The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-01-01

During the year ending the Both of September,
1869, the Patent Office issued 13, 762 patents.
and the receipts were 1886 ,3S9, being $2l3 1896
more than the expenditures.
Preamble and Resolutions of the Hawaiian
Trades Association,
With an Essay, read By The President al tie
Meeting Of N0Uem6er %, 1869.
A meeting of the leading mechanics and manu-
facturers of Honolulu, was held on the evening
of November 9, 1869. The meeting ultimately
organized into q Society under the name Of the
"HAwAITAN TRADES ASSOCIATION" of which L.
L. Torbert, ESQ.,, was elected President. The
following resolution was discussed and passed
ReSohred, That we feel it to be our duty to
ourselves and to the people of these Islands to
use our best endeavors to get the Government to
protect us in the manufacture of such things as
we are prepared to make here.
At another meeting held November 18th the
following Preamble and Resolutions were dis
cussed and unanimously adopted, and ordered to
be printed -.s. r.
Believing that manufactures should Join hand
in hand with agriculture and commerce in build
ing up the prosperity of a country that intelli-
gence and self-reliance in a people are directed
by increasing the variety of employments which
are accessible to them that up to the present
time, the resources of these Islands for manu-
features of certain kinds possible here, have been
but partially known that the capacity of native
HawaiiaIs, as labOrers, has been habitually I'M
derrated that all the advantages of prior occu-
patton have remained with commerce and agri-
culture, which have, of necessity, preceded
manufactures as investments of capital that the
consequent disadvantages under which the vari-
Gus industries of this country lie, can be most
speedily removed by the impost of protective
duties on competing articles from abroad, and
this protection should be extended TO other in
dustries which are fairly possible here when they
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capital seeking investment in manufactures thus
protected, and the presence of skilled laborers,
will be of great benefit to the nation by creating
wants which must supply, and by
saving much expenditure of the money which
agriculture brings into the country Therefore,
we, the Hawaiian Trades Association. deem it
our duty to ourselves and the people of these
Islands, to diffuse a knowledge Of what is posi-
bic in the line of Home manufactures, and of
what legislation appears to us desirable in order
to foster the same. ID s-sl -l Ell a5iig
In fnrtherance of these objects, be it, 49,
ReSoiged J.. That VIC wiz old. public meet
ings for the discussion or this subject, and will
send printed articles aud delegated speakers to
the other islam 6 Of the group. 'nA s70m I91hAl'a
"Resoleed 2. That we wifi petition the Eegis-
latares atrits coming session, to impose dis
eliminating d tiles, higher than 10. per cent. ad
~UGL0rS5a, on tie articles, or kind Of things, en-
braced IN the GLOWING list, Viz.
Boots and shoes, saddlefy aId harness, ready
made eiothii afa shirts, carriages, wagons,
cdrts,5 " heel srrows, and o. yokes, household
furniture OF every description except chairs.
Doors, sash nd blinds, wholly or partly, made.
holdings Of all kinds, except gilt, or carved.
Dressed lumber less than !AU inches, containers
for sugar, wholly or partly made, containers for
molaSses, wholly or party T1ade..i Sails for all
sea going vessels. 70 Leather vi ali kinds, except
calf skins. Sugar mills, steam boilers and steam
engines, CHARTERS for sugar cane juice, iron
vacuum pans, sugar coolers, centrifugal driers
Tor sugar, caring, furnace fronts and crate bars,
water wnee.s, galvanized iron ware, except water
pipes, tin ware of all kinds, yellow soap, hard
bread, candies, sperm oil, walrus and whale OIL,
blank books and bill heads, all books in the
language, and all books in English
originating here.
Res0iued 3. That in connection with the pro-
lection of our manufactures, we will support the
Board of immigration in bringing persons here
for cheap laborers, under contracts, provided
such contracts end by returning the persons to
their own lands, and not settlng them adrift on
the community here.
ResOlred 4. That we support the existing
laws in enforcing the fulfllments of contracts as
provided for in Sections 1419, 1920 and 1923 of
the Civil Code.
RESOLVED 5. That we feel our interests and
the interests of the planter to be side by side.
while the planter produces and brings
money into the country we shall produce and
keep money from going out of the country.
That while the planter employs unskilled and
cheap labor we shall employ skilled and higher
priced labor. Thus in connection with the
planter opening a way for all classes of labor.
believe the result will be a more wealthy,
more Industrious, more v%irtuous, and more en-
frightened community.
The Association voted to hold a public meeting
the following week for the discussion of subjects
above presented. -
AT a public meeting held in the Armory on the
odd of November. the following Essay was read
by the President, and subsequently, the Associa-
ton agreed to have it printed as a circular, in
group: l
IF these Hawaiian Islands belonged to the
United States of America, and the United States
of America belonged to the Kingdoms of Europe,
that the whole were one family, the interests
the manufacturers at these Islands, and in the
United States, and in Europe, would stand IN a
different relation to each other from what they
now stand, as separated the one from the other.
We at the Islands, to compare small things
with great, stand in regard to those countries a
good deal as the United States stood in regard to
in 1890. The United States at that
time applied 20 England for a treaty of reciprocity
in the carrying trade. England refused to enter
such an arrangement, wishing, perhaps, to
deprive the United States, as far as possible, OF
an active commerce in her own bottoms. The
United States in self-defense, passed a navy bill
English vessels to the same rule that
applied to American vessels. This was
the commencement of the protective tariff In the
States. They concluded to adopt the
nsages of the man afsct1ring AID G,nIaeTci5i
world, and they, after some years trial, thought