Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-09-14
What
Smith
Said

Uowa) Daily Capital, is with the Taft
party. He is writing a series of let
tiers for his paper and this extract
shows the information he secured from
the man assigned to entertain him at
the notorious Taft luncheon:
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q: ment, and he proceeded to de- .
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@ six months older, at which time 9
Z. he will be appointed. .
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o people being SO disconnected with I.
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mia. There is much enthusiasm on the
islands as to their own affairs. The
people are enthusiastically loyal to
Uncle Sam, and are proud to be part
of the United States.
LABORERS ARE WILLING.
The sugar planters do not officially
complain Of the lack of willing labor
ers. In all their printed reports they
say that labor Is more plentiful than
last year. The population OF the is
lands is $4,000. There are 81 900 Jap
anese, $4,000 Chinese. $1,000 Portu-
guese, $4,000 natives. and a few from
every other country in the world. The
prosperity Of Honolulu and all the Ha-
waiian Islands is apparently due to the
enterprise of n few Americans who
have been willing to put their money
into public enterprises to develop the
country. The prosperity OF the sugar
industry against all obstacles Is a
strong testimonial TO the richness and
rroductiveness of the soil, soil that
yields tremendously when properly wa
tered. The sugar industry IL holding
its own, notwithstanding the enormous
increase In the wages paid on the sugar
plantations, the increase having been
from $3.50 per month to $40 per month
for plantation laborers.
The people of the Hawaiian group
are satisfied and contented. They be-
lieve they live on the most beautiful
islands In the world and they would
not swap their lives or opportunities
with anybody. They have sunshine
and showers, beautiful trees and now-
ers, plenty to eat, and all they need
to wear-what more could they ask?
They have their balls and their parties.
their dramatic performances. their
own newspapers and magazines and
they enjoy their lives. Each year more
vessels touch at their ports, and each
year there Is satisfactory progress.
The islands are six days sail. a little
southwest from San Francisco. They
are in the pathway OF the future travel
and commerce OF the Pacific. They are
the halfway house to Japan and China,
though not half way. The government
OF the United States will have to build
great forts on some OF these islands
and make them like Gibraltar. II we re-
tain our interests in the Pacific.