The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-12-01
II Maui Conditions Are As Report
ed demonstrating In Hawaii
Should Be Ended
GOVERNOR so INFORMS -
THE VALLEY ISLANDERS
Urges Growing Of Ready Food
Crops and Takes a FapIout
of Andrew Carnegie

there is absentee fandfordism prevalent
amongst the homesteads Of Maui, II II
an indication that the government had
better cease homosteading for the pres,
ent, in the opinion Of Governor Pink,
ham, as announced by him yesterday in
his address to the chairman and com,
mitteemen Of the Maui County Fair
and TO the citizens Of Maui generally
The Governor, in addition TO suggest.
ing that there might be an end 10
demonstrating. also limited ut q possible
system OF food control for the Terri.
tory, both Of the supply from the fields
and from the sea.
His address was:
"In suggesting subject for my ad,
dress your secretary could scarcely
have improved on the one given, to
Wilton behalf of the people of the
Territory
"To one charged with the highest
authority and responsibility it means,
in its ultimate analysis, an effort to
promulgate and establish sound, sersi
bic, practical and just measures for the
public good
Ideal Unattainable
Gas human nature was planned, or
has developed, we find, and the world
has always so found it impossible to
establish an ideal state of society, and
never since the creation of the world
or in recorded history have the prob
lens been more complicated and diff
cult than at present.
Before social order or government
were inaugurated came the necessity
and practise of individual provision Of
subsistence for himself and his immedi-
ate depe ndents Needs and association
forced local trading, which in time de-
veloped commerce. Together both
have created an immense variety
OF products and their widest
exchange, until dependence instead
of independence has become the
state Of the world for not only in.
dividuals but for the greatest nations,
80 that their governments are being
compelled to substitute their supreme
authority in place of common trading
and commerce that speculation and
conscienceless greed may be restrained,
foresight prevail and waste be elm
mated.
Control OF Necessities
Certain governments are cOntem-
plating and are now partially exercis-
ing control of the food supplies and
commerce of the world.
"Sentimental America INDUCES its
optimism and thinks it has no concern
in such material dangers provided its
money madness is not disturbed.
"In spite of our local military per
cephOns, l may say this frame of mind
is rather characteristic of the people of
the Territory Of Hawaii, and yet no
unbeseiged or unblockaded spot on
earth has the personalities of starva-
ton more acutely defined than these
very Hawaiian Islands.
A Danger Escaped
From a certain point of view,
which came near actually, this Terri
tory recently faced a distressing lack
of food, if not actual starvation.
"The territorial government feels
that it is incumbent upon it to inveSti-
gate and ascertain to what degree and
by what measures EXTREMIST want can
be averted in case of actual war or a
labor war that may suspend transpOr-
tatiOn.
"To get a little nearer home, as this
fair is esse ntially an agricultural fair
adapted to temperate zone products
than any other island of the group, l
will recall my advice to the Haiku
homesteaders, in which l urged them to
produce a substantial part of their sub
sistence from their lands and then at
tend TO their cash income crops. l
fear my advice was not particularly ac-
cepted.
Na1
"The Territory has found it advis-
able to establish u Territorial Market
in Honolulu.
81 am not so sure but the govern
ment will be obliged to go much
further and see to it that the public
is not deprived of the local sources of
food from land and sea.
"a number of times during this
year, the stock of -four in this Terri
tory has been less than u two weeks
supply, and other staples were entirely
exhausted or nearly so.
Maui is looked upon as a potential
source of possible supply and its safe
transportation to Oahu in case of war.
"War is not expected, but we should
have well considered, pre-arranged
plan to preserve ourselves in case war
IL thrust upon us. This Territory must
study and demonstrate it's self-contain-
cd means of producing its own sub
Sistence.
How imperative this preparation is,
is emphasized when the chairman of
the appropriations committee of the
United States house of represe natives
proposes an embargo on the expectation
of food stuffs.
"You have no right to lightly throw
aside the solution of this problem.
Absentee Landlordism
"If l am correctly informed, home
steuders on Maui are rapidly becoming
absentee landlords. If so, it is an indica'
ton the government had better cease
DEMONSTRATING for the present, or until q
different spirit prevails. You furmel.
must learn how to farm, and refrain