The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-03-10
WANTS RI ALL FOR nlMSElF.


The small farmer who has good
thing and wants 10 keep II appears In
the Bulletin with a plant against pub
lloity His view II that n other
small farmers are induced 20 come
here and through them the islands
are made to produce pineapples up 60
price Of the fruit viii run down and
the farmers who are now making a
good deal Of money will have to take
less. Precisely the same thing used to
be said by the pioneer orange, lemon
and raisin- growers of Southern Califor-
mia. but other producers came in and
built the section up to a far-Ereater per
| capita wealth than II ever had before,
! created larger market at home than
| the original growers had at a distance
to say nothing of a continental market
besides-and dotted the land with cities,
villages. farms, railroads, manufac-
tories, schools, churches and all the
! other adjuncts of a high civilization.
| 1t is the consensus of testimony there
that the pioneers profted by the
change. Some sold their land at a large
advance and went into other lines
which the growth of urban interests
suggested; and those who remained got
the benefit of the expanded market
made by the railroads which were at
tracted by the settlement of the coun-
try and by the thrush of people to viii
lagos and cities.
would q har
wall. with its full probable output of
pineapples is no more likely to drug the
market than it was with its sugar; but
it is capable of adding immensely to
it's own revenues. The Bulletin writer
says of the pineapple industry: =.
THE pioneers in its upbuilding in Ha-
wall have already prodigious develop
ment of pineapple production in Cuba,
Florida and Porto Rico to compete
with. This, with the Singapore output,
and the Bahama product, is sufficiently
formidable to the home grower with
out having to work against his home
papers"
Hawaii has the region west of the
Rocky mountains for its own market
subject to no competition which it need
fear from Florida or the West Indies.
and is nearer the demand. Its chief
competitor is Singapore, 1000 and more
miles further from the market and sub
ject to the American tariff When Ha-
wall gets a name for it's wares it can
drive Singapore out The Pacific North
west, which in few years will have an
enormous population, will take more
than one-half our fresh and timed
pineapples, as they come on. This point
was justly made by visiting farmer
the other day who suggested that the
time would come for Seattle to run a
line of small, fast fruit steamers here
such as connects Boston with Jamaica.
When production becomes great enough
the means of transportation would nat
urally follow.
The creed OF the Bulletin writer is the
narrowest sort of selfishness and the
poorest type of patriotism and it is,
withal, most short-sighted in its bust
ness aspects. Had 1t been followed up
by the producers of earlier times, Ha-
wall today would be a starveling coun-
try. sparsely settled, commercially a
cipher and not a desirable home for
white men or their civilization. What
sugar has done for us we see about us:
but there remain vast areas of land
not suitable for sugar, which will pro-
duce other valuable products and ex-
tend and amplify that service to civil
ization which sugar has performed
The citizen who helps make Hawaii
produce everything it can sell, is its
best friend irrespective of whether he
himself is a producer or not. But the
man who tries to keep the unoccupied
country as it is so that he can monop-
olize the trifing market he alone is
able to create, can do the soil the most
good by getting under it and stimulat-
ing cabbages.