The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-01-27
FARMERS.

The publication in the Associated
press dispatches of the fact that new
,olicv of opening lands is likely to go
into oneration here, has had the effect
anticipated. Questions from bona noe
farmers are coming in from all over
the country and it is evident that IL
systematic efforts were made to get
earn,inp population from the States
they could be productive
THAT such people are needed mere
goes without the saying. Of all classes
of white men that might come to Ha-
vii 70 look for a livelihood, farmers
are the most desirable. They nave no
walking delegates. They don't get UP
strikes or boycotts. They are usuaiIy
eelf-supporting and permanent me
farmer gets his own home as soon as
,ossihle and. when the chance is given
him tnrns vacant public land into
taxpayfng, productive acreage getting
his own living from it and, by means
of his products, reducing the price Oh
living for others. Such man supports
churches and schools and votes IN the
American way and builds UP healthy
,,,a+riotic 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 ms
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
Altoona Open up large tracts of land, Z
get the railroad and steamship COM
panies to advertise them and organize q
hone-seekers' excursions and the thing ;
is done. In that way the West was ;
redeemed with Eastern and European
material and what worked well there
assured1k ought to work well here.
1t is time to stop working off land
as has been done on some of the ISL
ands, to loch Associations largely
composed of unpreductive residents
who do not attempt to fulfill the lawful
sof their purchases and are
merely holding the raw soil to speculate
with Nor. is it wise to let great tracts
go to graziers who take them up
dummy lessees like the foreign u
err who, when his purchase was can t
ceIled the other day, confessed that he r
represented a cattle baron. What Ha-
vail needs are small farms; not big cat
tie ranges and real farmers, not secret
agents of big land-grabbers or people
who want land for the purpose of rails y
ing nothing on it but the price.
The Advertiser believes that the only .
way the Territory can keep control of =
It's public lands is to open them up to o
bona fide farmers both from Hawaii
and the mainland. Failure to do that 70
N any systematic manner accounts for
he strength of the movement to turn e
he public domain over to the Federal
yovernmentl 1t is not the policy of the
United States to permit its lands to lie
de- to be Honopolized by graziers, to
De given up to spectators or to be
leld down by men who represent specu- w
ators and it ought not to be our policy h.
,ither Now that the plantations, the
of the Territory are provided
or, it is time to give the people a =.
nance and to make Hawaii populous
With men who, in the language of the
President, will develop the country -
long traditional American lines" ~
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