Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-10-30


stamps himself and the govern
ment which he yet how surpris
ing it may seem--represents as
uunitigated frauds and bare
faced swindlers, be and the gov
eminent should come out publicly
in Hawaii and tell the people
here, how and where a farmer
and his family from the green
meadows of fair England can
make living. say nothing about
a fortune.
The planters want cheap labor.
They want ignorant men to work
for them as machines fer the very
smallest compensation.
A class of English peasants
would never suit them nor would
the planter and his method suit
the English farmer. As planta-
ton laborers be would prove an
absolute failure. and when he
found himself defrauded and
duped he might not be so easy to
deal with as the equally duped
Portuguese now stranded and
starving on this beach.
Bot Mr.. Thurston does not in
tend to invite the English farmer
to come here as a plantation Ia
borer. Oh, no, That golden OPP
portunity will be offered to his
victim after be has swallowed the
bait and stand on the wharf in
Honolulu. Mr.. farmer is induced
to become a Hawaiian farmer,
and a small farm is promised to
him. And then comes the old
fake again. Then again do we
hear that arch -swindler braying
about the prospects of the small
farm in Hawaii.
The same old lie, the same
young liar.
We have asked time after time
for particulars about the small
farm about which the compact
pirates at home and abroad. But
never has q word been published
explaining how the small farm
can be run with profit or even
with living for the farmer We
have asked where the market for
the farm products is. How In
the name of fortune the Hawai-
ian producer of farm products
can hope to compete with the
in exhaustible resources of Cali
fornia. And Mr.. Thurstou and
his hackers have remained dumb.
We have proven that no man can
cultivate q small farm, and exist
while the present monopolies con-
troll freight charges both on land
and sea, and while the large con-
sumers import every necessary
from San Francisco including
corn, potatoes, butter and all
other products of the farm. And
we have never yet been contra
dicted.
If Mr.. Thurston cannot be per-
susded to tell the truth it certain
ly becomes the duty of the Bri-
fish representatives in Hawaii to
open the eyes of the home gov
eminent and warn those who
might listen to Mr.. Thnrston
that there is at present no show
for white men in Hawaii, that
commerce and trade are stagna-
ting and that under the present
unstable government of Hawaii it
is unsafe to invest here or to try
to find work. Recently numer-
Gus laborers have come here from
British Columbia and San Fran
cisco. They have looked around
for work and they have been foil
ed everywhere and finally those
who had enough money left drift
ted away from here while the
rest-only God and the police
know how the exist.
But it is evident that Mr..
Thurston does not expect to get
laborers from England; he intends
to go to Portugal and
bring more misery among the
families of the Azores and Made
ira. There his mission will be
3 direct failure though because
in those places the people are we'll
enough informed of the true condi.
lion here. Hundred of Portuguese