Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-12

! they were not going after a home
stealing proposition as much as 20
ing after speculation. Those cane
lands were appraised, up i'm the Hilc
District, and turned over to the HONE
steader for $500 an acre. Now When
man can get good cane land fol-
$500 an acre he is naturally out &c
realize on his venture. don't thinb
that homesteading on those lands Is
normal. There is more money i'm IL
| for the man that gets them to sell
out. don't see how you can get
away from the temptation to sell out
Fisher: Well now you can under.
stand, suppose, the difference be-
tween having lot of small land own.
ers; and the system Of having a few
large land owners. There is a funda,
mental difference between the policy
OF allowing the land to be owned by a
few people or splitting it up among a
larger number Of people?
Theory and Practice.
Bishop: l think that theory is alb.
solutely correct; but when 1t comes
to working 1t out, you get into great
difficulties. Now take the. Wahiawa
lands for instance. Those lands are
the finest lands in the Territory for
growing pineapples. They were open
ed up; and what happened-a Settle
ment Association went down there
md for or 8 years almost starved
% death. And when they finally got
crop there was no market for IT,
They tried various crops, all Of per-
shable nature, and finally landed on
ineapples. And now the finest pine
.pple fruit Of the world Is being
Town there. What happened these
men turned around and consolidated
organized in a way where they
,ould get credit. In order that they
Aould build canneries. And that home
rteading proposition which had the
sest promise in the beginning resolv-
5 back to corporate ownership.
Fisher: Suppose the law provided
/ hat they could not sell to a corpora
ion or a man who had more than a
certain aggregate member OF acres
What would be the trouble of that
ystem?
Bishop: II those holdings were in
he hands of one or two individuals
Z suppose 1t would be an easy matter
or them to put the fruit on. the trains
nd ship it to town to the Gamer.
es.
Fisher: Now what that means then
this, Mr.. Bishop: that these people
lid not understand what was the most
,rofitabls or practicable crop for them
E o raise; and when they did find that
,ineapples was sthe most profitable,
and could be raised with the least ef-i
fort, they turned the whole thing over
to a corporate manager.
l don't think that was ii. They
had the fruit. Then came the ques-
ton of cannery. No one of these
men. was able to put 1t up. The In
terests were more Or less consolidat-
ed down there, and 50 they finally
got into q corporate form and the
canneries were built and the thing
went along with q boom.
SO you think it was Just a natural
OUTCOME of the financial conditions of
the proit3
bishop: ! think SO.
Fisher: Is 1t necessary to consoli.
date lands and pineapples?
Bishop: It might be necessary in
another locality.
Do you think It would or would not
as rule?
think it would. They made fall |
ure Of It In Hilo where homesteads |
were opened up to individuals.
You have spoken Of the pineapple |
II would look, them. as If |
lands adapted to that might be prae.
tically homesteaded. What do you |
think OF the cane lands?
Pineapples is much more attrac- /
i've proposition for a homesteader
than cane is.
Now tell us why.
Because of the cultivation of 1t, Mr.. |
Secretary. The cultivation of pineap-
pies is not considered to be as labori- /
BUS as cane cultivation. Lam talking |
at random, as / have never |
been I'm the pineapple business.
Fisher: Then You don't think the
people that are doing laborious work I
On the cane plantations would make
good homesteaders. OF would care to
AXE up homesteans? Maybe this is
iue to the fact that the law does not
them. What do you think
If that?
Bishop: Perhaps SO.
Well, they or their children will in
.ime be entitled to citizenship. Would
hose people make good homestead
srs? st.ss..,..'ta -
/ don't know; they might or they
night not.
Fisher: Do you think there is sub
,tantiai difference between home
stealing cane. lands and pineapple
ands?
Bishop: There seems to be to me,
from my superficial knowledge Of !
Fisher: Now with regard to the
,ane business generally, you are
with the financial history of i
the plantation with which Mr.. Good
ale is connected?
Bishop: Yes.
Finances.
Fisher: What are the facts with
regard to the expenditures on that +
canifal account9 Is there l.