The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-22
Mountain View, Oct. "a, 1901

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/ Sir: In answer to your query OF lot
inst. | beg to return the blank filed on
i and signed
Regarding the names and addresses o
Russian, Polish, Galician and other set
tiers in this neighborhood, you can OBJ
tain them more fully by calling at th'
| Hilo land office, in order to mail you
blanks and get the answers Individually
In addition to my testimony, for tht
information of your board and OF whom
soever may take interest in this question
I will say:
That the land laws, more than any
other laws, in order to be satisfactory
must suit and fit the general economical
political and social status OF the coun-
try they are intended for; must be an
organic part OF its real constitution, as
against paper constitutions OF every
description.
At the time OF annexation, and espe-
cially after the utterances of the Presl-
dent of the United States that Hawai-
ian Islands are to become the country
OF American homesteaders, and develop
ed on traditional American lines, by
logical inference | was in favor of the
American Homestead Act pure and
simple as the best substitute to the Land
Act of 1906.
Unfortunately the United States Ad-
ministration either could or would not
follow the plan forecast and promulgat-
ed. In practice the opposite policy has
been adopted the full endorsement OF
II, nj Of
tons, including the management and dis
posal of public lands. The result of it
was-still further and more extensive in
vasion OF the country by Asiatics. Japa-
nese and Koreans, who, together with
the Chinese make I'D now more than
two-thirds of the total population, whose
other elements. including the natives,
are rapidly waning.
The title of sovereignty and owner
ship to this country in general and to the
public lands in particular is with the
United States. They can do with them
whatever they choose. We can but most
respectfully bow before their decision
and. as far as with us lies, assist IN the
realization of their wishes.
1t is decided to surrender the Hawaiian
Islands to Asiatics; the measure was al
ready carried on so far. that it seems too
late TO give it any other turn. AT pres
ent white laborers, mechanics, employees,
tenants, farmers and settlers are we'll
nigh all driven away by the Japanese
and Chinese, and they will not come
back in spite of all the efforts OF any
promotion committees. Every settler
who was compelled to leave is an anti
promotion committee by himself. and
reliable source of information for the
rest of them at home
From Asiatic invaders children are
born every day; they will rightly claim
and obtain American citizenship; become
voters. 1t will not take many years
when they will be in the majority at the
polls. as they are in the majority now in
the fields, workshops, trades, professions
and commerce. Nay it is but a question
of time when they will become full mas
tiers by buying out the interests of the
very corporations who have brought
them here
A country always belongs to the ma
to which its laboring classes
belong. no matter what flag or allegiance.
British India will always remain Hindoo.
and Egypt. Fellah, no matter how many
sweep over them with their
flags.
w dterS run on, rocks stay
Having adopted and successfully car
ried out the plan to surrendering the
country 10 4Asiatics, and, it being too
late to go back on it, and there being
no substantial reason why one should,
(since, save in the standard of life, those
Aslatlcs are not III anyway inferior, in
agriculture perhaps superior to the Cau-
casian race). the only course remaining
is to follow in it consistently: to fit
things on paper to the condition of
things in real life, details to the general
situation. Ii we leave the country, or
rather have left the country, toll
Asiatics, let us make it decent Asiatic
country. Let the man who tills the soil
be the owner of it. Construct the land
laws accordingly by giving the oppor-
tunitv to Asiaties to own small home
steads by purchase both from the gov
eminent and private owners.
1t is always better to grant generously.
than TO wait such time when one is COM
PEELED to give IN. 1t is paying genera
sity.
AS for the present Land Act and the
small white settler for whom it was
are both dead. No use
of criticising them de mortuis nil nisi
OOiuin, SdS HOtiuilS Uul SOOu OI the
dead All white settlers. who could az
ford to pay for their tickets, are gone;
the rest are but waiting for opportunity.
The present intention of the Land
Commissioner to take away lands from
fictitious settlers, who never lived on
their lots, is highly commendable: the
less lies and fictions, the better. Even
microbe requires a proper feeding
ground. The white settler with his high
cultural demands is an expensive arti-
Gle and requires proper conditions also.
In this country essential conditions for
small farming: higher wages, cheaper
living expenses, cheaper freight rates,
markets, etc. are missing, and have to
be created first Can they be created?
say, in country of cheap labor and
large land holdings-never
Except squatters in the new Olaa tract.
/ do not know of any real settlers. who
ever have been molested by the admins
tration. Up to the present time the en-
forcement of the land law has been very
liberal for any one, who showed a shade
OF bona hde intentions.
OF course, prices of land, which re-
quires SIoo an acre for clearing alone.
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