The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-27
LAND POLICY.


G. Carpenter. published yesterday. ii
may be observed that many of the
Governors observations are. sound but
that, in some respects, he appears to
have Inexperienced facts. Take the
Island Of Hawaii as an Illustration
merely, in connection with the follow
ing extract.
Nevertheless it must be remembered
that the country is about as we'll taken
UP as any part of the United States.
The islands have been settled for many
years and the opportunities of new
and rapidly developing country are
lacking
/ This paragraph is certainly inaccu-
rate. The Advertiser has proved, over
and over again, that there is no part
of the United States, in which the OPP
portunities for settlement are more
numerous or more inviting, if a wise
land policy is followed. Tt is useless
and unnecessary to reprint exact
figures, but, on Hawaii, the proportion
of population to land available for
agriculture and horticulture may be
safely placed at less than in the ex-
treme western states, in which united
energy is bent to secure immigration
and settlement. In North and South
Kona alone. there is room for more
than five thousand people, most likely
double or treble that number, who
could be easily supported by small
farming, If unoccupied and fertile
tracts could be distributed. In addition
to the wide range of products that are
classified as tropical and semi-tropical,
there is scarcely a fruitSor a vegetable
that could not be successfully raised
borhood of Kailua, upon soil which is
almost exactly within Mr.. Carriers con-
ception of sterility. there is a large
and hourishing sisaI plantation. Much
of the mountain area is precisely
adapted to the cultivation of grapes.
Vineyards are not experimental but
practically successful. In another part
of the island, tobacco has been plant
ed, with the prospect of excellent re-
suits. Apples have been and are grown
of good size and favor. Peaches mat
ure that in quality and size, will rival
the same fruit in northern ATTITUDES.
1t would be tedious to repeat the in
evidences of what these is
lands can produce, if a monopolizing
policy is arrested and the door opened
to American thrift, energy and expert
ence. Owing to their situation and
formation. to the trade winds and to
other unparalleled advantages, they
combine varieties Of climate and soil
to a degree that is not attained else
where; in fact. in their possibilities,
they substantially include two zones.
There is much lava on Hawaii and on
Oahu and on the other islands. but
very little sterility until the 'snowy
slopes are approached. There are
literally thousands of places, in which
twenty or thirty acres will support a
family more comfortably than hum
dred and sixty in less favored local
titles.
Our sugar plantations, which now
form the principal wealth of the is
lands, are scientifically, economically
and successfully managed and con-
Quoted. They are entitled to water and
to every possible consideration. With
a capitalization of hundred millions,
with an annual production equaling
quarter of that amount, and with
rising prices, which the best author
tiles consider are likely to be MAIN
tanned for years they are assuredly
prosperous. On the labor proposition,
as the Governor has we'll said, they
deserve and need the kind of 1egisla-
ton that able men here and on the
mainland have long advocated. If the
facts were forcibly brought to their
notice, the unions, limited to white Ia
Dor, would realize the necessity for
special treatment of this question, for
the benefit of wage-earning citizenship
throughout the country. But true
craftsmanship, on American lines, also
demands that the necessities of the
masses should be consulted and that,
without interference with but in aid
of the great industry to which the ter
ritory is SO deeply indebted, a policy
of land distribution should be adopted
that would largely increase our Amer
lean population, impress into produc-
tiveness in many directions awaiting
capital and men, and realize an in
ternal development and progress, corr
responding to the commercial future
that is unQuestionable.