The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-07-17

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and good to look upon.
Commercially. we are concentrated,
and this applies to interests as well
as the arrangement of our Honolulu
business district, Tut we are diver
styling steadily in our interests and
the spread of the down town" Sec
ton in four or five years has been re-
markable. You see, sugar is our
main industry-about 100000 tons ex-
port year-and was everything a
few years ago. Pineapples, bananas,
avocado pears, coffee, rice. honey. ST.
sal and koa wood or Hawaiian ma
hogany are our minor exports, with
pines in the lead.
In point of population Honolulu
can figure wealth greater than most
great world centers-there are more
millionaires here, in proportion to the
number of inhabitants, than there are
in New York City, and fewer men
own the islands than own an ordi-
! nary American mainland town third
! of the size of Hawaiis capital.
Hawaii has gone through numerous
transitions. She, in the long ago,
had her own worthy government, pat
termed after no one knows what, pro
badly on teachings and memories
brought here with the first inhabi-
tants ~ when these volcanic isles
were cool enough for barefoot tread
| ing She has had her feudal sys-
tenn and her empire She has been
ruled by kings and queens recognized
! in larger courts in 1.-The old world,
and she has been a baby model on
the United States pian-a Republic
Now she is an American Territory
already imagining how it would feel
to be a State.
During your visit here you may
purchase picture postcards of one of
Hawaii's queens, Her Majesty, Queen
Liliuokalani, and may even catch a
glimpse of the truly royal lady her
self. And the first and last and only
President of the Republic of Hawaii
and the first Governor of Hawaii,
Sanford Ballard Dole, is now the Ter
ritory's Federal Judge.
From the first King of all the ISL
ands to the present Governor of all
the islands, from Kamehameha the
Great to Walter Francis Frear, is
not long time, but there are evil
dences of progress during that pc
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We have politics down here. reflec-
tions of the great questions on the
mainland as far as party affiliations
are concerned, but mostly purely 10,
cal, for we have no vote in national
affairs. Our politics, as American po-
litics goes, is hardly out of the in
FAINT stage and hinges largely on per-
sonalities, though we have our good
government Issues and are really lar
ger in our views than so-called agita-
tors might make it appear. Our Ia
Dor problems are blessedly free from
strikes and lock-outs and practically
the only serious question is to keep
the labor we have on our sugar plan
tations, The Japanese, splendid field
workers, are inclined to graduate
from the fields and we have to keep
their places filed.
/, Yourselves may get an idea of the
climate. In that we are rich and, al
together, Hawaii is a most delightful
place. Some of you, your terms OF
service expiring, may come wander
ing back again to call Hawaii home
You may select most any cline in
! these islands and can even build a
} snow man if you climb to Mauna
Loa's tip Even in Honolulu We have
variety of atmospheres, according
to elevation and valley breezes, and
we are as versatile as our meteor
ology-climate and character, yor
know, are great affinities. AS Ions
as the wind blows from the nortf
we are gay and ambitious and we de
. things, but let the wind be southerly
and we sulk and put off till tomor
row whatever we can avoid doing to
day.
AN INTERVIEWER BALKED.