Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-02-10
THE H.4 Wd/I4N RECIPROCITY
TREATY.
TREATY.

Inc committee on Foreign Relations in the
House, in Congress, have decided and report.
ed in favor of maintaining the treaty, upon
certain terms and inquiries as to sugars aiieged
to be introduced at variance with the true inten,
and meaning of the treaty. To the terms and
inquiries the Hawaiian Government will not
object, provided the treaty be maintained in
good faith and in its true spirit and intent.
The State Department appears to compre-
bend the great International question involved.
But the newspapers especially those in New
Iork-which have engaged in the discussion
of this question, have fallen far below the com
prehenson and standard intellect of the coun-
try. When the subject was before the country
in 1876, William Cullen Bryant, the scholar
and poet, through the New York Evuing
Post. showed himself master of the great sub
Ject, and TO be able TO comprehend the grand
future OF this country in the great opening of
the commerce OF the Pacific Ocean, and the
vital importance of the Hawaiian question and
the political relations of the Sandwich Islands
in that connection. The United States has n
Pacific coast which affords the grandest pros.
poets OF the future greatness of this country in
the commerce across the Pacific Ocean with
the five hundred millions of people on the
other side, whose productions are different
IRON ours and who need onr products, and
with whom the reciprocity of trade promises
results far beyond all calculation. And the
control of that great central archipelago in the
Pacific, in which the Hawaiian Islands are 10.
Gated, is vitality important to the future com.
mercial greatness OF our county. With this
advantage the United States will be mistress
of the commerce Of the Pacific. Without il
England will be a successful rival, if not the
actual ruling power on that great ocean.
William Cullen Bryant forcsaw and foreshadow.
ed this. He saw that our great country, with
its indomitable, energies and vast productive
ness, in the control of the commerce of the
Pacific Ocean, would make New York the
great commercial emporium of the world
the central halfway house between Europe
and Asia. If Congress be unable to compre-
bend this, that body is not equal to its duties
in regard to the great future of this country.
Senator Morrill,, in his efforts in this connec-
ton, reminds us of the man who undertook
to survey the magnificent works of creation
through goose quill, and was unable to
see anything but little pet of his own dang
ling at the other end. His mental vision is
SO contracted by his pet tariff fer protection
that he can see nothing else, and would
think II blessing to tax even home products
to build up his pet New England monopoes.
lie is wholly unable to rise to a contempla-
ton of the fact, that opening up the markets
of onehalf of the population OF the globe
by trade and travel across the Pacific, would
do more for the productive tariffs that can
be devised. The Senator has given his esti.
mate that the United States loses several
millions of revenue by the Reciprocity Treaty.
This is counting the chickens before they are
Matched. The loss is that which the United
States never owned that is, a loss of a re.
venue by tariff neither authorized nor levied
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