The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-03-05

part Government confident
These have not been disputed power and
cePf ne We also S e nri duy an g gi
relation amity is in relative degree welfare
fa q ro ao RsSe of the Hawaiian Islands, and should be maintained
importance of the Hawaiian treaty in its political hearings uuon
the United States has been recognized Presidents Tyler Polk
con johnson, Grant, and Arthur, indicated in messages Congress
Our Secretaries of State have uniformly insisted the Hawaiian
Government assumed treaty relations with countries
United States must stand in nearer relation with that kingdom than
The advantages treaty january 1875 the people
oment to hem in increasing the eenng of
many articles Of and enng the market and increasing the
Under the first head furnishing employment people,
Many Americans gone Islands, and
% , h capital nave; e engaged IN s Inne s pur
tries, from which they have realized The transportation
can ships.
Dagge already referred to-
American capital invested the production
alone SO 28 6i 1888 Mr. Frederick H. Aen former charge
dares of the Hawaiian Government statement which has been
the committee makes the following estimate of loans and
investments by Americans they were in 1882 vz S2OOOOO in ships
can steamers that then about to put into that trade So that
and permanent employment in the Hawaiian Islands since the treaty of
10 cent yielding 81 OOOO 900 to people
Since the treaty. San Francisco is practically the only direct market
resident Honolulu writing to the Secretary State on the 18th April
1884, says
introduced
to the Hawaiian Hawaiian the bulk Of ali The
SaTdng whHs out @ merchant vessels and steamers visiting M
tonnage American 9060 Others These
ali these Vessels Vessels are Of American bud ofen IT. tonnage "i' Nearly
He writes again. June 6, 1881:
nee & Hawaiian Islands a qRs s eS and u SS % @
larger increase of our shpudng for Hawaiian has been its
. ted o duty this post there s S
and just admit that probably all this Increased demand for American ships
generate power geneye power reflex
well direct nanaeent island products this
e 6H Gh fR at AND and h :o@5d E e P @
Te trade, trade Win the p bucket
@ n9uR nd " T hwha pg with the
D b neTsssf our carrying trade and o which
prosperity everywhere, disappearing
a cur sa gy yn T tas ss b .ts l @
Rnt R are uc grand TO on the cur aq u e T h Unite"
pou Sn@a G our co@me S Rsfor treaty with these ISLANDS con-
The number running the islands
The the Secretary the ending
of duty was sos 289 A. this sum there were
admitted free duty from the Hawaiian Islands, under the treaty of
Our exports to those islands for the same period Of
bullion were S showing nearly an equal export and import of coin
O22S This practically the that admit free of duty from the
Hawaiian Islands, the rest having by the mporaton
/, duty, that country.
inconernbe tem when com
pared with the s2O6 9l329s annual impoion which
free list for the beteng of the condition people large
But this apparent balance in the exchange commodities in substance
represents only the profits people
culture navigation and trade and financial dealings with the Hawaiian
The interest and profits
islands, and in whaves and ships and calculated
than is in fact obtained are s2OOOOOO The egt insurance, and
handling produce nterchange mostly of heavy commodities
ing in value to 1 SAL 74S at 10 cent which below
cost IVA, and the commissions earned exclusively
people, at cent if the
merchants only cent, that Os7lO;
$4,36S3iS.
This the actual state of trade which
an apparent annual balance against of 81 600
called ship coin transmit exchange Hawaii pay
paid people The this with
England During the last fiscal the apparent difference
between the value of exports and imports England
But England transported 50 cent of and the gh
insurance. and other charges which paid to her reduced
actual balance of trade in favor to less than 100000 What
to Hawaii is consumed there and S4j
while imports from that country go capita
e population.
These advantages gain through
commerce of these islands greater
could have possibly collected goods
this treaty duty This including
in 1875 S1922555 In the absence of the treaty reasonable
ground surprising greatly lat
in increased treaty Justly
be credited with nearly the entire
If take the trade of 1888 the basis which
instead of the trade of $780, which would be about the
e ss still the loss of enche both
r are the creditor country and handle this and because the
u remit articles that consumed people,
If these islands
Of admitted duty competition
coespondngy