The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-06-05

IUUH UUUlIIU
| PRINCIPALLY
HONOLULU, T. II. May 15.-There
tare more than 100000 acres Of fertile
and desirable land in Hawaii as yet
untitled. Much of it is not in use at
all, and the remainder is used for
pasturage. More than half Of it is
owned by private parties, the remand
er being government land. The small
farmer is wanted in Hawaii, and the
government has some seventy thou
sand acres which it stands ready to
hand out to settlers who will come this
way. Most of this land IS hign anu
dry. 1t is from 1000 to 5000 feet above
sea level, where the rigors of winter
and the burning heat Of summer are
alike unknown. 1t is a region of
perpetual spring.
| Perhaps very little of this land is
available for the production of sugar
A farming industry that turns out raw
material worth s25,0O0,O00 each year,
| where the entire territory is smaller
than even the little state of New
Jersey, is not likely to overlook any
such opportunities for further expan-
sion. That part of Hawaii which is
cultivated already produces enough to
make it the greatest exporting coun-
try of its size in the world. But sugar
is not the only thing that fiourishes in
the islands.
Pineapples are profitable to grow
| wherever soil and climate favors them,
| and the Hawaiian product is equal to
| anything produced in the West Indies
or elsewhere. 1t is not too much to
say that the pineapple may in itself
bring about statehood for our mid
Pacific possessions. On the island of
Oahu there was tract of Ii, 900 acres
of land which was believed to be with
out value. A colony of fourteen families
from southern California thought they
saw living in it and bought it for
song, settling on 1t themselves. That
was seven years ago. Failure after
failure followed as they tried to grow
different crops. At last they tried
pineapples with the result that their
That land now sells for 5000 an acre
and shows an annual profit that justi-
fies the price. Hawaii now has over
5000 acres in pineapples and the in
dustry is on such a profitable footing
that in few years there will be at
least 10000 acres under cultivation.
Large areas of good land are avail
able, and the markets of the United
States take all that is grown and then
call for more. Pineapples usually bear
fruit two years after planting, and
the first crop averages ten tons to the
acre. The cost of production ranges
from $40 to SIS per acre, and the fruit
is sold to the canneries at from $40 to
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polite, is Samoan. 1t is a perplexing
mixup of race and color.
The color line has not been obliterat-
ed, but it is drawn in a very, very soft
gray. There are people who are i'm
mensely proud of the fact that they
belong to an old family-that is a
family which has been in Honolulu
for two or three generations, and
whose blood is still all white But
they do not advertise this pride of
white blood with a brass band, for
they have some estimable neighbors in
the highest circles of society whose
blood is mixed. Let it be said to the
everlasting credit of Honolulu that it
has kept natural and Unborn race pre-
JUDGE well curbed. So far as color is |
concerned. there is almost no mani |
festation of prejudice as against the |
yellow, the bronze OR the brown. But
the black-that is another story.
A teacher in the Honolulu public |
school, who has had charge of hundreds
of pupils of all races for many years,
admitted that the only time there has
ever been any trouble among the chill
dren on account of race prejudice was
when some American negro children
came to school. A distinguished negro
lawyer, now encouragement of Lii
IBERIA, made great onslaught on Ho-
nolulu politics and society few years
ago. Good New England sentiment
him and stern New England
steel put him to flight
There is still another feature of the
of Honolulu which is
quite different from anything that is
known in any of our cities on the main
and, not even excepting New York.
It is an unpleasant feature, and there
fore one is glad to say that it is slowly
but surely passing into the limbo of
,orgotten things. This feature is the
political jealousy of the British and
German residents of Honolulu who
lave have not yet recovered from their
,hagrin because of American annex
ltion. Many of them have not become ,
laturalized Americans, some of them ,
lever will. The Britain in Honolulu | !
S quick to tell the visitor that it would I,
AVE been far better for Honolulu If ,
he Stars and Stripes had never been :
Infurled over the Island. At first he :
uggests that the independence of the !
was ideal, but if that could
ot be maintained he is quite sure that i.
would have been better to add Ha- :
'aii to the domain of Britannia.
The German is pessimistic and dis !.
runtled and he is still hopping mad !.
ecause the United States will not let
i'm import Chinese laborers under
ontract. Until a few years ago the
hurch of England had a strong fol-
wing here which aimed always to
ecure British political supremacy. The
'ork OF this Church has been taken o