The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-05-22
THE ESSENTIAL PROBLEM,

Members Of the Legislature well who sought to have the land
laws amended make easier for American citizen to acquire
Territory do the trainers of panks with that
election Platforms we'll No doubt also the intentions
administrations which have their
of working the existing land laws above proach 1t would
perhaps libel upon any government since annexation to that
playing double game in the profession to all Of
Them of socitd for the OF McKineys policy regarding a
wanaey that Of developing the islands along American lines
Yet there supreme essential scheme of settling the
public lands with American farmers
the scheme aurea failure eacng that nothing short
of revolution the entire system of land will its baneu
results for ha century If practical farmers be settled lands
anywhere these islands without adequate marketing facilities for c
disposal of the products of their farming living profit the time
will be but short when the settlers will desert their holdings despair
and disgust capuang such they may obtain to land
spectators and corporations 1t will be the story of Oa and Of Ma
hk and of other homestead propositions told again. unless with
the opening of agricultural lands remaining there come the build
ing of roads theom regular points of call of steamers together
with steamer freight for produce giving fair margin to the
Queer what the traffic will bear.
Any land settlement policy that leaves the transportation pro
bem is bound to fail Failure every disastrous in
ton the magnitude the particular settlement project giving
black eye land settlement in Hawaii which will for long pc
Rod be healed Men like H. P Baldwin know the end from the be-
ginning Baldwin corporation
gndgreaty the advantage of the general prosperity it
be confessedhe honest enough give the
ing of the rock which land settlement is most liable to be wrecked
His Immediately counseed precauon that lands ought not to be
sold outright but settled under leases of sufficient length try
every presently conceivable line OF diversified agriculture But eav
ing specific modes of settlement aside the fact remains that settlers will
the soil of Hawaii whether holding through fee simple
or lease while the transportation problem remains unsoved
This question not only apart from modes of settling the land
already stated but also from the perhaps important question
methods OF cultivation and marketing OF products Produce OF tod
staples that command cash market in the larger of the other
islands, well Honolulu periodically excepting where
portion may conveniently be fed to pigs owing to the difficulties on
land and water the way of transporting the stuff Various kinds
of fruits wild all the islands, cultivated in or
less desuo and kueana which would he worth not
merely thousands but millions of dollars if they could be placed within
reach of consumers towns delivered at profit ship
for the mainland market central preserving works for
paration for the worlds markets.
Roads the first requisite and freigh that allow al
margin of profit producers the second but equally essential requ
te for any successful policy land settlement in this Territory