The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-03
REV. DR.. BISHOP
ON KINCAID'S
MOHONK TALK
Exhaustive Answer to Extraordinary Charges
Made Against nawaii--'Echoes OF RoyaIjst
Abuse" DR.. Bishop Says.

tribes of Polynesia, who speak the
same language as the Hawaiians. Look
at the Marquesans, the Tahitans, the
Samoans, the Tongans, the New Zea-
landers. all subjected to foreign de-
nomination, without a voice in their
own government. What a contrast to
the native Hawaiian citizen, to whom
the American missionary sixty years
ago secured in permanence constitu-
tional liberty, civil rights and land
ownership. How came the HawaiianS
to rise out of the naked savagery and
squalid serfdom of seventy years ago,
to become a free, well-clothed, we'll
housed American citizen? 1t was his
American friends who, under God, did
all this for him. And yet DR.. Kin
caid Joins in railing against American
robbery!
LANDS OF THE NATIVES.
AS to their losing their lands to
Americans there has been no extensive
loss of this sort l think there is no
doubt that the average amount of land
owned by the common native Hawai-
ians is quite as large as it ever was,
and greatly larger in value. Many ma
tives lease their freeholds to Chinese
or japanese, and live on the proceeds,
added to the fruits of their own labor,
which brings high wages. The Hawai-
ian natives have about the easiest time
for making a living of any class of peo-
pie in the world Unskilled labor at
eight hours day is paid for at $1.o0 to
s1.50, and half the native men are more
or less skilled, and earn twice those
figures. Tt is far more difficult to hire
Hawaiian labor than that of Asiatics.
AS to the land, it is true that most
of the larger tracts are now in the
hands of white men, including Amer
leans, either held in fee simple or more
commonly under lease from the gov
ernment, Or from old estates of for
mer chiefs. Their rentals are COM
monly very high. because the value of
the lands has become immensely en-
HANGED by skilled improvements. For
example, the extensive sugar fields on
this island would easily command a
rental of $50 an acre. This is because
white enterprise has bored great bat
teries of artesian wells, and erected
immense steam pumps with miles of
huge steel piping, by which many thou
sands of acres are now irrigated copi-
ously. which never before were sus-
ceptible of culture. This has robbed no
native MS lOIileT DuI IL HAS
greatly raised his wages. The former
rentals of those lands for pasturage
did not exceed Is cents an acre. Such
is the actual robbery of natives lands
by white men.
DEVELOPMENT OF LANDS.
A noble example of the development
of formerly useless lands is that of
the estate of the Hawaiian CONNER
cial Company on Maui, a vast gently
sloping plain of 10000 acres, which
thirty years ago was arid pasture land,
worth less than one dollar an acre. A
German capitalist-Claus Spreckels-
got hold of it cheaply by a trick, and
established a large sugar plantation
on it. BY lack of management the
stock of the company fell to low
figure, and was bought in by Alex
ander and Baldwin, missionaries sons
and able planters. 1t is now one OF
the largest and most valuable sugar
estates in the world. Ten thousand
acres of cane are copiouSly watered
from bitches led from streams thirty
miles away at the east end of the is
land. Perhaps DR.. Kincaid holds that
Henry Baldwin has robbed the Ha-
waiians of those valuable lands, of
little value until civilized enterprise
took them in hand. 1t is fitting here
to pay due tribute to the remarkable
liberality of Mr.. Baldwin, who is a
fountain of beneficence to native
churches and schools on his island, as
we'll as to those for whites and Asia
ties. AS becomes the son of noble
missionary. he is the self-made rich
man to whom every worthy cause looks
with certainty for help. Such is one
of these hateful despoilers of the Ha-
waiians.
HOW THE NATIVES ARE MISLED,
1t is true that the natives view the
Americans with much distrust. And
this is Just because they are diligently
taught to do so, especially by Eu-
ropeans and a few misguided Amer
leans. When KaIakaua and his sister
after him recklessly undertook to over
throw constitutional government ana
to substitute heather wizard govern
1nent the Americans and many others
made a revolution and established thaI
republican system which was mas
Densable and vital. For that strenu-
o11S and necessary action we Amer
leans are paying the unaVoldaole
penalty of Hawaiian distrust, and our
Rritish comrades, as we'll as many
Germans. make use Of that handicap
against US. 1 am sorry that so gooo
a man as DR.. Kincaid should side NM
self with such a party, and reproach
us with such loss of religious ana
moral influence as has ensued' ouC
which he greatly exaggerates' Ihae
alienation Is wearing away, as Dr'
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