The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-10-06
OPPORTUNITY FOR WHITE MEN.

MI. y Oun NJ. DdNlS, III lcltcI
published In another column, puts
the problem of coffee cultivation In
a more correct form than Mr.. Lun-
ingsi did in the letter he sent to an
American stranger, which we pub
lished last Wednesday. Mr.. Lun-
ing slaughtered the cultivation
of coffee. He stated some facts
correctly, but to person desiring
to invest here, he failed to give
most important facts, and so de-
ceived him.
The evidence that '.coffee will
pay is very complete, although
the cultivation is hardly out of the
experimental stage. Any one who
seriously investigates the matter
will discover that some men will
always make good living out of
it, and very many men will not
make living out of it, or, indeed,
out of any business they may en-
gage in. Give this latter class, the
Eva plantation to manage, and it
would be wrecked in few years.
We have always believed that
the profits to be made out Of coffee
raising, are largely over-estimated.
1t is one of the unfortunte incidents
of business civilization, in the inn
mediate age, that every man wants
fortunee and not a mere living.
The vast territory of the United
States from the Missouri river to
the Pacific. is occupied by disap-
pointed men, and heart broken
women, who have failed to realize
fortunes" and in the struggle for
it, have gone to the wall. South
ern California is an extended hos
pital, . with magnificent surround
ings, filled with people who are
down with financial typhoid fever,
a great population waiting for
tenderfeet to bring them relief,
through doses of boom medicine.
The same disease is here, and
the symptoms of it are apparent
among the coffee growers. The
average man does not care to creep
financially, before he can walk or
run. He does not know how to
value experience. mo business on
small scale'' for him. If you sug-
gest that the careful cultivation for
a few years, of three acres of coffee
land will teach him the business,
he stares at you, says he cant
watt must ''make something
right B f. He borrows money at
high rates, damns the pessimists,
and finally comes to grief. At the
same time, there are white men
who know the value of experience
know the danger of branching of
into new things, know the value
of creeping before walking, who
are doing well in coffee cultivation
and will make comfortable home:
for themselves, and finally more
than living.
Both Mr.. Luning and Mr.. Davi
seem to think that there is no room
for white men here. That de
ponds upon who the white men are
The vast territory, the vast re
sources of the United States hav,
hardly been scratched. The OPP
portunities for living business ar
to be found everywhere, provide,
there is the right brain in the MAJ
who is looking for an opportunity
!. and not for a soft snap. The mel
who can find no opportunities Their
will hardly find any here. 1t re
quires brains to see opportunities
A blind man can stumble over
soft snap. The late General Walk
er, one of the best of the writer
on economies, said that two-third
of the manufacturers of New Eng
land failed. The rest succeeded
and made the large profits, which
make the West charge them Will
being ssbloated bondholders.
Brains did it.
In much correspondence witt
persons proposing to emigrate