Evening star., 1899-03-27
Necessity for the Use of Pearl Har-
Dor.
HONOLULU WHARVES WDED
Discussing the Government Of the
Islands.
CHINESE AND FILIP1NOS
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

during the past twelyemOnth mas been very
great. As an example, two days ago SIX
large vessels arrived together, with cargoes
OF coal. lumber, machinery and merchan-
disc. This morning three of our regular
ocean steamers have arrived, from Yoko-
hama, Sydney and San Francisco. ten, fif-
teen and seven days. respectively, from
their ports. our snug little harbor is COM
pletely jammed at all the wharves- There
is a painful state of congestion.
As an indication of the general increase
of our ocean traffic, during the last three
months of 1898 there were thirty-six ar
rivals at Honolulu of ocean merchant
steamships, as compared with twenty-six
during the same period of 1891 or an in
crease of nearly 40 per cent. During the
same three months of 1S9S there We're
additional arrivals of fourteen United
States transports, en- route to and from
Manila, making fifty steamers in all, or
four a week 1t should be noted that, in
addition to this outside traffic, We have
dozen or more interisland steamers arriving
every week to discharge their cargoes OF
sugar and other produce at our wharyes
These boats of from 40 to 100 tons
And besides these there are twenty-five
arrivals month on an average OF sailing
vessels from abroad, averaging 1,9O tons
each. A considerable ma jOrity of these are
loaded with lumber and coal. The con-
SUMPTION OF iuIlDrI III JDcSt lS4StlluS Is very
large. The local consumption of coal is
increasing for driving the irrigating pumps
of artesan wells. Then every steamship
calling here takes on 800 to 800 tons.
This already keeps large coal fleet go
ing. and these Golfers have to wait their
turns at the whaTves. This week the big
cruiser Philadelphia is cOaling inside the
harbor, in hurry to take Admiral kautz
to Samoa And the champion battle ship
Oregon is also coaling outside by means of
lighters The United States government has
taken possession of our unfinished new slip,
intended for the accommodation of two of
the largest steamers at once, and has erect
ed two immense sheds, which were at Gree
filled with coal, over 1O,U1 tons, / believe.
So our harbor is becoming more and more
straitened for both wharfage and stTea m
room Anchorage space is greatly narrowed,
although there is room To build out more
wharves upon the west side of the harbor.
which is quite way from the town.
There has been some scheming to cut
through rice swamps a canal of half mile
or more to some deep water space west Of
the city. Probably some enlargement of
harbUr room might be obtained by that
means, although at very great expense. 1t
would even then he only a transient relief.
since the rapidly growing commerce of this
ocean. centcrinS at Honolulu, would speed
lily OutSrow such enlargement of Honolulu
harbOr. Indeed. il would outgTow it before
it could be completed.
Necessity for Pearl Harbor.
The one natural and effective relief for
the whole difficulty lies in the immediate
opening 20 commerce of Pearl harbor ten
miles to the westward. Six months work
by two good dredges would pump out the
sand on the bar and open a passage 500 feet
wide, - fee, deep and 1.;,pO feet in length
who're now is only II feet OF depth. This
viii cost between S1UJ,UUU and 500, 1000. Re
suit, the securing OF most perfect harbor
containing nearly three square miles of
H. FER mi
OF shore adapted 20 wharfage.
Pearl hurbOr awaits the action of the
Washington government 10 open and place
II aJ.the service of commerce after occupy
ing such section of it as is required for the
naval station. This should certainly be
done with the least possible delay. The con-
gested state of Honolulu haTbOr makes the
case urgent Not only will this harbOr be-
come relieved from its occupancy by naval
ships and their coIliers Und by transports.
but large proportion of the arriving mer-
chant steamers could 90 tG Pearl harbor
with their supplying GOLFERS. This will be
altogether done by steamers in transit be-
tween the Nicaragua canal and Asiatic
ports The vessels entering Honolulu har-
bOr would then be confined 20 those bring
ing merchandise for the Island trade. Hon
olulu city would continue to be the business
and banking center and the capital Pearl
city would be It's great commercial auXil-
larry. The two places are now connected by
railway of twelve miles. thirty-five min
utes schedule time. An important section
.
six to eight miles by land from the center of
Honolulu In fact. the city of the future
will be continuous between the two harborS.
The white Mans Burden" in Hawaii.
desire earnestly to commend to the at
tention Of your statesmen the very clear
and sound opinions Of Mr.. James Bryce,
NJ. P. upon Hawaiian matters as expressed
in the San Francisco Chronicle. / had the
pleasure of meeting Mr.. Bryce here several
years ago He was then giving TO our con-
diti6ns the same penetrating and discrim-
mating observation which he had already
given 10 those of the United States. This
last setting forth of his views seems to me
absolutely perfect. although some Of his
figures of population are taken from an old
census. Mr.. Bryce writes from wide per
snnal observation of what he calls the
backward races" under British colonial
sway.
I would particularly indorse the following
words:
''The American people will certainly ex-
pect that the government TO be established
In Hawaii shall be pure. and shall be just
to all alike; l. e. shall give full prOtec-
ticn 10 the four backward races of the isles.
Now. II il is TO be pure. the territorial con-
stitutiOn must not admit TO the electoral
suffrage a sufficient number of the back
ward races TO enable them to turn the
elections II IS no kindness to thrust upon
men functions they are unfit to perform. A
legislature controlled by these four races
OIawaian. Portuguese. Chinese and Japan
eSe( two Of them Asiatic strangers and the
Hawaiian natives nowise politically SUI
perior. would be q body either useless or
nlischievous- Probably. however. even if
these races held the mass of the votes. the
legislature would practically come under
white control. But how? Most likely by
bribery. The man who doesn't know how or
doesn't care 10 use his vote is willing to
sell il. White purchasers would be found
and the system thus created would de-
noralize the advanced part of the popula-
tlon without benefiting the backward part
while throwing the legislature into un-
scrupulOus hands All Englishmen who
know India and the crown colonies will say
TO America. Beware Of extending the suf-
frase in Hawaii, Utterly opposed as il
may be t0 all democratic doctrine that 5000
(nOw 11.Gm Americans and Europeans
with perhaps a small infusion of other
races, should legisiate for 100000 Asiatics
HaWaiians and Portuguese. this is a less
evil than that the leo mo should be granted
power to injure themselves. and the Amer
Jeans. and the government as 4 whole. The
principles Of the Declaration Of Independ-
ence are a species of baggage which the
American people cannot carry into their
tropical dOminions- In this matter nature
has been too strong for the English and
she Will be too strong for you
Government Running Smoothly
For one. / shall not be sorry for Congress
to postpone settling our government until
more deliberation can be had. We are