The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-14
A CONDITION NOT A THEORY.

The successful building Up of American homeseads an over Hawaii Hawaii
perforee prove it value. agrcuhurany, in adding o tn variety OF product
a. a. wonI6 reduce the cost of living; ommercaIy it would increase both ex-
10 ~ou and ,noor[ porticany, it would rescue legislation from h un-
,martcan mob For years all this has been IS well understood by the rulers
II Hawaii IS it now is by national tda o s5artsmf sava L h@9 establshed: much land
has been divided intoh household tracts But "her e Is ada tnanT%es If neonIs
who know, looked at things as they are M gon ar away here ne fbat h more
American setters there are the more customers for the press aa the more
money in the life currents of trade. -.
, ne e. aa o1 nUpr o able place for small farmers is most interesting. The
found II an unnp W r - - ~ Iarp-r mart of TIT arabl land, lying
nea the coast is worth vastly more fol- produce On v a DS ss SUM M
by means of irrigation. than it is for cabbages or corn OF ~H ss ronld he he
that these characteristic productions II III north nnl.s mP mp ba a c zhn with
a truck farm II a rice field in the envtrOns of Honolulu, ould think Of grow
or am with a sugar valuation. n such a would be most unbuslness
he in other "a tS ,fD nrce If uga by growing it OF ten Or twenty
acre tract n selling the ans to a plantation plantation c near % ~ s.t p5 vat ueter on the
land. n III trouble Of stripping the me to say nothing about 1he ms ms
takes likely to b made in h pursuit. Of an unfamiliar industry. they they have nave
abandoned the scheme. Some men have turned to fruit ut it takes tme
to grow trees nj when hey nature they are NOT very ptw aa" mOor+o
~ tropical III n" t@ end The local demand for them is limited. Oranges do
n nf thrIve well here, and u market prefers HI fine California article which.
in fac, is cheaper han poor oranges brought in from Kona~ o~Lns to Dur Suf
they are a side crop at best our bananas.w which sometimes sell at he rate
nshem men n it must b confessed. are less successful when they do try
than arr the orientals. - -,
enough beyond that to sell for the cash neeoe an LOT ~" h. show that this
insurance. live stock and small comforts. 1t remains IMAM 5 10 r DS S $40 far a as ugar
land is concerned, bt We have lot spoken of the upper leyels where where tine the
pies would SEEM, at first thought. to be better But uni9ekny, as we we go
round often at fair elevations h soil is but a thin carpet over solid
ma en OF . iaHa pS"% omegeader He is beset with d1mculties M he soon
gives up There vas hope a few years ago when the Olaa settlers uoh
hold. bt now TIL route through their country is made melancholy by aban-
doned homes. -. au-.u o5
not much Use; n the sterner TRUTH that if sugar is to be grown at a profit
cheap labor be had. We d o not ay that white men could lot work n
the Hawaiian can fields. but it is e that they will not d so any more
than white men will work kin the car fields m rice wamps of LOUISIANA louisiana
and Cuba. If hy would 81 work their wages woul soon drive the plant
as ont of business. Even h prce of Japanese labor here Is oge nough TO
ear6uIv reduce plantation dividends. II fact Hawaii is situateds somewhat
az jamaica vas when her magnificent prosperity Of 100 years was broken
u b v an increase in thu rice of labor These Islands IA get u better
than their west Indian neighbor did through the fostering care of the United
states: u hose who claim that, if the uga Industry goes,s small armn
will take its place, shouI renembe little TINS recourse aVaHso 1a@GA
when her staple Industry a crushed -
Too mar people. especially peop at a distance 0e%1ze ABOUT "
R+ If 10 n condition t a theory, hat confronts US. is not New
or Florida. or California 1t is a tropical Islanf down o N the edge
of IT, e1patoriaI seas which must bear fruit after its kind o. n o fruit ata Ill.
d 10 nt gather grapes If thOrns nr fs OF thishes' nor do thy cap m
This troDTcs n is sown in h north temperate