The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-02-16
Former Governor Of Hawaii Tells
New ycrkefs Bio ccniIIot
/ Saved Planters
NEW VARIETY Or CANE
AAsvEayL LARGE YIELD
Relations Between British and
German Residents Strained !
Because o. Natlohaf strife

H. III =.
The European war has saved the.
sugar plantefs Of Hawaii, according Co.
Former tsSysrnor George X Carter Of
fion0ldlu, who has arrived 1t the Bilts
mofe; New York city, recently, accord
ing TO the New York Times. Add II
the report proves true that the AdaIin4
iAttation intends postpoAing the opef.
ation Of the Free sugar provision Of the
Tafiff Bin for Eve years. Mr. Carter,
says that viii be the most sensible thing
tie Democrats have ever done n
sin HawGii, = said Mr.. carter, noul
latitude has been one Of endurance. We
fare wanting 70 see not only the results
Of the war, but what the Administra-.
Euon is gong 20 do next. Ofreoafse,-
the high price OF sugar Is due absolute
i ~ to the war. La tact, the European
4 war has made the last tweive months
4 the most phenofnenal year IN the history
ot sugar-gfowing IN April We got the
lowest price for sugar IN twenty years,
and there was the worst depression in!
the ihdnstry, dus entirely 10 Che fact
enat coilgfsss had addptbd free sugar
leeislatioa, ana pfaetitaiiy scrapped ey5
Eery sugar plantation 4 h the United
.slates and It's tarfitories In September
sugar reached the highest price u has
lever attained in the tgfty years l have
4 known anything about sugar pfieess
4 This ifreguiafity is q little trying, q.
New VafiSty Of Oans ttl4 iss
hsHiawailan aplknters are baiIdine
great hopes upon d new variety OF cane.
that has been devegl0pea by the agri-
4 cultural burean maintained By tfie,sufdf.
iaen OF Hawaii. u IL A known only BY
a number as yet, but thousands OF seed;
Iiilgs have been pgitsoiits 10 sis o small
yslle, andggrOWs more like grass than
sIe ordinary varieties. The yield "a
digger, and where you now have Dne
slaik you ct q dozensand the cutloyef
sagaF fattdbils astwell. sssf ~ saft
@t1iheSwAr lhaa been brought hone TO
lihwali IN one s0r lwO incidents. One
Of the most serious was the coal and
beef situation. We depend entirely npoA
Australia for coal and beef; and when
England put an embargo upon the en-
Z b6ftati0h OF these commodities Il look
ed serious fer as. However, at the re-
quest Of our government the English
government made an exemption or Elk
ports to Hawaii. This had hardly gone
INTO effect when the 0effnan cruiser
Nurnberg appeared at Honolulu, and
demanded coal and beef That came
near 'sausing an acute ssituation in Ho-
nolulu. "an We
Admiral Moore Sustained
la'There we have q great many Eng
iish residents, who are wealthy and pro
Eminent, and likewise we have many Ger
mans. The English residents maintain
ID that TO furnish food and fuel to the
Nurnberg would be favoring England .
, enemy, and the German residents argued
that II we did not do 80 Il would con.
stitute a breach of neutrality Both
sides announced their intention OF ca
bIihg their respective governments, and
when Admiral Moore permitted the Ger
nan ship to take on coal and food, the
Engiishmeh IN Honolulu sent d cable
10 Downing street. They were coniident
heir complaint would be sustained, but
on the contrary, word came hack that
& Admiral Moore's acti0n was within the
law, fa s.stes g. p24 5.R ~. II ~. Z
J Social Relations Strained
HIn a. community the size Of Homo.
lulu, where everybody hnoHs4 Everybody
Use, 10 may be imagined that social reln-
lions have become somewhat strained.
b N some gatherings, the Eng liahnlen
flock 10 one side Of the room and the
4 Germans 10 the other. There have been
: many intermarriages, and ASA result,
: family relations in, some cases have been
put out Of joint BY the war In one
Family where a German Is married 20
an Englishwoman, the two hays TAX On
opposite sides, and do not speak 10
zach other. Two English flhiilies Of
wealth, who had estates "a Eneland,
have gone home and turned their coun-
try houses into hospitals. ,i.
Japanese Are No Menace e
OF learned soi6stking IN california
i that threatens TO reopen the Japanese
: question very actively, and that Is that
! every candidate who was elected TO the
/ lnew legislature had answered alIirnia.
1 lively one Of the twenty two questions
b propounded by the labor leaders, and
. that was whether they wefe "a favof Of
" further restrictions on the holding Of
/ property. II seems 10 me that we went
as far as we could 20 with the Japanese
r when he persuaded them that the hold
B ling Of real estate Is matter for inter,
g nal regulation II anything further II
!, done by the California legislature II
y will be interesting TO see what the other
forty seven States can do about IT, In
Hawaii, the Jabanese are not considered
menace. We have always found q
way Of getting over diflculties. -