The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1911-04-01
Honolulu
Newsletter
Racy Paragraphs From the Capitol On
Current Topics.
(By Oscar Brenton.)

Every resident of the territory,
with an idea above q gourd, knows
the Importance of protecting the
sugar industry. But the hoi polloi
does not know of the hundreds of
thousands of dollars that are spent
by men interested in the cultivation
of sugar in ferriting out the pests
which tend to decrease the output
of the plantations. There are some
in the community who snarl when
an appropriation is asked for the
support of the industry. But other
products are getting hold on the
soil and for the first time in my
recollection something tangible is
looming up on the horizon to aid
the growers of fruits, of cotton and
other staples. Representative Towse
is the father of bill which passed
by the legislature and was signed by
the governor. 1t means much to the
men who have put their time and
money in fruit cultivation and the
time is not far off when the owner
of an avocado pear tree will have at
lis finger end the remedy necessary
to rid his trees of black blight and
whatever else may retard the growth.
Towse should have the thanks of
the people of the islands for the
boost he has given them.
There is disposition on the part
of many people here to patronize
Maui in the celebration of the Fourth
of July. Experience has proven
the races at Hilo very unsatisfactory
to any but those who are in with
the bunch that controls the track
events. The affair of a few years
ago, when one of the men with a
horse on the track, boasted of his
influence to stop the sport if it did
not come his way, left an unpleas-
ant memory that is still green.
Honolulu has given up the idea and
| am not sure that many will go to
| Hilo for the reasons mentioned. In
that case there should be joyous
time on the Valley Isle.
There has been something of q
monkey and parrot time in the
Legislature during the past week.
Representative Browns banking bill
has been fought out by the trust
companies and Brown says they are
just dogs in the manger. do not
think that Mr.. Brown has the repu-
tation of being diplomatic. He says
what he thinks and it usually comes,
speaking figuratively, right from
the shoulder. And in that way he
occasionally fails to make friends.
1t seems as though the bankers had
assented to the plan to give the
trust companies banking privileges
and now that the banks want lit
tie of the same medicine the other
fellows balk. Representative Alton
so, who has ceased to be the cap
and bells of the house, is doing
good work. Poor old Weeping
Willie" from noble senator with
a toga has dropped to the less exalt-
ed post of secretary to committee.
Maui lost little when he dropped
out of the game for there were days
when as the jester of the session he
could have changed places with the
representative from Hawaii. Sena-
tor Fairchild seems to have lost the
support of the members of the upper
house who prefer to keep their
pledges rather than win the admira-
ton of the interests" The senate
does not take kindly to q measure
that tends to keep out the bona fide
white settler.
| note your editorial on the Boys
Industrial School crime. There
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