The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-20

to keep the people down." as have
so often heard it put, but to the fact
that they, with the shortsightedness
which has characterized their policy
from the outset, have wanted the
money for other purposes.
It's due to similar shortsightedness
that the Indies, from being the chief
support of Holland, are coming to be
its heaviest burden. The deficit for
1907 was 3,S63,9 2S guilders; for 1908,
2,45O,OO0 guilders; for 1909, 13,77S,9OO
guilders, and for 1910, 15,25O,OO guild
ers. For this year the estimates place
the deficit at 1S,15O,0OO guilders. A
guilder is worth so cents, gold.
Finest Tropical Gardens.
The Gardens of Buitenzorg are in.
comparably the finest of their kind
in the tropics, and with their match
less library are the Mecca Of botan-
lists from all the world But of prac-
teal experimental work for the bene-
fit of the people there has been little
nothing to compare with that going
on in the Philippines-and no system
attic attempts have been made to
bring even such knowledge as has
been gained to the attention of the
farmers. These know little of fertil-
ization, rotation of crops or other
means of renewing exhausted lands,
and as a result their small holdings
are becoming Increasingly productive
every year. The big Javanese plan
tations are intelligently and econom-
ically run, but their dividends have
nearly all gone to Holland instead Of
having been extended in pushing de-
velopment in the Indies. Steady
drains of this kind to the home coun-
try, without concomitant increase
of the islands productivity and tax
able capacity, have been responsible
for the increasing deficits have
noted. Now, when the period of sur
plusses seems to have gone for good,
there is little hope of help from Hol-
land.
Stinsy with Development.
In this years budget estimate Of
175,OO0,OJO guilders for the Dutch
Indies, less than 100000 is included
for conservation, road building, or
any other things which could be
classed as measures for the economic
Improvement of the people. There is
much less than the actual amount an
nually expended along these lines in
the Philippines, and, in proportion TO
population a mere trife. Over 10000
900 guilders-eight per cent of the
entire income of tn Dutch Indies
is derived from the opium monopoly,
a means which America has not seen
fit to avail herself of, even in the
Philippines, and the incubus of which
England is trying desperately to
shake off in all of her colonies.
Filipino vs.. JaVanese.
Regarding the relative capacities
social advancement of the Filipino
and the Javanese-I say the Javan-
ese because he Is the highest type of
the Dutch Indian natlve-I have no
hesitation In declaring in favor of
the former. Where pure blooded Fill
pinos have risen to considerable emil
nence as soldiers, doctors, artists,
writer's and scientists, there is hardly
an instance of a Javanese of unmixed
parentage having become anything
more than a locally educated doctor,
practicing among his own people.
Whenever one finds Javanese work
ing away from home he is almost
invariably employed as a coolie or in
some inferior capacity. From Celebes
eastward through all of the Indies to
New Guinea I constantly encountered
or heard of Filipinos-they are com
monty spoken of as Oran Manila, or