The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-31

nave DetH Known 10 Nlelu Twelve TONS
of coffee, although good crop is a
thousand pounds an acre. One man can
attend to twenty acres except at pick
ing time. Piekers are paid fifty cents
per hundredweight of berries brought
TO the mills. Women are the best
piekers and pick some 200 pounds
day Children are employed to pick
the lower branches, so that STOPPING is
almost eliminated. The annual crop is
valued at about a third of a million
dollars, some $4,000 acres being devoted
- it. Nearly all of Hawaii 3 coffee
goes to the mainland of the United
States, the greater part being used on
the Pacific Coast. 1t is mild in type
and has very different flavor from
the heavy South American coffees
which find such favor in the States.
The rubber industry in Hawaii is still
in the experimental stage, but experts
believe the opportunities for profit are
going to be large. Preliminary expert
ments by the government indicate a
high yield from even young trees. Over
100000 rubber trees have been planted
in the islands and still other plantations
are being established The increasing
demands and the inadequate supply of
rubber in the commercial world makes
the price of this commodity a very at
tractive proposition to the planter But
rubber growing is business which re-
quires scientific knowledge and which
yields slow returns. 1t is not inviting
to the small farmer.
Experiments with tobacco show that
grades which compare favorably with
the best that Cuba and Brazil have to
offer can be grown on Hawaiian soil.
Hawaiian tobacco can come into the
United States duty free, and therefore
has an enormous advantage over that
of Cuba and other countries With this
advantage, and an equally good grade
of leaf to offer, Hawaii tobacco growers
certainly stand to win big returns from
their labors.
Hawaii is not the place for the mon
eyless man who expects to grow rich
by tilling the soil. The farmer in these
islands faces vastly different conditions
from those he encounters in the cotton
fields of Texas or the corn fields of
Iowa. This is a semi-tropical country
and the methods of agriculture differ
as widely from our own as our climate
differs from that of Hawaii. The set
tier who comes here must have enough
money to buy his land, to employ his
labor, and to live from to to four years
while waiting for his first crop. There
are hundred little things he viii have
to do which require that patience which
comes only with the consciousness of a
balance. in the bank On the other
hand, he who comes here with the nee
essary capital and the required patience
finds awaiting him an opportunity that
is probably not equaled by any spot on
the globe. And if he be a citizen of
the United States he will receive
welcome from his compatriots here that
will warmthe cookies of his heart.
Hawaii needs farmers. She must
have American citizens. She wants
some of that conquering blood to which
our western prairies and mountains
have yielded their treasures of mine
and field and forest. In the language
of Governor Frear-EFThe policies of
small landed proprietorships and diver
sifed industries are not necessarily an
tagonistic to the prosperity of the sugar
industry. Probably nowhere are bust
ness enterprises, large and small, con-
Quoted more generally under corporate
forms, but probably nowhere are they
conducted more honorably or with less
abuse of capitalistic power. The sugar
industry is that from which directly or
indirectly the territory and its people
derive their main support. But it will
be conceded that the territory should
not keep all its eggs in one basket
especially when that baskets upset is
threatened by probable tariff revision.
The high interests of these islands re-
qufre them to be peopled as far as may
be by small landed proprietors.o
Not even the solid phalanx of the
beet sugar interests of the Northwest
can protect Hawaiians from seeing the
ghosts of tariff revision, Philippine free
trade, and Cuban annexatifn. Some of
the Hawaiians are alreaGy at work
heaping their eggs in baskets other than
the one of sugar. They have blazed
the way and opened the door of oppor-
tunitv for the American who has youth,
industry. and a few thousand dollars.
All who desire to turn these assets into
wealth aud happiness, the while living
in a veritable paradise, should answer
the Turing call of Uncle SAM little |
ocean gem-Hawaii.
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