The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-11-01

Not that there is or ever has been any
danger to tourists here, but the very
idea of revolution is inseparable from
fighting and danger in the minds of
people in the Eastern States and
Europe. Ask any of the Honolulu
people who have visited the Worlds
Fair and cities farther East if they
have not been asked all sorts of silly
questions about the danger to life and
property here, and if in reply to re-
quest to visit the Islands they have not
been answered with, "Oh, | couldn't
think of going out there now. Why,
you have just had revolution" or
some similar answer. But while this
feeling exists among the old fogy
people of the Eastern States and
Europe, many Of whom have never
ventured fifty miles from home since
they were born, different state Of af-
fairs exists on the Pacific Coast. The
people are different, they think nothing
of journey of two or three thousand
miles, their ideas are enlarged by travel
and experience gained thereby and
their geographical position alone gives
them better knowledge of the true
state of affairs in these Islands. While
the Hawaiian delegation in Washing
ton and the Cyclorama people in Chi
cago have done much to correct the
evil, consider the coming exhibition
at San Francisco the finest opportunity
of lifetime to show the people Of the
Coast, and through them the balance
of the world, that instead Of retarding
the progress of Hawaii the revolution
has actually advanced it. And why
not 7
From geographical standpoint alone
California has larger interest in Ha-
waii than any other portion of the
world. Were protectorate established
tomorrow, or Hawaii made an Ameri-
can territory, it would be California
people and capital that would flock
here on the next steamer Pacific
coast capital would be invested in our
real estate, coffee and sugar plantations,
street railroads, water and electric
systems long before the slow going
people Of the Eastern and Southern
States would awake to a realization of
the fact that Hawaii was really a part
Of the great American union. | believe
there can be no gainsaying the state
ment that nine-tenths of the foreign
capital invested here in the next five
years will come directly from the
Pacific coast Such being the admit
ted fact, will ii not pay Hawaii to do
its advertising on the Pacific coast, and
particularly in the great city inside the
Golden Gate. | do not mean for a
moment that the good work now being
done abroad by the Bureau OF Infor-
nation, foreign consuls and others
should be stopped, but do believe
that the Mldwinter Fair at San Fran
cisco affords a magnificent opportunity
for advertising the scenic beauties,
healthful climate and wonderful natural
resources Of these Islands such as may
not occur again for many years. Let
everyone who has the interest of Ha-
wall do something to make the Ha-
waiian exhibit at San Francisco one
that all may be proud of. The country
may not reap immediate benefits from
it, but it will do SO shortly afterwards.
Considered as an advertising PROPOSE
ton alone, the Midwinter Fair will be
worth more to these Islands than the
cost of a dozen exhibits such as the
one proposed, and it should be remem-
bered that whatever is seen or described
in the San Francisco journals about
Hawaii's exhibit will find its way sooner
of later into all the leading journals of
the United States and elsewhere, thus
killing two birds with one stone.
MIDwINTER FAIR.