Evening star., 1912-11-13
HAWA|PS GOVERNOR
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detail that comes to a governor. especial
ly in connection with land matters. 1t
is easy to eriticise. This, that or the
criticism. may not have indulged
enough in publicity. but if my critics had
come to me instead OF letting these
things smolder in their breasts they
could have had these matters cleared up.
If those who had preferred these criti-
cisms had come out with them and Of
fered to lend helping hama something
better might have resulted"
Secretary Fisher is quoted as having
said:
..There is only one thing I can say
now / hope the people Of this territory
will. have cleared up for them the real
facts that concern any governor, and the
real difficulties he has to contend with.
and that they will appreciate that any
governor should not be left to play a
had to play, who. by disposition. Is dis
posed to play such a hand more than l
wish he were.
Destiny of Hawaii.
''The fact of the matter is that your
destiny Is in your own hands. There is
very little the government at Washington
can do or that can do. The sooner you
realize these things and work out the
right solution of the industrial, social
and political problems the better it is
going to be. The right solution Is neces-
sary."
One of the most interesting witnesses
before the Secretary, according to the
weekly newspaper, Crossroads of the Pa
cific. as well as one who was admittedly
unbiased, was DIR. +. v. Wilcox, In charge
of the experiment station of the Agricul-
tural Department in the islands. He told
of what he considered the real trouble
with the homesteading plan. He said the
tracts of land parceled out were entirely
to small and added:
"It is sometimes possible for man, II
he be extraordinarily Industrious and will
ing to live on a scale far below the Amer
lean standard, to make bare living for
himself and his family on these small
parcels, but he cannot save any money.
That seems to be the aim of the planta-
tiOnS
Must Have Capital.
DR.. Wilcox stated it as his opinion that
real homesteading would mean that q
man be given enough land to enable him
to make better than competence. He
also stated that no man should engage in
farming in Hawaii unless he has few
thousand dollars to put into the enterprise
at the start.
DR.. Wilcoxs ideas were developed by
Mr.. Broadbent, manager of Grove farm.
on the Island of Kauai, during the trip
through that island made by Secretary
Fisher and the party. Mr.. Broadbent
testified that hOmesteader cannot make
good with less than 16O acres. of sugar
cane.
This view, however, was combated by
others who testified that an intelligent
farmer, with reasonable amount of
capital, can make money with forty or
fifty acres of good land, the amount to
be increased when the land is less pro-
ductive.
Opposition of Sugar Interests.
The opposition of the sugar interests
to the homesteading idea was demon
strated in the testimony of Hans Isen-
berg of the Island of Kauai, who insisted
that homesteading in Hawaii never has
been and never can be successful. He said
that his plantation had tried it with Ger
man farmers and that it had proved a
failure. The homesteaders would not stay
on the land. In this he was backed up
by Antoine Cropp, formerly manager OF
Koloa plantation.
In this question of whether or not there
shall be homesteading Of public lands in
Hawaii lay almost the whole of the prin-
cipal attack on Gov. Frear's administra-
ton. The government has $4,000 acres of
? land in the Hawaiian Islands capable of
being homesteaded He Is wanted on one
side to throw all this land open to pub
lie entry. and on the other, the part of
the sugar interests. not to do so. 1t is
said by the Hawaiian newspapers that if
homesteading on this land should prove
successful, If fit is thrown open, the
plantations in the end would be forced to
cut up their large holdings and sell them
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