The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-09-03
TH|SCONGRESSMAN
LOVES ALL HAWAII
BUT NOTHING DOING

The expense the Territory went to
in bringing the congressional party
here last spring continues 70 hiring re-
suits. The beginning Of the campaigns
of congressman seeking reelection is
producing advertisement for Hawaii on
thu mainland g..
The Hawaii Promotion COMMITTEES
yesterday received newspapers contaiu.
ing lectures being given by Congress-
mon Scott Ferris Of OklahontR and
Congressman William B. Mckinley of
Champaign, Illinois.
Land wonderfully Rich
IN a lecture delivered at Walters,
Ok Iahoma, Congressman Ferris touch
Ell upon sugar and told of talks he had
With planters on the subject Of tho
tariff. g.. ...
In telling his audience that he could
noe agree with Hawaii on the tariff
issue, he said: .... s. o..
"The land In Hawaii produces wond.
erful returns to the owners and has
great value. The lands that grow sugar
cane are more than a thousand dollars
per acre and the annual return IL
often more than 5000 per acre.
"Still on every hand we were con.
fronted with the necessity of continu-
ing high protective tariff so that the
other sugar growing counties of the
world could not compete with them in
the sale and supply Of sugar to us of
the states. ,.s
Asked Some Questions
"l was their guest and Of course
could not be too impairment, but /
asked some of the planters who owned
large areas Of this land il they did
not think five or six hundred dollars
an acre was pretty good return from
single acre in a single year.
Zone planter answered that great
expense was encountered in other than
r. production of sugar. Il again ask.
cd him il IL were not true that all
the labor he used was Japanese labor
and he admitted that il was.
81 then asked him if he thought il
right for the thirty eight planters who
almost entirely own all the sugar grow
ing lands of the Islands 10 have a tariff
that would shut of competition to the
hundred million people. of the States
who were interested in q reasonable
price for sugar.
Regarding Land Defenses
''I again asked IL we were not i'm.
proving their rivers and harbors aud
fortifying them and protecting them
from Japan or any enemy that might
come or 60.
"Their replies were that the ques-
tons were hard to answer but that
they prospered when the tariff was on
and they were hard up when the tariff
was of. / said that is doubtless true.
''"If each man in the Republic would
today give me one penny 1 would be
rich and L would prosper, but who
could justify my asking when ! was
without grounds so to do.
Some Rich Sentimentality
(. "I love their people; I love their
hospitality; I love them for their
Aloha and their wreaths of flowers;
] love them for their geniality and
their desire to do us honor at every
turn Of the road, but l could not
fathom or understand their right to
tax us one hundred million people of
the States to make thirty eight cane
planters richer than they already are.
"Icould not, of course, make the oc-
easion ugly by arguments SO / laughed
with them when they were happy;
sorrowed with them when they were
sad. forgot the things could not
agree with them on and love them for
their thrift, enterprise, warm hearts
and geniality."