Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-01-12
MER(HANISANDGUESTS
Al annual BANQUET
Pleasant Gathering OF
Business Men At
The Hawaiian
SPIRIT OF GOOD FELLOWSHIP
AND ENTHUSIASM PREVAILS
PITHY REMARKS ON SITUATION
BY sPEAKERs-JACk LUCAS
SPEAKS WELL FOR THE
COUNTY.

bled at an annual banquet last evening
at the Hawaiian hotel, which was mem.
orable for the excellence of the arrange.
ments and the good natured spirit that
prevailed.
The banquet was laid in the Eva
lanai, which had been beautifully dec
GRATED for the occasion, making II a
typicaly Hawaiian combination OF
tropic splendors. The music of the
quintet club and Of the band which
was giving a concert at the hotel COM
pleted the iueal setting. The menu
| was well selected. well cooked and well
| served. IL the merchants needed a
demonstration of what one of the lead.
ing hotels can do for its guests whether
kamaainas or tourists they could not
| fail to be satisfied.
The post prandial program was char.
acterized by short speeches all more or
less pithy and allowing a few extras
before the adjournment for the last car.
The opening toast "The President,
proposed by Toastmaster Smith, was
drunk standing.
The most extended remarks Of the
evening were made by Judge Dole In
response to the Territory OF Hawaii.
He opened with reference to the good
work done here by the Federal depart
ments and passed to a review OF our
central position and the many inter
esting problems II offered as a result
of our cosmopolitan population. He
| felt that the work done here might we'll
have far.reaChing influence In the de-
! yelopment of the orient
Annexation Disappointment.
Speaking OF the islands under Amer.
| lean government, Mr.. Dole said that
annexation brought disappoinments
and named the immigration laws Of the
country in this connection. He then
read an extract from the President 8
message referring to Hawaii and said:
This is the policy Of the American
labor party. IL does not suit some OF
us, but believe II will be the best IN
the long run for the islands. The plant
ers can not keep laborers now by the
contract system. The question now IL
that they must keep laborers here by
giving them land near their work which
they may cultivate to aid In the susten'
ance of their families. Much Is heard
of the experiment proposed for settling
the Russian Molokans on Kauai. james
b. Castle is so imbued with the i'm
portance Of this problem that he is CIV
ing his time and his money unstintedly
In fact devoting his whole energies "a
this scheme. because he believes that
in the end II will be of benefit to the
whole country, himself among the rest
The success and progress of the islands
In the future do not depend so much Oh
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make-as upon the people we are so
ing TO have in the countrywide viii
have the votes and control the AFFAIR."
Of the country,
THE planters are sagacious men anC
us soon as they see II TO be to their In
terests will take up this matter OF cit
lien settlement and make II a success
There is another thing in which yot
US business men, as well as planters
for many Of you are interested direct
ly In sugar planting-are interested
The planters want Portuguese, Molo
kans, Italians and perhaps any Euro
peans they can get. They will not In
troduce Americans here, at least no
for the present-they may In the III
ture. But with Portuguese, Molokan
and Italians we also want grea
many Americans here. We want mel
here, to work with these other people
who are acquainted with American In
situations, who will take up land no
used In sugar plantations.
J What Business Men Want.
"You business men know how import
ant II is to the business OF Honolulu
for hundred families to settle In tn
| nh 10 lat ~
prepared Tor occupation. You know
/. there would be thousand families SCI
tie here you would all be prosperous
.. The policy that would bring a thol
1 sand families here Is a very importan
} matter.
J Land Commissioner Pratt told m
J the other day that there was over 100
: 900 acres OF Government land NJ
I leased the past year and that With
D five or six years $4,000 acres, I'll
, leases of which will run ouL. A grei
deal OF this land is unsuitable for Sc
. Element, but suppose one.eighth OF II
! suitable there is chance for 2500 far
lilies to make a living.
' Wahiawa.
' Look at Wahiawa, where fourtee
' families settled seven years ago. The
: were Americans and they experiments
= with fruits and vegetables. Final
= they tried pineapples and last year
\ company paid them $4,000 for pin
4 apples. The land these families g
\ for about $4,000 is worth about $4,000
\ today. The success Of the Wahiav
y colony Is not because the land vi
= there, but because the people We
there.
Richard Hoe, the inventor OF
printing press, said one fought to pui
thing from behind, and not go aheI
and pull it, because 1t is the thing itse
and not the man that should be seel
That is what we want here and wi
all the other races we bring here '
want the leaven of Americans"