The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1889-11-26
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
Per $. S. Australia, San Francisco
November 8, 1889.
(From Our San Francisco Correspondent
(Continued.l

Vice-Consul Blackjack, In report
on American trade in Samoa, says
"The largest amount of cotton goods
imported is of British manufacture
the principle trade being with the
British colonies, with which the
country has the only steam connec-
ton" He speaks of the recognized
superiority of American prints, etc.,
and says: "There are many lines IN
all classes of goods which can be
purchased to better advantage in
the United States, which now our
merchants have to obtain from the
English colonies for want of trans
portation from the United States.
If the mail steamers running from
San Francisco to New Zealand and
Australia called here, good trade
could be built up in very short
time with the United States. All
the general merchandise now coming
by sail would come by steamer, and
where now only one or two OF the
larger firms are able to import, every
storekeeper in the place could deal
directly with San Francisco, the
same as they do now with the Aus
tralian colonies. Were the San
Francisco and Australian mail
steamers to call here, over half the
goods now imported from British
ports would come from the United
States"
The Hawaiian Treaty.
The proposition involved in the
proposd new treaty with the Haws-
ian Government has not received
very fattering reception, but on the
contrary public opinion and the
press have pretty thoroughly squelch-
ed the scheme and its promoters.
In connection with the treaty mat
ter a dispatch from London says:
In view of a proposed treaty of
commerce between the United States
and Hawaii, a move has been made
by the British Foreign Office for |
treaty between England and Hawaii.
The English Consul has been in
structed to oppose the American
Company's efforts to obtain exclu-
sive concessions to land and cables
and to push the interests of Eng
land always"
The following from the San Fran
cisco Post will give an idea of how
the matter is regarded by the news
papers here:
at is not exactly accurate to call
that a treaty which is not a
treaty and probably never will
be treaty, but there is no name
which exactly fits the instrument
which has been concocted in Hawaii
and sent to the United States to be
presented to our government Min
ster Carter called it a "memoran-
lum" and perhaps that is as good
name as any for it. Whatever it
nay be called it has stirred up
,reeze in the islands and is likely
o be the source of a good deal of
rouble. The native paper in Homo {
ulu is especially severe upon Min
ster Carter and his friends and re- {
charging them with an at &
empt to destroy Hawaiian indie
'endence before the general election s
n February next would kick them
ut of Office. The paper exonerates c
he American Cabinet from any G
hare in what it calls the conspiracy
nd declares that the good citizens L
( Hawaii will unite to protect both S
ountries from the treason and per- t
dy of religio-political clique, who t
ave attempted to sacrifice to their \
erscnal interests both the indepen- 8
ence of Hawaii and the honor of f
lie United States. This, of course, n
directed against the proposition Il
an American protectorate, but we a
link the Hawaiians need not be a
armed The United States has no G
lea of going into the protectorate 81
nor of annexing the isles
the sea. She will seelthat Hawa.
IN autonomy is preserved, as she a,
d In the case of Samoa, but will @
1t dream of extending her soyer- SC
gnity over the Sandwich Islands r
Jon any terms or conditions what 8,
err" /
The Maritime Congress. :,
The question of our Maritime e
and Oceanic steamship IL
bsidies is still causing great deal is
discussion, and the subject is ar
und to receive the close attention
Congress at its next session. A M
ncensus of press opinions indi- W,
.es that the old ''free ship" pro-
sition would not receive popular m,
Dport On the contrary the drift sh
sentiment seems to be in the di- rs
ton of the adoption of some ma 81
nal provision like thatof England
ich has made her the great mari ms
lie power She is to day Secretary ;ss
,kson of the Navigation Associa-
D, New York, has written letter ms
the San Francisco Chamber of %,
nmerce on the subject of subsi- a r
s, in which he says: I'VE 1.-THE for
have subsidized trans
tinental railroads to the extent of M,
ing away an empire. The results M,
e justified the expenditure. But 14t
not time for US to reach out for
? wonders and conquer them? In