The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-22
not TALK on LABOR
Continued from Page l.,

tSOnIlnuCQ from rage LII
J. H. Craig commissioners, and c. l..
Crabbe (clerk).
A remark on the dependence upon
the planters for means of operation
brought out the emphatic declaration
of Mr.. Atkinson that he did not re-
gard himself as the agent of the
planters.
Neither do I. beyond a certain ex-
tent" Mr.. Garden said. IF you can
not get work for them you can not
hold Them
Mr. Atkinson replied that they had
no control over the immigrants once
they landed in the country. Answer
ing a remark about the difficulty of
some. plantations in meeting the home
stead condition, he said they could get
plenty of land. There was a thousand
acres of available land at Waialua. 1t
belonged to the Bishop estate.
Mr.. Garden said the Bishop estate
would not sell an acre of it.
Mr.. Atkinson thought differently.
PASSPORTS A SHAM
Mr. Garden spoke of the japanese
passports only TO Hawaii, when Mr..
Atkinson told him they had been in
force three years. You can not inter-
fere with the liberty of Japanese any
more than with that of anybody else"
the president said. Mr.. Garden him
self considered the restrictive pass
ports a sham.
Mr.. Cooke thought they agreed with
the president. 1t was no use bringing
the Portuguese here unless at least an
acre of land was allotted to every fam
lily. The difficulty was in giving them
fee simple lands.
Mr.. Atkinson said he had never
agreed on any terms with the planters.
Mr. Cooke mentioned that Jas L.
Castle offered two acres to a family
at Hauula. Kahuku plantation was
willing to help in the matter, but could
not give the people fee simple land.
IF we let up on this proposition the
planters will be quick to do something
else" the president observed. To a
remark by Mr.. Garden, doubling if the
Campbell estate could sell land, he re-
torted that the Campbell estate did
rot own all the land and besides land
could not always be tied up.
Mr. Cooke had been told oy Senior
Canavarro that the Portuguese would
prefer high wages to land at $23 an
acre.
Mr.. Atkinson said he had been told
the same thing by the consul. 1t was
easy for them to talk, sitting in their
chairs, but there were other places in
the world. He saw letter from the
Azores doubling if they could get any
people from there. The question was
they were going to profit by
the lessons of the past. They had
brought Portuguese here before and
seen them leave. If they had been
IL Gated differently by the planters they
would nos have left.
LAND THE STICKER.
Mr.. Cooke said there were 600 Portu-
guese on Maui now against 400 eight
years ago. If you stick to that hard
and fast proposition of one acre of fee
simple land, I am afraim the whole
thing will fall through.
L would like to see it, too Mr..
Garden added, but L am afraid we
can't
1t is on that account We got the
support of the planters" Mr.. Atkin-
son replied. There is a scarcity of
"a COR on many of the plantations. He
his views on the practicability
IF buying land for the Immigrants /
1iiiS pOdfu Is not importing IaDOfeTS.
t is importing settlers" he observed .
With emphasis. Then he asked about
Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co.
They will take 100 families Mr..
Cooke replied.
Mr.. Craig said: we went all over
: when you We're away. Some planta-
ions offered an acre, but others dfI
lot. Some are not in a position to do
/. L believe that some of the Portu-
5uese would not accept an acre of land
f there is 81 a month more in sight
Without il. We have failed with some
'lantations who have not the land to
ffer. These should be encouraged to
i've leased land. Let us make every
fort to get a thousand families. If
sc succeed, then try for more. Leases
Xpire on 100000 acres of government
and this year. Cut up some of that
and into 10-acre lots for settlers
Mr.. Atkinson expressed his disagree
nent anew with the views of his col
=agues and Consul Canavarro He
ould get ten men to talk differently.
It is no use for US to act as agents
or the planters in getting laborers'
PRETTY HOT TALK.
Mr.. Garden was not looking at it in
hat way. Some of the plantations
ad been a little slow 10 dole out one
ere OF land.
1t would not hurt many of them to