The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-10-26
Warner Miller Earnest as Ever
After Ten Years.
GENERAL AND SPECIAL PROFIT
Great Step Forward for United
Stakeholder Canals-CuDa
a Japanese Speaks.

Sr Miller delivered n address before
the Manufacturers Association of New
York at it's headquarters on Montague
street, Brooklyn, his subject being
The Commercial and Other Advan-
tages to be Derived by the Construc-
Tion of the Proposed Nicaragua Can
al Mr.. Miller said he had been try
ing to interest the people in the
scheme for ten years
The incidents of the past few
months" he said, "have demonstrated
the necessity of the canal as a means
OF defense. The people of the United
States would willingly have paid al
most any price had the canal been cut
through at the time the Oregon made
around the Horn.
THE manufacturers of the United
States today hold an enviable position
BY the returns from the last census
the volume Of our manufacturing pre-
ducts exceeds that of any other ma
ton. We not only supply the home
market, but can and do produce large
surplus for a foreign market. The
Nicaragua Canal would give a larger
foreign trade than any other scheme
that has ever come before the Ameri
can people The building of the Erie
Canal has made New York what it is
the metropolis of the country. The
building of the canal made possible
the settlement and building up of the
West.
The building of the Suez Canal gave
Europe control of the trade in the ORR
ent. With the foreign trade in the
Pacific England has an advantage
over us; in the first place by means
of the Suez Canal, and in the second
place that it is only $500 miles by
way of Cape Horn from Liverpool to
San Francisco, while from New York
TO San Francisco it is 1860 miles, an
advantage TO Liverpool of forty miles.
But if the Nicaragua Canal were con-
structed the advantage would be great
" in favor of the United States. Then
the distance from New York to San
Francisco by way of the canal would
be only 4,907 miles, saving a little
over 10000 miles, while from Liver
pool to San Francisco the distance
would be 5000 miles, giving the United
States an advantage of more than
3,OOO miles.
I'VE cannot look to Europe for
market for our manufacturing products
because she is producing cheaper than
rs If we want to Great a market we
must then look to the people who live
in the Pacific Ocean and not to those
in the Atlantic The people who live
around the Pacific Ocean number more
than 800 1000. 900. They may be small
consumers an present; but look at the
future, and with the division OF emma,
with the concessions made for the
building of railroads and the opening
of mines. is it too much to say that in
ten years the market will grow larger
in volume than all our foreign trade
of the present time? If we can open
the canal we will furnish all the rail
road supplies and steel rails. At the
present time Japan gets all her steel
rails from us Give us a cheaper and
quicker route and neither England nor
Belgium can compete with us. Build
the Nicaragua Canal, reduce the route
over 10000 miles. and, in my Judgment
and that of others, the population OF
the Pacific coast will double in five
years and quadruple in ten years, and
it will become a great market for the
manufactures of the East.
Nh Miller then gave brief history
of the Nicaragua Canal, and said that
nearly 100000 had already been
spent on it, and that the Government
was now discussing it, and that Presl-
dent Mckinley had appointed a COM
mission, with Admiral Walker as
chairman, to go to Nicaragua, resuryey
the route and report back its Judgment
as to the feasibility of building the
canal and its cost He said the report
had not been made yet, but that the
members of the commission agreed on
it's feasibility but differed as to its
cost, their figures ranging from $780,
coo 900 to S140 900 goo. Mr.. Miller said
he was positive the canal could be
constructed for $100,000,000.
The canal is necessary he said,
land when completed will be worth to
this country more than thousand
millions of dollars. The day the first
steamer sails through the Nicaragua
Canal property on the Pacific coast will
increase 100 per cent in value, and
within a half century the Pacific coast
will be as populous as the East. II
the Government takes and constructs
the canal the tolls will pay interest