The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-27

From nv former connection with
the Bureau of Agriculture and For
estry, I still receive a number of en-
ouiries from Europe and the mainland,
as well as from this Territory, con-
corning public lands and diversified
agriculture generally, and as / have no
time to answer them all personally,
I avail myself of your kind offer to
publish them
It is of importance to this Territory
and to every thinking man, that the
truth should be told regarding the
actual conditions here and the oppor-
tunities for white immigration.
And as honest men, we should not
be afraid to tell it. In the matter of
exchange and sale of our public lands
too much power is vested in one man,
our Executive. If something is not
done soon by our Federal authority it
will not be long before the people s
land viii share the same fate as the
poor natives who once lived happily
upon them, for the end is near.
The Premier OF New Zealand in the
disposal of the peoples land invites
that every acquisition should be care
fully scanned by numerous critics.
Every fault that can be found IS
promptly and vigorously found, and
every complaint that can be made is
made over and over again until finally
it is threshed out in Parliament.
Justice Alfred S. Hartwell said
once about the land question:
81 would encourage all efforts to
produce healthy public sentiment,
hoping that it would be shared by
people of large MEANS on the subjects
of manual labor, and of Identifying
labor on the land.
cit is not by patronizing or pauper-
izing people that good is DONE
DR.. Maxwell said: Gone industry
alone in country never develops the
highest type of civilization, such would
produce wealthy and highly civilized
class and class correspondingly low
in the scale of civilization.
The late Hon. J. B. Anterior said:
Industries based on rates of wages
which barely provide for the laborer
I are out of the line of Christian civiliza-
tom
The family home, the schoolhouse,
the church, are essential features of
modern civilization. They are features
which cost money. The law of all
civilized countries require man to
contribute to the support of wife and
children. 1t is for the good of So
ciety that the wages of manual labor
ers should be sufficient for the mainte-
nance of family relations and other
agencies of civilization.
U. S. Judge Dole says "Scientifc
farming has proved Its right to exist
in this and all other countries. 1t is
great menace to the islands that
cane growing is made so profitable;
the entire interest of the country has
run into this one channel; on this ae-
count it is difficult for small farmers
| to get holdings which would make it
profitable for them to improve
| Following are some extracts from
| my private correspondence:
| Ahlgren, Suger Beet Planter, Swed-
en-: Send you our Land Act of 1895.
| Settlement Association.
Section II says: Six or more per-
sons under this act, may form them
selves into a settlement association,
| and apply for holdings in one block of
land. The Commissioner may cause
! to be surveyed lots in one block cor
responding in numbers to the number
of persons forming such association in
agricultural or pastoral land, or both,
according to the provisions of this act.
New York: In Hawaii the climate
is ideal. The producing season covers
/; every month in the year. If you like
| to know more about this country, adj
| dress Secretary Wood.
Sisal: The sisal plant is propagated
! by suckers from the roots of the old
sisal plant. Send you pamphlet on the
sisal industry in this Territory.
Tobacco: Is another of our prom
! Using industry Jared Smith says. There
| is no tobacco grown in Cuba but what
could be raised here under proper con-
] ditions.
! Attorney-at- Law, Denver, Col: There
j is more room for agricultural experts
at this time in Hawaii than there is
| for more lawyers, physicians, book
! keepers and accountants.
i Alameda, Cal: A more beautiful
| sight than large coffee field with it's
many hundreds of evergreen bushes, re-
sembling lilac in bloom, can not be
| conceived. The air is impregnated
| with sweet aroma like that of the
| orange. The small white flower with
/ it's rich fragrant odor much like the
+, Jessamine
r. L., Waikiki: T know of no bet
ter anti-malaria tree for you to plant
| then the eucalyptus, such as, E.
drepanophylia. The hygienic value of
this eucalyptus is well known. The
powerful disinfecting action of the
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