The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-21

my arrival as l stood on the bridge
of the steamer With the captain I can
assure you that L was very much sur
prised at what / saw ashore. When I
got into town and ran up against cleo
trio cars and the people, I began to
realize l was in a metropolitan city.
There was little difference between it
and many cities on the mainland, ex-
cept in populat ton. Then 1 came in
contact with the business men and
Iaboring men. In these islands 1 saw
that Uncle Sam had one of his choicest
possessions and 1 do not hesitate to
say so but when I got back east, in
New England. an old lady asked me:
Aren't they all savages down there?'
and l said, No, not any more than you
find here in Boston,
. TT is only by coming here and see
ing for yourself that you can begin
to realize the splendid opportunities
here.
1T was my pleasure to be one of
party with Col. Hepburn of Iowa, in a
We We're looking down at that big dam
Wahiawa) out here, and across that
plateau. Hepburn said: This is a most
country will be developed by as sturdy
and as thrifty class of people as there
is in Iowa where 1 come from 1t is
little prophecy.
There are lots of people in the Unit
ed States who would like to come here
and locate on that beautiful plateau
and make their homes there-people
who have money and who will take an
interest in your economical and social
life and tend to promote the welfare of
your country. How can you do it? BY
making the people of the mainland
know What you have got here and
what your needs and interests are.
Hepburn said:
81 HAVE BEEN IN CONGRESS
FOR MANY YEARS AND GENERAL
LY HEAR ABOUT ALL THAT IS
SAID. BUT 1 HAVE YET TO HEAR
UPON THE FLOOR OF CONGRESS
THE FIRST WORD SAID IN RE-
GARD TO THE OPPORTUNITIES
AND THE NEEDS OF THESE IS
LANDS
Just stop and think a moment. A
man as prominent as Col. Hepburn is
in the United States, sitting in Con-
gress. and yet not learning in Congress
of the splendid opportunities and the
needs of these islands, and yet Qur
government is spending thousands up
on thousands of dollars in the develop
ment of the arid lands in Arizona, New
Mexico and Indian Territory and where
not a blade of grass grows except by
artificial means. In Arizona there is
no such climate as you have here. Why
should not the government of the Unit
ed States devote some of this money
to the storing away in yonder mountain
peaks a few gallons of water, to be
distributed by fumes along
where it is most needed. Then reach
out here to get people to come here and
settle down. They may not always
raise cane, but something else of ad-
vantage. They will raise big families,
however-0aughter)- swell your pop
ulation.
Let the interests of the islands be
fully understood by the mainlanders
and some men may come from Iowa.
One may be Col. Hepburn because he
has said he wanted to come down here
and live, and he would not be a dis
credit to the community-Qaugh
even if he is an old man. Suppose he
did come here and locate. He would be
writing letters back to the mainland
and some one else will come along and
bye and bye you will find a lot of good
people coming in. You are DESTROYS of
getting good. citizens. 1t would be bet
ter if you fill up the islands with good
sturdy Germans from Illinois, and Nor
wegians from Dakota, who will bring a
few thousands of dollars to develop the
country. How much better they are
than the Asiatics. The latter are good
people, yet if you can get into your
hundred families of good
Germans, hundred of SWedes and
Swiss, who will make your canyons and
defiles blossom like Eden, how much
better it will be.
In talking with business men here l
find their ambition seems to be to get
labor for the sugar plantations. l don't
blame them, because they realize good
returns, but you want to populate your
cities more and get nice families here.
You have a Promotion Committee
which spends money to advertise the
islands. Don't look upon that as a
useless expenditure.
go INTO THE HALLS OF CON
GRESS WITH SOME ONE WHO HAS
HIS HEART AND SOUL IN THE
WELFARE OF THE ISLANDS AND
TELL CONGRESS WHAT YOU'VE
GOT. Attract Congresses attention.
Ask the government to set interested
in the development of your harbors and
get good people here
Mr.. Sargent then made q prophecy.
He said that the Almighty in creating
the world hid away in remote parts of
the world some of its greatest treas
ures. The weaIthiest mines We're found
in almost inaccessible places. He said
people here would be startled to read in
their morning paper some day of
great discovery back in our canyons,
even coal. He said this seriously, al
though two years ago he had been told
positively there was no such thing in
the islands. He believed it was possible
that minerals would yet be discovered.
He said that some day the harbor would
be dotted with steamers from all parts