The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-09-09
RETURNS FROM
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
CHARLES A. KUSBA RETURNS
TO SAUK CENTRE AFTER 10
YEARS ABSENCE u
WAR SAVED SUGAR PLANTERS
PEOPLE OF ISLAND EXPECT RE-
PUBLICANS TO GET BACK
INTO POWER

Charles A. Kusba, son of Joseph
Kusba, ST., Sank Centre arrived
in the city Saturday after an
absence of ten years, the last two of
which were spent in Honolulu, Aus
trailia and other points. Mr.. Kusba
says the climate of the Hawaiian Is
lands is very moderate, but it rather
gets on ones nerves. On the whole
he is mi hty glad to get back to Min
nesota. The gentleman is trained
newspaper man and has been follow
ing his profession since he left here.
He learned the printers trade in the
old Avalanche office, Sank Centre.
The gentleman gave the Herald the
following interview which very clearly
portrays the conditions in the Islands:
Honolulu and the Hawaiian Islands
are smiling with one cheek and weep
ing with the other. The future of this
baby territory is problematical. Scare
ely more than one year ago the cry OF
calamity and ruin was universal
throughout the Islands. Congress had
removed tariff on sugar; raw sugar
was down to So, or about the cost OF
production. Then came the European
war. Sugar prices went up with
bounds until they touched SO and have
been hanging around that figure since.
1t is the best price received In many
years and money has never been freer
in Honolulu than at the present time.
Everyone in the Islands knows that
sugar prices will prevail until the end
of the war and some time afterward,
and money conditions will remain
good. By that time the Hawaiian
planters believe tariff on sugar will
be restored through the return OF a
Republican administration to power.
During the recent visit of about 10
u. S. Senators and congressman to
Hawaii, all the Republicans and
many Democrats pledged themselves
to support a tariff on sugar for the
sake of the revenue and to save the
sugar industry in the United States.
These same congressman almost as a
unit frowned on statehood for Hawaii
and it will undoubtedly be many years
before our flag carries the star OF
Hawaii. This is due to the preponder-
ance of Japanese and other Oriental
population.
Hawaii has also been dealt hard
blow by the Seaman's act passed by the
last congress. This act requires that
all vessels floating the flag OF United
States must carry crew OF whom
rs per cent can speak the language
of the commanding officer who Is
necessarily an American. This ruling
will not allow American ships to COM
pete with Japanese, Chinese or Aus
trailian lines with their cheaper Ia
Dor and as a result the American flag
Twill practically be driven off the Pa
Icifc after November z.
4 Conditions in China are good OF
bad according to vocation. American
business houses are now reaplng
harvest. This is because of the silent
but. very effective boycott which the
Chinese are conducting against the
!, Japanese.
"Austrailians have had less love fol
Americans since the war than before
, They feel the United States shoule
have taken up arms with the Briton:
against the Germans and it is not un
common in any city in Australia
New Zealand or Auckland to hear al
. American hooted on the street b!
hoodlums and derisively called al
American coward!
| Japan is engaged in her own httl'
' game of watchful waiting and busl
E ness there is quiet, brought abou
e largely because of internal dissenslon
n Hawaii is a pretty country, mic
country to visit, veritable troplca
paradise, but there is no place in tn
;. world where business opportumtle