The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-02-07
LIONS IN HANA|TS WAY
OBJECTIONS TO HER BEING MADE
A TERRITOY.
Every Industry With Which We Com
pete Arrayed Against Us-Beet Sugar
and Fruit Men Oppose.

William e. Curtis in his Washington
correspondence to the Chicago Record
has this to say of the influences that
are working against the erection of Ha-
wall into a territory.
1t looks as if all the reciprocity trea-
ties negotiated by Mr.. Kasson under
the Dingley bill would be hung up by
congress as an illustration of human
selfishness and the inconsistency of the
republican party. The platforms of the
st. Louis convention and other previous
conventions in fervent terms demand
the application of the principle of reci-
procity to our foreign commerce. The
presidents inaugural address and mes
sages to congress advocated it. The
speeches of the spell-binders through
out the last campaign described the
beauty and advantages of reciprocity
in trade, and promised great results If
the republican party was allowed 70
negotiate treaties. The late Mr.. Ding
ley and his colleagues of the commit
tee of ways and means made a great
demonstration to deceive the public,
and inserted what they called a reci-
prOcity clause in the last tariff law,
which was framed so that it should be
imperative, but Mr.. Kasson skillfully
managed to make something out of It
and concluded arrangements with
France and the British colonies in AM
cellent treaty with the Argentine Re-
public, which gave sugar, wool, tobac-
co. fruit and some other things from
those countries an advantage of 20 per
cent less than the ordinary duties i'm
posed upon such merchandise
Although the entire trade of all the
nations mentioned is but a drop in the
bucket when compared with the total
imports of the articles mentioned,
every interest that is affected remon-
strates and demands that the treaties
be rejected. The woolmen of Ohio are
perfectly willing that we shall have re-
| ciprocity on fruit and tobacco but they
| object to reciprocity on wool. The to-
| baccO growers of Connecticut. like Art
! emas Ward, are quite willing to sacri-
flee all their first wife's relations for the
benefit of their country, but their pat
riOtism goes no farther. The fruit grow
ers of California are strongly in favor
of reciprocity on wool and tobacco, but
object to having any in the treaty
about fruit The sugar-beet growers
are afraid that Infant industry will
suffer by a reduction of 20 per cent in
the duty imposed upon sugar imported
| from the British colonies.
The democrats are not doing this. The
| opposition comes chiefly from the re-
| pubicans, who are the most enthusiasts
! tic in favor of reciprocity. provided the
| uullGS Oll Ile articles produced IN tneIr
states are not reduced Nevertheless,
the next republican platform will again
commend the reciprocity policy and the
republican spellbinders will reburnish
and repeat their arguments to show its
advantages, while the republican con-
gress will continue to prevent its ap-
plication, like the member of the Iowa
legislature who favored the passage of
a prohibition law but objected to its
enforcement.
The objections to the admission of
| Puerto Rico and the Hawaiian islands
as territories rest on similar grounds
The beet-sugar men object to the adj
mission of their sugar, the Connecticut
| tobacco growers to their tobacco and
| the California fruit men to their fruit.
Everybody is in favor of expansion
provided it does not interfere with his
own selfish interests, and some other
mans OK is gored.