The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-01-07
EREAR LAND POLICY
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he ocean, likened by one to a wreck
d rainbow, the richly variegated col
rings of mountain and valley clad in
ropical verdure, all make conditions
# life ideal. The resultant cannot be
letter expressed than in the words OIL
Iark Twain, spoken twenty years af-
er his residence there and while Ha-
vail was still a foreign land:
No alien land in all the world
has any deep strong charm for
me but that one; no other land
could so longingly and beseech-
ingly haunt me sleeping and wax
ing, through half a lifetime, as
that one has done. Other things
leave me. but it abides; other
things change; but it remains the
same. For me its balmy airs are
always blowing, its summer seas
flashing in the sun; the pulsing
of it's surf beat is in my ear;
can see its garlanded craigs, its
leaping cascades, its plumy palms
browsing by the shore; its remote
SUBMITS floating like islands
above the cloudrack; l can feel the
spirit of it's woodland solitudes;
can hear the plash of its brooks;
in my nostrils still lives the
breath of flowers that persisted
twenty years ago.
Hawaii must not be thought of as
a country of primitive people, or as a
foreign country 1t is now a full
fedged territory of the United States,
with Government more highly or
ganized than that of any other terri
tory thus far. 1t is only six days by
steamer from San Francisco, with
which it is connected by both cable
and wireless. The islands are con-
nected with each other by wireless,
and each island has a good telephone
service. Good, well graded. and in
large measure, macadamized roads en-
circle the principal islands, and there
are half a dozen railroads of greater
or less length. Between the islands
fifteen steamers constantly ply. There
is an excellent judicial system with
American judges, and a public school
system, now eighty years old, the
pride of the people. There are some
thirty daily, weekly and monthly pub
LEGATIONS; press cable dispatches OF
the worlds news are received and pub
lished in morning and evening pa
pers. The civilization is older than
that of the Pacific Coast a strong
American colony having been plant
ed there from New England long be-
fore the acquisition of California by
the United States. The nation is now
establishing there one of the strongest
military and naval stations in the
world, and, for this purpose as well
as for the development of harbors fol
commercial purposes, is spending mil
lions of dollars.
"The leading policy of the Territor
ial Government, heartily endorsed anC
encouraged by the Federal Govern
ment, is the settlement of the public
lands of the Territory with proprie
tors of holding of a size sufficient tt
support a family. A good beginning
has already been made. The desir,
is to people the islands with persons
who are, or will become American ci
tizens, and to such alone will tn
public lands be allotted.
"The public lands of the Territor!
are, in many respects, more like thos
that have been reclaimed on the main
land than like those that have usu
ally been opened to settlement on tn
mainland. They require considerable
capital for their development, the.
yield heavily and they command higl
prices.
1.-THE conditions of farming diffe
much from those on the mainland. Il
general crops are of subtropical ma
ture and must be such as can be trans
ported without deterioration long dis
tances, and they require a longer pc
riod for growth, a year and half o
more, according to the crop, but tn
yield is more than proportionatel
greater. Science has long been ap
piled in an unusual degree to agricul
tural industries there-more particu
larly to the sugar industry which i
conducted on a large scale. More re
Gently attention has been directed t
the application of science to indus
tries more suited to small holdings
and now the production of pineapple'
most of which are canned, rubber to
bacco, sisal, cotton, coffee, and 9th
er crops, is well under way. There ar
various methods of acquiring land. TIL
following is perhaps best adapted t
the needs and purposes of most Anne
rican settlers; The unit of divisio
varies with the conditions upon eac
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