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

also. should be MADE before the Fill.
piEos leave. He denied any abuse
of the laws and answered freely and
fully several questions put by Ashford
He declared thot DR.. Victor s. Clark
has been given a free hand in immi.
grafton matters because he Is an ex-
Tert fromsthe mainland without local
bias in any degree.
| Mr.. Thurston asked permission
from the Secretary to make q state
ment on the breaking open Of the
safe during the Japanese strike some
years ago to get evidence against the
strike leaders" Thurston said w. A.
Kinney, who was in charge OF the
prosecution apparently, had told him
that previous Supreme Court deci-
sion held that evidence taken under
pressure of law was inadmissable, on
account of the constitutional proyi-
sion against Standardization Kin
ney said that he felt that although
the law was against breaking open
the safe without search-warrant, he
was justified In doing so to get what
he knew would be found there as eyi-
dence.
Secretary Fisher didn't seem at AN
inclined to agree with this view. 30
| you think 1t Is good public policy for
the authorities to violate the law and
thus give the strikers notice that the
authorities are not disposed to re-
gard the law" he asked Mr.. Thurs
toni Thurston said 1t was neither
good ethics nor morals, and that he
/ was simply stating Mr.. Kinney's POI
lsition as Kinney had once stated 1t to
him.
Views on demonstrating.
Asked to give his views on home
stealing, Mr.. Thurstou launched into
a discussion OF the general subject
Lack of transportation. market and
encouragement from the people In the
country initiate against homestead
| ing, he asserted. He enlarged on each
of these, explaining that the local
market will not take any kind of crops
| in quantities that will warrant rails
| ing them in sufficient quantities. In
tLis respect he referred to fruit, veg
etables, ETC., not to sugar or pineap-
pies, which require large capital in
vested by the grower.
He told of one man in the Islands
who raised some corn. The grower
had told him that it cost him more
to transport his corn from the land
to the landing, where it was to be
taken by ships, than California corn
would have cost him, laid down to
him from that same landing after
carrying It all the way from. the Coast
Secretary Fisher called to. his atten-
ton the comparative cost of the first
two years, work in the irrigated beet
fields on the mainland, and said he
could not see much difference be
tween the two situations
The United Fruit Co. through Mex
leo, supplies the Pacific Coast banana
market, he said. The Hawaiian
growth is not encouraged much, be
cause the shipments are so infre-
qlent. IN.
In this respect, he declared, he has.
been a strong advocate of permitting
foreign vessels to carry passengers
between the Islands and the mainland,
and. to a certain extent, though it
should betth same for freight
He said one Of the pecularities of
nature OF things will not permit man
to take homestead on small capital .
and get quick cash return, as in the
States. t..-..--.ss.-s.... Il. EsG
Fisher said there are hundreds OF
farmers in the middle west who raise
their own beet crops, disputing Thur
stons assertion that It was mostly
foreign, or newly arrived labor. He
advised Thurston to pay visit to
these fields and investigate these con-
ditions on his next visit to the main
land
Mr.. Thurston argued that the farm
eI here who grows cane or pineapples
must wait much longer for his crop
To mature than any of those on the
mainland have to wait.
He said little later, that he thought
the homestead question would not be
settled nor the characterization OF the
Islands, if all the government cane
lard, $4,000 acres were openeu to
American homesteaders.
Mr. Fisher insisted that some funda-
mental problem confronts the Island
homesteader as the American farmer
in the States.
Mr.. TkurstOn latter made a state
ment Of the attempt to create a Hl-
Waiian Growers Association, SAID he
believed growers here should have
some governmental assistance, or at
least the help of strong financial as