The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-22


that because things are not just as we
would like them that it will take any.
thing that is offered in hope of bet
terment. 1t looks into the situation,
studies the possibilities and then pro-
ceeds to get what it needs. The Re-
publican party recognizes cold, hard
facts. In the first place all the public
land of Hawaii, including the frigid
areas at the tops of the Hawaii and
Maui mountains and the arid lava
fields, is small in amount. It starts out
to get more land for the public.
''There are several methods of ae-
complishing this result, some of them
being studied at this time, one method
being studied by the man best fitted
in all the world to look into the ques-
ton. I refer to Mr.. Newell, of the
Reclamation Service, who is now in the
Islands, the first fruits of the visit here
of Secretary Garfield. He is studying
what arid lands can be reclaimed
through irrigation. Private enterprise
has already done much to reclaim our
arid lands. Half the sugar lands have
been made productive through the ex-
penditure of fifty million dollars put
into great bitches, reservoirs, pumping
plants and other means to get water
on to the arid plains. Two-thirds of
all the sugar raised on our lands come
from the reclaimed arid land and the
problem is now for the United States
government to do the same thing in
retaining lands for small property
holders. These arid lands with water
are twice as productive as our other
lands.
''This is one way that the Repub-
lican party proposes to increase the
area of the useful public lands We
propose to get the Federal government
to spend here from five to ten million
dollars in irrigation works for those
who would like to own small pieces
of land Again, we have small tracts
of land good for special purposes, for
rubber, sisal tobacco, pineapples and
such, and if by a careful study of the
soils we can find that certain lands are
adaptable for certain things, we will
increase our area of first-class agricul.
tural lands from what is now second
class pasture lands and this means that
we have more good lands to offer to
the small farmers Through the Board
of Agriculture and Forestry, the College
of Hawaii, the Federal Experiment
Station and the Planters experiment
Station we are trying to learn what are
the best crops for our lands.
"More than this, learned while on
my trip around the Islands that all the
farmers didn It know how to farm; that
they were using the wrong kinds of
seed and other things. Now we pro-
pose to have local experiment stations
on the different islands and to have ex-
perts go out and instruct these farmers.
Then we propose to investigate and find
the best methods of marketing the
products. We propose to build rail
roads and encourage steamship and
other manner of quick transportation.
If railroad, encouraged by us, goes
intota district, it brings more land into
use and makes more available for home
steaders. We propose to see that all
lands available for homesteading will
go for that purpose.
81 claim that this is constructive
policy, not destructive one. What we
propose to do is to make the land avail
able for settlement and then to settle
it. We are not asking that the Federal
land laws be applied here to make mat
tiers worse.
Invites Comparison.
Ct invite the voters to read carefully
the platforms of the Republican and
Democratic parties, study the situation
earnestly, and then determine which of
the platforms and which of the parties
is the better to support. We want a
businesslike and an honest administra-
ton I have a great respect for the
lJGIluCldlo. kO4I0lAOA hldp tLS3 o. y
just as good and just as honest as we
are, but they are on the wrong track.
GIVE want a business administration
in our government, not only in the
Legislature, but in the departments as
well. We want to work together. At
present the executive of the mainland
is Republican, the Congress is Repub-
lican, Just as in Hawaii the executive
is Republican, and the Legislature has
been Republican since the end of the
first session. All the branches of the
government are working harmoniously
together. at the present time. Do we
want to interrupt and put obstacles IN
the wheels that are running so smooth
"? In Congress we have a Delegate
who has been working there for sew
eral years, and is now in position
where he can accomplish things. The
Delegate and those there and here who
are working with him have secured
much for us, the appropriations for the
Islands passed in the last Congress
totalling in the neighborhood of seven
million dollars Everything points to
achievements even more splendid in the
future.
If a Democratic Delegate were sent
to Congress and were to put in bill to
amend the land laws and If was re