The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-09-05
From the Friend for sepiemberI
The United States the Gamer by Reel
procity with the Hawaiian Islands.


by late papers we learn that the United States is
about to renew its reciprocity with Canada. One of
the strongest arguments for the renewal of this treaty,
is the fact that ever since its abrogation the United
States has been the loser. The leading men of the
country are convinced that while Canada will be ben
Gifted, the United States will be the greater gamer.
Statistics show that during the last few years, the
high duties and practical non-intercourse have been
detrimental to the commercial interests of the United
States.
W Will not the same course of reasoning apply to the
Hawaiian Islands, We think it will. Of course we
know the Hawaiian Islands would be essentially ben
Gifted by q reciprocity treaty, but would not a greater
benefit accrue to the United States? I'VE think it
would. Suppose such a treaty should be negotiated
and the agricultural interests Of the islands were
ouickened, then here would be opened O. ten-fold
greater market for the lumber, salmon, and every de-
scription of goods manufactured in the United States,
but especially west of the Rocky Mountains. Should
this take place, the trade with Oregon and California
would be marvelously augmented. Our products
sugar and rice-Would not interfere with the pro-
ducts raised on the western coast Of the United States.
Our islands are the natural market for their products,
and 30 the western coast of the United States is the
natural market for our products. Very soon, by
q~uickeped trade, the United States would control the
trade of these islands, and another step would be
taken towards the control Of the Pacific. In view Of
such results, the {" half 8 million 5" Of duties imposed
upon the Hawaiian sugars and collected in the San
Francisco Custom House, is q trife scarcely worth
mentioning. American statesmen are now discover
ing that they have been penny wise and pound
foolish - in regard to Canada, but they are equally
so with reference to the Hawaiian Islands. "Give
and it shall be given unto you" is the enunciation Of
q principle, true not only in the philosophy Of Chris
tianity but of political economy and commerce among
nations. The point to which We now call attention,
we think, is worthy of those fond of statistics Fill
Uncle Sans pocket, and he will {" reciprocate.'
HERE Is SOMETHING of interest to our orange
growers, and possibly to coffee planters as well.
Says a late number of the San Francisco Bulletin 4:
The orange ~culturist has no enemy to contend
with which be has such good reason to dread
none so formidable in numbers, so tenacious Of
vitality. and so fatally destructive to his trees-as
the scale-bug, or coccus. 1t is the only creature of
| any kind dePredating on the orange-orchard whose
operation the culturist has been unable to control.
Washing the plants with strong soap-suds is re-
garded by some as a good remedy, and professor
MAYNARD. OF the Massachusetts Agricultural Col
lepe. miner washing the affected plant with
ninety-fve per cent. of alcohol, applying 1t with q
small bristie-brush. But neither OF these washes
gives more than temporary relief, and the scourge
soon assumes its accustomed threatening proper
lions.
The orange-orchards of Florida have on snndry
occasions been threatened with total destruction
nv the scale-bug. 1t seems to have been no unu-
snail thing there for trees to be so infested with this
parasite as to necessitate cutting of all OF the
branches close to the trunk. In the Hawaiian ISL