The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-24
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harm to our industries and labor. Reel
procity is The natural outgrowth of our
wonderful industrial development under
the domestic policy now firmly establish
ed. What we produce beyond our do
nestle consumption must have vent
abroad. The excess must be relieved
through a foreign outlet and We should
sell everywhere we can and buy wher-
ever the buying will enlarge our sales
and productions and thereby make a
greater demand for home labor.
The period of exclusiveness is past.
The expansion of our trade and COM
merce is the pressing problem. CONNER
cial wars are Improbable. A policy of
good will and friendly trade relations
viii prevent reprisals. Reciprocity treat
les are in harmony with the spirit of the
times; measures of retaliation are not.
If perchance some of our tariffs are
no longer needed for revenue or to en-
courage and protect our Industries at
home, why should they not be employed
to extend and promote our markets
abroad? Then, too, we have inadequate
steamship service. New lines of steam
ers have already been put in commits
sion between the Pacific coast ports of
the United States and those on the
western coasts of Mexico and Central
and South America. These should be
followed up with direct steamship lines
between the eastern coast of the United
States and South American ports. One
of the needs of the times is direct COM
mercial lines from our vast fields of pro-
duction to the fields of consumption that
we have but barely touched.
Next in advantage to having the thing
to sell is to have the convenience to car
ry it to the buyer. We must encourage
our merchant marine. We must have
more ships. They must be under the
American flag, built and manned and
owned by Americans. These will not
only be profitable in a commercial sense;
they will be messengers of peace and
amity wherever they go. We must build
the isthmian canal, which will unite the
two oceans, and give a straight line Of
coasts of Central and South America and
Mexico. The construction of a Pacific
cable cannot be longer postponed.
A TRUER FRATERNITY
In the furtherance of these objects Of
national interest and concern you are
performing an important part. This ex-
position would have touched the heart
of that American statesman whose mind
was ever alert and thought ever constant
for larger commerce and truer ira
ternity of the republics of the New
World. His broad American spirit is
felt and manifested here. He needs no
Identification to an assemblage of Amer
leans anywhere, for the name of Blaine
is inseparably associated with the Pan
American movement which finds this
practical and substantial expression and
which we all hope VIII be firmly advanc-
ed by the Pan-American congress VIII CHI
assemblies this fall in the capital of Mex
leo. The good work will go on. It cam
not be stopped. These buildings will dis
appear; this creation of art and
beauty and industry will perish from
sight, but their influence VIII remain to
Make it live beyond its too short living
With praises and thanksgiving.
! Who can tell the new thoughts that
have been awakened, the ambitions fired
and the high achievements that viii be
wrought through this exposition?
Gentlemen: Let us ever remember that
our interest is in concord, not conflict,
and that our real eminence rests in the
hope that all who are represented here
may be moved to a higher and nobler
effort for their own and the worlds good,
and that out of this city may come not
only greater commerce and trade for US
all, but more essential than these, rela-
lions of mutual respect, confidence and
! friendship which VIII deepen and endure.
Our earnest prayer is that God will gra-
! ciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness
and peace to all our neighbors and like
/ blessings to all the peoples and powers
/ of earth.