The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-23
GOOD TIDlNGS FROM HAWAII
LtNDOPEN TO SETTLERS: STGtR
SWFETENS THEIR ron.
Labor Trouble ENa9Eeratrd fiiipinos
Work We'll -Repianting Forests The
Democrats Are Gaining Report
Pilgrims VINO Casually Met Here.

senator J. y Dowsett Of the Territorial
Legislature has bsen in New York several
days & Hedenann. manager oil IN"
Honolulu Iron Works Company. IN on
his way HON" after visit to Japan and
Europe and 4 J Campbell. agent Of the
board Of immigration for the Territory
arrived from HaVan on his way In the
Azores and Madeira To look for desirable
settlers. Zach II accompanied 10y his
family.
senator Dows-tt IL a trustee Of the
Planters Association 81 Hawai- and "A
m-rnl,-r Of the board 81 agriculture ami
forestry lie j. OH his way to Furop.
He says that interest ia Hawai- now
centres Ia the working ~ the organic
act passed az the last zezsion Of Congress
This act ASSURES a more liberal policy
% dealing with the Government lands.
said senator Dowsett. -Homesteaders
NAV now apply Cor the opening of public
lands whether they are under lease or not.
provided ia the former case the leases
contain "A withdrawal clause II IL hoped
that IA a result a good class az home
sisaders will TAX. up tn. lands rather
than that spectators should get in. and
tn. new law makes this possible. The
last paI,ar I got from Honolulu contained
a proclamation 81 Gov Fr~ar announcing
th. opening Of large tracts ON IN" different
islands. which ~ the first % such proCla-
nations
The Democratic party in Hawaii has
strengthened itself in the last two years
aud will probably make its hest showing
at the next legislativ" elections Ia Mo-
yemher ! am a Republican who say
this Ne want only two great parties
IN The Territory There still remains "A
veStigr Of the old home rule party, but
II - hoped that after another election
or two II will H. extinct Most Of rs are
working TO have only tn" two national
parties out there
There hav. be.'n many "NagReTatIons
and mlSstatement- about the troubles
W. had with labor-rs imported from Rus
sian siberia -Four or five hundred were
simply l,.fooled 10y two or thr,.- agita-
tors who made them l-lieve after they
had landed that ~ would not H. necessary
for them to 10 To- ia" plant atoms that II
they would stick together AMI rrin,.' the
planters would ie compelled I, uav them
a large SUM 81 money or return them To
their homes The trouble lasted nnl v
a -hort tim. Most ~ tn. Russians went
- wprs
Their. ~ no better kind 81 plantati ION
latur than lapEues. and Chinese. tut
~ course they cannot H. imported We
hav" now - large number - settlers
from Madeira who hav. proved very
al isfactory and have settled down a.
bona iide home-tead.r-
We have also imported Filipinos
many % whom ara proving fine laborers
10 our great surprise II seems To have
bs-en the experience. Of Americans IN tn"
Philippines that the Filipino prefers a
life ~ ease a. home. where he make
m. chinese do all the work. hat many
81 those brought 20 Hawau ar. young
and hAy" ambition. The step ~ import
ing 'hem has ms" With the approval 81
h" Federal Government. n ~ realized
thai thos.. Who get INTO the habit of work
ing IA Hawai- NAV go home and teach
their Countrym-n how tn h. com. useful
CIti1'n-
". hav" a. ch,-f - forestry IN Hawai-
Ralph : Homer. who : partly pald hy
the Federal Government and partly Nv
the Territory lie and uur Territorial
veterinarian and "ntonulugi,t are DONG
good work III" bulk - our indigenous
Z r'--- are s.Ow growers, 49, We are ~ I-.TI-
uI-utIug widely with trees 81 quicker
growth from al over ~" world ".
i.r. irving them "a al attitudes from sra
level 10 iutEgi feet W.. hope 10 rsplant
ID" ~Lul- - "ur forest area. the upper
port iuUs specially \ larg" area already
has h,..iI 'ond.lnned for this purpn-.'
and ~" have shut uiIi Cat'l" and guais
from ~ Ih"s- have h@-n largely re-
spoons, ble for the. destruction 81 III. for
Ia h,4 nsaFu
odd native trees ar" ot parasitic grow h.
and und'rgTuw'h ~ neCe--ary Tor thor
nourishm-nt and preservation.
HaWAu - nov very prosperous. ~
sugar j. bringing good price ON" or
two cotton plantations that hay" heeu
started ar- prosperous There - much
land no; ~ for sugar growing which -
good Tor cotton or pin-appl"-
" Will i+ news to many 10 hear that
uawsiI - donH a ing business ~ For
inusa with machinery AMI putting Hp
sugar fartu'i-- complete hui Mr. II-dr-
mann saws that hIs company has already
installed iiv" such factories aud when
IN Japan recently J." 'los.'i a contract
Tor a sNih
foundr,-- and tnachin" shops. copper
smith and ha"kHrnIth shops. and employ
MI mechanics all tauCasIana The biIsi-
ness has h'.en established for hfiy years
bu' sinCe annexation I.sppl" IA the lshndS
ing the industry Ut cane sugar. which
IN all the factories except one ~ made
INTO what IL called raw sugar 70 h" sent
partly 10 san Francisco but mostly to
New York and Philadelphia and sold
under contract 90 the American Sugar
Refining Company. The sugar industry
has developed perhaps ln per cent M
IA. last ten wears and ~ IT. development
brought am Increasing demand for the
newest d.-igned machinery, particularly
that which will save labor ". have built
in Tho last ten YEAR, min. factories IN the
Hawaiian Islands IN. smallest with
capacity for grinding ;OO tons a day and
VI. largest $50 tons
The sugar industry N Formosa IN
old. a. the hlne~e were producing sugar
'her. before the Japanese got tn" island
but the Japanese have developed the
industry 20 such an extent that Ia "a few
wears they will h. All example To- IN" rest
OF the world They bav. established
experiment stations like thus.. Of Hawaii
We have also practically remodelled
two ~ the larges' srgar CsnirRleS IN
Porto Rico. ~" now dOing the same for
other factories 10 that island and have
built an entire new factory ~ MeNiCp
for an American concern IN Minneapolis