The needs of Hawaii are peculiar; every aid should be given the islands; and our efforts should be unceasing to develop them along the lines of a community of small freeholders, not of great planters with coolie-tilled estates.
Roosevelt emphasizes the unique needs of Hawaii and the importance of small landownership.
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