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venting a man from committing suicide if he is determined to do 
so. No one can assume that the Government owes him a living, 
nor can he reasonably expect some one else to work out his finan- 
cial salvation. The producers must take a hand in their own 
affairs, and must manage their business in a satisfactory manner 
if success is to be expected. ; 
Examples have been given of satisfactory co-operative enter- 
prises which are now in operation among farming communities. 
As a result of this method of managing the marketing end of 
farming a financial success, hitherto unknown, has been brought 
about. The results already mentioned along this line have all 
been accomplished by co-operative effort of private individuals 
associating themselves together for mutual benefit and without 
Government assistance of any sort. If it still be felt that under 
our conditions it will be impossible, for some time at least, to 
establish a co-operative marketing scheme for miscellaneous agri- 
cultural products by the combined efforts of-individual growers 
alone, even that objection on the part of growers should be aban- 
doned, for it seems desirable to recommend that the Territorial 
government give some assistance in establishing this movement. 
The Territorial assistance, however, should be granted only tem- 
porarily with the idea that.it will be withdrawn as soon as the 
enterprise can stand on its own feet. 
If a portion of a wharf, convenient for the Inter-Island steam- 
ers, were set aside for the reception of such miscellaneous pro- 
ducts as can be used in Honolulu or be shipped to the mainland; 
and if this government warehouse, as it might be called, were put 
under the supervision of a practical man on a Territorial salary, 
it is believed that such an experiment would receive the support 
of our small producers. If so, the business problem, which now 
faces them, can probably be solved and the increased profits from 
such an arrangement would ultimately make it possible for the 
enterprise to be taken over by the producers themselves, without 
further Government assistance; or by a private individual or com- 
pany who would operate the warehouse for the convenience and 
benefit of producers and dealers. In order that such a plan 
might have even the hope of success, it is necessary for the small 
producers to enter into the experiment with willingness; if not, 
the plan will inevitably fail for the reason that unless a good quan- 
tity of produce is thus brought together in one warehouse, the 
material will not pay for the maintenance of the necessary ma- 
chinery of distribution and there will not be enough material to 
supply the needs of dealers who would come to the wharf to make 
purchases. 
