The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-17
DOMESTIC POLICY OF THE
MoNARCHISTS

What measure of development could
these Islands expect at the hands OF the
Monarchist faction when an effort to
advertise them meets such objections
as these from an organ of the old
regimen
The immense benefit which Hawaii
can derive from making an exhibit at
the fair we cannot see. What are we
going to gain by t7 OF course MIR.
Thurston will answer tourists" Some.
how or other the tourists are slow III
coming in spite of all the efforts of Mr..
Thurston and his crowd. And even if
they do come, their number will never
be sufficiently large to be of any visible
benefit to the country at large. Tour
ist-traveling in Switzerland has often
been mentioned as proof OF what great
benefit, and what great revenue coun-
try can derive from becoming the
place where all excursionists and
tourists desire to GO But look at the
difference. 1t takes tiresOme sea
voyage of fourteen days to go to Hawaii
and back to San Francisco, while
Switzerland can be reached in less than
twenty-four hours from nearly every
point in Europe. In Hawaii the
traveller is cut off absolutely from all
communications with his home and
must live not less than a month with
out being able to exchange messages,
while in Switzerland he has the cable
and the mail and can return
home, if needed, in few hours.
To travel IN Hawaii is a costly affair.
Only well to do people can afford IT,.
Switzerland doesn't cost more or IN
many instances as much as it costs the
traveller to stay at home and live In his
ordinary style In Switzerland the
tourist can get anything he desires in
the line of Accommodations both In the
line of eating, sleeping and drinking,
in Hawai-well, the less said the
better. No, taken as whole, Hawaii
will not at present become gathering
place for tourists even if she takes part
in thousand expositions.
Our contemporary is disngenuous
The proposed display at the San Fran
cisco fair is not intended, chiefly, to
draw tourists from Europe but from
America, where the question of going
to Hawaii or to Switzerland is not
troublesome so far as the item of COM
parative cost is concerned Indeed, the
population west Of the Mississippi river,
and line drawn northward and south
ward of that stream, may 60 to Hawaii
as quickly and easily as it can visit the
region of Mount Blanc and traveller
from the Eastern States, coming this
way, would probably disburse less
money, considering the temptations to
buy and tarry along the routes OF vista,
ton in the Old World, than he would
if he had gone to the land of mountain
vistas and glaciers.
Then as respects European sight
seer3-and American as well-it must
be remembered that they, like other
nomads, are not to be forever Contented
with that scenery which is always at
their command. Having viewed
Switzerland they want variety and are
quickly affected by the entertainments
of distance. Obviously it is worth
while to tell them of a South Sea
archipelago where the common aspects
Of altitude are varied by lakes of fire ;
and where ocean, shore, Alpine heights
and tropical growths impress or charm
the eye, and native population, lately
in savagery, afford valuable ethnolo-
gical study. To man whose interest
is aroused by the tale of novelties like
these is the fact that Switzerland is
nearer to him than Hawaii a disSuadlng
circumstance Does the Colorddan
refuse to visit the Alps because be can
see the Rockies or the Mnnesotan the
Nile because he can go out at any
time and watch the turbid food of the
Mississippi
As to the means of communication
between the world at,large and the
Islands, they are better than were those
between England and America as late
as 1866-a time when foreign travel in
both directions was very great. In
reasonable course OF years they will be
equal to any.
Upon the expense of travel Hawaii
need not suffer by comparison. We
we're lately told by complaining tour
list that it took $500 to come here from
the Coast in irst-class style, stay three
months and return and the writer
confessed that he had been green
enough to lei both hotels and hack
drivers victimize HIM. Does our con,
temporary believe that tourist could
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