Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-12-20
UNITY Of EFFORT
SAYS PROMOTION MAN
To ADVANCE HAWAII

During his address before the Engi. !
heering Society Monday evening. Sec.
retary II. p. Wood of the Hawaii Pro. |
motion Committee had the following
10 say on Hawaii: f..l'rti.
The railway across the isthmus of
TehuantepeC is ready and open for
business. The harbors of Coatzacoal
COS on the Atlantic and Salina Cruz on
the Pacific are being pushed to com.
uletion as fast as men, money and the
best of engineering skill can accom-.
plish II.
In fact the trans.shipment of the
hoped for laborers from the Azores
could be readily made at this time with
safety and fair dispatch
The United States now owns and
controls a trans-continental railway at
Panama, which is open to all traffic
upon equal terms, condition that is
bound to stimulate commerce on the
Pacific and will have most whole.
some effect upon the monopolistic ten.
Gencies OF public carriers. We do not
have to wait for the building of the
canal to bring about change in trade
conditions. Take the citrus industry
OF Southern California for instance. A
year ago the shipment of oranges and
lemons to Europe was impracticable
/ on account of the high freight tariff.
Yet within the last month a rate of
81 hundred has been made from Los
Angeles and San Diego to European
ports. The great trans-continental
lines are beginning to realize that Tn.
| Gle Sam is already factor In the
transportation problem and are pre-.
pairing to meet the new condition.
What benefits one portion of the coun.
try helps another.
No port on the Pacific will receive
greater benefit from the Tehuantepec
and Panama railways and the canal
than Honolulu; her situation In the
Pacific ocean is one of very great
strategic importance. To properly for.
tify and defend the islands will call
for the expenditure OF many millions
of dollars. A large military camp must
be maintained here and an important
naval station created.
With the development of water for
irrigation which should, however, be
controlled by the United States Re-
clamation Bureau rather than by pri'
vate parties, many thousand tons OF
sugar will be added to the annual out.
put of that commodity and at the
same time an impetus will be given to
other agricultural and horticultural
pursuits.
A place will be made for the ex.
perienced. intelligent, hard working
farmer with from $1,000 to 10000 cap.
ital, a class of men badly needed in
Hawaii, and whose coming should be
encouraged by every legitimate means.
II Is to be hoped also that Mr.. James
Z. Castles efforts to secure for Hawaii
those experienced agriculturists: those
frugal, honest people, the Molokans,
may meet with success. They will do
well in the islands and we need them.
One of Hawa!is greatest assets,
whose value cannot be named in dol
lars and cents Is her climate so well
described by President Jordan of Stan
ford when shortly after his return 20
the Coast with the body of Mrs. stan
ford. in picturing the beauties OF Ha'
wall, he said:
THE glorious climate of California
stretches like great mantel over
these Pacific Island wards OF hers, and
in Hawaii her winter sunshine reaches
its ultimate perfection
And the setting. who shall attempt
to portray It, our great admiration Tor
beautiful Hawaii Is best expressed In
the words of Mark Twain with which
you are all so familiar.
mo alien land in all the world has
any deep, strong charm for me but
that one: no other land could so long
mgly and beseechingly haunt me sleep
ing and waking, through half liie'
time as that one has done. Other
things leave me, but 1t abides; other
things change, but It remains the same
For me its balmy airs are always
blowing, its summer seas flashing IN
the sun: the pulsing of its surf beat Is
in my ear; can see its garlanded
craigs. It's leaping cascades, its plumy
ralms browsing by the shore; Its re-
mote SUBMITS floating like islandse
above the cloud.rack; | can feel the
spirit of it's woodland solitude; ! can
hear the plash of its brooks; IN my nos
lrils still lives the breath OF flowers
that persisted twenty years ago.
Hawaii has had its boom. its period
of depression, and now a new era OF
commercial and industrial develop
ment is at hand for the ultimate and
full fruition of which you and | are
personally responsible. And let AL
say in passing that every one should
carefully read the abstract OF our gov
ernor's annual report as printed In
last Mondays Bulletin. II is most
Interesting, instructive and encourag
ing.
To be true to right ideals of citizen