Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-02

these purchases amounting to abou'
Sl.2IU 900 He said the CORPORATION
BOW in It's thirteenth year. has never
yet paid a dividend.
I Then the contract was reduced &c
make up for the extra nigh prev ious
one, probably to terms lower than
what the corporation really needed &c
: live Oh. yet liberal enough TO still
enable the small growers to make
good profit on their crops.
! Some Of those homesteaders who
have offered to pay all expenses. call.
! ing on the mill only to take their
crop and pay them the cash, he said
| have received a little better terms
than others for whose crops the mill
! is required to assume some RESPONSE
bility.
ThurstOn reinteTated the statement
Of other big planners, that the white
man is inclined to keep away from
actual manual labor in the fields
MIR. lveTs was tnen called and ask
ed for information on contracts be-
tween plantations and growers. He
told of the new contracts he had
drawn. after a careful study of condi-
tons, thai was intended TO be fair to
mill and homesteader alike.
Regarding the contract used at Ko-
haIa, Mr.. Fisher remarked that the
sliding scale did not provide for cane
having sucrose content of less than
81 per cent. Ivers agreed it was
hardly fair, though arguing that cane
seldom has less sucrose content than
that, and explaining that such sliding
scale does provide for rates for cane
under 81 per cent analysis in the case
of the plantation at Hilo.
Figuring out his contracts on the 4
cent market basis, Iyers said that in
a 3-year period the cost to the grow
er per acre would be $107. He would
receive, figuring As tons of cane per
acre, $191 or a profit Of $42 per acre,
not counting out the interest on the
money invested.
He gave figures showing what he
thought the small grower should
make per acre with New York mar
ket prices at various points, and the
production of different amounts per
acre.
He explained that the San Carlos
contract, given in the Philippines is
about 50 per acre more favorable to
the small grower there than in these
islands,
The Secretary then began an in
curry into immigration matters. lVers
In answer to Mr.. Fishers statement
that he understood abuse OF the prl-
yilege was made in importing Fill
pinos, in that they were not exam
ined carefully enough.
Ivers replied that Federal officials
have entire charge of such examlna-
lions and are responsible. -.--.
The Secretary said that he had been
informed by responsible plantation
men, who for obvious reasons did not
care to have their names given, that
had been forced to leave
the immigration station and some
times to go to certain plantations
when they wanted to go to others, or
to none at all. >..
Mr.. Iyers said that few instances
had occurred in which he had COM
PEELED them to leave the station, When
they didn't want to go away from 1t
at all and had already loitered around
for a long time, living off the Terri
tory.
In answer to question from Olson,
Ivers said no mere labor contracts
are made by plantations with immi-
grants. They do make crop contracts,
however. /
He said, in answer to question
from Ashford, that not more than one
or two were ever physically forced to
leave the immigration station.
He told of the troubles that arose |
with the Russians brought here, end
ing with the statement that of the l.
0S6 brought here, about half have gone |
to the mainland, and that of the 1000
Russians now in the Territory, about
ESQ are on plantations. 49,, &~
Mr.. Thurston volunteered an expla |
nation of the blowing open of the safe |
with dynamite during the strike some |
years agoN He spoke for Attorney !
Kinney, who could not be present, and |
told Kinney's story of the entire af- |
fair. According to it, Kinney figured |
that the end justified the means.
The explanation does not leave me
with any clearer view of just why |
Mr.. Kinney did it than / had before"
remarked Secretary Fisher. Kinney, |
Thurston said, faced two horns of a |
dilemma the question of going |
into the court without sufficient evil |
dence to convict; the other, the ques-
ton of violating the law to get the
evidence. -.
S. T. Starrett, Superintendent of !
Public Marketing, was asked a few
questions. Starrett said he feels that |
freight rates to the mainland are very