The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-06-13

amounting IN the aggregate TO some
thing over 100000, being paid out of
current funds.
The state of public health has been
normal.
While the annexation of this coun-
try to the United States of America
has not yet been accomplished, it still
remains the policy of the Government.
It's contamination will be earnestly
sought, with an abiding faith that
such a result will be full of great and
lasting benefits to our people.
In view of the fact that large part
of our permanent population is in q
measure prejudiced, both in its mate
rial prospects and in its chances of
enjoying the comforts and beneficial
influences of domestic life for want of
homes, and land for cultivation under
secure title; and also in view of the
evident need of the country for a class
of small land-holders, owning and
cultivating their respective holdings,
as basis of national prosperity and a
desirable factor in our political
growth, 1 commend to your consider
alton a liberal policy in the admins
tratiOn of the public lands, whereby
industrious persons with small means
may have special opportunities of ac-.
quiring permanent holdings, and the
disposition of large tracts of land for
sale or for lease on long terms, shall
be discouraged.
The Crown lands, being now at the
disposal of the Government, it is the
part of wisdom as we'll as of patriotism
to make provision in the legislation
necessary to their proper manage
ment, for convenient facilities for the
settlement thereon, as well as on the
ORIGINAL GnTynrr1r11nnf 10 YHG of in6nC.
triOus persons.
Such legislation may we'll fix resi-
dence on or improvement of lands, or
both, as a condition of title. And in
asmuch as many of our population are
not skilled in the accumulation and
retention of property, a provision
where those desiring to do so should
have an opportunity of acquiring in
alienable hOmesteads would doubtless
be of great value to them as well as to
the state.
For want of land policy hereto
fore, carried out in legislation favor
ing such a settlement of the public
domain, the difficulties of acquiring
small holdings have been almost pro-
hibitiVe to persons of small means.
The Homestead law of 1884 made be-
ginning and has furnished valuable
experience, but it is inadequate to the
work which is now demanded from
social, material and political stand
points. The following figures are ex-
pressive of the state of land matters in
the past, and are significant rather of
the want of facilities in obtaining
Government land especially out of
Honolulu, than of want of demand
therefor. During the year ending
July 4th, 1894, there we're thirty-eight
Government land sales, aggregating
$50, $50. Is, of which thirty were lands
in Honolulu and vicinity, aggregating
SIS, ,061, and only eight were of land in
all the rest of the islands outside of
Honolulu, and aggregating $2,529 Is.
During the past year, from July 4th,
1894, to the present time, there have
been tWenty-One Government land
sales, aggregating $14, 260 50, of which
fifteen were sales of lands in Honolulu
and vicinity, aggregating $11, ,958, and
only six of lands in other parts OF the
islands, aggregating 81 302.95. OF the
fourteen lands out of Honolulu sold by
the Government during the last two
years, eight were under one hundred
acres each.
A bill Celebrating such land policy
as outlined above will be submitted
to you by the Minister of the Interior.
The foregoing recommendation in
regard to the public lands is suggest
ed, not only in relation to residents,
but also as an inducement to the inn
migration of a desirable class of set
tiers from America and other cOun-
tries the importance of which is fully
treated in the report of the Labor
Commission on the coffee industry to
the Executive and Advisory Councils.
The subject Of immigration has had
tho and 0nnfinnnng nnngiAnra-
tiOn of the Government.
Asiatic immigration to Hawaii is
mainly of a transitOry character, eX
perience showing that it cannot be re-
lied upon for permanent population.
1t must, therefore, be looked upon as
largely in the nature of temporary
supply of the demand for agricultural
labor.
1t is greatly to be desired that, while
the current and necessary demand
should be met, the securing of a per-
manent addition to the population,
which will in time Obviate the neces- |
sity of constantly importing new |
labOrers, should also be kept in view. |
With this object renewal of POrtu- |
guese immigration has been inaugur- |
ated by the Government, and one |
of 73O persons has arrived.
TheGovernment will be unremitting |
in its endeavOrs to further promote |
the immigration Of permanent settlers
of character suitable for the building
up of our population.
One of the matters to which L would
direct your attention is
cable com mmunicatiOn with the outer
world. Until sucn communication is
secured, Hawaii must remain isolated.
To do everything within our power to
establish such com mmunicatiOn is and
must continue to be one of the chief
items of Hawaiian policy until it is
This has been The pol
icy Of the Government of Hawaii i'm
the past, but in a passive form We
have been content to grant franchises
and privileges and to promise sub
sides to various private citizens trust
ing to their energy and enterprise to
meet the expenses and do the neces-
sary preliminary work.
Much time and money has been
spent in this way, but so far without
result