The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-05-20
NV England Correspondence.
APRIL 25. 1889.

After being without a sight of a Honolulu
paper for some months the arrival of a complete
file from January l does one ; eyes good, and for
a time it is to be feared business and friends
must take Il back seat while we renew our
acquaintance, broken of by no fault of either
party.
1t goes without saying that the Advertiser has
its full share OF the commercial prosperity with
which the Islands are being favored under the
reciprocity, and in this no one rejoIces more than
the writer, who remembers it's first issue, and has
been a t~olerably regular reader ever since.
THE TREATY.
Remembering the long struggle, that resulted
at last III securing the much-needed Recipro-
city Treaty. and the great depression in
business among all CLASSES mt the Islands Just
preceding It's contamination. II il no wonder
that you view with some concern the savage at
tacks OF some interested parties upon what is 80
closely connected with the vital interests of ma
tives and foreigners alike. The enclosed slips of
latest dates OF N. Y. dailies will inform you
more fully of what the Geographic reports have
given you some idea Concerning the do ngs Of the
Sugar Ring = OF New York in this matter. This
nice crowd, from whose tongues, if they are cor
rectly reported, falsehOods and misrepresentation
roll like = peas down a shovel, . are first cousins,
or nearer relations. Ot the parties who were over
hauled by ex-Secretary Sherman and the n. Y.
Collector OF Customs some years since for color
ing Demarara sugar in uIder to enter it at the
lowest possible rate of duty. When detected IN
that they appear To have gone into the business
Of adulteration OF cane sugar on a gigantic scale
with = glucose, and to such an extent is this
carried on now that grocers, who have any con-
science at all, hesitate when asked suuarely
whether they have on hand, or can get in the
market, Il pound OF pure unadultered sugar. or a
gallon of genuine mOlasses.
WHAT WILL You DO ABOUT 1T?
AT present the n. Y. daily papers appear to be
all on one side. and decidly opposed to Hawaiian
sugar duty free under the treaty, and for what
reason, except to help the n. Y. sugar ring, - no
fellow can find out. The only way to correc: this
vast amount of transformation, and neutralize
is effect, is to get Just the exact truth Of the
matter in it's most concise form before every
United States senator, and, as far as possible,
before the people at large.
1t is folly for you to SIT dn vn and fret over the
matter, or, on the contrary. 10 say - it will all
come out right" This lie "a matter that wants
the best ability the Hawaiian Government can
command, and " eternal vigilance " will be the
only way to bring things out right. In view
OF the dangers that threaten the treaty the
planters may well ask. What stall we do to he
saved" Lose no time in answering the uues-
ton. and then do il.
CHEAP POSTAGE.
Among all the matters that Congress finds
time to talk about. none 80 nearly concerns every
body ~ the prospect OF Il reduction of The rate on
single letters to two cents.
lHe TeiOTtnr III tHe f'stat service OF TINS
country. inaugurated by ex p. NJ. General james,
have resulted in bringing it up To a selEsupport-
ing basis, and there seems to be but one opinion
about the proposed reduction. Mr.. Whitney g
"reminiscences of the Hawaiian Post Office re-
mind us Of the time when every man who ''crOssed
the mountains " was a mail carrier If there had
been a late arrival from Frisco, and every man
who declined the service was reviled in no mea-
sured terms by his neighbors.
AT that time inter-island postage was not
thought of. and when 1t was established it found
many bitter opponents. The perfection to which
that branch of the postal service, called the
Letter Carrier, or - Free Delivery - system in
all cities of 20, 900 population or more. can be
brought is shown in the fact that in the adver-
tised letter list of the city of New Haven, Con-
necticut population 100000, the word - none >
is frequently seen, while a half-dJzen advertised
letters in IA week Is u large list. But then, the
: leading politician of New England. who is
also P. NJ. in New Haven, is unqucstionably a
model postmaster. The Quaker who urged the
church people to purchase a good machine il
they must worship BY machinery, would doubt
less have said let us have good machines if we
must have machine politicians in Office. 1t is
SAID that Connecticut can furnish other machinery
of frst-rate quality when it is wanted. Whether
the present era of high prices will tax their IN
genuity in machinery for making E Eastwood
hams and wooden nutmegs =" remains to be seen
AnN.