The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-12-03
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I have never before seen such uniform
courtesy from street car men. 1t speaks
| well for the civility which in general is
accorded to a stranger in Honolulu.
Honolulu IS big commercial city in
many respects. but when I so away from
here and people ask me about it. what
shall / say? l must say. in business
sense, that it is dead It is not alive
to its opportunities Whys Because
the business element stands by when il
IS being Disseminated against in the
matter of freight rates You have got
to cut your freight rates down before
you can really do big business.
I will recite ain instance. l know
that corn is used extensively. in con-
nection with barley and other ingre-
dents, for the making of beer. Pabst
and many of the big breweries of the
United States use it. Here rice is
used. Chemists tell us that the con-
tents OF our corn is chemically the same
as rice. Why not bring cheap corn
down here to use instead of rice? IL
II they could get it as reasonably as
rice. | offered to get fifty carloads here.
The rate to the Orient | knew to be
S. cents per hundred from Indianapolis
VIA San francisco. | wired home and
received an answer that it could be laid
down here for $2.Io Think of it-S2. Io I
hat was on dollar freight rate. I /
wired again and this time they said they /
would get 1t here for $I.oo. That was |
all there was to it. How can one e11-
pect to do business on such discrinlin- |
atirg freight rate as that?
The Hawaiian business community |
Will have to look at this matter from
a serious point of view. It is necessary |
tor the life and future of the islands.
But | know that this rate can be lowered
even now. There was a short crop in
the Middle States this year and very
large crop III the northwest. A syndi-
cate went to a railroad and asked for
a rate. They were given a reasonable
rate to move corn from the northwest
to the Middle States. The railroads
figured on just so much of ascrop to
be moved. They were astounded when
they found the entire crop had been
bought. They said at once: We haven't
got enough cars to move it. We have
1900 or 1000 cars and it will require
5000 cars One railroad manager said
TO me: Mr.. Turner, for Heavens sake
send some of your stuff to the Orient. :
Give us anything that will fill up our
empty cars when they move west to !
get that crop. There you have the open
ng wedge.
Il have learned that corn can be ship
bed here via New York and the Horn ]
much cheaper than by way of San Fran
cisco. Think of that, too. Twelve 4
thousand miles against 1000. and cheap
>r. But, the upshot of it is that at
east fifty cars of corn are shut out of
Honolulu
But still as I said before, Honolulu
s a fine place. Mrs. Turner tasted .
.offee the other day which she admired
She was told it was Kona coffee raised
IN the island of Hawaii Why don't
,ou get that before the people of the i +
states? It's great. Look at the guavas :,
hat go to rot here. That Jelly would !
ell like hot cakes in the States. Why .
lon't you sell your 4 and 4 IL per cent
onds in the States, | asked a banker.
he other day.
There is one fault here and that is o
he islands are only a ene-industry pos
ession. Your islands CAN grow the finest
ineapples. Can them and you can sell
very can that you ship out Why do
on import so much butter? am
stounded at the amount of butter inn 4
orted here. You can make your butter
light here, only turn more cattle onto q
our grazing lands. Every pound of Y
our butter should be made right here. /,
<eep your money here when you can. Il
This sisal you grow here should be I,
here also. You can raise :,
ny amount of sisal and you can always =
ell the product. There's all kinds of =
hances for keeping more of your : :
money at home Why your islands are 4
eeming with advantages in the small :,
arning way, but people don't seem to .
axe hold of them"
Mr.. Turner has been the guest of
red l. Waldron, the commission agent, \
uring his stay. and with him has seen
1uch of the country in the vicinity of
honolulu He has left the affairs of b
is company in the hands of MIR. tt
Valdron It is probable the matter of Fl
reight rate discrimination will be laid ce
efore the Merchants Association by 81
IT. 'Waldron. Is