The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-05

eggs, Size, strength ana OtneT ueSiI-
able qualities are generally lacking. but
so strong is the prejudice against Gal
ifornia eggs as all imported eggs are
usually called, that only energetic pro-
motion backed up by absolutely reliable
quality will sell the goods here.
In butter it is the same story. They
have Jerseys and separators here ga
lore I understand the Holstein does a
little the best here. But there is no
new pasture. The pasture is in about
the same condition the year around.
There is no bracing and restfuI winter
for the cattle; the milk is not up to
Mainland standard and the cream and
butter are consequently inferior. The
butter lacks body, seems to be half
water. and one pound of it will not last
as long as half or three-ouarters of a
pound of California butter, which, in
my opinion is far below the Elgin ar
ticle in all trade essentials. The island
butter as it is called, is sweet, beauti-
fully fresh, and brings sixty cents a
pound year in and year out. California
rolls or pound squares bring forty-five
cents per pound Indicated weight.
New Zealand butter the nearest ap-
proach to Elgin that we have had here,
brings about forty cents. sometimes
only thirty-fve cents. 1t is my opinion
| that Elgin butter can be delivered here
| by making proper contracts with the
! steamship companies at a reaS-
enable figure and in as good
condition as the best that is deliv-
cred to the London market OF course,
conditions must be carefully studied.
| The market is limited there being but
$4,000 people in Honolulu, and the out
| side market is not as yet largely sup
piled with anything but Island butter.
| but Elgin creamery concerns and
Kansas egg dealers have overcome
worse obstacles than are facing the
entrance of these good things into the
| land where, since annexation and the
overthrow at the polls last November
of the family compact" there is a
chance. They have hitherto kept out
all drummers under pain of paying
$1,000 license or fine instead and dis
couraged small dealers by a merchan-
| disc license system whereby the Iegiti-
mate business of small bookkeeping
was taken from the American and Civ
en- to Chinese and japanese who could
afford to pay the high license on their
small income on account of their small
lexpense for living The drummer's Ii
/ cenSe went with the Hawaiian flag,
but the merchandise license was only
killed a few weeks ago by the courts.
This precious crowd of missionaries
sons have, since the accession of Ka
lakaua (who gave us Pearl Rarbor in
exchange for protecting their sugar
trusD held sway both politically and
commercially for thirty years. success
fully keeping out all competition by the
most highly developed system of freez-
ling out that Yankee brains ever devils
ed. They are still fighting bona fide
,s<x-.z
norant Porto Ricans and the lowest
class of negroes, a class that will not
trouble them by acquiring smallnland
holdings, to the sturdy pioneer A&leri-
can farmer, with his family, why has
settled up the great west, and. who
will be required here in large NJ ebers
ere long, and who will be able 20 find
! plenty of land to cultivate as soon as
the big corporation leases on public
| lands begin to expire. Congress has
declared that these lands must not be
| released to the sugar corporations but
| must be held for small farmers, and
the governor having sent a special
agent to Washington at territorial ex-
pense to lobby for the repeal of that
| clause, has now to face a joint reSo-
luton from the Legislature addressed
to President Mckinley, asking for his
| removal. At any rate the fight is likely
to be on in the next Congress and 1t
will pay Americans who want to move
! this way to watch congressional pro-
| ceedingS on Hawaiian land matters.
This is the easiest country on earth
(that is as we'll civilized and improved
as our western states) to earn living.
The soil is rich; one can work the
| whole year around. We used to sup
ply -four grown from Hawaiian wheat
to California when that country was
first opened UP; coal is as cheap as at
San Francisco; we are on the line OF
all the trans-Pacific routes. American
i schools were brought here by the mis-
sionaries in 1920. Hawaiian school ex-
hibit at Paris received a grand prize.
There has been an established govern
ment under the rule of single mon
arch extending over our entire sea-
coast of 1900 miles for over 100 years.
and a parliamentary and constitutional
government for over sixty years. some
!. of the mercantile houses of this city
are now In their fiftieth year of con-
tinuous business, and dozens of our
corporations are capitalized at over
$500, 000 some even as high as $10,000,000.
We have several modest skyscrapers,
two street railway systems, govern
ment and a private electric light sys-
tenn, one of the prettiest opera houses
on the Pacific coast, wealthy and
dressy and equally cultured social
class, many of whom have Travelled eX-
| tensively and all of whom are excep-
, tiona1ly liberal in the support Of high
art in music, painting or theatrical at
fractions for a city of about $4,000 peo-
pie. There is more wealth per capita
III Hawaii than in any other country
in the world, Notwithstanding the enor-
nous population of Asiatics, and life in
such a country runs smoother than 1T
does in place where a great majority
feel the pinch of poverty or where ev-
eryone is trying to make money SO fast
that you have to dodge the bill collec-
tor
Give my regards to all the boys and
tell them to drop in and see me when
they go to China, and if they want to
move, come to THE Paradise of the
, Pacific but don't come ""broke," for
it takes several months to get foot
: hold here, and until one is known,
I credit is not general.
Honolulu, T. H., May 4, 1901.
"A mellow and pure whisky. Spruanee,
Stanley q Cos Kentucky Fayorite'