Certainly no American interest is promoted by our method of dealing with the island of Neehai. Kauai. the next island. has 590 square miles. and contains 377.000 acres of land. and a population of 15.392. It is owned almost exclusively by German planters. who are raising sugar by the employment of Asiatic labor. and their products are imported to the United States free of duty. There is no American plantation upon this island. Some of the stock in the German companies is owned by the socalled American citizens of Hawaii. but no American citizen owns any property on this island whatever.