The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-10-08
OPPORTUNITY FOR WHITE MEN.

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F-hea ID another column, put:
wsblem Il coffee cultivation IL
more correct form than Mr.. Lun.
rs did IL the letter he sent 10 an
American stranger. which we pub
E-bei last "Wednesday. Mr.. Lun.
m zlauchtered the cultivation
II coffee he stated some fact:
correctly. bur 10 a person desiring
=n invest here, he failed to give
mos important facts, and 50 de
ofrel him.
The evidence that coffee will
nav is very complete, although
the cultivation j. hardly out Of the
governmental stage. Any one who
seriously investigates the matter
wH discover that some men will
auars make q good living ont of
and very many men viii not
k-a living ont Of It, OF, indeed,
eur II amy business they may en-
cage u. GIVE TINS latter class, the
Em plantation 70 manage, and it
wrId d. wrecked in a few years.
We have always believed that.
the profits 70 be made out Of coffee
rsi-iue. are largely over-estimated.
II j. one u the unfortunte incidents
q business civilization, in the I'M
mediate age, that every man wants
3 fortune and not a mere living.
The vast territory of the United
State from the Missouri river to
tile Pacific Is occupied by disap-
pointed men. and heart broken
women. who have failed to realize
fortunes" and IN the struggle for
i. have gone 10 the wall. South
ern California + an extended hos
pital. with magnificent surround-I
ines. filled with people who are
down with financial typhoid fever,
great population waiting forl
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
ruu- He does not know how toI
value experience. No business on
2 small scale" for him. If YOU sug
gesr that the careful cultivation for
q few wears, OF three acres Of coffee
land VIII teach him the business,
lac stares at YOU. saws he cant
want; must make something
right of. 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 off
into new things, know the value
OF creeping before walking, who
are dong well in coffee cultivation,
and VIII make comfortable homes
for themselves, and finally more
than a living.
Both Mr.. Luning and Mr.. Davis
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 have
hardly been scratched. The OPP
portunities for living business are
TO be found everywhere, provided
there Is the right brain in the man
who Is looking for an opportunity,
and not for a soft snap. The men
who can find no opportunities there
EiI hardly find any here. 1t re-
quires brains to see opportunities.
A blind man can stumble over q
soft snap. The late General Walk
er. one Of the best of the writer:
on economics, said that two-thirds
OF the manufacturers of New Eng
land failed. The rest succeeded
and 1nade the large profits, which
make the West charge them viii
being abloated bondholders. ;
Brains did II
In much correspondence witt
persons proposing to emigrate
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