The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-01

to come, the dominating force here
commercially, financially and socially
They will come in sharp conflict witt
tire new Asiatic and Latin civilization
but they will be from time to time re
iuforced by the progressive ideas O
the Mainland which they will use /
BITTER advantage than their competi
tors of alien ancestry. Their DANCE
of decline in power will arise out 0
their present prosperity, which tend
strongly to create community o
''amateurs;' of men demoralized b,
wealth, and unable to cope with tn
economic forces about them. Mr.. Johl
81 oderick, the present secretary of wa
IL the British cabinet, said recently il
the Nineteenth Century, that the loni
prosperity of the British people ha'
converted them into a nation of ANA
teur.s in business and in war, and I'm
fitted them to compete with the Sc
rious Americans and Germans. Wheth
e. danger in this direction is immi
nent or not is beyond the scope of thi
article.
The geographical situation of these
Islands is the unknown factor of the
t ons have been in the past most i'm
pGrtant in fixing the course of com.
r2erce. But the increasing economy OF
transportation, the new sources OF
| over and heat, may modify the value
or such locations. The completion OF
an Isthmian canal may make these Isl
ards port of call for many hundreds
of steamships, but these would add
70 do of &c nn,.f Dnir nj
Comfort, or Fortress Monroe, is the
largest port of call in the United
states, and several grocery stores sup
ply the wants of thousand ships.
The value of international commerce
les in breaking bulk and the distri-
button of goods; in a market of ex-
change; in the conversion of raw ma
tsrial into manufactured articles. The
ST: uation of these Islands at the cross
roads of the Pacific should. make them
superb place for the manufacturing
industries.
For instance, within the near future,
within the present century, the demand
for machinery of all kinds from the
lands bordering on the Pa cific, east
and west and south. will rise to enor-
nous proportions. There is no reason
not employ twenty thousand men in
che manufacture of all kinds of me-
cfanical contrivances. The central po-
s;tion of the Islands would attract the
buyers and sellers of such articles The
lator supply would come from the in
teiligent population which will be found
here, and which may easily compete
with the skilled laborers of other
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which are followed in the Occidental
countries, some at least will flourish
mere, as time will evolve suitable con-
ditions for their normal growth. In
X csc the Americans will dominate for
1eN eral generations. They will be the
capitalists, and great merchants, with
title to fear from their fellow citi-
Iens of alien descent if they are not
stricken with the disease of amateur
snl. Even shipbuilding may be car
ed on here on a enormous scale ow-
ng to the reasons which have been
wen. Daniel Webster's declaration, in
S47 that the acquisition of Mexican
including California. was the
aklng of territorial trash appears
ow to have been puerile. Great as he
vas, he stood with his back to the
I'm. A prediction against the rise of
asst industrial plants on these Islands
;cuid be equally foolish.
The sugar industry will be subject
o the vicissitudes which attend the
/ oduction of the great staples. It's
Misfortune is that, unlike other agri-
ultural staple products, its present
rosperity depends upon legal protec-
On. The Industries of wheat, corn and
rtton production are on a solid basis.
~ they need no nursing The pro-
eotion which gives US prosperity. also
nursing a formidable sugar beet in
;1Stry which within twenty years