The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-09-06
VITAL PRODLEMOF
TERRITORY ISLAND
ASSERTSRAYMOND
Says Hawaiians win Make Good
As Homesteaders II Given
Proper Financial Assistance
POSSESSION OF HOMES
MAKES GOOD CITIZENS
Says Farmers Loan Act and Fed
eraI Reserve Banking Law
Should Be Extended To Hawaii

A talk outlining clearly his atti-
tudo on public lands in this Territory
were the features Of an address by
DR. James H. Raymond yesterday be-
fore the Adj Club. The Maui medicO,
who is seeking the nomination on the
Democratic ticket as delegate to con
gress, chose for his subject "Can the
Hawaiian be Placed upon the Public
Lands Of Hawaiii' As this was the
first public speech that Doctor Ray
mOnd has made on Oahu during his
present campaign there was a large
number present at the meeting to hear
where he stood on the land question.
Doctor RAYMOND said that at every
nook and corner on Hawaii, where he
addressed gatherings, he ALWAYS asked
his auditors what legislation they we're
most interested in and what they want
ed their delegate to congress to get for
them and invariably the answer came
back, "Land!" The Hawaiians, Por-
tuguese and all nationalities, eligible
to take up land, are vitality interested
in the land question, Doctor Raymond
said, and the national administration
at Washington Is also vitality interest
ed in this subject, which was evidenced
by the fact that Secretary Of the In
terror Lane was sent here from Wash
ington to carry this message to the
people, at q time when his time and
services were of vital Importance to
the government at Washington.
what the Problem Is
Opening lands for homesteading was
a simple problem, the speaker said, but
the taking care of the hOmesteader, the
financing Of him and assisting him to
make a success Of his agricultural ven
ture, was the problem with which the
thinking people of Hawaii have to
deal. Whether this legislation should
be gotten from the local legislature or
by direct appeal to Washington was
a matter Of considerable importance to
the leaders Of both parties
81 have been asked by thinking men
men who have studied this question
of public lands--if the Hawaiian would
20 on these sugar lands if they were
opened up and get right down to the
the serious business of raising sugar
cane" said the speaker. "From a rCsi-
denee of twenty-five years in these
Islands; q close study Of the Hawaiian
race; active experience as chairman
Of the territorial land board, I main,
tain that a large number of thrifty in,
dustriOus Hawaiians will 20 on these
lands il they are given or are assured
of any financial assistance when they
do Farmers in every section Of the
United States but Hawaii are recev,
ing financial backing and aid from the
federal government through the Fed.
eral Reserve Banking law and the
Farmers Loan Act. If these laws were
modified to fit the conditions here.
believe that every acre of cane land
which is TO be opened up shortly would
have bona fide settlers upon it of both
the Hawaiian and Portuguese races, who
would. within a very few years, make
these lands even more productive than
they are.
Incentive To Citizenship
at takes money to do this and tn,
men YOU are appealing to to go on the
lands have not this money. Land i,
the basis of all wealth. 1t is tho anchor
that holds all people to the community
especially the poorer people and those
who have to work for a living. tt
own land upon which man can bull
his home and upon which he can Hv,
andrall the place home il the strong
est incentive to good citizenship.
"One of your speakers who precedr'
me said that the Al Club should gc
behind this movement for A create
Honolulu | believe this, too Tn,
way to get greater Honolulu and !
Greater HilO and Greater Wailukl
is to have large numbers of pr0spcrOu
farmers on the land. It's the farmer
who help to make the cities. A MAJ
upon his own land makes a good citi
zen. Such a man thinks and acts, no
only for his own. but for the rOmmu
nity's interest. He becomes a part o
the community and therefore a wOrkc
for the community.
"A survey of the public lands Of thi
Territory will convince any thinking
man of this community that the Ian,
problem is the vital question of all o
the people of this Territory, both rirI
or poor. am in politics for the goo'
can do. 1T cannot do any good 70
the majority Of the people of Hawai-
by going to congress, then l don't wan
20 go. The policy l have outlined i
the outcome of my own convictions af
ter much close and careful study and
shall stand for il, win or lose, with M,
back to the wall, as the case may be-
but 1 believe l will win.
Didn't Attack Plantations
political enemies have spread tn
report that ! have attacked the plan
tatiOn interests in my speeches on Ha
wall. This statement is anything blu
the. truth. The plantation needs tn
hoHiesteader aud the hOmesteader need
the assistance Of the plantation. Bot
must work in harmony on a cOOperativ
basis. It must be fifty fifty on bot
sides, or else the whole problem wi
fail Secretary Lane told you this AN
I and all thinking men will agree wit
him. Secretary lane told you that h
could not proIong his stay, here, niue
ms he wished, il. because he had to hurr
back TO the mainland to oversee a pre-
ject of opening up twenty five mllo
acres of land for the men who wi
" como back from the war in France
some maimed and crippled.
If sour boys are coming back here
some ~ them possibly maimed an
crippled. They will want q little hon,
stead-sOme place where they can max