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

/ Is IN u II contains the brO30 lmN!l"a
, tiOn that there IS something rong
! worth investigating etc. etc
Mr.. Advertiser, ii cnS;S tie mills OF
Hawaii approximately 81 Ia man"faC
ture. bag ard market IN uf sugar
this includes 4 TAT commission uald Il
their agents. Sugar tod7y IS QaDtrtl
at $94 per ton The h1meste&d"T at
Olaa working under the Fc' art con.
tract would receive uut>r the oSt ~
vorable cirCUmst ances TO- o Sd
gar $33.33-<Fp,f An,n 10 t,.a p,aAt2
ton. Mr. Advertiser, 10 yCH think nj;
an equitable GUis:nn' II >.H &rew
the cane ard received tl.s amount
from 4 rich Cnr Grafton vn world
change your mind about 'lhe;r ho'r"
nothing wrrn- worth n,estiyatjn@
Five corporations lractiCa!l. ,.,ItrO'
the territory Of Hawaii politically nd
commercially OF all Hawaji'S broad
! fertile acres only some 20. q ~ remain
under government title. the balance,
with the exception If an inS.Gnific3nt
amount held hy homestr1d"rS is owned
or leased 10y the sugar people. SuGar
; cane is the CROP tn t aNn"GIs 10 the
small farmer, always m"rErt and
failure OF crop unknown. The stUm-
! hIing block has always hcan th&t the
mill takes the Ions share O. u" ref
: lis. in many cases all Of it. When
| protests have been made I tI;S CCn
ditiOn of things the small grower has
! been termed a kicker, SOrehead. G-ita-
! tor, etc. and told he had better Get
| into some other business. and he gen
orally does. Plantation tCOpic claim
they can grow cane chearer then buy
! it from outsiders. Evidently this Is
true and expl9ins the discCur3 cement
! that generally comes to tn homo
! steader who grows cane. What is the
result? Recently the newspapers pub.
| liShed the sale OF some Kan home.
steads to John Buck. one Of Hutch
insOn Sugar Company s stockholders,
who in turn. no doubt, made them OVeG
to the plantation. This is the history
of much Of the demonstrating on Ha
Waii. Is it reasonable to suppose the
hOmeSte 9ders would sell their land if
they were making a good living from
it? Certainly the blame for it does
not all rest on the plantation shout.
ders. although a 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 homesteader hOmesteading on
Hawaii would not he failure.
You further say, Mr.. Advertiser, that
1,,bs t~0 ln1 oil h.
with Mr.. Fisher, then secretary OF the
interior and heard all the hOmestcaders
and small farmers and plantation mIn-
ayers had to say" Yes, kuhio did
and that is how, | believe, that he
found out that the hCmesteader in the
territory is not prospecting and the
reason of it and further that it would
be very hard matter to get any one
on the islands independent enough to
act as arbitr tor for those interested.
Here is something else that Kuhio
heard at the Fisher hearing, that Gov.
erner FreaE- 4whe; MAS. present. had
recommended To- the land board til at5'
deeds be given to the Waiakea Mill !,
Company for camp sites and rights of.
way for their railroads over the gov
eminent land under lease to the Wal.
akea Mill Company and whose lease
was to expire in five years. Under
this 80 years lease the territory had
been receiving the sum of 3 cents per
acre per annum and the rlantatit n, 81
it has been claimed. could have paid
in dividends some years, if they 50 de-
sired, 100 per cent. 1
The reason for recommending that
deeds be given to w. NJ. Co. for these
valuable rights was that the w VI. Co.
would pay for the land and place it,
camp sites in a sanitary condition 4
Further along in Governor Frear's re-
port he had s id that the chief source
OF contagious diseases that threaten
ed the public came from plantation
camps. 1t was further brought out at
the hearing that the Waiakea Mill
Company under a former administra
ton had acquired title to their mill
site and valuable water rights. This
matter was brought to Mr.. Fishers at.
tention, as is now mentioned, to show
the powerful influence sugar has OIL
these islands when it sways no less
a man than cur chief executive,
man of unimpe achable integrity. whose
OHig SASuoS lCI HLo dCllOH W IS JIldI !
the Waiakea people would rut their
camps in sanitary condition. The lack ,
of so doing by a private individual
would have landed him in jail
Mr.. Fisher was a man of discern.
ment and the homesteaders who az,
peared before him had reason to be.
lieve that had he remained in Office
he would have helped them solve their
problems.
When the Hawaiian Sugar Planters
Association was making the fight in
Washington against free sugar it was
stated by it's representatives that it
courted the fullest investig 'tion of its
business and had nothing to conceal. l
And now when the homesteader afteE
many years under adverse
claims the mills are not
treating him fairly and asks the peo-
Die whom the II. S. p 4. told they
lad nothing to conceal, to come here
md judge the matter they loudly pro.