Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-29

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free of duty:
SCHEDULE.
Agriculture implements; animals beef,
bacon, pork, ham, and all fresh, smoked or pre-
served meats; boots and shoes grain flour,
meal and bran bread and breadstufs of all
kinds bricks. lime and cement butter, cheese,
LAID aud tallow bullion coal cordage, navel
stores, including tlr, pitch, rosin, to- lentine,
raw ard rectifed "copper" and composition sheet
ing, nails and bolts cOt,O and manu- actures of
cotton, bleached and unblelch ], and whether
or not colored, stained, painted ct printed !;
eggs fish and oysters, and all other creatures
living in the water, and the products thereof !;
fruits, mats and vege. ables, green died or IL
dried, preserved or uopresetvcd; hardware
h des, furs, skins aud pelt3, dressed or IN
dcessed hoop-iroo q I'd i.vets, nails, spikes and
bolts, tex, brads Oc sprigs ice ron ard STEEL,
and manufactures thereof; leather; lumber !;
and timber of all kinds, round, hewed,
sawed and manufactured, in Whole or n
part; Doors sashes and blinds; machinery OF all
kinds, engines and parts thereof; olts and hay,
paper; stationery I'd books, and all maldfac-
lures of paper, or OF paper and wood; petroleum.
and al oils for Intoxicating or Illuminating pur-
poses; plants, shrubs, trees, and seeds; rice;
SUGAR, refined or uprehned; salt; soap, shocks,
slaves aod headings; wool, and manufactures OF
wool, otLer than ready-nade clothing; wagons
and carts for the purpose of agriculture, or
dli.yage; wood. aud manufactures OF wood, or
wood and metal. except flu Hitr1e eithe' uphol-
| stored or carved. and car ia"es; ,eEtie m&nufac
lures, made of a combination oS wool, cotton,
silk, or linen, or Of any Two or moe of them,
other than when in ready-msde clio. Hing; har-
ness. aud all manufact res OF leather; starch;
and tobacco, whether in leai or manufactured.
ARTICLE III.
Provides way for proving that the
goods sought to be entered duty-free, are
the growth, manufacture or produce OF the
one country or the other.
ARTICLE ".
= = : . \ Il is agreed on the
part of his Hawaiian majesty that, so long
as this treaty shall remain in force, he will
not lease, or otherwise dispose of, or create
any lien upon any port, harbor, or other
territory in his dominiops, or grant any
special privilege or rights of use therein,
to any other power, State or government,
nor make any treaty, by which any other
nation shall obtain the same privileges,
relative to the admission of any articles
free of duty, hereby secured to the United
States.
ARTICLE '.
\ . > X The convention shall re-
main in force for seven years from the
date at which it may come into operation;
and, farther, until the expiration of twelve
months after either of the contracting par
ties shall give notice to the other of its wish
to terminate the same; each of the high
contracting parties being at liberty to give
such notice to the other at the end of the
said term Of seven years, or at any time
thereafter
This treaty went into operation when
sanctioned by the U. S. congress in the.year
1876. The question naturally arises,
"IYhat was the object of this convention?"
An answer may be found IN the language
of the preamble:
"The United States of America and his
majesty, the king of the Hawaiian islands,
equally animated by the desire to strength
en- and perpetuate the friendly relations
which have heretofore uniformly existed
between them and to consolidate their
commercial intercourse, have resolved to
enter into a convention for commercial
reciprocity"
It was supposed to be, as, in fact, it has
proved to be, good substitute for & treaty
OF annexation. 1t was a political rather
than a financial measure on the part of the
United States.
In the words of one of the most con-
spicuous5of the American sugar planters in
the Hawaiian islands, "the United States
gave US the treaty of reel procity instead of
annexation, and, TO my mind, the act was
a wise one. 1t has helped to keep alive
and develop American sentiment, and has
bound this island kingdom the more close
ly to its natural friend and protector by
the strongest Of ties, self-interest; and,
under the treaty, the United States may
justly consider herself the most favored
nation with all that that implies
It so happened that the writer of this
article was present at the opening Of the
Legislative assembly at Honolulu in May
last, and heard the address of King Kala-
kaua on that occasion.
His majesty congratulated his subjects
on the furnishing condition of the coun-
try, and said emphatically that their pres
ent unprecedented prosperity was mainly
owing to the treaty of reciprocity SO kind
ly entered into by their good friends and
States, with the Hawaiian kingdom.
The same sentiment of gratitude
seemed to animate the whole business
DOEJ1Ou Ol the 1SlduUS, WIFI Iu0 6AC6pIlOus
perhaps, of a few of the subjects of Queen
Victoria, who betrayed, at times, feeling
of jealousy towards the United States on
account of the paramount influence of this
government in the affairs of the Hawaiian
kingdom growing out of said treaty.
Tt was somewhat difficult for me to re-
alize, when walking through the streets of
Honolulu, that L was not in my own coun-
try, so closely do they copy after the
United States in everything.
Even the anniversary of the declaration
of American independence is celebrated in
Honolulu, with as much apparent gusto as
in towns of similar size in the United
States.
But wish, for moment, to consider
the political and commercial effect of this
treaty upon the United States. It's ben
efcial effect upon the Hawaiian islands, no
one will dispute.
In 1875, the total exports from these
islands amounted to no more than. So, 089, 1876
In 1880, the exports were. .......... 1868, 445
In 1881, the exports were. .......... 6,S3S, 8l3
The effect of the treaty has been to slim
ulate industry and commercial activity in
all directions. In 1875, there was but one
small steamboat employed in carrying
freight and passengers among the differ
ent islands. Now there are eight steamers
fully employed in the home navigation,