The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-11-05

Will u I IuuCiSCOs VI WHtCu ehCaC
is no Immediate prospect, though it must come in
due time, fruit raising will become an important and
lucrative occupation, and the export OF oranges,
lemons. bananas, figs, melons, and other tropical
fruits, will form no inconsiderable item in our Gus
tom House returns.
1 have thus enumerated some of the principal
branches of industry which we have the means, if
we have the will, TO increase largely without foreign
aid. We can and ought to produce sufficient, not
only for domestic consumption, but for vessels sup
plies of -four, bread, beef, pork, salt, beans. rice,
and several other staples. of which we are now large
importers. OF the articles of fuxury-tobacco, c-
gars and wines-although their production has not
yet been fully tested, yet L doubt not that, with pro-
per localities and proper knowledge, they can be
made profitable, and that we shall eventually produce
not only enough for the home demand, but for export.
There is yet another source of wealth and pros
perity for these Islands, which is beginning to at
tract our attention, and which, if followed up with
energy and prudence, may prove to be the most i'm
portant of ALL refer to the whale fishery. The
success which has this season attended the Hawaiian
fleet, has given a vigorous impulse to this business.
l know of no enterprise which seems to be better
adapted to our position, our population, and our
means, than this The natives. though indolent and
inefficient laborers on their own soil, are not found
to be so when away from home they make good
sailors and good whalemen ; l have been told that
they endure cold weather quite as well as those borE
in northern ATTITUDES and they are not ayerse to ~,
employment. Vessels can be fitted out from HING
often at less expense than from the Atlantic PITS.
and the business can be followed from here 1der
oNSioC4 Ia d ICcDCCtS VIZ nj
others. Here is an opportunity for our faGyy men of
large means, and our many men of smE1 means.
to invest their capital, with a little Lisk of loss,
and a prospect of large gains. IN the whalinS
ports of the Atlantic States, whia' 2Maye ACQUIRED
so much wealth by this pursuit, HSavessels are
fitted out in part by the contribu k5ns Of the poorer
classes, who put their little ear fhgs into this bust
ness with as much confidence q into a savings bank.
and generally with quadrru@ returns. Time will
not permit me to speak Of dis matter as fully as its
Importance would warraE Nor is it now as neces-
sary as it might have Zen a year ago, to call your
Words and the deg of our little Honolulu fleet,
during the past seas IA, tell us in4mphatic language
that we have withif our means, and under our con-
troll a most pronH BILE branch of national industry,
enough to supVse that the good fortune which has
attended our fft this season, will always attend it
but with thef~ Estimates and statistics with which I
have been Xrnished by one of our merchants en-
gagged In Wis business, L am satisfied that, with a
little more N han one-haif the average luck which has
attended tH American whaling feet, for the last five
years, III business will pay a handsome return
on the aOunt invested. And l know of no rea-
son why the Honolulu fleet should not do quite as
well ash the average. There are several reasons,
on thT contrary, for believing that they would do
betterV but time will not admit of their being speci-
fed Dsre. We can procure the best officers and as
good men, and with these and prudent, trustworthy
and Rcompetent agents, this business will prove a
mimi of W alth to the Islands and we need have no
fear Aof its being overdone. The farmer here COM
ttAHI thtt liz Ia hO Sii,OuAd SOfhC W fLCi CIcO uo
cropH; that twenty barrels of corn or beans will
glut Nhe market, and that if his is the twentieth bar
rel, W cannot sell it for the cost of production-and
SOD some measure, it is. But for the products of
this Pursuit we need have no fears our markets are
all her the globe, and if the whole capital of the
lsla Mis- were engaged in it, the price would hardly
be Infected. The planter must pay his laborers
whdher his crop is a failure or a success. Tho
wlrHIenan is paid from the products of his labor. If
We Dill undertake this business with spirit and pru-
de4fe. the result can hardly fail of being successful,
AMI eur trade will soon be in a great measure indie
pc8ient of those fluctuations TO which it is now liable.
but L must not trespass longer on your time and
pWience. The subject we have been considering is
OF of deep interest, and deserves a more able expo
IRfnt. That the geographical position and the nat
&$al resources of the Hawaiian Islands will enable
Hem, at some future day, to attain wealth and i'm
there can be no doubt. But if we would
Miasten that period-if we would see any progress to-
II ards that end in our day-we must make the neces-
~ y 9 effort ourselves. Small as are our numbers, we
Van accomplish much for the prosperity of the coun-
Ytry which gives US a home, if we devote a little of
bur time; a little of our money, and all our influence.
Net us foster, by all the means in our power, every
Enterprise that tends to develop the resources of the
klountry, and thus add to the national wealth. Let
Us encourage home manufactures and home produce
|kions, and bid a hearty God-speed to every attempt to
new branches of industry. Let US revive
our interest in this Association. which, like the agri-
culture it was designed to foster, is now languishiug
for want of your support. 1t needs not only your
annual subscriptions, which you have been
kkSHCIdHy Ttsly u contribute, u IL HctuS IL itlie
Ncontribution of your knowledge, your experience,
: our time and thoughts, which you are not always so
eady to besto8. As was well said by the first Presi-
pt of this Society, the late Chief Justice Lee, in
w pm Hawaiian agriculture, as we'll as the Hawaiian
nan pm, has lost one of its best and frmest friends
he fewer We are, the more strenuous should
r efforts. To support any association in these
ISLAM 8 is well known to be no easy tosk. Men give
their y2ney for private or public good, with a gen.
erosityy He never seen equalled but. absorbed in
the daily prsuits of their business, they will not
freely, grain be aid of their thoughts, their counsel
and their tim If we would flourish, we must have
the individual e. Itions of all our members, and the
oountenance of eye class, the farmer, the mechanic
and the merchant"
Our review of the PM>shows us nothing to boast
of in the present but the present holds out a hope
for the future. Let not our apathy turn that hope
into disappointment. Let us rather bend all our
energies to its ful6llment, and thus, if we will. we |
may give an impetus to Hawaiian industry and pros
perity, such as it has never yet received. Then may
be verified with US the poets benediction, which ma
ture nor fulhlls in part
"Earth's increase and folsom plenty. 1
Barns and :arners never empty 70; |
Vines, with clustering punches growing, |
Plants, with goodly burden bowling |
Spring come 10 you, at the farthest.
In the very end OF harvest; |
Scarcity and want shall shun you |
Ceres blessing SO is on YOU" |
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