The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-08-27

ne lawyers arrange the case, the nrSt
witness is called, but the witness has /
hardly made statement, before he is |
stopped by the opponents lawyer who |
objects TO the testimony he abuses the |
finds fault with the Judge and |
goes Tor the opposite attorney and hisf
client rough shod for introducing such |
testimony and sits down. The opponents |
attorney, who has apparently been boil |
ing over while listening 10 the above |
harangue, now takes the floor aud goes
Tor the scalps OF his opponents; he calls
Stanford and Croker thieves and Dill
bingham and his associates prospective
he quotes Blackstone in many
decisions OF notable courts, goes off in
his imaginary flights, he pounded the
table, he banged the law books, he
shouted, and reared, and howled. In his
oratorical soaring he visited the planets
and fixed stars and wound up with
grand warwhoop for free schools, free press
and the principles of eternal Justice,
don't say that this committee is like such
court. | do say it reminds one of it.
But believing that the flights of fancy
have somewhat cooled, it is to be hoped
we may now get calmly down to BUSH
ness. | will first call the attention of
the committee TO the point that there is
nothing asked for the.Ewa Railroad, now
completed-we haze g5teilat; but the
encouragement is asked to assist in ex-
tending the road into new territory.
There is a point about this assistance
which we will consider. These gentle
men propose that ii they can get the
proper encouragement they will build
this road; which intimates that il the
assistance is not granted they cannot
build the road. This proposition, stand
ing out blunt before US, it behoves us to
consider it thoroughly and calmly and in
business light as though it was our pri-
vate concern. If We believe that the
Eva road could be extended to the west
without its being ruined, then think we
should grant the assistance asked. As
to what the Government in that case
would have to pay, would be only about
one-eighths of the cost of the road, the
other seven-eighth of its cost must come
from elsewhere; and the extended road
when built would be worth $400 900,
which after time would be subject to
taxation. l think it a very safe estimate
to claim that the money invested in the
road and the increased value of the prop
erty, to be 81 900, 900 ill addition to the
values now existing there and we must
remember that this value will be divided
among many people. Even the road it.
self will belong to many, and the thous-
sands paid for its construction goes into
circulation among the laborers and mer-
chants, but its value still remains in the
railroad, the money only goes circulating
around measuring its value every time it
passes from one to another; but il the
road is not built, remember there will be
no money to circulate from that quarter
and no wealth added to the taxable
property OF the kingdom there. There is
another fact that has not yet been con-
sidered in connection with this road 1t
is this: The developing 'of the back
country of Oahu is not the only thing we
should aim at when encouraging this
road; Honolulu is to be built up, extend
ed and developed into grand CONNER
cial centre of trade for the great Pacific
Ocean. You all should get one of the
New GUIDE Books ana without opening
1t you will see on its cover a birds eye
view OF the centre OF gravity occupied by
these islands as trade centre. But the
people of these islands must do seme-
thing to bring it about. Ii they expect to
reap, they must first sow-they must
take some risk. When Honolulu con-
tains 100000 inhabitants all the more
comfortable parts of this island will be
| sought out by the merchant princes for
residences, and railroad car is the only
known conveyance that enables man
to do business in one place and live miles
away. AT San Francisco, and all large
American cities, many of the people do
business in the city but live from ten to
| thirty miles in the country, and go and
come daily by rail, and lands twenty
| miles out are worth $500 and 81 900 per
acre. 1t will hardly be wise for US TO
say that such prosperity will never visit
Honolulu, when considering what has
! taken place SO recently. Forty individ-
uais made the whole population OF San
Francisco when | first arrived there
now there are over 100000 people and
| millions of wealth. So we think it will
be wise for us to prepare, and those out
| side lands cannot be brought near enough
| to Honolulu to be worth even $500 per
acre without railroad. A few days ago
some members of this committee attend
ed party beyond Dimond Head, but
they had to take steam and go to sea in
| order to reach the feast. A few months
! ago Pearl Harbor could only comfortably
be reached by sea; now in less than one
hour it is reached by rail- The fogy will
undoubtedly say wait hntil Honolulu
| contains 200,0 900 people, then they can
build the road. But remember, waiting
never did anything, and thousands have
missed large fortunes by waiting Ii
Chicago had waited for her large popula-
ton before she built her railroads, she
would have been still waiting, and been
only small town instead Of the large
| metropolis she now is. So waiting for
| wealth to accumulate around us by some
others plans and laborers does not be-
come the spirit of the age in which we
live. Let us be up and stirring OF the
building of the Central Pacific Railroad
| and the stealing, ETC., under it, L wish to
say the trouble in starting that road was
| not in obtaining the grant OF bonds and
| land, but In finding company willing
and able to take the grant after it was
made and build the road and of all the
wealthy men who were supposed to exist
| in San Francisco at that time, not one
| had foresight or enterprise enough to
| help build the first twenty miles of the
road which the law required to be done
| before the bonds could issue. Stanford,
| Croker, Huntington and Hopkins had
| foresight, enterprise and ambition, but
not enough money to build the road, but
by perseverance they raised the money
and built the first twenty miles and the
whole road. The building of that first
Pacific road, it is said, added over one
thousand million dollars OF wealth to
| America. That is the way to get rich.
This road not only opened the American
territory but the eyes of the world as to
what could be done. 1t is the Stanfords,
the Spreckels, the Dillinghams and other
enterprising men who open the avenues
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