The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-17

| modern hotels, better port rapi
;, transit, q larger trade, a grea ter popu
| lation and a bigger volume of invest
| ments While there was danger o
| revolution and OF foreign interference
: and while Japan was filing the island
: with people for whom she was abou
TO ask special rights Of suffrage sucl
as the old governments gave to Amer
/, leans and Europeans, capital wa.
: timid and retiring. Annexation and
stable government brought il into ac.
ton. Previously much OF the surplus
plantation earnings We're invested
abroad. Now they seek securities al
home. In the field OF sugar invest
ment alone the increase of prosperity
since 1893. the year OF the Queens
dethronement, has been marvellous
The manufactured sugar crop of 1893
weighed $50, so. S79 pounds. Ten years
later 1909 il weighed IA. S25.420 pounds
But for stable government this vast
expansion of sugar property would not
have taken place.
3--Congress. in taking Hawaii over
also took a large part of our public
revenues. customs, internal taxes and
postal receipts. What money we ex-
pend for public purposes we get chiefly
B ALUM ld8SS anu AOdIlS. L ne territory
meanwhile, is undefended, save bv the
navy, has no public buildings except
| those inherited from the monarchy mad
| is generally neglected by Washington
We feel that some equivalent of a part
/ of our contributions to the national
treasury should come back to US from
year to year.
4-There is room here for spe-
sugar, such as pineapples-of which
we are now raising enough on a frac-
ton of the susceptible land of the is
lands to supply the existing American
demand for the canned article; sisa1,
which we are beginning to export;
bananas, for which we have a con-
siderable coast trade; rubber, vanilla. |
cassava and tobacco. We have lately |
produced wrapper tobacco on an ex- |
perimental farm which has been ap-i
praised at 81 per pound. Cattle do |
well poultry fairly well, honey raising |
is successful and general produce can
be raised at different elevations. Grapes
and tropical fruits thrive. Coffee only
needs tariff protection to become our
second agricultural asset.
5.-Yes. The American system of
giving everybody chance to locate
public land in sections and quarter
sections would soon vest the public
domain in a few hands from which it
might soon be transferred to million
aire sugar and grazing corporations.
Hawaii controls it's own lands and
sees that they get into proper private
ownership Plantations are justly
served and the bona fide small farmer
can get a location at a low price. A
colony of Russians has lately received
a large tract of first-class land at So an
acre on terms which protect it from
the corporate man. Our land laws fit
our special conditions very well.
6.-They are progressive people
but remain japanese. What they take
of Americanism they hope to make
use of for the good of Japan. not for
the good of the United States. The
world is their oyster; Japan is their
home. 1 have never known but one
naturalized Japanese and he has an
office in the immigration bureau. His
children, I hear, are being educated in
Japan.
PLANTERS are divided on the sub
ject Progressists are for a new trial
of European labor. conservatives for
Oriental labor. The old feudal state
W DIS dSIetdDit 10 NEARLY Oil VI liiCiii /
but they are beginning to see that
there is no place for it under the stars
and stripes. Now they are looking for
the next best thing.
S.-Yes. if they will work, leave their
knives and pistols at home and keep
out of strike-unions.
$50 far, European field labor,
German and Galician, has not panned
out we'll The Portuguese will work
but they prefer to live in town. Ita1-
ians we are yet to try. The present
Russian experiment seems doubtful
owing to the fact that all of the i'm
migrants had a taste of city life in
California before coming here.
think however. European labor will be
a success under a homestead system
which attaches it to the soil. This sys-
TEN should appeal to Portuguese es-
pecially who are home-loving class
and might be willing to live in the
country if they could have small farms
there.
10-Hawaii is useful to the United
States in a wider agricultural sense
than that embraced in sugar produc-
ton. Commerce benefits by the multi
plication of our industries Our i'm
ports from the mainland amounted to
s12122 PSI in 1905. Hawaii is a handy
cable station and port of call and in
time Will be known as America best
sanatorium.
ia fortified Hawaii. with great
naval station. means a safeguard for
Pacific coast cities from naval attacks
from any quarter except Canada.
Held by an enemy and fortified, Hawaii
would menace the coast like Pacific
Rarr1uda America needs these Islands.
NOT merely for her own use in war but
to keep them from being useful to
hostile power
12.-The Panama canal should give
Hawaii cheaper freight for sugar and
other merchandise and for imports
from the eastern market. AS a port
of call we should also get more ships
Hawaii would serve the canal in pro-
norton TO the tolls it paid. 1t also !
bears a plain relation to the defense !
of the isthmus waterway.