The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-07
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Didn't he put back tn

his office Didn't he put back the
money!"
This beautiful dress is for Mrs.
Brown is it," said the native wife OF
a struggling lawyer in Honolulu to her
dressmaker. "Well, there is nothing like
the luck of some people. My husband
is just as good lawyer as Col. Brown,
but he cannot afford to buy such
dresses for me. He has been here for
years and only makes a living, While
Col. Brown who has been here but
few months jumped into big practice
at once. You say that he always wins
his cases. Well, of course he WINS ms
cases. but that is easily accounted Tor
He came down here from the mainland
with a lot of new law that none of the
other lawyers knew anything ABOUT
and of course he wins his cases with
it,"
While there is no distinction on ac-
, count of race, color, creed or condition
in Hawaii, there is a bar of caste, and
it is a bar that seems to be impossible
, All those who lived in these islands
are .'Kamaainas," and all who have
come here since are .Malihinis." The
new conner Who is here as a visitor and
| a tourist is received with ELUSIVE hos
pitality For him there is poi and pig.
| Iuau and hula hula. But if his visit
| becomes a sojourn, if tempted by eli
mate and kindness he embarks in COM
merce, or manufactures, or agriculture,
| or seeks to practice law, medicine or
| dentistry, then the glad hand is at
| once withdrawn, and the atmosphere
| about him would make cold storage
| warehouse seem like a hot-house. This
| is because the material resources OF
| Hawaii are inelastic, and cannot be
| developed or extended, except on limit
| ed lines Like the table dhote dinner
| of a French pension there is enough
/ for the twelve regular guests, but only
/ enough, and an unexpected addition OF
| a guest compels each of the others to
do without portion of his dinner. The
annual crop of four hundred thousand
| tons of sugar will sell in New York in
good years for thirty-two millions Of
dollars, and in bad years for twenty
| four millions of dollars. On this foun-
| dation there can be sustained an expen-
diture Of so much for dividends to nom
| residents, so much RENTED to China
and Japan and Portugal by laborerS,
so much for factors, merchants, middle
men, mechanics, doctors, lawyers,
divines, and public-oficials, and there
is nothing for the "Malihini." His
| bread must be taken out of the mouth
| of the Kamaaina, and to this the Ka-
maaina, impelled by the instinct of
commercial self preservation, most
strenuously objects.
ha neither iron conner.
nor lead, nor silver, nor gold. In her
waters swim no exportable fish, on her
| hill sides no available timber grows.
| Her few fertile and irrigable valleys
are too valuable for sugar to make it
possible to raise cereal or vegetable at
a profit, and the ravages of bugs and
worms drive most horticulturists into
bankruptcy, except those who raise
bananas and pineapples. These latter
grow 10 perfection, but are too perish
able to bear transportation to the
mainland. Flour, potatoes, beans and
sailed meats can be landed from Cali
fornia cheaper than they can possibly
be raised on the islands, and even fresh
meats come in cold storage, and COM
pete with island beef and mutton
Coffee can be grown to perfection,
and it is the finest favored coffee in
the world; but 1t cannot be raised with
hired labor, because, like hops and
grapes, and small fruit, it requires a
large amount of labor at certain times,
and planters cannot afford to carry the
labor over the entire year. and there
are no population centers to draw from
at certain seasons.
Possibly the cultivation of sisal and
cacao may change prospects to some
extent; but as conditions now exist no
industrial development of Hawaii is
possible except in the direction of SUI
gar. Against the probability of such
development there is Cuban, Philippine
and Porto Rico competition, and the
constant devotion of larger areas on the
mainland to the growth of the sugar
beet.