The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-05-04
A Chat Over a Smoke viii
Him
a Few Of His Views Outlined which
May Lead to Practical Results
Ben eticial to the Community
and Planters Alike.

wisely, we thlnk, rewarded MI
Joseph Marsden for some years OF
honest effort on behalf OF his politi
cal party, and the country at large,
with title which carries with it
more appreciative honor than a
pretty symbol dangling at the end
OF riband, for it bears with it the
pleasing sense of the we'll earned
esteem and worthiness, and entails
no little discretion aud labor on the
part OF tho one honored. Further
more it is an honor unsought and
given pro virtute and is not gilded
with a warrant ON the taxpay er's
Treasury for salary or expenses.
Mr.. Marsden wanted a twelve
months or 80 vacation in the "old
countries" to enjoy health and re-
creation in his own way. he is too
active minded man to go globe
trotting as financially comfortable
loafer. He must be doing and
learning sonnet hing for his adopted
country's good.
Now, after his varied experiences
on the islands, no man could he
found more appropriately fitted "to
Investigate and report upon the
various sources from which desir-
able class of immie ants may be oh
tanned as labourS and settlers IN the
Hawaiian Islands" than Mr., Marsden.
He is essentially "a man of the peo-
pie" frank and hearty, full OF bon
hommie, joke and jest, and as he
readles his bike right into the
heart of the country districts OF
Europe so will his pleasing person
atty make friend y record in the
hearts of the very classes he desires
to import to this country.
No one can for one moment
imagine him as a commissioners, in
the European sense of the word
clad in stiff uniform and covered
with copper lace and brass buttons
with bosom emblazoned with
insignia and pig-sticker entsngled
between his legs, but his shrewd
common sense brain will get there
all the same as Commissioner ano
philanthropist.
Now we don't propose to give &
verbatim interview with the much
to be- congratulated Commissioner
the congratulations are first due tC
him, Hawaii will take it's share or
the completion OF his labors-but
we will do little "yellow journal
ism" of our own, and attempt t.
give the outlines OF Mr.. Marsden'
ideas as we think we gathered then
during leisurely, lazy convers atioI
during which mutual views wer'
exchanged.
To begin then with what he viii
| uOJ dJlbuIpb w iO' llo WIZ NV VI.
/ aud bring people here simply t,
t work on tho plantations aud he will
not arrange for males only. He is no
labor commissioner.
q What he will try and do will b
: to obtain from each satisfactor
. district or community families t
a the number OF % or more allied b
race, language and natural instincts
These will be the foundations c
u settlements at the various plauti
= tions aud will develop. The male
i (and probably in some instances th
o females) will contract for their c
5 years of service. The wages tn
. will receive will be ample Tor thel
Al to save a little, to cultivate the
& small garden patches (when the
/, get them) and to establish hon
- at the end of their contract, whe
they can either reship or start OF
D. for themselves.
D. The main idea is, OF course, Thu
~ perhaps not very much can be dor
ID for some years with the first arrival
but as the children are born al