The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-08-20
great future before it, notwlthstand-

great future before it, notwithstand-
Ing that sugar is low.
Why, sir, you can almost raise
anything here! Look at the fine
broom corn you can raise for max
ing brooms. All you want is fac
tory; then you could export. Look
at the fine sorghum one can raise
without irrigation!
agree with you about the pine
apple industry; it has great future
before it and ought to ae encour-
aged, even if the Government has
to aid them; all you want now is a
canning house, somewhere central,
and then people with small means
will plant when they see the can
merry; people will take the fruit at
any time. Then there is your fine
bananas! Why not can them, too?
| think they would command good
prices abroad. When / say can
them, mean to peel them when
ripe and can them; they would
keep like an oyster.
l tell you, sir, the Government
must set the example If they have
got the country at heart, but it APP
pears they have got very small
hearts. Now they want TO bleed
the country again for the guards.
The Queen wants no guards;
nobody is going to modest her.
Then there are your guavas that
grow abundantly all over the group.
But, as said before, the Govern
ment will have to show the exam
pie and build canning factory.
But the peoples representatives.
just sit and vote money right and
left away, and running the country
to the bad very soon. Remember
the two millions and q half loan
that is a conundrum for the tax
payers to solve by and by. Then,
sir, there is the treaty with Ameri-
ca! Why, they are doing nothing
in it, that L can see. l think, sir,
and the people in general think SO
too, it would be better if the Islands
were in the Union. l am sure the
country would be no worse off then
than at the present time.
The Government was sadly in the
wrong when in prosperous times
they did not appropriate some
money for the railway; because, sir,
there is nothing like railways for
the advancement of any country.
Where would California have been
to-day if the United States Govern
ment had not helped them along?
What is the use of lands if there
are no railways or good roads?
Look at the fne1country you have
for railway by Hilo, Hawaii, and
Waiakea, and the finest kind of
land. That is the place for small
holdings and country residents; just
the thing for your country is the
Crown Lands and the railway.
What your country wants is farm
ers to stay; but first have your lands
ready for settlement, and the sec
Ond point is good roads and bridges.
It is all very well inviting tourist
travel that only helps Honolulu
along, such as a few tradesmen;
| but it don't do the country much
good in general. What you want
are people to stay. The Govern
ment has been little off when they
did not offer some inducement to all
the, thousands of Portuguese that
have left our shores. 1t is well
known fact they took $50, 900 away
| with them.
I agree with you about Pearl
Harbor. Let America have it; ii
will be the means of bringing money
in the country and bringing closer
| ties between the two countries. II
is no use to the Islands anyway,
and never will be.
HUGH GALBRAITH.