The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-12
BOARD OF HEALTH ADOPTS
IMPORTANT CHANGE IN POLICY
GARFIELD AND
OUR ISLANDS
PurpOrted Interview With Him
in an Oregon
Daily.

| HHawaii, the land of dreams and
the sugar trust, the land of feudal pat
ronage with old crown estates embrae-
ing as high as 100000 acres of the
! richest and most productive land In
the world; Hawaii, the land of cheap
Asiatic labor and the abomination OF
all white men, is to become the Mecca
of the American homeseeker, the para
disc of the white man of the future it
the plans of Secretary of the Interior
! Garfield prove feasible and Congress
does not put any stumbling blocks IN
his way" So says the Pendleton,
Oregon, Tribune, to which Secretary
Garfield outlined his plan for Hawaii.
The Tribune publishes the article in
leading place in it's issue of July IL.
''All this will come about as the re-
suit of the Secretary visit to these
enchanted islands of the Pacific, from
which he has just returned con-
/ y
in discussing the proposition yesterday
was very enthusiastic about the pos
sibilities of the islands at the time
when the American should come into
control of the rich soil and should ap-
ply to it the system, work and in
telligenee which has made this country
so great in agriculture and manufae-
ture.
III la SC
working on now, and which he worked
on during his visit to the islands, is to
break up the immense land holdings,
peaceably or otherwise, put in irriga
ton, start the fruit industry, coffee
plantations, diversified farming in such
way that it will appeal to the Amer
lean, shut out the Asiatic labor and
entirely change the condition of affairs
which has prevailed for so long a
time that now a few men practically
control the land of the islands and by
importation of cheap labor effectually
shut out the American.
''Mr. Garfield already has small
project under way, which he started
on his visit there, and from this he
expects to build up the great system
and crown his work with American
supremacy III ,bHe lSIdnuS.
"When in Honolulu he brought
many of the big land owners together
in a conference at which these plans
were put forth by the Secretary, and
they were asked to aid him in the
work. The trustee of the great Carter
(Bishop?) estate, the largest on the !
island, agreed and put many acres of
this estate at the disposal of the Amer |
l. a., L. = {3p1f
farmer. That the country will grow
fruit, and excellent fruit at certain |
has been demonstrated but |
never practised. All the land. the i'm
mense and valuable acres held by the
estate, has always been pressed into |
the raising of sugar cane and sugar /
beets. The owners generally refused |
to consider anv other crop. With the /
cheap Asiatic labor and the big acre
age they. could make such profits at |
this business that nothing else would |
interest them.
so the Secretary found the cheap |
labor question the keynote to the stu
alton. With this eliminated the trans
formation of the sugar fields into cof-
fee plantations, fruit farms, rice !.
farms, and the growing of many other
cereals and fruits would be but ques-
tion of time and the proper induce
ment offered by the government. AS
it now stands the white laborer is as
shut ont from the Hawaiian
Islands as if there were a high protec-
ton tariff duty to be paid on him. He
can not compete with the Asiatic labor
which is used in the working of these
Big estates, and consequently the is
lands have become a dumping ground
for the refuse humanity of the Orient
and there is no prospect of their ever
becoming anything else until the old
regime and order of things is de- +.
'troyed |.
''But how TO do this is the big ques-
ion with which the Secretary is now
wrestling. While he did not discuss +.
he question of restriction of Asiatie
abor to any great extent, yet he left
he impression that it would have to
'e stopped IN some manner. These Ia
,orers make no homes nor valuable :
on the land. The oper- +.
tors of many of the big holders are .
enters and work it for what they can .
et out of it. And this has brought .
bout the condition which makes home
ess plains of the millions of acres of
ood home lands
1.-The old estates. of which the Car :
er (Bishop2) estate, consisting of =
$4,000 acres, is the largest, are the :
esults of the granting of lands to in :
lvlduals by the crown. Always, the =
ecretary said. when a grant was made =
ne gift was designated by so many y
liles along the shore and extended q,
aek by parallel boundaries to the top :,
the mountain. The result was that :.
Continued on fage seven.)