The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-22
THE MERCHANTS MEET IN ANNUAL
BANQUET AT THE ROYAL HAWAIIAN
Three Adma and Major General Among the Distinguished Guests
Elegant Feast the Hotel Lanai Followed BY an Address
by the Association Vice President and Seven Toass.

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improvements it desires? applause
Where can you find community In
such number that can gather to-
! gether such a galaxy of captains OF
I finance and industry as l see at this
table tonight? (Applause.)
People on the mainland little realize
! the delicate and important questions
that face the merchants of commu-
nifty isolated as this is. 1t is so easy
to underestimate or overestimate the
! market,-so easy to make a laundering
statement or report being so great a
distance from the source of supplies.
These are the questions, gentlemen,
that you have had to deal with. Where,
gentlemen, can you find land that
has so many homes, so many beautiful
scenes, and where, gentlemen, can you
find land that has so many beautiful
women?" Great applause)
Governor, we're with you," inter-
rupted Admiral Terry.
at is very easy to see how our guests
feel on the matter" replied the Gov
ernor.
80 far I have spoken of what may
be considered our internal and natural
advantages. l want to draw your
minds for moment to what may be
classed as our external advantages. If
you people will stop to think that with
in the thirtieth degree of north lati-
tude and the thirtieth degree of south
latitude, in an area commonly called
the tropics and sub-tropics, is to be
found more than half the worlds popu-
lation, and an area of undeveloped re-
Of tt-1,i ic oft \
ing the attention of the civilized world
and within this belt Hawaii stands
and Hawaii has been leader of indus
try of the sub-tropics and that wealth
created here, thanks to you, gentlemen,
has set pace for the worlds advance
ment in the tropics.
Already Hawaii has abandoned the
position that many other sugar-produc-
ing countries now are in, that you, gen.
tlemen, who had the sugar industry in
your hands, gave up, and where, not
satisfied with an extraction in your
mills of sixty-five to seventy-five per
cent. you adopted the principle of never
being satisfied, but wanted to go fur
Their no matter what capital, energy or
risk was required. Your mills. were
torn out and new mills put in, until
point by point the extraction was
brought up to ninety per cent, but not
satisfied you were working at the quar-
ter points until it is now above nine
ty-four per cent. and the world looks
admiringly not only upon our mills, but
our pumping plants as well, and Ha-
wall today stands second to none in
the science of the production of sugar.
This Pacific Ocean in which We are
this belt of tropic and sub-tropical
countries, as I said, is attracting the
attention of the world and the energy
and surplus capital of the temperate
zone are now turning with eager eyes
to the tropics. Science is doing away
with malaria and other questions as to
whether a white man can live in the
tropics, and the world is turning it's at
tention to the vast forests of the trop-
les where we are surrounded by the
largest ocean, the greatest empire and
people of the world, including with
America. the South American republics,
Australian peoples of Anglo-Saxon
race, the spice islands, the East In
dian hordes and China, and the Slay
now has taken his share; Alaska, Can
ada and these three mo gnificent states
L,
gon and California; the Golden Gate
through which millions of dollars of
produce is to be shipped across this
ocean.
THE commerce created in this belt Is
beyond the comprehension of our
minds. 1t is almost impossible to draw
a picture of what the commerce of the
Pacific will be in twenty years from
now. With the opening of the Panama
Canal We will go by leaps and bounds,
but how rapid and fast and great none
can say. Yet we know it will be
greater and greater in commerce than
the world has seen so far. The powers
that control the destinies of this COM
merce, whether or not our great union
is to dominate it we cannot say, bur
no man can deny Hawaii must play
a very important part in the upbuilding
of that commerce. Our part will be
great in proportion to the patriotism
and loyalty with which we guard those
great principles of our great union.
That part will be noble, and it is
trust to us and depends upon the faith
fulness with which We keep that trust"
THE ARMY-GENERAL MACAR-
THUR.
General Arthur Macarthur respond
ed to the toast 1.-THE Army" and was
loudly chered as he rose. He said
"Mr. POSTMASTER, Mr.. President,
The Governor, Admirals. Gentlemen,
Friends and Citizens of che United
States; In the first instance 1 want to
say that ! accept this cordial greeting
with great appreciation and ensuring
good luck and good fellowship during
my service in this part of the Republic |
1t has the magic ring that |
reminds one of home; carries the assur- |
ance that one Is with his own people |
and with his own kith and kin so TO |
speak-that he is with those with |
whom he delights to dwell, with those |
who think kindly of him and wish him |
well. (Applause.) With this brief |
apostrophe to sentiment / will now ad- |
dress myself to the toast which has |
been assigned to me for the evening, |
and In the first instance will beg to |
that a hundred and twenty |
seven years ago small group of people |
On the Atlantic coast of North Ameri- |
"a determined to establish self-gov- |