The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-08-14
WOULD sc A BLESSING IN Dis
eulsE.


disaster staring all in the face This
is the yeriest nonsense. Il is the
same old argument put forth by the
South in ante-beIlum days for the per-
petuation Of slavery. The ruin Of
the plantations, as now conducted in
Hawaii. would In the end be the
greatest blessing that could befal the
Islands. True it would work a great
hardship for q few years and many
people would stare financial ruin In
the face, but il would be the means Of
the saving Of the Islands to brighter
and better future. just as the civil
war. which destroyed slavery. i'm
poyerished the South for q time. but
later opened up the country to new
riches and to a brighter and richer
future than the old South ever dream
ed OF.
To say that sugar and coffee are all
that can be produced in Hawaii is as
utterly absurd as to say that white
man cannot work In the cane fields
of Hawaii Here again is an argu-
ment Of the old slaveholding South.
Il was asserted that cotton was King
and il was also declared that negro
slave labor was necessary for the cul-
tivation of cotton. and Of sugar in
Louisiana. The assertion has been
proved to be absurd. When the civil
war came on there was not a manu-
featuring establishment in all the
South worthy Of the name There
was not a blast furnace nor was there
single coal mine in operation. To-
day the South produces more pig iron
than the two States OF Pennsylvania
and Ohio. The South produces more
coal than any three of the greatest
coal states of the north. The South
today has more cotton spindles in her
mills than has all Of New England.
and yet. forty years ago there was not
a cotton factory south OF Mason and
Dixon's line.
The destruction OF slave labor and
d the South's leading industry was
the greatest blessing that could have
befallen that section of the Union.
The South produced two and one-half
i times as much cotton in 1900 as she
did in 1860 and by far the greater
part OF 1t was raised by the white
farmer on small tracts OF land. And
while the cotton crop has been in
creased nearly three fold in forty
years the South has been developing
her other industries. She now pro
duces her own corn, her own wheat.
her own fruits and vegetables and not
only produces fruit and vegetables for
herself but ships millions of dollars
worth every year to her northern
ueighbors. Lower Mississippi. Ala
hama. Georgia and Florida are being
given over to small farmers and are
veritable garden patches
i These small farms are cultivated by
white men in a climate that for four
months in the year is much hotter
and more enervating than any part OF
the Hawaiian Islands. Texas pro
duced more than one-third OF all the
: cotton crop OF the South last year,
and Il was grown by white farmers
who worked under a tropical sun
J much hotter than they would have
had to labor under in Hawaii.
Not only can all the products grown
In any OF these Southern States be
grown In Hawaii. but numerous rrud-
ncts which they cannot grow can be
raised here Twenty years ago Cubs
produced most OF the oranges cOnsam-
, ed in the United States Cuba also
4 produced many other tropical and
seml-tropicai fruits for consumption II
. the United States. Then came the
great growth in production in Floridi
: and California and the Cuban product
being inferior in quality to the Ameri
. can lost the market Now Cuban.
! propose 10 try 10 recapture the mar
/ kets in the east by producing oranges
and other fruits fully as good II no
] better than the California products
! But all this tins the demand has beer
constantly growing and notwithstsnd
. ting the enormous increase m prodnc
ton Il has not kept pace with the de
] mana. The same articles that Cub.
! can produce can be produced in Ha
wall only a few weeks ago thegs
was on exhibition in the window q
! Hobron's drug store lunches Of Fizm
i ina Tokay and ALascAtel grapes O
aner quality than the most fainou:
valleys o. California ever produced
Oranges Ear oatfsvAling IA sweetness
and favor those a. CAllfornia can b.
grown here. plneapplez superior Il
those Of SonaAern Florida. Cuba o