The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-05-02
JUDGE ESTES ADDRESS.
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ily of states; that we are qualified for
; political action by doing properly the
: political work necessary to be done at
home. This Isl especially true with
people located as we are, a long way
from the other states of the Union.
We exported from the United States
for the year 1901. 81. 465. $50, 900, or over
one hundred millions more than the
exports of any other country. TIE
exports show the excess of production.
We now sell silks TO France, and tin
plate TO Wales; oranges and lemons 10
all Europe; prunes and olives and wine
/ to Spain. and steel rails to all parts
OF the world. while we send agricultural
implements the world over. In fact the
United States is new the greatest in
dustrial nation on the earth. Last
year, we sold TO Canada. s110, 600, 600
worth OF our products while England,
the mother country. sold them only
S43, 900, 600.
Thus it viii be seen that American
producers have made an entrance into
the commerce of all other countries
and so it is advantageous to the mer- /
chants and producers of all of our out |
lying districts. like Hawaii, to keep UP 1
the most intimate trade relations with /,
our own country on the mainland, ard I
thus we will secure TO ourselves Ameri- /
can and foreign markets which will /
ultimately prove to he of great value
TO US. BY raising a variety of things,
we should make this territory a public
advantage to the rest of the American
nation and thereby benefit ourselves.
We must produce what they want.
But, as have said, we cannot hope
fully look forward TO statehood until
we have a larger number of American
citizens living here. We must be not
only willing but anxious 10 induce 9TH
ers to come here and profit by their
coming. In a word, we must have a
larger population of Americans before
we can become a state. We cannot
control the policy of the whole nation,
bat we may be able to influence it in
our behalf. We must remember that
it takes wise men to create a free gov
eminent and wiser men to perpetuatc
it, That human freedom is most diff
cult to establish among. AND so you
young men must pattern after those
who have gone before you and profit by
their experiences. You should now
to prepare yourselves for the
patriotic duties which will very soon
levolve upon you. To create a govern
nent that will survive and which will
prove beneficial to the whole people is
indeed a great problem, and especially
will it be so in this territory. with its
arge Oriental population, and its pre-
rious experience as monarchy, which
impregnated it with ideas
more or less in conflict with the Amer
can theories of government. But this
5 now a different government. 1t =
orms a part of the United States of .
america. True it lies far away from
he main land, away out in nnid-ocean.
n war it will be one of the first points |
f attack and in peace it viii be slow
f access and difficult to reach. Its
will depend largely on its
ONE government and on the character l
Z our productions. We cannot pros
er by competing with the home people
4 producing the same things Shat they
roduee, but rather as 1 have said be-
ore, in raising that which the people
f the United States need and cannot
reduce.
COFFEE AND SISAL BOUNTY.
Our people practically support Bra
u by our. coffee trade, for that country
axes US an export duty of five cents
er pound on coffee which they will |
ontinue to do until the American gov
protects more strongly our
wn productions in that line, which (
link should and will be done. Let |
very effort be made to impress the
ongress of our country with the ne |
essity of granting a bounty on coffee |
nd on siSal hemp. III
In conclusion. gentlemen, let me say
le American government and the gov | :
'nment OF the territory will soon de-
Dive upon you. Older men will ore
Y one pass from the stage of action
Id you will come into the succession
hat you may then do viii either tend
build up the local government of the
rritory or pull it down. Everything |
merican will soon rest in your keep |
e. The past is safe. The future is |
one uncertain and the American free
en- of today are alone responsible for /
e character of our government, ma
1nal and territorial.