Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-04-19

tiOn that there is something wrong
worth inve stigatinS etC. etc
MIR. Advt Tt;seT. il costs the mills o
Hawaii apl roNimatejy $l5 10 manNtac
ture. bag and market A Tn Of ~ucar
this includes : fat commission va,d K
their agents. Sugar tOd'v Is GrLieJ
at $94 per ton. The y rCle>Ieader a.
Olaa WORKING under Tie Echart con
tract would receive under tie mos; IA
vorable Circumst. nus {: o. 81
gar $33 33-<GG.G7 roin2 to tho plaHt1
ton. Mr. ADVERTISER 90 vOu think this
an equitable ditis.nn' Il vnI g,eW
the cane and received tAis amount
from a rich CCrl GRAFTON !nI would
change your mind about their helnG
nothing wrCnG worth Investigating.
. Five corporations PRACTICAL, control
the territory OF Hawaii politically and
commercially. or all HawaiiS broad
fertile acres only some 59.UUo remain
under government title, the balance.
, with the exception OF All insignificant
amount held by hOmestPaders is owned
+ OF leased by the suCar people. SHgat
cane is the crop th.t appeals to tive
small farmer always a market and
! bling block has always Eocn that IL"
mill takes the lions share OF the prof.
its, in many cases all Of it When
protests have been made II this con
dtion of things the small grower has
been termed a kicker. SOrehead, a@it1-
tor. etc. and told he had hetter Get
into some other business. and he gen
orally does. Plantation peOpl" claim
they can grow cane cheaper than buy
it from outsiders. Evidently this IS
true and eXpl ms the diSCOura@"m' nj
that generally comes to the home"
steader who grows cane. What is tn"
result? Recently the newspapers pdh
lished the sale OF some kau home
steads to John Buck, on" "f lIutrh
insOn Sugar Company s stockholders.
who in turn, no doubt. made them OveE
to the plantation. This is the history
OF much Of the demonstrating on Eta.
vail. Is it reasonable to suppose the
hOmestelders would sell their land if
they were making good living from
it? Certainly the blame for it does
not all rest on the plantation shout, !
ders, although great deal of it does, !
If a liberal contract. something like !
the San Carlos Milling Company in !
the Philippines, OfferS-60 per cent to !
the grower, 40 to the mill and the mill |
buys the cane on the ground. This !
kind of an agreement and the refusal !
on the mills part to purchase land /
from a homesteader, DEMONSTRATING on
Hawaii would not be a failure. /
You further say, Mr. Advertiser, that
IL ~; lnI
with Mr.. Fisher, then secretary, OF the
interior, and heard all the hOmesteader
and small farmers and plantation man.
ayers had to say" Yes. Kuhio did
and that is how, | believe, that he
found out that the homesteader in tie
territory is not prospecting and the
reason of it and further that it would
be a very hard matter to get any one
On the islands independent enough to
act as arbtr tor for those interested
Here is something else that kuhiO
heard at the Fisher hearing, th1t Gov.
tFfear Il who was presents had,
recommended to- the land board that
leeds be given to. the Waiakea Mill
Company for camp sites and rights-of,
way for their railroads over the gov.
akea Mill Company and whose lease
vas to expire in five years. Under
his 80 years lease the territory had
been receiving the sum of 3 cents per'
acre per annum and the plantation, 50
t has been claimed, could hive paid
n dividends some years, if they so de
sired, 100 per cent.
The reason for recommending that
leeds be given to w. NJ. Co. for these
,aluable rights was that the w. NJ Co !
would pay for the land and place it,
amp sites in a sanitary condition
further along.in Governor Frear's re.
>ort he had slid that the chief source
# contagious diseases that threaten
d the public came from plantation
amps. 1t was further brought out at !
he hearing that the Waiakea Mill .
Company under a former administra
ion had acquired title to their mill
lite and valuable water rights. This :,
natter was brought to Mr. Fishers at.
ention, as is now mentioned, to show
he powerful influence sugar has OIL
hese islands when it sways no less
man than our chief executive, a
IAN of unimpeach2ble integrity. whose
My excuse for his action WIS that ]
he Waiakea people would Put their
amps in sanitary condition. The lack 1,
f so doing by a private individual
'ould have landed him in Jail
Mr. Fisher was a man Of discern
lent and the homesteaders who ap
cared before him had reason to b9
eve that had he remained in office
e would have helped them solve their
rObiems.
When the Hawaiian Sugar Planters
association was making the fight in
Washington against free sugar it was
tated by it's representatives that it
Ourted the fullest investig 'tiOn of its
usiness and had nothing to conceal
nd now when the homesteader after
many years under adverse
claims the mills are not
eating him fairly and asks the PEG
lie whom the H. S. P. 4. told they
ad nothing to conceal. to come here
I'D judge the matter they loudly pro
st az }inst this being done.
The people behind House Resolution
O. s before the house. ASKING for this