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Now  altruism  never  made  an  American  who  would  stand  up  with 
his  chin  out.  Therefore  in  homesteading  this  country  there  is 
furnished  the  opportunity  to  build  up  diversified  agricultural  in- 
dustry. Hang  on  to  your  sugar,  encourage  it,  do  your  best  for 
it,  because  it  has  carried  you  through  many  grievous  years.  Even 
if  we  are  so  inconceivably  foolish  as  to  believe  that  the  sugar  in- 
dustry should  be  dethroned,  it  ought  to  be  apparent  that  this 
dethronement  should  not  occur  until  something  has  been  provided 
to  take  its  place.  The  best  way  to  help  sugar  is  to  nil  your  Terri- 
tory up  with  homesteaders  who  are  producing  other  things. 
There  is  no  room  for  conflict.  Sugar  lands  are  sugar  lands. 
They  will  produce  more  value  in  this  commodity  than  in  anything 
else.  The  homestead  lands  are  not  the  sugar  lands  and  you  will 
be  right  in  the  majority  of  cases  if  you  suspect  the  motives  of 
that  man  who  demands  a homestead  slice  out  of  a growing  plan- 
tation. The  bonafide  homesteader  can  generally  find  land  better 
suited  to  his  purpose  elsewhere. 
Now,  it  is  a well  known  fact  that  homestead  schemes  have  been 
tried  here  repeatedly  and  have  failed.  I have  visited  the  scenes 
of  some  of  those  failures,  and  inasmuch  as  I am  a guest  here  it 
would  be  impolitic  for  me  to  express  my  real  opinion  of  some  of 
them.  Others  have  been  well  conceived.  The  one  truly  suc- 
cessful one  that  I have  seen,  that  at  Kalaheo  on  Kauai,  is  the  one 
in  which  there  has  been  conferred  upon  the  settler  the  greatest 
amount  of  personal  risk  and  independence  and  the  smallest 
amount  of  pernicious  soup  kitchen  paternalism.  The  Kalaheo 
homesteader  pays  for  what  he  gets  and  it  is  up  to  him  to  make 
good  or  quit.  He  has  a market,  a chance  to  get  his  products 
there  at  reasonable  price,  competition,  something  to  lose  and 
something  to  gain,  and  these  are  the  conditions  that  will  create 
an  upstanding  American. 
Among  all  the  deterrent  features  that  have  been  encountered 
in  successful  homesteading,  there  is  one  which  persists  through- 
out except  in  the  case  of  Kalaheo.  This  difficulty  is  confined  not 
only  to  homesteads,  but  indeed  to  every  interest  and  industry  in 
the  Territory.  The  one  great  reason  why  so  many  thousand 
acres  of  Hawaiian  soil  remain  unproductive  at  the  present  time  is 
lack  of  transportation  facilities.  You  have  heard  this  long  ago, 
but  still  lack  transportation.  Until  transportation  is  provided  on 
a par  with  other  parts  of  the  United  States  and  the  wrorld,  the 
climate,  the  soil,  a worthy  market  and  all  the  enormous  public 
spirit  of  the  citizens  of  this  Territory  will  fail  to  produce  results. 
Hawraii  can  produce  several  distinctive  crops  that  can  be  raised 
and  claim  an  exclusive  market  on  the  mainland,  but  the  fact  is  of 
little  value.  The  homesteader  can  make  very  little  use  of  his 
crops  if  he  cannot  get  them  transported  to  market  at  a price 
which  will  still  allow  him  a reasonable  profit. 
The  first  transportation  difficulty  is  seen  in  the  highway  sys- 
tem, although  the  highways  of  the  Territory  are  astoundingly 
