The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-07-01

advances Of money, but we have assum.
ID thai the spirit OF the resolution
wonld authorize confederation Of Other
ways and means Of securing the same
results ia the hOmesteaders, and we
have taken the liberty Of performing
our duties from that standpoint. pars
ticularly as there are grave questions
as TO the constitutionalitv Of n law
providing for direct loans Of public
moneys to private individuals for pri-
vate purposes, however 'laudabIe the
purpose and however beneficial the re-
suit. We believe, however. that the
same result can DO obtained by methods.
the legality Of which can NOT be asspil.
ed. In short, we see no good reason
why the government can NOT improve
public lands, about to be cut up and
disposed Of for homesteads, by fencing
the lots, erecting suitable dwelling
houses thereon and by laying water
pipes through the same or creating,
water tanks thereon, where there is no
running water; all this to be done be.
fore the lot is put up for sale, the
theory being that the government can
sell and dispose Of its public lands to
better advantage by first improving
them and making them attractive for
sale. It is on this ground, we presume,
that the opening mp of roads to lands
about to be homesteaded and making
other like improvements, have hereto
fore been sanctioned.
Roads to Precede settlers.
eve have also taken the liberty Of
anueidarfnn- r.
motion by territorial aid cheap and
adequate transportation of agricultural
products and other freight, as the es-
tablishment and successful operation
of such a transportation system will
promote the sale of public lands and
increase their value therefor. In other
words, all men concede that roads
should be opened to tract about to
be homesteaded, at public expense, and
this should be done, if possible, before
the land is put on the market. We
simply recommend that the open road
for the transportation of the products
of the homesteader be extended from
his homestead to the Pacific Coast, and
that this highway, both on land and
sea, be regulated and controlled by the
Intervention and control of the ter
ritorial government
"We also believe that the rates of
interest for deferred payments for
land by homesteaders are excessive,
and that relief can and should be
granted in this direction.
"To effectuate the above idea and
present them in concrete form, we
have drafted three bills, which are pre-
scented herewith. First, bill provid-
ing for cheap transportation of agri-
cultural products; second, a bill pro-
viding for the improvement of public
lands about to be homesteaded, by the
erection of houses and other improve
ments thereon, as Indicated; and, third,
bill reducing the rate of interest on.
deferred payments to the Territory, due
from homesteaders, to per cent per
annum.
"We also append hereto resume of
Legislative and executive action, pre-
pared at our request by w. s. Edings,
Esquire, taken at the present time by
leading countries of the world who are
seeking desirable immigration, empha-
sizing, as it does, the wholly inadequate
and halfway measures thus far inaugu-
rated in this Territory to promote like
objects, although Hawaii has, in many
respects, far less to- offer than coun-
tries like Canada and the Australian
colonies, and is handicapped by the
presence of a large alien population,
which we have no right to assume can
be thoroughly assimilated and become
part of the citizen population of Ha
wall. These things considered, Ha-
wall, if she is to develop a citizen
population, has got to do more, and
offer more, not less, than countries like
| Canada, which have vast areas of rich
and arabic lands available for the
would-be settler. We believe that this
country has to face the fact that it can
not restrain within its borders desirable
immigrants, even after such immi-
grants have been brought here, if it
can not offer as attractive inducements
to stop as can be found on the Pacific
Coast In other words, more wages and
more attractive inducements available
on the Pacific Coast to any person now
or hereafter in Hawaii, by the pay
ment of twenty-five dollars passage
money, is sooner or later going to take
that person there, unless we have as
much to offer here, and it is sheer waste
of money to keep on bringing iInmi-
grants of the better class to Hawaii
only to see them sooner or later drift
10 inc SVdst. luz plOplem c"h1fonlng
Hawaii is not so much to get settlers
here as it is to keep them here after
they arrive, and we believe that the
sugar planting interests are coming to
realize this keenly enough to concur in
a diversion of a large part of the funds
now raised under the conservation tax
70 a solution of the vital question
how to keep desirable laborers here
after we get them.
"The return to the Territory and its
citizens by the enactment of the trans
portation bill recommended by us will
be indirect, though in the end, il our
judgment, returns will be sure and the