The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-18

California. Besides, they have a wa,
4 OF croWding into trades, profession
and mercantile pursuits and driyina
white people away. 1t is not chear
labor that Hawaii has. Men in. IN,
cane fields are getting $19 month and
upward, with a house, fuel, water and
necessary medical attendance. This is
considerably better than a dollar a day
WHICH so many thousand -laborers ge,
In the States, and then the men here
can work all the year round. Many of
the Portuguese laborers have a house
with yard, in which they keep chick
ems, pig, etc. With the work of their
children they are enabled to lay by
money, some of them several thousand
| dollars. Then the father looks around
for piece of land which he can get
| and on which he can make his living.
| Homestead lots have been taken bv
many In the Hamakua district, but
from personal conversation with the
portuguese there / have yet to find
one who is able to make a living on a
homestead by growing anything which
at present can be raised In the KuIa
district. where they grow corn, they
are more successful
We want these homesteads occupjed
but what can the people on them raise :?
Coffee will not pay; they have tried it
and abandoned 1t. Pineapples mus. be
near cannery, and the market NAV
easily be overstocked. Bananas must
nave ready market. Some raise cane
for the plantations and some grow
corn. People theorize on paper about
Americanizing Hawaii by getting peo-
pie to go into small farming. l have
Yet to see one white man other than
portuguese who has succeeded or one
practical man who believes it can be
accomplished. / know of one white
man who grows wheat for hay. When
cut, he has to haul it six miles to a
place where there is less rain SO that
1T can be cured. Outside of a few who
raise pineapples employing Japanese
labor, there is no crop which has paid
on the islands but sugar and much
has been spent in trials. A certain
place, Wahiawa, is often quoted as
having white men who raise pineap.
pies. L was there the other day, and
found that the original fourteen FAM
lilies have dwindled TO five, some nav.
ing leased and some sold out. Since
then, the growers have organized a
joint stock company with a capital of
S4OO,OOO While it is the opinion of
the practical men of Hawaii that small
farming by Americans will not succeed.
there will be number of small plan
tations where pineapples, sisal. rub
Der and tobacco will be grown These
are and will be owned by white men
or companies of white men and work. |
ed by such labor as they can get. To |
grow sugar requires a certain class of |
labor, class content to remain labor |
ars. This may be an un-American OUT |
look, but it is the condition, and no /
one can deny it. 1t is the history of /
every tropical country in raising /
staples. and to disregard history is a
Jolly. 1t is all very well for Americans
70 think: History or law does not
affect US; we are great enough to dis
regard them" So the old greenbacke
argued, so the silver men said. but II
Ices no good to buck against" the
avs of nature as proved by history
Ind experience.
The President says he is decidedly
against Orientalizing American terri
DRY. That is all very well: Hawaii
vas Orientalized long before it became
American territory, but will the prob
EN- be solved by Latinizing, and in