The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-09-13

hr TUNuufiF.l fIir ~ siIH nEfNl ANet
have 40 been ioliorsl 20 faat ttitai
hut che almiuisifsiion lately if lfau
ing iis influence largely 90 ibs slfsiai
agreement plan.
81 understand yoa think the Law
would be better u We did not have the
special ioycar agreement pian, sskcd
Mr. Fisher.
"wcll don't think 10 is desir
able from the standpoint Of our home
stendcf II harnesses him down 90
many conditions aud II the object be-
10 prolong the tenancy before the par
" can get title and dc as he likes,
then that undoubtedly is the best
adapted TO that purpose, except the
300. year lease,
"Do you know Of any Of these con.
ditions attached to the special agree.
ment plan that imposes any conditions
on the homesteader that really should
be- resented by bona fide homesteaderl 2
"Well, take a ten.year residence or
n fve-year residence. Given that, they
provide for patent after three year 5
residence --
''Do you really think that a man
should be required TO live on the land
in order to get his title, IN order TO
make sure that he is bona fde home.
stcadcri'
alt strikes me that the original plan,
three years under the right of purchase
lease, is sufficient for a minimum. That
is he must live there and cultivate and
conform TO those conditions within that
time, and it is hardly to be expected
that man will do that unless he is
acting bona fdc There is not enough
in IL TO tempt unless in exceptional in
stances, exceptional locations, and eX
ceptional facilities and arcas'
Now, that will leave the othe,
three. Do you think one of those three
plans should be eliminntedl'
81 do not know that they should
be eliminated, but j do think that tn,
homesteader should have his choice, hi
! free choice"
r You say the choice should be will
' the homesteader and not with the gov
= ornment.' -
r Undoubtedly
i "You think it should be oblgator,
3 that the government should give tn
4 homesteader the choicei
I 81 think there 1t seems to m
n that any plan that was good enough TO
r the legislature and good enough 70
n congress should be obligatory on the at
q ministration.
Richard Ivers.
I Richard Ners, secretary of G. Brew
G or & Co., agents for about fftee
n sugar plantations and one pineappl
d company, and chairman of the board {
o immigration, in answer to queries /
l. Secretary Fisher, said he had been col
is nected with sugar development for IL
y past twenty-five years, and that
% agreed with large number that Il
$. settlement or disposition of the lar
G. question was difficult.
10 On one of the company's plantation
o. -Hakalau-there had been good de
te of homesteading in the past, and fro
10 this plantation there had been wit
drawn about 1000 acres of governme
Of land, on which it had previously grow
~ cane. About hundred HOMESTEAD
Of had been established on these lane
u, and, with the exception of very sm;
or area, practically all of the land W
N. still used for cane growing. Some
ry the homesteaders cultivated cane. OF
ct ers, while ostensibly cultivating car
nd really leased the land to others The
nd were n few white men engaged in I
guese and Hawaiians. There were sc
eral Portuguese today engaged in ca
W. cultivation as homesteaders. After
whites acquired title to the lands tn
mt leased to others. Before acquiring til
le- they employed other help. They liv
le- on their homesteads at night and woI
il ed elsewhere, largely on the adjoini
plantations. Many of the Hawaiia
ln. lun n,tt In tng IN
anese. The lands have changed haI
he a good many times in the past ffte
years. During this time the plantati
do has acquired title to only three of
at homesteads, and this through secoi
Gu hand mortgages, being forced to ia
lrs ever the lands. No pressure was ex
lin cised at all to accomplish this.
ng, The plantation encouraged the p
Try pie to plant cane. In only one instaI
u was there "A controversy over the pr
is of cane grown by homesteaders for
700 livery to the plantation, and this v
as when one objected to the sliding sc
! | on the San Francisco basis which v
ute lower than the New York scale, g
in this ease the New York price '
ee- allowed.
ere Would Favor Homesteading
'a AS to hOmesteading, generally,
ia ,is sugar plantations, / believe" said
m mlIn Ivers, "would be willing to accept
~ profits in the future than they have
odt ceived in the past could they kI
~ that the cultivation of the cane
~ these homesteads would be kept up I
'n ~ they would not have to face la
~. 10 shortage. OF this am positive tn
ia. . are certain plantations which have b
s'' very profitable, but / think even tn
-, plantations would be willing to Sc
~ ~, portion of the lands homesteaded
th kept to cane.
tne "The homesteader would have
my have some assurance of fair treatm
op,, in the disposition of his cane, We
pe he mott" inquired the Secretary.
I" "The majority of the plantations
., willing to enter into very fair
'nls tracts" replied Mr.. Ivers.
Ihes "Mr. Swanzy stated that the p
pom tations would be willing to enter
ary contracts for ten TO twenty years
lie fix the price on the New York, n
my delphia or San Francisco scale, 80
mas the homesteader would know he W,
sent he entitled to a reasonable price.
the about that. Mr.. Iversf'