The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-02-05
OFF THE TRACK.


working tooth and nail against an
neXation. He spent eleven days on the
Islands and assumes to know every
thing about them. social commercial
and political. Perhaps it may be well |
to remember that Ex-senator Dubois
left the Republican convention in st.
Louis. bolted the nomination of Me-
Kinley. and stumped for Bryan. This
may somewhat account for his eX-
treme animosity to a measure which
President Mckinley earnestly desires
to carry through.
Among the many objections the En-
Senator advances is the statement That
s''the agricultural portions have been
substantially utilized" Now, pace
the morning journal, this is untrue,
and when Mr.. Dubois was here he
must have seen for himself the fallacy /
of such a statement. He was taken
as a guest of the Oahu Railway Com
pany to visit the Eva and Oahu plan
tations He would hear that the rail-
road was being extended around the
Island. and he must know that rail-
roads are built with the main object
of opening up new lands. Mr.. Du-
bois as the guest of the Wilder Steam
ship Company, visited Maui and was
taken to Spreckelsville. He saw the
vast extent of cane on that estate and
then he saw the sweep of the slope of
Haleakala. slope capable of support
ing five times the population it does
now. He was taken through the Oiaa
district and was shown how that was
developing and what it's future pros
poets WERE OF course he knew moth
ing of the resources of Molokai and
Lanai, as he only passed down the
channel midwsy between them, and
they merely lowered skyward through
the blue haze. But he will open his
eyes when he hears that a single es-
tate upon the forgotten Island of Mo
lokai fetched 1921, 900 at public auc-
tin the other day.
The fact is that the development of
the Islands has hardly commenced.
The population was, in 1896, 10000
The Islands are capable of support
ing a population ten times as large.
Whether that population shall be Anne
rican or Asiatic rests upon the success
of Mr. Dubois. With annexation it
will become American, without annex
alton it will become practically Asiat-
ic. One would think that the people
of California and indeed of the United
States at large, would much prefer a
million of white men within two thou
sand miles of their coast, to million
of Asatics.
Under the government of the Unit
ed States the Islands will develop on
lines which will be for the advantage
of the United States. Left to them
selves they will develop on lines dis
tinctly inimcal. With annexation the
white population will increase, and in
crease on the lines of the small farm
er and cultivator, rather than on the
lines of the great capitalist and inves-
tor.
But Ex-senator Dubois is oblivious
of facts which stare him in the face.
For Hawaii and its future he cares
nothing, his sole object is to carry out
plans laid at the time of the Repub-
lican convention in st. Louis. And
thus in his warefare upon annexation
he makes contradictory statements. In
one breath he tells the beet grower
that Hawaiian competition will ruin
him, in another he states that IF ev-
cry foot of ground which is not COW
cred with rocky mountains and hard,
impenetrable lava, could be utilized,
YOU would not then have on all the Is
lands, all told, as much agricultural
land as there is agricultural land in an
average county of one of our western
states" Truly Ex-senator Dubois IS
a great observer, and he must have
several separate sets of spectacles to
suit the special view he wishes to
take.