The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-12-06
OBJECTIONS TO FARMING.

O6JEOIIONS ~ GANHlN0,
Mr.. Hannestad rejoins to the Adver-
Users answer to his letter on diver
s.fled farming, n substance az fol-
lows:
III He admits that the American
pioneers. went without market much
of the time when they were pushing
the frontier westward. but asks US TO
consider the wrecks that are lying along
that road
Wrecks to D.. sure. As Bismarck said,
when an omelet is to be made some
eggs must be broken There are
wrecks at sea, but ocean commerce does
not stop for that. There are confagra-
lions in cities, but the growth of cites
does not erase. Drouths and grass
f1oppers spoil e. seasons crop, bat farm
ers keep on tilling the soil. When one
suggests leaving Hawaiian public lands
10 the underbrush because some farm
ers may fail in ti1ling them, he sum-
mons progress to wait on the tagging
mace of the unlucky or the incompetent.
Happily that is not the spirit which
has enabled the United States to do
more development in 100 years than any
European state has done in 300.
CD Mr. Hannestad, answering the
plea that white farmers would cause
villages to grow up, where tradesmen,
mechanics and professional people
would gather, says that we have more
than enough of such Inhabitants al
ready"
True enough, on the basis of the pres
emit population. Not true as respects
large additional population of white
farmers. The kind of population the
rest of the United States has, is the
sort we want.
(s.) Pioneer conditions" says Mr.. !
Hannestad. "are not to be compared
with the conditions on these islands
today,
That is to say ours are better-more
favorable to the pioneer. I
a. Where are the steamersoto take
away the farmers products?''
IndI question: HdS ctShCd u tAAC PleN-~~
ers many years ago. The answer came
with two lines of inter-isIand steamers
which carried the sugar to Honolulu
where it was trans-shipped upon east
bound vessels. Farmers who raise sisal
pineapples, tobacco, rubber. vanilla.
bananas, etc, may avail themselves of
the same facilities; and as their out
put increases. their facilities will in
crease
(5.) 1T was not the farmers who
built the railroads on the mainland; it
was the railroads that built the farm
ers.s'
That refers to the prairie West. In
the East there was a great farming
population long before the railroad
came There was a fair-sized one in
the Western border States, Kansas and
Nebraska, for example. But back East,
farming went on prosperously from the
middle of the seventeenth century I'M
til the forties, when the railroad came
The richest agricultural region in Cen
lrai Ne" 1orh was loIty " Silly iiiiieo
from a railroad until 1868. The counties
there, except those containing cities,
had as large a population forty years
ago as they have now. Farm products
had slow transit to the cities and the
intermediate villages took toll from
them. And all this time diversified
farming was the life of the land as it
yet is.
ts9 IF you intend to continue this
discussion, then. pray, let us have
little variation it commences to be
rather trivial now
If the discussion has become trivial
some of the Advertisers correspondents
are to blame.