The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-10-23

shall acquire that common confidence
on which all international friendship
must rest. It will be a greater gain
when we shall be able to draw the
people of all American nations into
closer acquaintance with each other,
an end to be facilitated by more fire.
quent and more rapid inter-com-
munication. It will be the greatest
gain when the personal and COM
mercial relations of the American
states, south and north. shall be so
developed and so regulated that each |
shall acquire the highest possible
advantage from the enlightened and
enlarged interests of all"
The topics which will come up be-
fore the Congress for discussion are
specified in Mr.. Blain's letter of in
vit4tion, as follows:
Measures that shall tend to pre-
serve the peace and promote the pros
perity of the several American States.
Enclosures toward the formation of
an American Customs Union, under
which the trade of the American nations
shall, so far as possible and profitable be,
promoted.
3.-The establishment of regular and
frequent communication between the
ports of the several American States and
the ports of each other.
4.-The establishment Of uniform
system of customs regulations in each of
the independent American States to
govern the mode OF importation and eX-
p6rtation of merchandise and port dues
and charges, uniform method of de-
termining the classification and valua-
ton of such merchandise in the ports of
each country, and a uniform system of
invoices, and the subject of the santa
ton of ships and quarantine.
5.-The adoption of uniform system
! of weights and measures, and laws to
protect the patent rights, copyrights,
| and trade marks of citizens of
either country in the other, and for the
| extraditiOn OF criminals.
| 6.-The adoption of a common silver
coin, to be issued by each government,
the same to be legal tender in all COM
mercial transactions between the citizens
| of all the American States.
IAN agreement upon and recon-
mendation for adoption to their respec-
tive governments of definite plan OF
arbitration of all questions, disputes and
| differences that may now or hereafter
exist between them, to the end that all
difficulties and disputes between such
nations may be peaceably settled and
wars prevented.
Sand to consider such other sub
iects relating to the welfare of the sew
eral states represented as may be pre-
scented by any of said states which are
hereby invited to participate in said con-
ference.
At dinner given to Hon. M. M
Estee, the delegate from California
to the Congress that gentleman
made an address, from which we
Gull the following paragraphs:
The law under which we will act sub
mits eight points for our consideration
all of which are important, but two O
which strike me as especially SO. The
one is: "The establishment of regular
and frequent communication between
the ports of the several American States
and the ports of each other" The
other is: "The adoption of common
silver coin to be used by each govern
ment, the same to he legal tender in al
commercial transactions between the
citizens of all the American States"
For my own part, l am in favor o
maintaining by governmental aid, IL
some form, lines OF steamers to all the
chief ports south of US. And [ would
aid American lines of vessels plying be
tween San Francisco, Australia, Japar
and the islands of the Pacific. l would
!. thus make new highways for trade
across the Pacific ocean, and direct thu
traffic of those islands to the United
, States. While doing this, such provi
sion might be made that in the case O
; war these vessels could be utilized b,
the general government, and thus il
carrying out this scheme of building Vi
the American commerce, we would a
once aid in creating an American nav,
/. for it requires men accustomed to tn
, sea and Injured to the rough and tumult
uous life of sailor to man our war yes
sells. If we have no merchant marine
we will necessarily have no creditabl
navy, and in my judgment, you canno
secure one without maintaining tn
other.
The adoption of a common silver coli
to be used by all the American nations
: the same to be legal tender in all com
p mercial transactions, between citizens {
all the American States, would be tn
longest step toward carrying out the ide
indicated of obtaining for the Unite
States the trade of the South America
countries To illustrate: At the pres
: ent time, we buy nearly all our coffee i
8 South America. We pay, as we hav
before seen, large amount to balanc
our accounts with those nations. Las
l year, as we stated, the trade was agains
: US by $54 100000. Now, if we had
uniform silver coin of equal value in a.
: these American States, these peopl
2 would be more apt to deal with US, an
! we would be more willing to deal wit
them, because we are large silver pro
ducing country, and so are most of tn
s South American States.
The result would follow that as tn
b American silver dollar, would be re
!, ceived at par in the United States, AM
also in all other American States, Will
in Europe it would be treated as com
; modify to be sold in the market for VIVA
!, it would bring, our people would prefe
to deal with the South American pee
pies, and the American nations woul
S prefer to deal with us. This, in my iude
D ment, is the true way of securing til
! trade and maintaining the friendship c
our neighbOring nations. for the dOlla