The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-10-21
THE PLANTERS CONVENTION
Annual Meeting OF the Planters
Labor and Supply Company.

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Yesterday morning Mr. Thurston,
Secretary, completed the reading of the
report from the Committee on the
Manufacture of Sugar A discussion
ensued, mainly on the methods of boil
ing sugar, in making one and two
grades to make fourth sugar
Mr. Jones said the Hawaiian Agri-
cultural Company had tried boiling for
one grade during year, and found
that it lowered polarization without
compensation in quantity.
Mr.. HE. Glade reported on trial
in boiling for one grade, the result Of
which was an average of 81 per cent,
when before aud since there was an
average of % and IS per cent. They
had therefore come to the conclusion
that one grade boil ng was not advan-
tageous.
Mr.. II. p. Baldwin had tried one
grade boiling, the average Of polariza
ton being favorable, but the. process
more expensive for fuel He had
therefore given it up.
Others spoke on the subject, without
varying much from the above conclu-
sions.
The Secretary, on behalf of Mr. L.
Lycan, read a report from the Commit
tee on Fruit Culture, which was
accepted and ordered to be printed
Mr.. Thurston stated that the silver
leaved waffle, species of acacia, had
been found to do better than anything
else, as timber tree, on Maui, grow
ing faster than the eucalyptus. 1t made
excellent fence pests and was consid-
cred the most valuable timber tree that
had been tried.
Mr.. r. r. Walker said he wished
that any member who could would visit
the Government tree plantation on the
hill back of Honolulu.
Mr.. ]. NJ. Homer, from the Com
mittee on Legislation, read lengthy
paper The position was taken that
under the clause in the company's by
laws, stating one Of the objects of the
association to be "the general benefit
of its stockholders" they had right to
take cognizance of public affairs. The
rum and opium laws were regarded as
mischievous to the planting interests,
calculated as they were to rob planters
of portion of the value of their labor.
Not only we're planters injured by the
evil working Of those vicious laws, but
merchants and the general public also.
They had felt safe under the pilot
age of former Cabinets, even when
knowing that Mr.. Spreckels was behind
the curtain, although things were not
quite to their liking. The writer had
an exalted idea Of the destiny Of the
white man to rule and control both
men and the elements, and he pro-
ceeded to show how the ruling race had
been the only one to pass the original
bounds to any extent.
The missionaries were pioneers in
teaching the natives how to increase
their comforts by labor, but the latter
had not taken very fendy to work.
They had been taught by white men
also that government required officers,
and that the holder of office had an
easy living. Then they had learned
that if office did not yield enough for
their fancy, its emoluments should be
increased, and if the revenue is not
sufficient to that end the required
amount must be forced from the tax
payer. Thus it was that with wave
OF the hand taxation had just been in
creased thirty-three and one-third per
cent, In imposing taxes on people
without their consent the native rulers
had been using dangerous tools, the
unwarranted use Of which had upset
the authority of powerful nations and
caused the shedding of much blood.
He did not want to take these powers
from the natives, but teach them their
proper use. 1t was painfully evident
that the last Legislature and the pre-
cedlng one were handling edged tools
in manner dangerous to the King
dom, injurious to the people and to the
health of the natives. Reference to
the two laws upon rum and opium
made his apparent, while the Gene
alogy Board, army bill and other follies
clinched the argument.
In conclusion the writer spoke o.
the certain doom of the native race
from the access given them to rum and
opium, and called on planters and
other people ito come to the help OF
the Lord against these mighty sins OF
intemperance, extravaganza and folly,
and by their acts, protest against those
laws that have opened the flood gates
of intemperance and let loose the Jug
gernaut of hell to roll over and crush
the weak victims of intemperance" II
that was politics, all right Politics
meant the science of government, and,
if not polluted, good government,
"When an individual thinks that he
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