The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-05-24

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nists Of a different class might even.
tualiy have reached similar success
but would have taken y ionier time
20 do It. Although this experience 10 not
likely 10 be exactly duplicated IN other
parts % the Islands. Yet there are
available at the present time consider
able areas " fertile soil within pracu-
cable reach Of the public roads. where
American farmers could raise all OF the
usual American farm crops and pro-
duce substantially everything required
for their own use except dry goods,
hardware. flour and some OF the gro-
ceries.
Although wheat can be raised, Il
cannot be grown probably as the -four
produced is inferior to American flour.
Substantially all OF the forage crops
can be successfully raised
The farmer needs money revenue.
however, and what this shall be would
depend somewhat on the locality OF his
farm. Coffee has long been profitably
raised. Tobacco has been experiment.
ed with and promises to be a most
profitable crop. Rubber is being
grown with every promise of success.
Sisal is being produced and manufac-
tured of fine quality and does well in
localities where the rainfall is COM
paratively slight Bananas have long
been profitably exported to the main
land. 1t is probable that such farms
as will be conveniently within reach OF
the large seaports will be able to do a
profitable business in raising and ship
ping vegetables and fruits to the Pa
cific Coast during their winter months.
when the home supply is at a stand
still.
Colonel Hepburn, of the House of
Representatives, who spent some
months in the Territory last year in
going around the Island of oahu, was
much impressed with the appearance
of the land in the neighborhood of the
Wahiawa Colony referred to above. 1t
impressed him as land upon which his
neighbors in Iowa would be able to
make better living than at home, and
stated, as / am informed, that the far
mers of Iowa, or in his neighborhood
in Iowa, did not net more than seven
or eight dollors an acre per annum-
probably meaning in addition to what
they themselves consumed on their
farms. People in these Islands en-
gagged in agriculture would consider
that such profits were not far removed
from failure.
From a business standpoint the set
Element of American farmers in this
country is most important in that, as
compared with settlers of other races.
they are greater consumers and more
largely patronize the mercantile estab-
lishments of the place. Agricultural
implements, lumber, dry goods. gro
ceries. flour, furniture and many other
things are required by them. and the
colony, like the one referred to, is of
no small value to the business of its
nearest city.
Even greater than this is the i'm
portance of such an addition to our
population to the political condition in
these Islands, where voters of the Ang>
o-Saxon race are comparatively few.
as shown by other papers in this num-
Der. Japanese and Chinese children,
as well as those of other races, are be-
a large element in the schools
Of the Territory. The majority OF
them have been born here, and there
fore the boys on coming of age will be
entitled to the franchise. Although these
boys going through the course of edu
cation in the schools of the Territory,
public and private, and associating in
the schoolroom and on the playground
with the pupils of the other nationali-
ties, will be, as a rule, good American
yet with their own race ira
1itions, and their attachment to their
own people in the home land, it is evil
lent that a strong and numerous ele-
ment of boys and girls from American
families is Indispensable for the con-
-inuous and best growth of American
sentiment. Socially this American ele-
nent is no less important as furnishing
4 powerful influence in favor of Anglo
Saxon ideas of family life and social
customs and presidents. Five hun
lred American families contentedly liv-
ng on farms owned by them would go
ar toward safeguarding the social and
political future of this community, and
me thousand of such families would be
| most satisfactory guarantee for the
'uture development and progress of the
pest element of American citizenship.
Fortunately after annexation the
Federal administration very definitely
ndorsed the existing policy in favor of
he settlement of the public lands, so
ar as practical, by those who should
,wn and cultivate the lands occupied
by them. This makes the work of the
Territory in this direction compara-
lively easy, for it has always behind 1t
he backing and insistent desire of the
Federal administration that such pol
cy shall be theoretically continued and
carried out.-New York Independent.