New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-06

SCIENCE that has a bearing sugar pro-
duction half dozen entomologists study
every insect pest of cane as soon as it IS
discovered and search the world for predaceous
insects or parasitic enemies TO combat it. Chemists
aualvze soils and prescribe fertilizers. Trained
arr;cuturiss experiment with varieties OF cane and
of conditions and develop new varletes 10 meet
special conditions.
The planters, Association likewise handles the
labor proposition 1t was through it that Chinese
were brought here. and later Japanese and sti
later coreans. The Planters Association provides
the general supply, the Individual plantations tap
that supply for their own needs.
Through the Sugar Factors Company the mar
keting OF the island product is done The sugar
Factors Company makes contracts for the sale or
the entire island crop. 1t contracts with the Sugar
Trust for the delivery OF many hundred thou
sand tons of sugar. 1t contracts with the Tehuan-
tepec Railroad for the transportation of hundreds
of thousands of tons It charters ships and subsi
dies steamship lines It owns a sugar refinery
which it has been able 10 use as club 70 secure
favorable terms from the trust.
Controlling more than half Of the sugar output
Of the islands, these British and German sugar
factors naturally control very largely both the
Planters Association and the Sugar Factors Com
pany. Representatives of these houses are always
among the officers of these organizations. They
are also largely represented in the Chamber Of
Commerce
Thus. it happened that when the Senate Com
mittee on Insular Possessions came here three
of the principal commercial bodies which appeared
before them British or German subjects. An
American community before American legisla-
When Commissioner Sargent of the Department
OF Labor came here tW9 years age and again
presented to him i'm the Views and desires OF the
Whenever petition or memorial from the Cham
Der of Commerce Of Honolulu or the Hawaiian
6 siee5 bT Brfts al or German Subject as
president.
chance that it will enbody the wishes and desires
rather than the Wishes u and desires of the Ameri
can part of the community
AMERICAN OWNERSHIP FAVORED.
But the influence of these aliens in the fiscal.
land and labor policy of the Territory, if
direct is more certain. For time there has
been strong sentiment among the American ele-
ment of the Territory in favor of a land policy
that would get the large amounts of government
land into the hands of individual occupiers and
cultivators, a policy that would create body of
American citizens with interests in the SOIL and
would develop the Territory in the words of Pres
ident Roosevelt. 'along traditional American
lines This policy has strongly opposed.
pecially by the British and German plantation in
terests. Secretary Atkinson as Acting Governor.
has been very active in aiding and forwarding the
sentiment and IN securing some action looking to
nor Carter, however, whose business interests are
all with the planters, has never given any encour-
agement to this movement In speech or utter
ance Of his has he ever approved IT.
a movement to induce the plantations to encourage
white labor. citizen labor, to create steady.
dOmiced and reliable white laboring population by
Offering inducements and making provision for
families At least two of the American plantation
agencies have very cordially entertained this move
ment, and have done much TO forward it. The
German and British agencies have stolidly opposed
it. They favor Asiatfc labor. Governor Carter
his report to the Secretary of the Interior two
Exclusion law that would permit thirty thousand
Chinese to come into Hawaii agricultural labor
for the plantations It is understood that he
has made the same recommendation this year.
Five months ago, when Governor Carter n
nounced that he had resigned, it these alien
sugar factors who were most jealous and fnSistent
that he should withdraw his resignation. OF
committee of five appointed by the Chamber of
Commerce to ask him to Withdraw his resignation
three were aliens-two were subjects of Great
Britain and subject Of Germany.
A little later when Governor Carter was in New
York and decided tC sell $500 900 Of Territorial
funding bonds. he advertised them for sale there
without giving opportunity for local bids to be
made. without even giving residents Of Hawaii
opportunity know the conditions of the sale.
But when W. G. Irwin, British subject ard head
a cable dispatch asking for chance to bid. the
Governor sold tie whole issue of bonds to him.
Still later. when Governor Carter decided to
ignore action of the legislature IL appropria ting
public improvements to be paid for out of loan
funds, and TO select only those items of improve
ment which he thought best. it these
representatives of German and British fac
1t is literally true that Hawaii is controlled in
the essential elements of her administrative policy
by aliens.