The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-10-28
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cidental to carrying crops along, also
the plant equipment necessary there
to-, in a large measure accounts for
the fact that agriculture in Hawaii
is carried on by large incorporated
companies, financially strong enough
to get away with it. The industry
was pioneered by individuals who
either went broke from the financial
strain, or consolidated their interests
in the companies hat are operating
today. These same conditions apply
in a considerable degree to the pine
apple industry, which also is a two
year crop and which was started by
individual farmers, and which was a
tottering industry until the interests
were consolidated and capital provid-
ed for great cannery plants and oper-
alton on a large scale.
Control of Pests
1--WE also have serious problems in
connection with insect pests, and in
one of two instances have beer con-
fronted with situations more grave
perhaps than the boil weevil menace
to the cotton industry of the southern
states and the moth and beetle prob
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association has sent its scientific
men to far lands in search of the ma
tural enemies of these destructive
agents, and the valiant chronological
scouts of the Hawaiian Sugar Plant
ers' association have brought home
to us, after many years of hard work
and research, the means whereby the
leaf hopper, the cane borer and the
anamola beetle have been put in alb
solute control, practically amounting
to determination.
Our agriculturists have produced
new varieties of cane, and our engi-
neers and chemists have devised new
and more efficient mechanical appara-
tus, machinery and methods of opera
ton that are now world standards.
And these things have been done
through organized effort, hat would
have been impossible without such
organization. 1t is safe for me to say
that had our ane crops been raised
by small farmers, not properly Or
ganized, the leaf hopper scourge of
1903 and 1906 would have wiped the
zane industry of Hawaii off the map.
On Edge Of Tropics
while l have dwelt but briefly on
conditions covering agriculture in Ha-
wall conditions on the mainland. 1
hope that it has been enough to fix in
your minds that totally different con-
ditions prevail here than do back
home We live on the edge of the
tropics, where the temperatures vary
but little from what o feel it to be
today. If you will step out here into
the cane, you will both see and feel
the thermometer rise 10, Is or 20 de-
grees, and there is no cooler season
of the year to renew the energies of
the worker. In short, it is not a
climate hat the white man can stand
up under as a field worker. This is
why o note the absence of the
white man from the cane field. He
doesn't like it because he can't stand
it: we know, because he has tried it.
Back in the days of the monarchy, the
government recognized the desirable
ity, even necessity, of a better racial
balance of III population, and under
its auspices many thousands of south
ern Observation-Disclosures, Spanish,
etc, also some from half a dozen
other European countries - were
brought here to Hawaii from Europe,
around Cape Horn. We have some of
them yet, and the second generation
is a valued, industrious element of
our community, but they are not in
the cane fields. Our public school
system made them a refined class
that can readily obtain employment
in different stations of life hat are
more tasteful to them. We cannot
repeat the sound and far-visioned &C
ton taken in monarchial days, be-
cause the assisted migration from
any foreign country is tabu under
United States laws, and has been for
20 years past. AS to voluntary i'm
migration to continental United
States from Europe, l ask you, has
Hawaii any chance for a quota of it?
Absolutely none! So here we are,
marooned out in the middle of the
Pacific, with immigration laws gov
erning us that may be entirely suited
to mainland requirements, and yet
entirely ruinous as far as Hawaii Is
concerned; and this is the point that
we most desire to fix in your minds
that is, we are different from the
mainland, and if we are to be accord
ed fair treatment it must be intelli-
gent treatment, and with due regard
for the prevailing conditions in this
territory.
Square Deal for Hawaii
you good people of the Press Con-
gress will return to your homes after
a happy holiday on this pilgrimage,
and | haven't a doubt but that your
impressions will be charged with the
charm of Hawaii. 1t is invariably so
with those who come and pay us a
visit. But you have in your hands a
mighty power-the power of the pen,
the power of the press and the force
of public opinion which the press of
the United States moulds and con
trolls in a greater degree than any
other single influence. You are going
to teach the public of our great coun-
try something about the remote and
diminutive territory of Hawaii, that
stands out in the Pacific as an out
most of O1r Aafapaoc of o11r n;v;Ii1o