The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-02-08

Even my esteemed contemporary,
The Friend, knocks the project to make
town hail Of the fishmarket In
the course year Honolulu must
battle with a large number of ridicu-
lOus propositions, but the "fishmarket
town hall" idea is the limit
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1t would be interesting to know the
extent of the area of productive land
set aside by the Bureau of Agriculture
and Forestry This body is composed
OF a few men who have tremendous
power; their meetings are held in an
ort of the way place, and, as far as |
am aware, newspapers are never no
titled of meetings and 50 they are in
position to rig" up schemes if they
are so inclined The public seems to
take no interest in the work of the
bureau: when it is announced that a
certain portion of land is to be set
aside for forestry purposes, no objec-
ton is made, even if the tract or
portion" may mean miles of land suit
able for tilling. And, it may be add
ed, the land is set aside for the benefit
of private interests and not for the
| public good The latest scheme is to
put aside on Maui # ,44O acres, and this
in one piece mind you. | hope Gov
ernor Frear will look into this pro-
posed deal before he sanctions it,
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The coming election promises to be
mixedup affair; the political grafteIs'
are getting ready for the fray; the
sponge" industry will be a thriving
one; then there are many "republi-
cans" making preparations to flop over
to the Democratic party and this state
! ment is no joke. If Taft is nominated
then the peerless" William J. Bryan
stands good chance to be elected in
the latter event. the job chasers want
to be in a position to claim allegiance
| to Bryan's party. r. Beverly Kidd
| will soon return; he will inform us as
to the political situation on the main-
land; then we will know the proper
way to jump.
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The fight between the KolOa and Nc
Bryde plantations on Kauai shows a
contempt for the law of the land, and
furnishes an example to Japanese and
other aliens and, some day, you may be
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vicious precedent and defy the law, just
as the "haoles' are doing now. The
whole thing appears to be a fight be
tween Hackfeld & Co., and Davies 4
Co, two sugar agencies. The latter
firm has some claims against All Ping
pake who is running the Kipahulu
plantation under lease from HackfelC
e Co. AS fast as Mr.. Ping turns on
sugar Davies & Co., attach the produce
and they have hope that the entire
crop will be sufficient to settle the ac
count In the mean time, Hackfeld {
Co., are anxious to know where the!
come in" they advanced money tC
harvest the crop only to see the sugaj
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there is a merry war on between the
two houses
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| take it that my friend Wood, o
the Promotion Committee, is reading
carefully his files of Honolulu papers
In his last letter he has dropped tn
beautiful, dreamy, healthful Hawaii
idea and now talks of small farmers.
At last, Wood is on the right trac
and | hope he will put in some goo
= ticks in an attempt to start settlers thi
way. In Honolulu, the small farmer
proposition is every day gaining ne'
converts anything to bring in whit
people into the country" is the slogan
% Some day Walter G.. Smith will /
DO thanked for his good work on beha
DO of the small farmer; when he starte
the crusade he was jeered at, but {
time goes on, people who jeered ;
Smith now admit that he has been d,
ing good work for Hawaii. | doff n
u hat to Walter G.
u have talked with few tourists al
" come to the conclusion that WAIKIKI
& beach is what brings visitors more tha
" anything else. Since the arrival of Il
Mongolia, all persons connected wit
- the Alexander Young hotel have had
10 hard time apologizing for the clOsiI
of the MOana. The Seaside was quic
ly crowded and could have secur,
ct more, after the Mongolia crowd G
. here The visitors nearly all seem,
to have heard of the glorious beat
49, where one can battle night or day &
30 most all the year round, and where Il
/. LongwOrths honeymooned in perpetu