The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-11-19

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American Trade With Samoa.
Vice-Consul Blackjack, in a 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.
Ii the mail steamers running from
San Francisco to New Zealand and
Australia called here, a 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
4ro hn
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
proposal new treaty with the Hawa-
ian Government has not received a
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 dispatch from London says:
I'm view of proposed treaty of
commerce between the United States
and Hawaii, a move has been made
by the British Foreign Office for a
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
lister Carter called it a "memoran-
dun" and perhaps that is as good a
name as any for 1t. Whatever it
may be called it has stirred up a
breeze in the islands and is likely
to be the source of a good deal of
trouble. The native paper in Homo
lulu is especially severe upon Min
lister Carter and his friends and re-
lations, charging them with an at
tempt to destroy Hawaiian indie
pendence before the general election
in February next would kick them
out of Office. The paper exonerates
the American Cabinet from any
share in what it calls the conspiracy
and declares that the good citizens
of Hawaii will unite to protect both
countries from the treason and per-
fdy of a religio-political clique, who
have attempted to sacrifice to their
personal interests both the indepen-
dence of Hawaii and the honor of
the United States. This, of course,
is directed against the proposition
Of an American protectorate, but we
think the HaWaiians need not be
alarmed. The United States has no
idea of going into the protectorate
business, nor of annexing the isles
of the sea. She will see: that Hawa.
iian autonomy is preserved, as she
did in the case of Samoa, but will
not dream of extending her sover-
eighty over the Sandwich Islands
upon any terms or conditions what
ever"
The Maritime Congress.
The question of our Maritime
Commerce and Oceanic steamship
subsidies is still causing a great deal
of discussion, and the subject is
bound to receive the close attention
of Congress at it's next session. A
concensus of press opinions indi-
Gates that the old Gree ship" pro-
position would not receive popular
support. On the contrary the drift
of sentiment seems to be in the di-
rection of the adoption of some ma
tional provision like that of England
which has made her the great mari
time power she is to day. Secretary
Jackson of the Navigation Associa-
ton, New York, has written letter
to the San Francisco Chamber of
Commerce on the subject of subsi-
dies, in which he says: 1--WE (the
government have subsidized trans