibilities that are not conhrms
by closer observation. There are, howeve
some attractive homes. invaded but one
,hen-that which Miss Bird so gracefully d
scIibed as "Spencer's Rest" l found Fral
cisco's Fals,affian farm and put my tcompar
: lively little hand in his, glad to say ''goe
afternoon" to Sooner and still more glad
the dip in that big plunge bath son
: readers remember so gratefully. The
went out and "a, on the gards
! wall and stared at Mauna Kea impert
" nence tina, il stood without rebuff.
Wsimsa, March 40, 1855 X. ). :.
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