The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-12-09

VIZ acknowledge with thanks the receipt Of the
Planters Monthly for the current month. This
useful and instructive pamphlet increases in value
as il grows older. We are pleased to read in
the Introductory remarks OF this number that
the editor takes much pleasure in the assurance
that all the doubts referred to 1.-THE need OF such a
DrbIicationl have been removed" We also appre-
ciate ths editorial remarks: q" 1t viii be our endea-
vor to present information obtained from homo
and abroad. pertaining to the sugar business and
kindred subjects" This embraces the sole object,
A. we understand. for which the Planters Monthly
was started An article on the Reciprocity Treaty
contains some sound logical reasoning. To quote
from il, IL states What the end wOuld be If the
United States should terminate the treaty it Is
impossible To predict One result II certain,
American influence would be jeopardized. There
Is too much at stake, and too much of the Anglo
Saxon race here to sit calmly and do nothing.
Attention might be directed to the Dominion If
Canada, with possible results not conducive 10 the
interests 81 the United States. Relief would lie
sought from some source, and that with diligence.
some would have it appear that American influence
has not been fOstered in Hawaii by the Treaty
they say that many others besides Americans have
awaited themselves OF the advantages Of the Treaty;
that We still import n portion OF our machinery
and goods from Europe and that there are not
many public demonstrations Of Hawaiian friend
I;ne.s 10 America, hence they say the treaty from
an American point Of view has failed in its object.
IL Is true that many, besides Americans, come
here and engage i'm business, but their in
terests are identified with the American in
terests. With which they stand or fall DIR.
Bem;ss's statements to a democrat re
porter ~ reproduced in these columns last week
are Unite to be "in the main correct" We
firmly believe that the doctor did not state
..deliberateIy" all that was published, and IL Is
we'll in all similar cases to make due allowance for
the elastic imagination Of the interviewing re-
porter. Mr.. r. A. Maefe. jr., furnishes n valuable
Communication on the Need Of n Chemist In
conclusion the writer expresses a hope in the fol-
lowing words: May not the sugar planters Of
Hawaii hope to have amongst them such 4 chemist
as may rank with such world renowned men As the
sugar industry Of France possesses in Dubrunfant
and Maumene, OF Germany in DR.. Scheibler and
Walkhon. or the Mauritius in DIR. DR. Icery-" a
short but concise letter on the 'sChoice and care
% horses 4" follows. This Is n topic on which n
great deal more might be written to advantage.
Mr.. WiIlfong continues his "reminiscences Of the
sugar Plantations in the early days Of the
Hawaiian Kingdom" Three and q half pages are
devoted to Items, all Of which have been judi
eiousIy selected. After discussing the Pros and
Gems Of the Reciprocity Treaty, a rather obvious
tvpographicaI error occurs in a foot note ON page
2s5. 1t reads, lone third Of all the sugar sold on
the English market is geef sugar" Probably beet
ia what the writer intended. The last twelve pages
are devoted to an Appendix to Mr.. H.. VI. Whit
oev,s Paper on the Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty"
on the whole, il Is an excellent number, and 1T
Is worthy of perusaI by Others than the Planter