The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-16
THE TRUTH TOLD
OF THE MOLOKAN
LAND MATTER
Privileges the Molokans Were Granted Are
Available for Portuguese and Others--
Great Advantages Shows.

would not employ any alien labor in or
upon the land.
s'Third-That they would crop the
regular area of sugar cane which had
been cropped annually heretofore. and
would sign a contract to deliver a crop
from such area as had been cropped
before-sugar cane alone, apart from
other crops they might raise upon their
own homesteads.
''The advantages of such an arrange
ment are manifest and should be con-
spfcuousIy set forth for public informa-
ton. They are these:
Il. The advantage to the country
of having these people establish an ac-
tual home before they claimed title.
50 Exclusion of the employment of
aliens. They would be a community Of
citizens before they got their title.
SO. The contract which they made
with the plantation was an assurance
to the government that the lands
would be continued in cultivation on
the same standard as before.
'.It was in view of these considera-
tions that Fred w. Macfarlane. John
Emmeluth and Sub-Land Agent Ed
ward Deverill of Kauai were appoint
ed as a special committee to appraise
the land with recognition of the con-
ditions of the agreement with the Mol
okans. The committee made a report
and special appraisement of the lands
for a settlement thereupon by a colony
of Molokans. Upon the area of 5000
acres they put valuation of 100000.
Further, the committee recommend
ed that the government reserve the
right to all the surplus water, over
what they used on their lands. also the
right of way through these lands for
conveying the water to where it was
required to be utilized.
'I have told the Hakalau people, they
having asked me the question, that
they would be given the same benefits
in every way that the Molokans had
been offered. And I told them that if
they rendered the same conditions they
would receive the same terms. The
land would be similarly appraised at
a special rate.
Nov, 1 want to say that there was
no break between the government and
the Molokans. There was eighteen
months of the lease to Makee Sugar
Company to run. All that the govern
ment did in the matter did not cost
$500, even including my trip to Los
Angeles No contract between the gov
ernment and the Molokans had been
reached. The discouragement to the
Molokans came at Kapaa, where they
We're to have been mere employees un-
til the lease fell in
1.-THE land is, however. still available
for application by Portuguese or others
who are willing to enter into an agree
ment for settlement like that of the
Molokans.
"Col. Spalding claims the right to
hold the land for one year after the
termination of the lease, which will be
on May 1, 1907 If his contention car
ries. the land will be available for set
, tlement one year later.
$50 far as I am concerned, I would
recommend to the Governor that any
others rendering the same considera-
tfons as the Molokans did should re-
ceive the same benefits as those peo-
pie were to have had. Only, if aliens,
| they must take out first papers.
Portuguese coming out. or Italians
If any come, will have the same op-
portunity.''