The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-06-02
AS SEEN BY OTHER EYES.
IMPRESSIONS OF A LATE
TOURIST
What an Observant Oregon Traveller
Found to Interest Him in the
Hawaiian Islands.

has Hawaii and the Hawaiians since
the overthrow of the late Queen One
might add, with comforting sense Of
truthfllness, "and where So little has
been said" for the burden of the cor
respondence sent out from the Islands
to the great papers Of the world
through representatives sent there has
been confined to "eXsting political
conditions" as put by Charles Md
hoh which at best is speculative.
The material interest of the Hawaiian
Islands, their natural resources and the
advantage to accrue to the nation secur-
ing them, have not been presented orr
discussed, so that an interview with an
old Portlander, Mr. M. A. Dudley, who
has just returned from an extensive
trip to the Islands, will be of interest
Mr.. Dudley visited the Islands, bent
primarily, on diversion, but while there
made careful study of the resources
of the Island and preserved copious
notes, which he used in prompting
himself in the interview.
"The population of the Hawaiian
Islands, according to the census taken
in December 1890, was $4,000, con
sisting of 34436 natives, 6IS6 half
casts, 49, OI Chinese, IL, 900 japanese,
5SS Polynesan, thus leaving 2I,2Io'
CauCasians, of which there are TAOS
Hawaiian born of foreign parentage and
S6o2 Portuguese. Since then the
Caucasian population has increased
1t can safely be said that all the eau
Casians are in favor of annexation with
the United States, for two reasons Il
Hawaii is a natural auxiliary Of the
United States besides the 1923 Amer
leans own or control nearly every in
terest in the Islands, while they possess
the energy and rush-reCognizcd the
world Overland are deferred to more
there than in any place outside their
own country, hence their following, for
they are the leaders, not only in bust
ness, but in politics. They hold the
reins of government and will continue
to do SO. Another reason might be
given-that the whites have no faith in
the administrative ability of the ma
tives
"The natural resources of the Haw-
allan Islands are limited, but the posi-
bilities, with energy and capital to aid
them, ale limited only by their area.
There is nothing indigenous to Hawaii,
but nothing has ever been introduced
of the flora or fauna of temperate or
tropical climates but has Immediately
surpassed the original conditions That
the possibilities are unlimited, one
needs only the assurances presented by
a trip into the interior, where, roaming
all over the hills and mountains and
among the gulChes are cattle, horses,
hogs, pheasants, turkeys deer in a wild
state, unowned and unclaimed, while
oranges, lines, in fact all sorts of fruits
and berries, as well as coffee, grow in
profusion, awaiting only the gathering,
Indeed, aside from sugar cane.
rice, bananas aud, to some ex-
tent, cocOannts and pineapples, all the
native fruits obtanabe are gathered in
the gulchcs and on the hills. The
quantity and quality Of The fruits grow
ing wild would indicate their POSSIBLE
tiles under cultivation, even if the small
orchards around the premises of few
Caucasians were not there to make the
argument. SO wonderful is the yield,
and so excellent the product of tree,
bush and vine, under careful cultivation
and attention, that the admiration Of
even the Californian is aroused, and
well it may be, for Hawaii surpasst S
even the Golden state ia yield and
quality, beauty and flavor being the
special marks of excellence, as blight of
any kind is unknown. Hawaiian grown
rice commands better price than that
grown in the Carolinas-the best
known-while the yield is double as a
rule and frequently treble.
"The Chinese pay an annual rental
of from $40 to $40 per acre for rice
land on Oahu and nearly as much on
Maui and Kauai, and then net more
than from any other crop they cultivate.
Bananas form another source of reve-
nue. to the Celestials, and such yields
are not known outside those Islands as
are secured by the Chinese on the
lower lands next the sea or in the
mouths Of gulches below the noun
tains. The Hawaiian banana is moi
equal in favor or beauty to the Contra
American fruit, but the increased yielC
and the little care requisite Compen
safes for second choice in the American
markets, as the fruit is very sound
easily shipped and keeps longer thar
others.
sugar cane2 Well, that is where
the Hawaiian Islands can put all The
other countries in the shade. Will
plenty of water, cane in Hawaii vii
yield from six to eight tons of sugar t,
the acre as a rule, and some localitie
will yield even a greater amount Ii
connection with this statement, con
slider that one can take two crops q
cane off his land each year, and cal
work it up at any time he is ready t