The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-10-09

of which a firm already named owns
1927 shares.
Hamakua Mill Company capital
stock $40 900; number of shares 2,400,
of which two Englishmen own respec-
lively l 200 and 900 shares.
Honokaa Sugar Company; capital
stock 100000; number of shares 1000,
of which German firm already named
own 800, and an Englishman $50.
Union Mill Company; capital stock
100000; shares of stock 100, of which
three Englishmen own respectively 40,
40 and %.
Kukaiau Plantation Company; capital
stock $780, 900; number of shares 200,
OF which an American owns $50.
Kohala Sugar Company; capital stock
$480,000; number of shares $50, of which
an American owns 276, and a Hawaiian
estate owns 240.
ISLAND OF kauai.
Makee Sugar Company; capital stock
100000; number of shares 5000, of
which an American owns APO.
Koloa Sugar Company; capital stock
$200,000; number of shares 200, of which
two Germans own 151 shares.
Princeville Plantation; capital stock
$4,000; number of shares 2,400, of
which three Americans own 1928 shares.
Besides the above incorporated plan
tatiOns, there are a few unincorporated
ones, three on the Island of Hawaii
owned respectively, | believe, by two
Englishmen and one Chinaman; one on
the Island of Maui owned by an Ameri-
can and German, already named; one
on the Island of Oahu owned by an
Englishman, and two or three perhaps,
on the Island of Kauai and elsewhere,
ownership uncertain to me.
The above figures show, | think, a
prepOnderance of other natiOnalities over
Americans, even allowing children OF
American missionaries born here to be
counted in as Americans. Counting as
Americans all of American parentage
and Americans now Hawaiian citizens,
which, believe, to be straining it be-
yond all reason, there still would be
about tie. One cannot tell exactly
owing to the fact that some of the stock
is owned by estates.
What [ wished to show was that some
sixty men owned majority OF the stock
in each plantation and an overwhelming
majority of all the sugar stock in this
country, taken in the aggregate.
L nowhere asserted that Of these sixty
men those not Americans owned more
of this stock than did the Americans.
How that is do not know. Nor did l
anywhere state that the majority of
planters were not Americans" but what
| did state and now affirm is that "sixty
men (sOme non-residents and the ma
jority of them not Americans) own an
overwhelming majority of the sugar
stock IN the country"
The Importance OF this fact is that it
demonstrates that the power lies in the
hands of these sixty men or if you wish
to take in every plantation then these
sixty odd men to throw this country
either one way or the other on the Chi
nese question.
1t also demonstrates how fool-h hardy
and unjust it is for those in the sugar
ranks who are heavily subsidized by the
United States, to write and speak as they
do OF the artizans and men of small
means here at the Islands many of
whom are American citizens and have
fought to save the Republic in her hour
of need-men who without money and
without price can command considera-
ton from the American people that no
money can buy.
The gentleman from Hongkong will
have to allow more time for a reply.
Oct. 8th. w. A. KINNEY.