Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-01-23
Tenney said that waialua plantation

Tenney said that Waialua plantation
had in the last ~ months constructed
thirty new houses for Portuguese fam
lilies there at a cost of about 1892 each. ,
He thought that in the event Of offerinH
immigrants better Inducements than
were now offered people on the plants
lions, those now on the plantations IN,
was referring to others than the Japan
ese) might become dissatisfied. Al
many as immigrated might leave. Car.
den suggested that the paying OF extra
money to those who did not have homes
Of their own and land would probably
satisfy everybody, as had been suggest
ed.
Tenney said II would mean an ca
penditure OF something like 100000 "
establish hundred families at Eva
This amount of money was not to bs
carelessly spent; there must at least
be some pretty good assurance that thu
experiment would be successful. HIS
realized that money would necessarily
have to be spent and Eva was willing
to spend It with any kind Of assurance
that Il would be well spent. Craig ro'
marked that l.. A. Thurston had told
him that $4,000 had been spent last
year getting Asiatics here. Tenney sand
IL Thurston had made any such remark
he was away on
well, about that amount; | don't ~
member the exact figures" said Craig
IF he said II was about that amount.
| said Tenney, he was still considerably
or"
Cooke remarked that there was quite
| q feeling that some of the Planters As,
ISOLATION were not prepared to do the
right thing in this immigration mat
ter.
"one man said to me-" said Cooke.
"that his plantation was prepared to
accommodate $50 families ! asked him
\ II he was prepared TO give each family
q piece OF land. He said he was not
but the land proposition would be con
sidered after the immigrants got hero
| asked for something in the nature Of
q guarantee and he was not prepared "
give II. Now the planters guarantees
work for 1000 families, but the land
proposition must be certain.
II must say that this looks like an
absolute lack OF cooperation. The
Governor feels very strongly on this
point of the acre OF land for each fam
ny. Among the fifty or more planta
lions in the Territory there should be,
II seems to me, an acre for each family
we are trying to get here"
Tenney declared emphatically that
whatever had been promised would
have TO be carried out.
Cooke stated that Atklnson's sue.
cess In Washington In regard to the
immigration matter had been based on
the proposition that the laborers
brought here would be domiclled.
Garden said that those plantations
which had expressed themselves as
willing to properly provide for the set.
tiers should get first choice of the i'm
migrants when they arrived. Cooke
reminded the Board that the imml.
grants could suit themselves as to what
plantations they went to- He added
that great deal OF time had been TAX.
en- up in talking over this matter; eight
months had passed since the idea had
been first suggested.
"If the plantations want to wait until
the laborers get here before saying
what they intend to do In regard to
land" he said, that is another way OF
saying that they don't want anything
TO do with the proposition"
Cooke said he felt perfectly satisfied
as to what Mr. Tenney would do. Ten
uey said he had not had this matter up
for discussion with the directors of the
companies he represented. II was like
anything else, some system must be
worked out under conditions where the
plantations were protected, In mat
ter Of this kind no scheme could be
laid down that would be uniform. Car.
den thought, however, that there should
be some definite proposition In the way
OF land inducements.
Tenney thought that II the Board
succeeded In getting three hundred
families TO start with II would have
enough to keep busy with for twelve
months. Cook stated that here was
Just where the Board took issue with
the Planters. He thought the Boart
had been taken advantage OF by the
planters. There were lots OF planta.
lions which could give land but they
seemed to be trying TO hide themselves.
Craig said no answers had been re-
ceived by the Board TO the letters urg.
Ing the plantations to come forward
with their propositions. except from the
original few.
The Board noted the fact that, In.
Guiding Tenney's figures, there would
be proper Inducements offered for
about 525 families.
Cooke remarked at the close that
with Tenney helping It would not DO
long before things we're settled.