The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-01-23
THE PACIFIC
Commercial advertiser.
SATURDAY. JiNU4RY -.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Frn .NoNrANA.'-No 1.
S,x Fn,NcI.cn. De-. -. ISIS.

e-tel in the passage Of the Reciprocity Treaty. 1t,
republication may have no influence on that measure,
50 far as the present Congress J. concerned. but II
viii serve 20 show how public sentiment in America
Is growing in favor Of the policy discussed in it:
THE INTERESTS OF Co~NNEECE-Congre>> may point
10 what il has lone 10 secure the electoral votes oi the
Southern States, 10 Its efforts 20 remove the President,
% It's empty talk over the finances and taxation, dur
ing the session now come % It's conditional end but
when we inquire what IL has done or seriously offered
10 do, Tor the large and lasting interests Of trade and
commerce, 10y which not one class alone but all classes
are the recipients Of benefit, absolutely nothing re-
mains ~ the result OF its prolonged sittugs or a the
answer 20 our anxious questions. This wonderful
party c~ultivates but one talent, and that a talent for
taking good care Of itself Appealed 70 10y the bust
ness men Of the country TO direct its legislation into
those channels through which the national wealth Is
made TO follow, IL shows itself entirely incapable, i'm
practicable. and inefficient.
Gen. Buffers bill TO establish reciprocity of trade
with the little Island Of Prince Eiwari's, not vet be-
come q member of the Confederate Dominion, should
have been taken up and passed with a. little delay as
the usual forms Of legislation made necessary Iy
this bill, the products of that island, fish included,
were TO be admitted duty free into the United States,
on condition that the productions OF this country
were 10 be admitted into the island on like terms :;
while better still, our fishermen were To be allowed to
entcrher harbOrs for supplies and To reht without Oh
structiOn, and 10 receive licenses TO fish in the neigh
boring waters by Paylnga fee not exceeding 1--WE dollars
for each vessel. Now here is a desirable opportunity
for our fishermen To gain u considerable portion of the
ground they have lost by the abrogation of the Reel
prOcity Treaty with the Provinces, as well as an
excellent chance TO open trade with the islanders in a
variety of articles for which they are at all times
ready 10 exchange their fish, oats, barley, eggs, but
ter, wool and pelts. We could have had this trade
with Prince Edwards Island by asking for it but
Congress preferred to higglc and haw, appoint u COM
mission to 20 on Il summer excursion thither, and
talk il all over again next winter to just as little pur-
pose rs now.
The Sandwich Islands treaty furnishes another il
pg4r.s1 &c til. E.mvr.-zf.uu1 ip.,tnp.f.p.,. anl
unwillingneSs To attend 10 the practical interests of
the country, which develop only through the chan
ncls Of trade and commerce. The Government oi the
islands desired reciprocity but ii Is killed in the
Senate from fear that the islanders will get the better
end of the bargain. The treaty proposed that ami
mails, arrowroot, coffee, unmanuiactured cotton. fruits
and vegetables, furs, hides aud skins, sugar of n GER
tain standard, syrups of sugar and mOlassCs, and
several other productions of the islands should be
into the United States duty free in return
for which some thirty articles were 10 be received
into the Hawaiian ports on like terms, among which
are enumerated bullion, gold and silver com, manu-
cotton, beef, bacon, ham, pork, fish, hard
ware, iron and steel, lumber, leather, tallow, paper,
machinery, petroleum, and WOODEN goods not manu-
This treaty has been signed by the Minis
accredited TO each of the two countries, and was
10 run for the term of seven years. But il has been
ON the table in the Senate, which is equivalent
to its being lost. Aside from the actual advantage to
be gained from this reciprocal trade, and the benefit
our laboring classes would Immediately derive
having such products as the Sandwich Islands
have To send us at lower prices than now, it is unpar-
lOnable on the score OF shiltlessncss that we should
relax any effort whatever, that promises t. strength
m our prospects of finally obtaining control Of TINS
Important group of islands. They are the stopping
place between our Pacific coast and the shores of
Japan and China, and furnish an impregnablc but
and defence for our growing interests in the
Pacific ocean. This advantage England and
France are engaged very industriously to-day in
of no avail for us, If they can.
Then i'll addition to the positive demands Of our
that every pOSSible helm should he extended
. enable il TO regain its lost footing, demands which
re visibly made by the condition Of this rs well rs
very other important Atlantic port, there is the
condition of the people mt large TO be considered.
Why does Congress thus refuse TO give the fish of
'rince Edwards Island to the table of the laborcr for
ust as low n figure as it is possible to buy if Why
make the workingman pay as much for his fish as he
oes for his beef, when here is 4 way pointed out to
ring down the prices for his special benefit; And
o with the sugar and syrups Of the Sandwich Islands,
he coffee, cotton, and the hides, which are kept up
former prices when this chance offers to lower them
a favor of tax-opprcssei labor. The Government
hat lays on so many burdens, might at least exert it
elf TO make the necessarics of life as cheap as posi-
lie for the great class that finally pays the taxes.
'uring this very session, the tax has Ieen taken of
I manufacturers, and from whiskcy but If the
manufacturers require exemption OF this sort,
Oes not labor demand IL a thousand times more
ct Congress spends its time in relieving from
a class already made rich, in taxing the people
/, support a standing army in the South to secure
artisan votes, and to educate blacks who are encour-
ged in idleness, while it absolutely refuses to make
le coffee, cotton, sugar, and syrup Of the white Ia
oring class of the North, on which the taxes all fall
last, cheaper by so much as a single penny I'M
osing enormous duties and throttling commerce and
ade, will as certainly produce congestion as 1t is
erssted III.
l have no doubt that Gen. M'Cook will, on his ar
val at Washington, which will be about January -,
Ike such measures, in concert with the senators
iendly to the treaty, as will bring it up before the
ew Congress at an early day, should it be found
apostolic to effect anything at the present sson.
? The Growth of san Francisco
probably as rapid now as at any period since 1919.
ne can have no correct idea of the expansion with
1t visiting the city, and seeing with his own eyes,
e improvements in every direction, and the extent to
hch it is spreading, over and beyond the sandhills
hich were formerly considered Of so little account.
ais increase i'm population and commerce naturally
axes it a great center for trade, and a depot for
applying the constantly increasing demands Of not
ily the Pacific States, but "A considerable portion of
C great ocean that stretches out before it. One re-
III Of this is the establishment Of great manufacture
2 and trading houses, which are destined soon to
and perhaps surpass similar houses in the older
cities. y few days ago, in company with a
lend, l visited one Of these large manufactures, :
he Saddlery Warehouses of 1iain & Winchester.
Battery street, n brief description of which will ,
.ustrate the growth Of trade in this city. These gen. 9
emen came from New England in 1919, and like ,
any Of the carly settlers here, were possessed of =
nc Yankee enterprise, with little or no other CAPT I
! than an honest trade and good health. They &
work as young men, mending the har- |
and saddles of the teamsters and miners of ,
early days, doing the work with their own
lnds, and every Saturday night dividing their earn +
- between them. This mode they continued for Z;
yeral years, till their business increased to such an g.,
tent as to render it impossible to divide, when they .
ade common stock. They now occupy a four story g.,
Hiding, thirty by one hundred and seventy feet. -,
lcy import and manufacture every description of ,
and saddlery, and every article appertaining
this branch Of trade. In completeness, variety
ID quantity, l question whether any warehouse on 5