The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-11-11

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terest your wise suggestions and ad-
vice about diversified agriculture, and
trust you "ill keep on with the good
work.
Surely your reward awaits you and
your work shall live after you. What
IL there should be few croakers, street
corner orators, never-do-well-sort
who could not make n success of any
thing In life, unless they were born
with silver spoons in their mouths? i
have been successful cultivator of
the soil for the past thirty years, and
have all these years taken a lively and,
l hope, a practical interest in the well
fare of the islands by introducing and
cultivating tropical plants and trees in
ample variety.
AS ! am well advanced in years and
am amply provided for my only object
is to do what little good | can on my
way; to have homes for the landless
and to protest against any and every
attempt to restrict the settlement of
| our public lands. My object is to pre-
vent the mass of the people who own
no land from becoming serfs.
Intelligence is the quality needed by
the soil-workers, and when you find a
successful farmer or sugar planter you
will find an intelligent man. Science
is better guide than what has seemed
to be successful practice. Small farm
ing requires talent, devotion and a
spirit of content, but there must be
something wrong in the condition un-
der which it is pursued in these islands.
Being pioneer Of the State of Cali
fornia | remember well and no doubt
Judge Dole, Mr.. Horner and others re-
member, when 1t was said that moth
ing would grow there but wild oats on
the dry hills. You will see thrifty Or
chards there today. Then California
imported their flour, sweet and Irish
potatoes, eggs, chickens, turkeys and
vegetables, fruit, etc, from the Hawai-
ian Islands and from South America,
the same as we do today from Califor-
mia. No doubt but you, Mr. Editor,
remember when most of the southern
counties of that State We're vast cat
tie ranches, owned by San Francisco
capitalists and spectators, till immi-
grafton set in from the East and the
one-man one-vote principle busted up
the great monopoly in land, and as the
result you have a number of cities
and thousands of citizens and small
farms with their beautiful vineyards
and orchards. We could have all these
beautiful things in Hawaii If we chose.
What is n more beautiful sight than a
large coffee field with its hundreds of
evergreen bushes, resembling lilacs in
bloom? The air is impregnated with
a sweet aroma like that of the orange;
the small white flowers with rich fra
grant odor are much like the jessa-
mine.
A Hawaiian farm is evergreen. 1t
admits of succession and rotation with
in the year, so that twelve-month is
the producing equivalent to six or
seven its duration in wintry climate.
If our business men would turn their
eyes to our rural districts, as Mr.. Ir-
win and Damon have done, as they
achieve fortunes from the activities of
business life, many a fine farm and
garden could be developed in our neigh
boring valleys. Were our men of |
wealth to show a desire to excel in one
of agriculture or animal hus-
bandry, fruit or flower growing, they
would find boundless satisfaction and
such rest as they scarcely had thought
possible until they had found how
oountiful mother earth really is and
low she responds to the loving touch
If her children.
In one of your late numbers of the
advertiser you say: Think of import
ng lines from Acapulco when lines
grow here as readily as kukui nuts
[ is one of the drains on the country
which the small farm movement is de-
igned TO check" No. the small farm 4
movement viii not check the importa- -
ION of fruits and vegetables so long
; our property tax puts premium on
ileness and speculation and penalty
n industry and Improvements. ABB
entee landlords and foreign corpora
ions have grown rich with unearned
lcrements. There are absentees and
operations that have not put "A stroke
I living work i'm these islands
The man clearing ana building on his
tile holding finds that for every year
hard work his tax is added 10 at +,
~ next assessment. while the specu-
ltors tax remains the same. This
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ilue to his neighbors' unimproyed
ma. II Is the same with the small
lsiness man II his venture is not a
lce'ss' The taxes win ruin him.
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