The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-01-27
LAND FOR FARMERS.

The publication in the Associated
Press dispatches of the fact that new
policy OF opening iands is likely to go
into operation here, has had the effect
anticipated. Questions from bona fide
farmers are coming in from all over
the country and it is evident that, if
systematic efforts were made to get a
farming population from the States,
they could be productive.
That such people are needed here
goes without the saying. or all classes
OF white men that might come to Ha-
wall to look for a livelihood, farmers
are the most desirable. They have no
walking delegates. They don't get up
strikes or boycotts. They are usually
sef-supporting and permanent. The
farmer gets his own home as soon as
possible and, when the chance is given
him, turns vacant public land into n
taNpaying, productive acreage, getting
his own living from it and, by means
of his products, reducing the price of
living for others. Such a man supports
churches and schools and votes in the
American way and builds up healthy,
patriotic community about him. He is
the man of all men to save Hawaii by
his character, his work, his devotion to
diversified industries and the trade his
wants create.
He can be got to come here If the au-
thorities seek him in the right way;
and the way has been pointed out all
over the West, from the rocky uplands
of Montana to the scorched plains of
Kansas and the irrigated deserts of
Arizona. open up large tracts of land,
get the railroad and steamship COM
panies to advertise them and organize
home-seekers' excursions and the thing
is done. In that way the West was
redeemed with Eastern and European
material; and what worked we'll there
assuredly ought to work well here.
1t is time to stop working off land
as has been done on some of the ISL
ands, to local Associations largely
composed of unproductive residents
who do not attempt TO fulfil the lawful
conditions of their purchases and are
merely holding the raw soil to speculate
with. Nor is 1t wise TO let great tracts
go TO grazlers who take them up
through dummy lessees like the foreign
er who, when his purchase was can
celled the other day, confessed that he
represented a cattle baron. What Ha-
wall needs are small farms; not big cat
- '"Hh''f hAu lNsil AAllltIS, not secret
agents OF big land-grabbers or people
VINO want land for the purpose OF rails
ing nothing on It but the price,
The Advertiser believes that the only
way the Territory can keep control OF
H. public lands Is % open them up TO
bona hde farmers both from Hawaii
ana the mainland. Failure 10 do that
M any systematic manner accounts for
tho strength of the movement 90 turn
the public domain over "a the Federal
gnNgfnment II b. not the policy ~ the
United staios 90 permit lts lands 10 Ne
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Do FlNen up Co spectators or "a be-
n'll down hN men who represent snpru-
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