The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-03-10

WANTS TT ALL FOR HIMSELF.


The small farmer who has good
thing and wants to keep it appears in
the Bulletin with a plant against pub
licity. His view is that If other
small farmers are induced to come
here and through them the islands
are made to produce pineapples up TO
their limit, OF anywhere near it, the
price of the fruit will run down and
the farmers who are now making
good deal OF money VIII 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 far-greater per
capita wealth than it ever had before,
created larger market at home than
the original growers had at a distance.
Ito say nothing Of continental market
besIdes-and dotted the land with cities.
villages. farms. railroads.. manufac-
tories, schools, churches and all the
other adjuncts Of high civilization.
It is the consensus of testimony there
that the pioneers profited by the
change. Some sold their land at 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 We're at
tracted by the settlement of the coun-
try and by the thrush of people to VIII
lagos and cities.
1t would be the same way here. Ha-
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:
1.-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 homegrown with
out having to work against his home |
papers,"
Hawaii has the region west Of the
Rocky mountains for it's own market,
subject to no competition which it need
fear from Florida or the West Indies
1t raises better fruit than any of them
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-
lTaii gets a name for its wares it can
drive Singapore out. The Pacific North
west, which in few years viii have an
enormous population, will take more
than one-half our fresh and timed
as they come on. This point
was justly made by a visiting farmer
the other day who suggested that the
line of small, fast fruit steamers here
such as connects Boston with Jamaica.
When production becomes great enough
the meals of transportation would nat
uraIiy follow.
The creed of the Bulletin writer is the
sort or SelnShEeSS ana the
poorest type of patriotism and it is.
withal, most short-sighted in its bust
ness aspects. Had it been followed up
by the producers of earlier times, Ha-
wall today would be a starveling coun-
try, sparsely settled. commercially
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-
luce other valuable products and ex-
lend and amplify that service to civil
cation 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-
olfze the trifiing market he alone is
able to create, can do the soil the most
good by getting under it and stimulat-
ing cabbages.
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