The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-06-07
THE PACIFIC
Commercial A0brrtlsrr.
JUNE :.
THE OUTLOOK.

tant particulars we are quite happily placed.
We have a EbcraIminded and enlightened King
the peoples choice, at the head Of the Govern
ment. who has undertaken 70 restore to the IA
ton the fundamental law Of which it was berei'
during the last reign We have n Ministry VINO
possess the public confidence for the qualities oil
honesty and conscientious industry-lf not Tor
originality and enterprise we have equal laws
and IMPARTIAL Justice: and we have = climate OF
unsurpassed salubrity, a fertile soil and tins
year. plentiful crops. But with all these advan-
tages which we possess, and some others that
might be named, we find ourselves repining and
cIOomiIy forebOding disaster and ruin in the
future. The reason for this 10 found IN the fact
that IRE need a free market for our P~rO6u7S.
After toling q year 20 raise our twenty million
hounds Of sugar. we find that the cost OF trans
p~Ortation to our nearest and natural market and
the high duties imposed there upon our produce,
has well nigh eaten up the gross receipts. About
all our available capital is locked up in this one
principal enterprise Of the country, and we can
not withdraw from it without ruinous ioss-a
loss that will involve in It's consequences every
industry, from one end of the islands to the
other Without some relief from the burden
and incubus Of a high tariff in the United States
flat now bears 50 heavily upon our leading IN
dustry. the idea Of a real national development
or progress, either material or moral, Is quite
4 futile. Without Il change ere long for the bet
ter, we must remain stationary while all the rest
of the world moves or worse, we shall begin TO
" progress backwards - towards bankruptcy and
barren poverty. Truth eompels the admission
that this is the uninviting prospect before Hawaii
mel. unless We can obtain Il free market for our
products
Very naturally we look for relief in our ex-
tremity TO that country which is our nearest
neighbor, which has been our principal bene-
factor in the past, and on the principle that one
good turn deserves another, should continue 10
be our benefactOr in the future. There are ~
decd very sound reasons for believing that the
governments of Australia might listen with favor
able confederation TO any o%yertures which we
might make looking to 4 reciprocal interchange
of products and commodities. We have more
than once alluded to the project of Il movement
in the direction Of negotiations with Victoria Tor
a treaty of reciprocity, and the subject has been
regarded with favor by our business men, But
our position plainly indicates the American Con
tinent as our natural market, and our business
relations are and must continue to be most init
mate in that direction. And, Notwithstanding
the doubts and discouragements with which the
mention of the project is now met IN many quar-
tiers, we are yet of the opinion that a Treaty oil
Reciprocity with the United States, if earnestly
actively and intelligently striven for, can be OBJ
tanned during the present year.
The history of mistakes and blunders that lee
to failure in the past, must be carefully studied
in order to avoid their repetition. Active mis-
representation from among ourselves undoubtedly
did more than anything else to kill the las
Treaty, and may be again attempted by cover
eneJnies~ While gt aelGrAtles;+ thefg rHf ne nj
question but that its ratification in the United
States Senate will be forwarded and secured by
the presence in Washington of a suitably chosen
commission sent from Hawaii, to be Joined by
deputation of influential business men from Sar
Francisco. From facts that have come to ON
knowledge, We are confident that with propel
e~xertiOns such 4 deputatiOn could be secured
whose representations and influence on our behal
would be invaluable ut the national capital. By
availing ourselves of such outside assistance We
may hope to neutralize, at least, the opposition
. that is TO be expected from manufacturing inter
3. ests in San Francisco, while an active, intelll
h gent and influential commission sent from among
ourselves will be necessary to counterfeit the
y otherwise damaging effect of mischieyous repre-
sentations almost certain to be forwarded from
Honolulu.
We referred in detail to this subject of Reel
e procity in our issue of the 9Th of last February
: and we can see no reason now to retract in any
: ,t;,,l Fr,r, rho POSITION fbon assumed M
: then said
; This, therefore, is the golden opportunity fol
: us to make Il determined, n vigorous and an ex
: traordinary effort to secure the desired boon of :
: reciprocal treaty with our nearest neighbor, who
= is also for that reason our most powerful friend.
- In addition to a Royal Commission, clothed
with ample powers to conclude the desired treaty,
we earnestly believe that the accomplishment Of
: the object sought would be most unquestionably
hastened and assured by the presence in Wash
; ington of His Majesty in person. The effect OF
; a visit to the United States by the King of these
E islands, on such a mission, would in the present
E temper of the people and Government of that
country, be of untold advantage to us. He,
accompanied with a suitable attendance, would
be the nations honored guest, and the obstacles
that distance and unfamiliarity now oppose to
the granting of our requests would be d~issipated
and removed.
But our punctilisus conservatism may here
put in It's objections, to the effect that such 4
course on the part of His Majesty would be I'M
dignifed or unkingly. Fully assured as We are
that our Sovereign, the peoples choice, viii be
willing and eager to undertake and promote any
measure that will clearly be for the best interest:
of His country and people, we cannot but view
) any such objections as frivolous, and sayoring oil
! the obsolete prejudices of a past age. But IL
history even, we can point to illustrious example:
Of crowned heads who, to seek the welfare and
: advantage of their own dominions, have visited