The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-11-26

know the meaning of the words we
so glibly misuse, and may have been
misled by our misuse of them, but no
cession will be wanted of US by any
nation, unless we lower ourselves by
hawking around what we ought to
consider our dearest treasure-the
integrity of our territory.
2 We have as fine a body of men
professional, mercantile, mechani-
cal and agricultural-as any nation
can show. and we have in them the
backbone of national prosperity.
B. We have a soil and climate
which enable us, on equal terms, to
nearly double the product of other
tropical countries.
4. We have geographical posi-
ton of unique value, which must
probably, will within a decade. make
this the center of steamship and
cable traffic that is bound to develop
with great rapidity.
The question is, how can we rene
dy our evils and use our advantages?
l. There is no royal road to learn
ing, and we, who have been living in
ot-house, cannot expect the same
heat in the open; but we can live,
and we shall live. Sugar plantations
are going on, and the managers, en-
gineers and sugar boilers will be
wanted. Economy and thrift will be
studied as they never have been
studied, and it will take some time
to get from luxury to economy, and
that time has to be lived, and cannot
be bridged over. New enterprises
have been pushed forward with great
haste in the past; no one expected
that process to last, and it is unrea-
sonable to expect that the rush could
be permanent, or that all the men
employed in the rush could be en-
ployed when it was over. These
things must find their level, and we
must wait for that level.
2. We must give up calling each
other by international names and
must pull together for the good of
this Hawaiian Commonwealth, trust
ing each other and each making
others feel that he can be trusted.
3. We Foreigners must so think,
and so speak and so act, as to inspire
the Hawaiians sovereign and peo-
ple-with confidence in the friend
ship we profess, making them feel
that this flag has no more faithful
friends than We who live under its
folds.
This is all industrial commercial
humdrum, and there is nothing
unique" but it is none the less in
dispensable. We must be our own
mainstay. But there is much for
craftsmanship to do also. The Uni
ted States negotiated with us a
liberal treaty in good faith. It was
no breach of faith that they removed
the duty off sugar, but it was an Incl
dent of their legislation whereby we
suffered severely. Ii | were Ha-
waiian statesman, should assume
that the United States could recog-
nize our moral claim to revise the
treaty so as to make our compensa-
ton as nearly as possible of the value
which the treaty contemplated. The
introduction of canned fruits would
not be sufficient, and it must be a
matter Of negotiation, and it should
be an understood thing that revision
should be made from time to time as
the changes of tariff might necessi-
tate.
In brief, my programme would be
to ascertain definitely what remis.
sions would compensate this nation
for what it has lost, and what further
remissions would be of value to US.
Next, / would ascertain what the
United States would ask in return,
and then it would be matter Of de-
cision as to the price demanded.
That the United States would behave
with generosity l do not doubt, but,
as said to Mr.. Emmeluth, I would
rather argue on fairmindedness and
sense of justice than on mere gener-
osity. Of one thing / am firmly con-
WINGED, that no American and no
English statesman will ever volun-
teer to ask Queen Liliuokalani to
cede a harbor or any other portion of
her sovereignty, nor would he have
statesman who recommended his
sovereign to make such cession.
There is nothing unique about the
outline have hastily penned, but I
venture to think that it would be
found to Secure for the Hawaiian
Kingdom the respect of the world
and the especial favor of the United
States" I am, sir,
Your obedient servant.
THO. Fl. DAVIES.
Honolulu, Nov. a, 1899.