The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-09
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Working of the Bill.

Inc workings OF the proposed bill
| were then explained, the point being
! dwe1t upon that the period of the bin
was short and would lapse of itself
unless Teenacted.
| Regarding conservation the Govern
or stated that some steps must be
taken to do away with the present sit
| uation of all the eggs being carried in
| one basket. that of sugar. There
would be $4,000 available to use as
| seemed best. How was the matter
| to be worked outg He referred to the
| good work of the Planters Expert
| ment Station, where much important
| work was planned, waiting for funds
| to carry it on.
The Question of Fodder.
/ The question of fodder was an i'm
portant question to be taken up, in
| order to increase the number of beef
| cattle, hogs and sheep in the Terri
| tory, these now being largely i'm
ported.
The Governor referred to other
| work, including q soil survey, the mat
apples, etc, all of which would cost
only $4,000 year-a mere pittance.
A photographic survey would cost
$500 to $4,000, an all-important mat
ter. The planters had spent fifteen
million on irrigation.
The question of the Federal govern
ment retaining arid lands was some
thing to be preceded by hydro
graphic survey on the part of the Ter
ritory, something which would open
much land for settlers.
Opening market facilities for the
small producer was something which
would bring good results at small cost.
A large subject was covered IN
three departments of the Bureau of
Agriculture and Forestry, which might
all be supported ont of this fund.
These are questions we can not, with
good sense and justice to the eommu-
nifty, ignore, while the matter of i'm
migration was all important.
Single stated that the labor COM
mittee of the planters had been in
vited, Messrs Tenney, j. 2. Cooke and
Mead, and called upon one of them to
speak.
The Planters View.
Mr.. Tenney read the following
statement:
The question before this Legislature,
of providing funds to promote lmInl-
grafton to this country, is one which
vitality affects the government, and. di-
| rectIy or Indirectly affects every BUSH
| ness man and laborer residing within
| this Territory.
It is not a new problem which is now
presented, for it has been before this
country ever since our agricultural en-
terprises developed to such an extent
that the native supply of labor became
insufficient to carry on those enter
| prises.
From 1852, the date of the first i'm
migration of laborers to Hawaii, there
has been ne cessation of the efforts of
| the government, and the agricultural
enterprises of this country, to procure
settlers and laborers, and only at rare
| intervals have we been free from anx-
| 'ietv and worry on this account. Ha-
wall is a country that invites no I'M
| migration other than Asiatics We are
! isolated, transportation from Europe,
| the only other source from which la
| borers may be drawn, is expensive, and
| the extent of the country is not great
| enough to attract attention or create
! any extensive European immigration.
f, Without artificial stimulus and financial
assistance the influx of any people other
| than from Asia practically would be
! nothing.
The problem we are now facing is,
i therefore, only the same question pre-
scented in another form and under DIFF
! ferent circumstances.
This country is dependent upon its
agricultural enterprises and whatever
may pc the outlook for the future de-
velopment of diversified industries, 1T
| is no exaggeration to say that at the
present time, and certainly for man.
wears TO come, the Territory of Hawaii
is, and will be, wholly dependent on
| single industry. not only for its eco
monte prosperity, but even for the ac-
tual living of nearly all of its popula-
tion.
The custom house statistics of i'm
ports and exports show this fact con-
clusively; fer the fiscal year of 1908
the total value OF exports from HAWAII
was S41, sac. sos, of which sugar was
valued at S39,816,oS2.
With very few exceptions every bust
ness enterprise in the country and every
person employed by such enterprises,
is dependent upon the sugar industry
and if that languishes through any
cause, whether ii be legislative action
or an insufficient supply of labor to
carry on the operations of the sugar
plantations, the result is felt by every
one who endeavors to make a living
within this Territory. 1t will be felt
very greatly by the government through
an immediate and substantial decrease
in revenues. for the revenues of the
Territory are largely derived from the
sugar industry.
1t is necessary for the maintenance
of the one great industry of this coun-
try, and for the development of any
other industry, that labOrers be pro
vided through immigration.
The only immigration to Hawaii
since the annexation of these Islands
10 the United States, with the excep-
ton of some Portuguese and Spanish,
brought in by the Territorial Board of
Immigration, has been of japanese. For
many years the laboring force of the
plantations has been, to very great
extent. made up of Asiatics.
As we all know, the majority of the
Asiatics who have come here have not