The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-11
Speaks of Our Present
And Our Needs.
WHAT TO GUARD ACA| INST
Distinguished Writer Expresses His
Views in an Article in the
New York Independent.

ticle is given in full as follows:
annexed TO the United States by the
Newlands Resolution OF Congress-
That Resolution left us under the adj
ministration of our previous Govern
ment, subject to the authority of the
President of the United States, until
Congress should settle a new Terri
torial government for the islands
Since then a second, and now a third
session of Congress has sat, and we
are still waiting for action on our af-
fairs In the meantime we have run
along peaceably and comfortably I'M
der the excellent rule of Mr.. Dole.
| We have got to a point, however. where
fresh move has become Indispensable.
The political certainty and security
which were established by annexation
removed the previous disquiet and I'M
rest. As an integral section OF the
great Union, Hawaii became a very diff
| ferent proposition from n weak, unat-
taChed State composed of diverse and
discordant races. The natural conse-
quence was "A vigorous and rapid ex-
pansion of business and production.
Old sugar plantations were enlarged
and new ones created up to, and even
| beyond. the limits Of available means.
Within one year after annexation the
prospective sugar crop for 1901 was In
creased from 100000 to about 400, 900
tons. About twenty-five million dollars
was added to the corporate stock of the
plantations. So far as yet appears. this
was a healthy and legitimate growth,
without imitation. Perhaps the only
effect to be regretted has been the
necessity of importing some 10000 ad-
| ditional Japanese laborers, who are
not the most desirable addition To- our
population.
| During the same period "A similar eX-
pansiOn of our foreign commerce has
taken place. not especially due to an
nexation. There have been about $50
calls made by United States Army
transports crossing to and from Manila
with troops and stores. The increasing
growth of trans-Pacifc commerce has
nearly doubled the visits of liners and
freight steamers, until these now aver
age about fifteen ships a month, crowd
ed with passengers and freight. Added
to these is the great fleet of coal ships
required to supply coal for the bunkers
of the steam fleet, as well as for the
great irrigating pumps of our planta-
| tons. The larger part of this coal
comes from Australia, but some from
| Puget Sound. and some navy coal from
the Atlantic. There is also a large
fleet of lumber ships from Puget Sound
and Eureka, to supply our local needs.
Most of these ships take return cargoes
of sugar. Honolulu now has in port
an average tonnage of $4,000 tons, as
compared with $4,000 at San Francisco.
| This great increase of commerce has
caused our little harbor OF Honolulu
to become congested. The needed
wharfage room Is not to be had. 1t is,
perhaps, possible to double the wharf
room, but IL cannot be done as fast as
our commerce grows. This vast ocean
will rapidly swarm with great lines of
the largest steamers. These will most
ly call at Honolulu for coal Adequate
harbOr space can only be given by the
speedy opening of the neighboring
spacious Pearl Harbor Congress has
hitherto failed to provide for that pur-
pose
| Under the business stimulus above
! sketched, our little city has grown in
three and half years from $4,000 TO
/ $4,000 Of population, mostly since an
nexation. This growth is very appar-
ent in the new business blocks, new
residences and new suburbs, as well as
I
| ing increase of building Is seen
throughout the group. Our second city,
Hilo. has. perhaps, doubled in size to
| 10000 since annexation. It has two
railways in course of construction, and
will probably soon have its own steam
er line to San Francisco. Our Oahu
railway of seventy-three miles Is over
whelmed with traffic. Our able Min
lister Young says, ct is safe to predict
that the population of Honolulu in
/ 1905 will be close to 100000, and that in
1910 not less than 100000 people will
/ be domiciled in and around the city
OF Honolulu"
/ l should accept those figures, II reck-
oned of the prospective twin towns OF
| Honolulu and Pearl City. The creation
OF the latter city at points on the shores
OF Pearl Harbor from six to ten miles
/ from Honolulu, appears to be certain
as soon as that harbor is opened. Re-
member that it will require an estimat-
ed expenditure of only 100000 In
dredging the bar to a depth OF thirty
feet, In order to permit the entrance
of the largest steamers. In counting
on our commercial future, it Is needful
to estimate the enormous growth of
steam traffic in the Pacific which must
follow the opening of the Nicaragua
canal Those ships must all call here
for coal. They will crowd into Pearl
Harbor, and build up n city on its
shores.
OF our present government. now
awaiting it's end by action OF Congress,
II may be said without question that 1t
has been efficiently and honestly adj
mlnistered. There exist no allegations
or suspicious OF corruption In any de-
partment. But 1t has now reached the
last limit of It's capacity to carry on
public affairs without an immediate re-
Enforcement of Its powers. 1t is placed
In extreme straits. With an over
] flowing treasury, President Dole and