The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-15
REPLY
TO KINNEYS BRIEF
Continued from Page Nine 4,

lGOutinupu from Page Nine
TO raise, now to grade. pack and snip
them aud to arrange for their ship
ment and marketing by insututing
topographic and photographic sur
veys, etc, etc.
demonstrating HAS Increased.
In my former reply ! set forth the
difficulties i'm the way of homestead
ing and showed how it must neres-
sarily be a slow process. During my
administration to date just 1000 home
steads have been taken as compared
with 931 during the preceding seven
years of Territorial government The
average number taken per annum dur
ing nv administration has been sos
per cent greater than the average
number taken urcyiously-th not
witbstandiug the imposition of addt-
tionaI restrictions during my admin
stration for the prevention of fake
homcstoading 1t is true, as stated
in the complaint. that during the tis-
cal year ended June 80, 1911, only
172 homesteads were taken, but that
was because that was the first year
after the amendment of the home
stead laws and it took considerable
porfod TO prepare the way for active
operations under them. Already. dur
ing the first eight months of the pres
emf fiscal wear PIG homesteads have
been taken-more than during any
entire wear before my administration
and several hundred more have
been surveyed and are about to be
opened The small number of home
steads taken is due. not TO the small
number Opened, but to the small num-
Der of those who in good faith de-
sired them for homesteads. There are
more than a thousand lots at present
that may be taken at once on applica-
ton, if desired. Fake homesteading,
for which the complainant seems so
solicnous, is one of the best means
of preventing the building up of
homecoming American population
for it not only does not really home
stead but it puts the land beyond the
possibility of real homesteading. My
attitude against speculative and dunn
my demonstrating is one of the causes
of the present attack on me.
Old Charqes Revamped.
No new specific charges are made
in the present complaint but two of
the specifications in the former COM
plaint. namely, that in regard to the
"Pahala Plantation Flume System"
and that in regard to the "Waiakea
Camp Sites" are selected and referred
TO for emphasis. The selection of
these and the further reference /,
them discloses in view of the COM
nIeteness of their refutation in my
former reply. the extremity to which
the complainant is put, after his eX-
baustive research for valid ground
of complaint. (See pages 46 and 81
of the nrinted COPY of that reply0
take it that l am not expected to
reply to the suggestions that, if nee
essary to attain the desired end, the
Federal government should condemn
and take over every foot of land, pub.
/ lie and private, in Hawaii and recon.
struct it's industrial system from the
foundation up" or that the Territorial
government should make itself per
manent party" to an arrangement
for controlling all private contracts
made by sugar plantations with
others with reference to the purchase
of cane and transportation, market
ing and othersmatters, or that "direc'
/ government supervision" should be
assumed over all fundamental agree
ments between the settlers and the
plantations, or that the money
spent in maintaining such exceptional
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