The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-07-05

lutte the beet here nui there is hi
/ new pasture The pasture is iu nhlu
the some condition tho year Around
rhpfr 10 Nn bfhpinr nuI fostful wiutr
for the rlttlp. ihp mills b. not up q,
Mainland standard and the oto1m nn,
butter arr consequently inferior Th.
huttpr lacks hody secms Co.. boz hal
water. AMI onD pound W % VIII not lnHt
ns long us hair ar quarters of d
pound " California butter witch. ir
my opinion o. INT below the Elgin az.
tlcic n an trade essentials Tho "islnnd
butter as 20 b. called Is sweet hcauti.
fully fresh and brings sixty cents @
pound ycnr 100 and year out California
rolls or pound squares bring forty-nvo
cents per pound indicated wclrhO.
New Zealand butter. the nearest APP
preach 90 Elgin that we have had here.
brings about forty cents sometimes
only thirty-nvc cents. II IN my opinion
that Elciu butter can be delivered here
by making proper contracts with the
steamship companies at rcas-
enable figure and In as good
condition as the best that Is dciv-
cred to the London market or course.
conditions must. be- carefully studied.
The market is limited there being but
$1,000 people I'm Honolulu, and the out
side market is not as yet largely sup
piled with anything but Island butter
but Elgiu 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 Novemb I
Of the family compact" there Is
chance. They have hitherto kept out
all drummers under pain OF paying
81 600 license or fine instead and dis
couraEed small dealers by merchau-
disc license system whereby the legiti-
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
expense Tor living. The drummers 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 IIarbor 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-
ing out that Yankee brains ever devils
ed. They are still fighting bona fide
American immigration, preferring ig
norant Porto Ricans and the lowest
class of negroes, II class that will not
trouble them by acquiring small land
holdings to the sturdy pioneer Ameri-
can farmer, with his family, who has
settled up the great west, and who
will be required here in large numbers
ere long, and who will be able To find
plenty of land to cultivate as soon as
the big corporation leases on public
lands begin to expire Congress mas
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 joint rcso-
luton from the Legislature addressed
to President Mckinley, asking for his
At any rate the fight Is likely
to be on in the next Congress and II
will pay Americans who want to move
this way to watch congressional pro-
,ecdings on Hawaiian land matters.
This is the easiest country on earth
that is as well civilized and improved
rs our western states) TO earn a 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 |
al the TRANSATLANTIC routes. American |
schools were brought here by the mis- |
'iOnaries In 1870. Hawaiian school eX- |
libit at Paris received "A grand prize. |
There has been an established govern !
nent under the rule of a single mon
trCh extending over our entire sea-
'oast of 200 miles for over 100 years,
md "A parliamentary and constitutional |
government for over sixty years Some
# the mercantile houses of this city
ire now in their fifteth year of con-
inuOus business, and dozens of our
corporations are capitalized at over
100000, some even as high as $l0,000,O00.
Ne have several modest skyscrapers,
wO street railway systems, n govern
nent and private electric light sys-
en-, one of the prcttiest opera houses
IN the Pacific coast, a wealthy and
iressy and equally cultured social
lass, many of whom have Travelled ex-
ensiNely and all of whom are excep-
ionally liberal in the support OF high
rt In music, painting or theatrical at
raCtiOns for n city of about $4,000 peo-
lie. There is more wealth per capita
n Hawaii than in any other country
n the world, Notwithstanding the enor-
nous population of Asatics, and life in
UGH Il country runs smoother than It
oes In place where a great majority
eel the pinch Of poverty or where ev-
ryone is trying to make money so fast
hat you have to dodge the bill collec-
or,
Give my regards to all the boys ana
ell them To drop in and see me when
hey go TO China and II they want to
move come to THE Paradise OF the
!
{ takes several months To get "A foot
old here, and until one is known,
redit Is not general. II
Honolulu, r. H., May 1901