The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-05-22
WHY HILLS SHIPS PASS us BY.
CLAIM THAT WITH THE SUGAR SHIPMENTS TIED UP
BY THE TRUST THERE IS NOT ENOUGH OTHER
BUSINESS HERE Q WARRANT BRINGING THE BIG
STEAMSHIPS THIS FAR SOUTH

The following appears May IA as special
respondenCe of the Examiner from Edward H. Clough:
YOKOHAMA April 2oThe have operated induce
James Hill sdetrac Honolulu his anspacihc schedule of
the emphatic upon the growing decadence of a
waian that could be offered.
When d. Farrell vepresiden of the Great Northern Steamship
line reached Honolulu during the last of March he utilized the few
hours of his that port by interviewing F. Dillingham; general
manager OF the Oahu railroad and authority on commercial cond
tons the islands The result of this interview confirmed Mr. Farrell
his peconceved noSon that would be of time make o
rouu port of call for the steamers of the Hill line He learned that
aside from uctung traffic and incidental
los tropical fruits andthe by products of the islands, there nothing
worth the expense and trouble OF conveying away
Mr. Dillingham; made the best of bad favor ncrea
hent Mr. Farrell and he finally informed Mr. Dillingham;
that until better demonstration Hawaiian profit the Great North
could be made the track OF that steamships would follow
the thirty parallel plying directly possible over the great cir
Gle between Seattle and Yokohama.
Farl pro-
position Hawaiian interests the only Immediately valuable in
in the islands, the clutch of the sugar With the
equipment all modern commercial enterprise formerly
primary requisite the plans Mogans Kids
good old buccneeng dayhs American has
conered the Hawaiian Plantations during the ensuing
three years This output during 1902 amounted $4,000 and
the planters calculate that the product this year will aggregate between
100000 10000 has dawned upon beaed
pehenon OF these planters that they have been squeezed by the
When was bud in Honolulu that James Hill would operate
great steamship service the Pacific these planters
geher and resolved ask the railroad refinery Seat
product the Hawaiian islands This PROPOSE
ton presented to Mr. Farrell with somewhat elaborate statistics
concerning the the United States 1t
resented that the imports amounted nearly Of
100000 the product OF foreign cane and about 100000 tons
beet These figures segregated show that the
from Germany amounted to AUSTRIA
from Belgium from Cuba $4,000 tons; from Brazil
$4,000 tons; from the British West Indies 10000 and from
other about half million argued by these vaa
of the American sugar that Mr. Hill would their
with refinery that would insure the Hawaiian planters the
market value of their product he could achieve personal profit by
ting the foreign import They promised that with this substantial
the plantations Of Hawaii would increase four
fold within the decade and eventually perhaps expand the
greatest sugarproducng region
to vivid imagination and the poesy of his expression unlicensed
Three phases of this gtterng presentation sufficient to give
Mr. Hills representative long consideration of the Hawaiian
roPosontre riffs the taopatch fiddle with which these poets
the sunssed isles sought evoke their conmececompeng
melody struck dcord upon Mr. Farre atuned the harmony
of practical and feasible enterprises.
the place. Mr. Hill in the sugar business except
carrier Furthermore he inclined include the
aon schemes he must wait until the contracts OF the sugar planters
with the should expire Then again would be the
est business policy imaginable attempt competition with combna
On that could operate refinery solely with the object OF underseg
the competing the territory the latter leaving four other
rnees supply all other territory the original price sugar
finally by MIR Farrell Honolulu shall
AS
export trade Hawaii aside from its sugar business does exceed
million dollars per annum any serious injury to sugar business
would spell these islands 1t perhaps, imperative duty
from strategic point of view that continue drede Pearl Harbor
and oy the Honolulu oadead; OF great national
import doubt that the flag the republic stripes against the green
awart the palace grounds the Kamamehas hutterng in the
zephhs Oahu and bazzonng its crimson stripes against the
held OF kauas palm groves is theoretically reasonable to- believe
foreign could deprive OF our Hawaiian possession
that should covet the islands hope OF prospective poen
ial profit
For these reasons therefore, it probably wise policy
hold this lonely outpost in mdocean but in the
that the Hawaiian islands ultimately strengthen
enterprises hope opinion
that be produced for world consumption entirely of
petition with Brazil and the Central American fncas Thus the
isles that have erected into the proud emnence of free and indie
pendent territory free and Independent pubc resolve themselves
for lazy ourissa ougng place. Temporal
y for the people who dress for dinner and their nehbors
i'll the interval
In the expense maintaining Improbable acqu
son will borne by the enduring and
of the great republic.