The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-02-24
FARMER IS
A BUILDER
OF STATES
What Has Created
the American
West.

! IF the people OF these Hawaiian ISL
and are in earnest in their efforts to
induce small farmers to come and set
tie in the country. they are at last on
the right road to the Americanization
of the group"
| The speaker was one of a party of
! tourists, a San Francisco business man
with practical knowledge of how the
| West has been built up, seated on the
veranda of the Moana Hotel. Under
stand me-" he went on. THE farmer
! is the man who has made the American
nation great. And it is the small farm
err, not the cattle baron nor the baron
of any other big industry. The man
who controls big industry makes him
self and his associates wealthy. merely
| that Is, If he succeeds at 1t. The coun-
| try he operates in Is a secondary con-
sideraton to him. His market is the
world.
Mind you, 1 would not decry any
industry. But no nation and no state
can know true progress that is depend
ent upon any one thing. Cotton made
the South great, but 1t did not enable
| the planters to muster men enough to
face the embatted farmers from the
North in arms. And the South of today,
with diversified industries and many
small farms, is greater than the old
I south ever "aS-aiu IL eio"s i''oie wv
| ton.
Let me ten Sou ma ~ -
small farmer VINO wiz pe i,ioS' a''ieu
by pointing out 10 MN WHERE ne con
get lahd, II ne coiiies mere anu eho"
ing MN what ne can gro" oh ~ anu
/ where ne Is 10 nno Hiarhe'. ne may
IL r,ytII Ina ct n
get rlch. PROBABLY ne VIII al iea'' ee
cure competency, anu raise MS ia,hnS
OF Americans as Americans ehouiu oe
raised. inc SOIL ana the ciiiiia'e are
mere, ana there are speciai piouu''S
enough OF the country Win ehousn VI
a market LOT them OH the ii'aiiiiahu, ~
put the matter peyoho the eHperiiheh'ai
stage. But 1t Is not the sfhaii farmer
VINO VIII De most iaVoreo' ne wiz ~
more, ana MS american progeny WIN
DO more LOT the HAWAIIAN isianue 'nai,
ever the lsiahos can oo ioi hii'i ""N
them.
Ihis Is cohuitiofl prousiit apou. !"
obedience 10 the WORKING oi al mus
trial law whose operation Is ii'iihu.ap'e
LOOK at the states OF our great west
TO-DAY. we are none Oh US oio men
here, ana yet we can most Oh us relneih-
ana Centrai racine raiiroaos was III
large measure "Trip acroes an o'ne,-
wise painless desert. ihere was ie
cattie rahch mere ana 'here III .ne WINS
10 De sure out not iaih'ei iioiii .i'e
Nepraska state iie u the oaci aiiieh.o
valley. me iouheeEs at 'he station ~,
that hesoia.i oii "ere uii' oo"Do'S on.
hirtier ihuians, anu .he ah.e'ope anu
bison req pesiue the prahoeu cattle Vi
'he CO" paroi'
nave any vi you seh'ieiien peei
over the ach'c rah"as' ia'e's wei
you "oulu ho' Know the country We
praska' WYOMING Coiorauo' olah' even
NEVADA where most Oh the Dig ca.tie
men nave sone-,hese are a'hi"S
states now Inc MONIES vi tne Sinai
iariher ne iiiie ai'er ihiie, aiohs tme
,aiitoau iines' "risation oi'ches' pui''
ny 'he farmers 10 reclaim 'ne waste
anu no, puh' py soserhihent ne'p, are
everywhere, gram heids ana thriVins
ichaiun 'aAe up 'he rooi' VI 'he Jul
,aio "ai'oWs' anu every farmer raisihs
MS own caves anu iaiips, anu giving
care 10 them, make up IN the aggreeate