The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-04-20

ehoiaaale dealers expenses an1 rf0nia.
freight 90 Honolulu. and Insurance
from the time ihe cotton iUates tho
plantations. II shifiinns. sieotines and
plaids are bought direct from southern
factories. higher labor expenses and
freight are encountered nut from San
Francisco the matter IA even worse.
another wholesalers commissions hav-
ing been added All Of the aforemen
toned articles, goods no county
Is without. can and should be
manufactured In this country.
and for that purpose absolutely
nothing need I've imported cave
binding material and machinery. Inn
plcments for cotton culture are mex
pensivc articles; the outlay for that
purpose would be nominally nothing.
Improved saw and roller gins, con-
denscrs, etc, with screw process are
cheap, and a sufficiently commodious
gin house, amply furnished, would cost
but very few thousands OF dollars.
Five and hall yards Of Mr.. Winters
prospective ramie fiber bagging with
wire or ramie rope for ties would pre-
pare 800 pound bale of cotton for
market Irregular cotton ties would cost
about go cents per set delivered here;
but this really costs nothing as bagging
and ties are weighed in as cotton, But
we do not propose TO ship unworked
cotton unless the duty upon manuiac-
lures are higher than at present on
shipments into America. One factory
at Honolulu, giving employment for
200 white families (men, women and
children) would work up all OF the cot
the country could produce. This would
| furnish the Hawaiian market with all
of its requirements in common cottons,
plaids, yarns, etc, at prices far below
those paid at present, and leave an
over production large enough to excite the
interest of San Francisco, at which point
Hawaiian cotton could be landed as
cheap or cheaper than California dealers
could possibly buy from Massachusetts
or the Carolinas. And the pretty
part of the whole thing is
that, up to that period, all
the money expended for any pur-
pose, save lumber and machinery,
has remained in the country, our labor
ing class has lived upon it and it has
been kept in circulation; while, under
the old order of things, all of this great
saving had gone into the. pockets OF
planters, manufacturers and dealers in
America, and we had paid more for the
identical wares. Cotton seed makes
excellent food for milch cows, who will
attack a plantation, eating the cottor
from the bolls for sake OF the seed
And a growing industry in the South il
the manufacture of oil from the cottor
seed, the oil being very valuable, used
= IN countless ways, especially for cook
ing purposes, and very largely in the
preparation of lard, all packers using
more or less of it even in their choice
brands. But even then there is NOR
money in the seed, for the meal remain
ing after the oil has been extracted 1
one of the best of manures for cottol
land
There is no earthly reason why TIN
Hawaiian Islands may not add thi
profitable industry to her list, AM
I thenceforward stand upon two stronl
industrial legs instead Of upon one
| and the day need not be far distan
t when the breast of this fair land ma
wear the snowy cotton bloom il
: triumph. and from the rich department
, of the industry reap untold prosperity
LUTHER DERMoNT.