The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-12-13
HATCH's MOHONk
PAPER ON HAWAII.

copy of the address he prepared to be
delivered at the Mohonk Conference as
/ the representative OF the Chamber. on
the invitation Of Mr.. Smiley, the origi-
nator of the conference. This was re-
ceived lately and was presented TO the
trustees at their meeting yesterday af-
ternoon by President James F. Nor
gan. Mr.. Hatch was not able to be
present at the conference because Of
matters requiring his attention in
Washington. His paper, however, was
as follows:
In addition to the gentlemen who
have addressed you from Hawaii, Mr..
Smiley, desiring discussion from all
points of view, has kindly invited a
representative of the Honolulu Cham
Der of Commerce to say something
from a business standpoint.
Hawaii in it's material development
shows very satisfactory progress. Its
crops have been good. The rewards of
industry have in the main been rea-
sonable, and general conditions indi-
cate a fair degree of prosperity. Ha-
wall has been successful in managing
her local affairs at home, and in work.
ing out her own difficulties. She has
not been dead weight on the Federal
administration. She has presented but
few questions for it to solve. Her one
great problem now is that of popula-
ton. AS the years so by, this Is be-
coming of more pronounced import
ance. Situated as Hawaii Is. she has
been the meeting place of the races. 1t
was inevitable that her population
should be cosmopolitan. Corners from
all quarters have been welcomed with
traditional and superlative hospitality
by the native Hawaiians. From them
may be traced the tolerance which is
so marked a feature of the island COM
munity today.
American ideals, however, have shap-
ed the development of these different
elements. There has been evolved a
community intensely patriotic, and
dominated by ambition to make of the
islands a state whose civilization shall
be of the highest and purest type. The
feeling in Hawaii is almost universal
that the foundation of her prosperity
must be the small farm.
Hawaii is essentially an agricultural
territory. 1t has no mines. Its manu-
features are only those connected with
sugar. Its dependence must be upon
its soil. The area of land of high fer
tility is large. Where water can be
obtained, crops are most bountiful in
yield. Closely allied to the question of
is that of diversified
crops. Down to this date Hawairs
great staple, sugar, has required CO.
operative effort. which has taken the
form of corporations Single individ
uals have not, as rule, been able to
engage in it. This has been due to
the great cost of irrigation and factory
works, and the impossibility of carry
ing on .nis business on a small scale. |
Every effort is being made to find some
crop suitable to the climate which will |
offer quick returns with a small in
vestment of capital; crop which
small farmer, who puts in merely his
time and personal effort, can make a |
success of.
Coffee would be an ideal crop. 1t |
grows best at an elevation high above |
the sugar cane belt. where the climate |
s invigorating, and much undeveloped |
and lies ready for the home seeker.
Coffee, however, has not proved profit
able. 1t probably never will unless
ariff changes make it so. Pineapples
Ire proving a great success. Fruit of
| fine quality is produced, and the
market demand is strong. Two million
ms were put up the last season. The
is young yet, and it gives
Promise of a fine development. Among
he unexpected sources of production
las come demand from a great over
and railroad for a million and a half
abroad ties, to be cut in our hard
Tood forests, which have hitherto been
nproductive. This contract involves
n expenditure of some two million
ollars, and will run over a period of
We years. The indigenous ohia tree
furnishes a hard and lasting timber !
mich is of no great value as cabinet
rood, but which is admirably adapted ,
} railroad use. Employment will be !
iven to large number of people in I
arrying out this order. Fortunately !
lr ideas on forestry are well advanc- q
!. Government supervision will pre- .
emit denudation.
As the completion of the Panama
anal approaches. there will be a :
11ckening of activities throughout the :
acific. Hawaii surely will feel the !,
1pulse. There is no question that she
Ill respond, and that all of her ener- :
es will be bent to helping swell the '
ming commerce of that vast ocean.
e depend upon you on the mainland :.
help to supply US with a reasonable =
rinkling, if nothing more, of the :.
avn and brain of the hardy sons of :,
e soil OF our beloved country to help -
pulate the island. Men who win Id
Try with them into the tropics their "
eyed ideas of right and wrong: who
ii instil the push of their energy in
Hawaiian business, and who will o.
und out and fill our island life, Not al
at Hawaii has failed in the quality 81
any of these elements of character: 10
has been lacking only in the GUAM "
y OF them Hawaii's record of en- dc
~ In devising and carrying out m
Eat engineering and irrigation works dt
private enterprise has been unri- ia
lied; her efforts so far however.
We been successful in a marked de- sh
'e only in one industry. The same tic
srgy, with only a 1.-THE Of the same te
'ital, which has made our sugar CO
ms the models of the world. applied co
other industries If only the right lal
n ra