The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-05

swept away great distances by ths
currents. While 1 was in San Fran
cisco 1 saw shipment of fifteen mil
lion young oysters which had beer
reared on the Connecticut beds.
TOBACCO CULTURE.
Tobacco also could be made one OF
the most promising and profitab BILE OF
our industries We should raise cur
own tobacco and make our own cigars.
There Is no tobacco grown in Cuba
which cannot be successfully guilty.
ated in Hawaii.
I'VE should be encouraged to preach
the gospel Of reform in our land sys-
tenn and the care of our forests.
Or. Maxwell has presented at least
two reasons for the development Of
the smaller agricultural industries in
dustry alone can never develop the
highest type of civilization-the result
would be to produce a wealthy and
civilized class and q class correspond
ingly low in the scale.
In the second place one can not but
help notice the dearth of supplies for
large ocean steamers calling here, in
the way of fruits and vegetables, etc.
Tt is a matter Of regret to see how
the holders of small areas, from five
to fifty acres, are decreasing, and their
lands being absorbed by the sugar
plantations and our ever hungry land
spectators. gshis is more noticeable
among the native kuleanas and it is
a stubborn, undeniable fact. Look at
the mortgage list in the daily papers.
Look at the assessors list of sales of
small holdings for taxes. How many
kuleanas have thus been sold. and the
home of the native taken by the will
ing money lender.
I'm New Zealand the native Maeris
have their lands exempt from taxa
ton unless they rent it to a second
party. What a blessed thing would
such a law be to the few poor natives
here who still have their homes left.
New Zealand also has a commission to
which any white man can go, and If
he shows that through poverty or
sickness he can not pay his taxes, the
commission may recommend to the
government the remittance of his taxes
for the year.
I'm 1902 the lease of 14,772 acres of
and at Lualualei in Waianae expired.
This land is one Of the most valuable
tracts belonging to the government on
he island of Oahu Without exception
It surpasses any of the other land for
richness and great fertility of soil, and
800 acres of the lower portion are un-
Ter cultivation by the Waianae Sugar
Co., where the yield is said to be enor-
nous. What has become of this land?
Has it not passed into the hands of
I few individuals for speculative pur-
5oses?''
Nov what shall we do? AT present,
/ man with means at his command,
,an appropriate large areas to the ex-
fusion of his poorer fellow-sett1ers.
This monopolization of sea and land
~ a few individuals and one of the
arge estates utterly prevents anything
fair competition among
,ur homeless people.
Portuguese, Europeans and Ameri- |
ans complain that they are unable to-
,5tairi land for the smallest l1omesteads |
1t reasonable figures. the Portuguese
n particular Consul Canavarro tells |
ne that those that have gone carried |
IF from s10e to $4,000 a family. Had |
ur government given this INDUSTRIOUS
nd acclimatad people say twenty acres /
f good land and twenty acres of rough |
and at five dollars per acre, we could /
ave had one hundred or more tax
aging aud law-abiding citizens on this
and today.
81 have for years taken a lively, and
hope a practical interest both as a
itizen and a Commissioner of Agricul-
ure in the welfare of the islands and
ave introduced and cultivated tropi-
al plants and trees in ample variety.
have worked to improve and con-
erve the natural forests and streams
the islands, and having labored for
ears in these matters naturally pro-
est against any and every attempt to
estrict the settlement of our public
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