The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-02-06
GOLDMAN GOVERNMENT


Co this colonial scheme but from what
! have heard of ID from those who
seem to know something about % ann
convinced that 81 would be pretty
good thing f.r Hawaii but there is
one thing to be considered. The trust
may want TO put the Philippines and
Hawaii ON the same level with Porto
Rico and events may shape themselves
so that Cuba would be brought into the
scheme. Cuba Is an independent So
vereign state at present but you cam
not tell how long Il win remain. II
we could have some guarantee that
the tariff would not be put on our
sugar and II we were allowed TO re-
gulate our labor laws it seems to me
that with sugar at the present price,
and I do not think Il will grow lower,
there would be some mighty good times
I'm Hawaii"
Asked about the effect Of the Pink.
ham report Mr.. Dillingham; said he
considered Mr.. Pinkham's report a
mastery argument i'm which the rights
OF citizen labor were not encroached
upon. 'As ] understand it," he said,
1.-THE Pinkham commission was estab-
lished for the purpose of ascertaining
the exact labor conditions Of these ISL
ands. If citizen labor was being ignor-
ed by the plantations OF IL the citizens
! I'm the opinion of the trade unions,
were not being given the proper con-
sideration then il was to be ascertain
/ ed and an agreement made. They were
! to set some point at which citizen labor
was to meet plantation labor and de-
/ eide upon a policy that was to be car
! ried out I'm the future. In order 10 20
/ this there was a necessity for asccr-
tanning the extent to which people, es.
/ Iecially citizens, had gone into the
| business of small farming. / would
not pretend to say to what extent the
commission went into the matter but
the press has condemned It for it's APP
! parent neglect to try out every man
who had planted "A garden. You will
remember that when the governor was
spoken to about the union members Of
. the commission not signing the report
he added that they might regret it, /
do not know that the proposed move
ment for colonial government has any
thing to do with that but IT may have.
l know nothing of the scheme aside
papers and those accounts, particularly
the statement made by Mr.. Tawney to
McCants Stewart, strike me as sug-
costing way out of the present labor
difficulties"
George r.. Ewart. who has had as
many years experience with the labor
on plantations as any man on the ISL
ands, said Of the colonial scheme:
Il have just returned from Mexico
where l have been investigating The
reports Of the Hidalgo Plantation and
Commercial Company's business. /
have read very little of the news that
concerns the islands but this colonial
scheme is one that / have thought over
"A good many times i'm the past The
tariff is an important factor in the
change in the form of government.
do not, however, believe that the Unit
ed States would do anything in the
tariff line that would be Injurious to
her possessions. Cuba is not in, it
and would not be for the reason that
the peOple down there want to be in
dependent and would not consider an
neXation for a moment unless some
! stronger power would threaten her
and want to take away her sovereignty
1t does not seem to me that small
/ farming can be made a success here
unless the farmers would go into the
! cultivation of cane so that a change
in the form Of government could have
no effect upon that industry while it
would have upon the question Of labor
! for the big plantations. In other coun-
| tries where the labor conditions are
| different from ours, sugar can be raiser
for much less money than it costs Us.
1 want to see other Industries, but sup
pose you have them where is the mar
ket? 1 do not think that the soil here
is ripe for anything to the same eN
tent that II Is for sugar and if we are
to invite people to come here and EN-
bark in a business that has been prov
en- Improbable where is the blame to
rest?
mo, | have not gone systematically
into the investigation of the POSSIBLE
tiles of rubber cultivation here. When
/ was I'm Olaa last week / examined
some trees on the Curtis place place
and found them In a very satisfactory
condition. / was told they were about
fours years old and l found a good
supply of sap in them that could be
worked into rubber if there was enough
Of it. There are many varieties Of
trees and vines which produce rubber
I'm Mexico and it seems strange If I'm
the lot there would not be found some
that would thrive IN Hawaii"