The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-10
MESSAGE IN FULL To CONGRESS

p!oyef or employee without weakening
ind!vidu2l initiative. without hampering
anu crampins the Industrial development
OF the country. is a problem fraught with
great difficulties and one which 1t is Of
the highest Importance to solve on lines
OF sanity and farsighted common sense as
well as of devotion to the right This is
an era of federation and combination.
Exactly as business men find they must
often work through corporations and as
1t Is constant tendency of these corpora
TONS to grow larger, so it is often neces-
lions, and these have become important
factors OF modern industrial life Both
kinds of federation, capitalstic and labor
can 90 much good, and as a necessary
corollary they can both do evil. Opposi-
ton TO each kind of organization should
take the form of opposition to whatever is
PAD IN the conduct of any given corpora
ton or union, not of attacks upon cor
poratons as such nor upon unions as
such, for some of the most farreaching
penencent work for our people has been
accomplished through both corporations
and unions Each must refrain from ar
bitrary or tyrannous interference with
the rights of others. Organized capital
and organized labor alike should remem-
Der that in the long run the interest of
each must be brought into harmony with
the interest OF the general public and the
conduct of each must conform to the
fundamental rules of obedience to the
law, of Individual freedom and of Justice
remember that in addition to power it
must strive after the realization of
healthy, lofty and generous ideals Every
guaranteed his liberty and his right to do
as he likes with his property or his labor
so long as he does not infringe upon the
rights OF others. 1t Is of the highest i'm
portance that employer and employee
alike should endeayor to appreciate each
the viewpoint of the other and the sure
disaster that will come upon both in the
long run if either grows to take as habit
ual an attitude of sour hostility and dis
trust toward the other. Few people de-
resentatives both of capital and labor
and there are many such-who work con-
tinually to bring about good understand
ing Of this kind based upon wisdom and
upon broad and kindly symnathy hefween
employers and employed. Above all, we
need to remember that any kind of class
sible. even more wicked, even more de-
5tructive to national welfare. than Sec
flonal, race or religious animosity. We
can get good government only upon condi-
ton that we keep true to the principles
upon which this nation was founded and
judge each man not as part of class,
but upon his individual merits. All that
we have right to ask of any man, rich
or poor, whatever his creed, his occupa-
ton, his birthplace or his residence, is
that he shall act well and honorably by
his neighbor and by his country. We are
neither for the rich man as such nor for
the poor man as such; we are for the up
right man, rich or poor. So far as the
constitutional powers OF the national gov
eminent touch these matters of general
and vital moment to the nation, they
should be exercised in conformity with
the principles above set forth.
1t is earnestly hoped that secretary of
commerce may be created, with seat in
the cabinet. The rapid multiplication of
questions affecting labor and capital, the
growth and compIexity of the organiza-
uonS through which both labor and capt.
tai now find expression. the steady tend
ency toward the employment of capital in
huge corporations and the wonderful
strides of this country toward leadership
in the international business world justify
an urgent demand for the creation of
such a position. Substantially all the
leading commercial bodies in this country
have united in requesting it's creation. 1t
Is desirable that some such measure as
that which has already passed the senate
be enacted into law. The creation of such
department would in itself be an adj
vance toward dealing with and exercising
supervision over the whole subject Of the
great corporations doing an interstate
business, and with this end in view the
with large powers, which could be in
creased as experience might show the
need.
/ hope soon to submit to the senate a
reciprocity treaty with Cuba. On May q
last the United States kept it's promise to
the island by formally vacating Cuban soil
ana turning CUBA over TO those whom her
own people had chosen as the first officials
of the new republic.
Cuba lies at our doors, and whatever af-
fectS her for good or for i'll affects us also
the Platt amendment we definitely took
the ground that Cuba must hereafter have
closer political relations with US than with
any other power. Thus in sense Cuba
mas become a part of our international
political system. This makes it necessary
that in return she should be given some OF
the benefits of becoming part of our eco
nomic system. 1t is, from our own stand
point, a ShortSighted and mischievous pol
icy to fail to recognize this need. More
over. it is unworthy of a mighty and gen.
erous nation, itself the greatest and most
successful republic in history, to refusesto
stretch out helping hand to a young and
weak sister republic just entering upon
its career of independence. We should al
ways fearieSSly insist upon our rights In
the face of the strong, and we should with
ungrudgtng hand do our generous duty
by the weak. | urge the adoption of reel
procity with Cuba not only because it il
eminently for our own interests to contro
the Cuban market and by every means tC
foster our supremacy in the tropical lands
and waters south of US, but also because
we of the giant republic of the north
should make all our sister nations of the
American continent feel that whenever
they will permit it we desire to show our.
selves disinterestedly and effectively then
friend.
A convention with Great Britain ha:
been concluded. which will be at once lait
before the senate for ratification, provid
ing for reciprocal trade arrangements be
tween the United States and Newfound
land on substantially the lines of the con
vention formerly negotiated by the secre
rocal trade relations will be greatly to the
advantage of both countries.
AS civilization grows warfare become:
less and less the normal condition of for
eign relations. The last century ha:
seen a marked diminution of wars be
tween civilized powers. Wars with un
civilized powers are largely mere matter:
of international police duty, essential fol
the welfare of the world. Wherever pos
Sible arbitration or some similar method
should be employed in lieu of war to settl,
difficulties between civilized nations al
though as yet the world has not pro
crossed sufficiently to render it possible
! or necessarily desirable to invoke arbitra
ton in every case The formation of tn,
International tribunal which sits at Th'
Hague is an event of good omen from
which great consequences for the welfar,
of all mankind may flow. 1t is far bette
where possible to invoke such a perrna
nent tribunal than to create special arbi
traitors for gwen purpose.
1t is a matter of sincere congratulatioi
to our country that the United States anC
Mexico should have been the first to US
the good offices of The Hague court. Thi
+ was done last summer with most salts
factory results in the case of claim a
issue between us and our sister republic
case will serve as a precedent for. others
in which not only the United States bu
foreign nations may take advantage o
the machinery already in existence a
| The Hague.
l commend to the favorable considera
| ton of the congress the Hawaiian fir
claims which were the subject of careful
| investigation during the last session
The congress has wisely provided tina
! we shall build at once an isthmian canal
{ IL possible at Panama. The attorney gen
| eraI reports that we can undoubtedly &C