The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-11-18
Speakers Have Many Interested
Auditors in First Meeting
Ever Held Locally.
DISCUSS CARDINAL POINTS
biggest Men in Islands" Speak
and Are Spoken to During
the Afternoon.
(From Thursday 5 Advertiser.l

(From Thursdays Advertiser.)
Choosing as their subjects the most
vital matters before the Territory to.
day, speakers at the mass meeting in
the old throneroom of the Iolani palace
yesterday spoke on the five cardinal
points of conservation-the right use of
lands, waters, forests, minerals and the
public health.
The meeting, which was attended by
the membership of the Hawaiian Sugar
Planters Association, was opened by
Marston Campbell, president of the
board of agriculture, with a ten-minuts
address, in which he outlined the most
pressing needs of Hawaii in matters
related to conservation. Other speak
ers were Governor Frear, Ralph Hosmer,
Doctor Wilcox, DR.. w. c., Hobby, w. o.
Smith and Professor Hitchcock.
In his address Mr.. Campbell said in
part:
"The two great natural resources of
this country are land and water. To
protect one and develop the other, the
aid of forestry must be invoked. In
few agricultural countries is the duty
of water for irrigation purposes as large
per unity area as in this Territory, espe-
cially in the production of sugar cane,
and every effort should be made by the
government and our agricultural inter
ests to extend our forest cover, preserve
our soils and develop our water supply
to the point of its greatest beneficial
use.
" AT present we are without all of, the
necessary information for the develop
ment of a general scheme of conserva-
ton for our natural resources, and until
such time as we are in possession of this
data each particular unit viii have to
be considered by itself. However, upon
the completion Of the surveys now under
way, all of the information necessary
for complete scheme of conservation
of our natural resources for each island
can be formulated.
"The question has often been asked,
What have we in this Territory to con-
serveP That question is readily an
swered-our waters, the agricultural life
of our countryS our soils and our forests.
In this Territory advantage has been
ddhtu VI DuI SUllS anu ldNOIdDlS Cll-
matte conditions, and through the de-
velopment of our agricultural industries
we are in a position as regards wealth
and prosperity equal, if not better, than
that of most any other community in
this world; but we have in large meas
ure lived upon our capital and not upon
the interest thereof. 4"
Governor F'Tear, who was the next
speaker made short, straight from
the-shoulder address on conservation
principally in its connection with home
steading and development of irriga-
ton.
He explained conservation as some
thing which he considered practical
thing.
peaceful movements" he said,
@fmay be as swift, sweeping and as
revolutionary as any made with clash
of arms. Conservation in its present
sense was unknown five years ago. To-
day it is a household word all over the
world. -
In speaking of its phenomenal growth
he spoke of Roosevelt as the John
the Baptist of the movement. 1t
does not mean the misery boarding of
the natural resources. Its cardinal
idea is the fullest development of nat
ural resources.
Conservation is, l grant you," heI
continued, "an ill.chosen word for the
purpose. Language is a growth and
sometimes loses its chronological mean
ing. Literally it smacks too much of
selfish boarding, bat it means rather the
wise saving of the capitalist"
He spoke briefly of forestry and re-
ferred as briefly to conservation of the
fish supply by hatcheries and scientific
care; but these, as well as minerals and
the other parts of conservation, he call
ed mere adjunets. When we get down
to land, he said, we are at the bed |
rock of the question.
He referred to the many phases of
this question, such as transportation
and the need of making arabic lands
accessible He stated that of the A.
100000 acres of land here but 1,O0O,- |
600 are under cultivation. There are
100000 acres reclaimed, much of the
sugar land coming under this CLASH
fication.
He added that the reclamation work
which must be done could not be done
by the extension of the federal service
10 Hawaii rs there was too much TO
do on the mainland and that It would
have 20 be performed If AT all by the
issuance Of territorial bonds or Of bonds
by private interests. This was follow
cd BY short description Of the bill
which Is now being drafted for sub
mission 10 congress making possible
long leases such as VIII be necessary
Ga The Kan ditch enterprise.
The bin also contains clauses which
would enable the Territory 10 take