Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-05-06
TAYLOR SEXES
CHANCE TO MAKE
PROMOTION POINT
Visit of Congressman Furnishes
Him an Opportunity For
" Useful Publicity .

The editors of newspapers in the
home towns" of all of the members
of the congressional party now tour
ceiye marked copies OF Honolulu news
papers. telling Of the activities of the
visitors. -. gg.-s.<y,ess s.. s>.e.e5gs.,t
Albert p. Taylor. assistant secre-
tsry of the Promotion Committee, is
sending the papers-a bit of strategy
which will undoubtedly result in a.
great. deal of valuable newspaper pub
Ecity for the territory. Attractive lit
erature as well has been sent to the
editors. and to each of them Mr.. Tay-
lor has written personal letter man,
ing the particular members of the par
ty in which each paper viii be inter
ested. .~.. ...
The opportunity to drive home few
important facts about the islands and
the sugar industry has not been over
looked, as the following excepted
paragraphs will show;
Hawaii has many problems, some
of which are occasioned by its in
sular position. When the islands were
annexed to the United States in 1898
and became a legal territory thereof,
the laws of the United States with
some notifications provided in the
Organic Act applied automatically toi
the baby territory. The result is that
laws which are perfectly satisfactory
iE Vermont are not workable in Ha-
vail, due to climatic conditions among
other things, and to the class OF agri-
cultural products for another reason.
in addition to which the fact that We
have in Hawaii probably more nation
alities from all parts of the world than
any certain portion of the United
states mainland. .s....~..
Cane sugar, for instance, is cur
chief agricultural prod let 1t was pio-
neered more than half century ago
when American residents in the is
lands risked their capital for an enter
prise which was a matter OF serious
moment. The sugar industry has
gradually evolved into aSystem which
has called for the brain service of
some of the worlds greatest sugar.
experts, for the sugar planters here,
as they gradually increased their pro-
ducts, sent to the sugar centers OF
other parts of the world for scientists
in entomology, agronin1s and have
laid scientific institution for the
study of cane diseases, soils, irriga-
ton, ETC., which is second to none in
the world
by extreme fertilization with ferti- |
lizers brought from Germany, Scot
la rl,tIo Co,tb Cot fslo1dO Alo clio
and the Orient. they have intensified
the production of sugar until we now
produce 100000 tons per year, practi |
cally the limit of our production.
Contrary to current stories, the
plantations are not owned by a single
few for there is hardly clerk or per-
son receiving fair salary and lfair
wages who does not own shares in
sugar plantations. ~
"Our bread is buttefed on both sides
with sugar The very life, the very
prop and the very future of the islands |
depends upon sugar. When the tariff
revision was under discussion and su.
gar was paramount In this discussion, |
1t was suggested at Washington, d. c.,
that. If Hawaii could not produce SD
gar with the tariff off, why not raise |
some other crop, wheat, alfalfa or
corn, for instance. First of all our
climatic conditions ere Numerically |
opposed to the growing of any of these |
commodities on scale commensurate
with the necessities Of the soil and for
island revenues. Take 10000 acres, |
for instance The production of SUI
gar thereon yields rar more revenue
than If planted in wheat, and again, |
the wheat could ROT be grown. We
have made a success of sugar. Then |
why try to change to. anything else?
That is our product Just as wheat is
the great product of Minnesota and
other such states; and as cotton is in
the South; as livestock is in Texas
and Southwestern states" @%-
The immigration and shipping prob |
lens of the territory are also gone
into briefly but teilingly in Mr.. Tay-
lor's letter. ..s