Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-02-25


now our own possessions, am going to
indulge in Il few statistics.
Every American should know some
thing about onr possessions wherever
located. The Hawaiian islands have
been we'll said to be the loveliest fleet
of islands that lie anchored i'll any
ocean" They were formerly known as
the Sandwich islands and are entirely
volcanic. There are eight inhabited is
lands in the group, the largest of which
contains 1000 square miles. Altogether
there are $500 square miles These is
lands were originally settled by the ma
tives of Tahiti in 500 A. D. The ancient
Hawaiipns were barbarians, but never
cannibals. Till Kamehameha's subju-
CATION of all the islands at the dawn of
the nineteenth century, ffeudal govern
ment prevailed and wars were almost
constantly waged
The islands were discovered by for
eigners several times A Japanese junk
drifted into Kahuhui bay in the thir-
teenth century and it's crew intermar-
ried with the natives. This is q most
remarkable example of daring on the
part of the JapS. for the distance trav-
eled by this junk was greater than from
Spain to America, and it was three CEN
turtles before Columbus sailed for the
Northwest passage.
In 1920 missionaries came from the
American Tnr I>oara Tn
1894 IL republic was established In
1896 the islands were annexed and two
years later became an integral part of
the United States. They send a mem
Der to our house in Congress who has
the privilege of the floor, but no vote.
1t is fallacy to suppose that these
islands are Il burden to the United
States. On the contrary they have al
ways been self supporting. During the
past year the Honolulu custom house
collected over 81. $40, 900 and the post
Office, $75,800. There is an appropria-
ton of $3.50, 600 for a federal building for
Honolulu, but all the improvements yet
made are more than equaled by the in
come from the territory. Hawaii is a
good Customer of the United States.
Of the 20,000,0 900 worth of goods i'm
ported i'll one year, $4,000, 900 worth
came from the United States.
The largest dry dock and harbor in
the world are to lie built at Honolulu,
and will be the American Malta of the
Pacific.
In these islands sugar is king. Nine
tenths of the people have their living
directly or Indirectly from this product.
Enough sugar is raised here to feed one
fifth of the population of the United
States. Sugar yields on all average five
tons to the acre. The pine apples Of
Hawaii are the finest in the world
Many thousand tons are shipped. There
are ten canneries. with 100000 900 cans
output. From her markets oranges can
be put into New York month before
California or Florida can supply them
Wages here are about % per cent
higher than they are in the United
States. The income tax for all whose
income is over $500 is per cent. All
unskilled labor is done by Orientals.
The natives think manual labor too
mental. In this they lack one of the
qualities that has made America great,
namely, the desire of the high class
American to go with his men into the
field of labor.
When Captain Cook came to these is
lands there were 100000 natives. This
number is said to have been exaggerat-
ed, but very conservative estimate
would make it 25O,OOO. Today, 80 rap
id has been the defamation, there are
but $4,000. The decrease has been
caused by disease and plague, introduce
cd by missionaries and merchants.
Today there are $4,000 japanese, 10000
Chinese and 5000 Koreans in the islands