The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-30
HATCH FIGHTS
THE PRESIDENTS
TARIFF BILL
His Argument in Committee Makes Strong
Impression The Judge States Ills Position
to Washington Newspaper.

| 10000 of the Philippines could put on
the market?
lCOULD NOT STAND COMPETITION.
1T would require but a very small
addition to the worlds crop from the
Philippines to absolutely demoralize
the price. There are many ways in
which the F'ilipinos may be aided with
out placing their sugar on the free
list Their unrivaled hemp is one of
their natural productions, which can
not be equaled by any other fiber the
iWorld over. They would also be equal
ly benefited with Hawaii by a duty on
coffee. Their tobacco is another in
dustry which ought to produce very
large returns. 1t is said to be of
distinctly inferior quality to the to-
bacco grown in the United States, and
for that reason does not menace the
tobacco growers of this country.
Those who criticfse Hawaii and it's
sugar industry, lose sight of the fact
that the Hawaiian sugar planter, with
his eyes open, elected union with the
United States rather than independence,
unlimited labor from the Orient, the
sugar market of Western Canada,
must have been a certain element of
patriotism which Influenced this choice.
If the other alternative had been ac-
cepted the islands would have been
made Asiatic for all time to come.
Many of the difficulties which have re-
suited from annexation were anticipat-
ed. Many others were not dreamed of.
For instance, nobody living in Hawaii
at no time nj aDnayatioY, 6raaT fOr.
a moment that our commerce would be
classed as coasting trade and our re-
lations with Australia, New Zealand,
and Canada made unpleasant thereby.
WANT A WHITE MANS COUNTRY.
''Those in Hawaii who labored to
bring about annexation to the United
States yield to no man in their devo-
tion to the cause of developing Ha-
waii on American lines. When they
chose the American flag, it was with
the determination that Hawaii should
be d white mans country and should
be a fitting place for their children to
grow up and reside in. To them, how
ever, it seems a poor way to Amer
icanize Hawaii to first make it bank
rupt This result will surely follow
the free admission of Philippine SUI
gars to the United States. We protest
against being done to death on the pre-
text that our industries and prosperity
will not be affected by the proposed
gratuitous grant to the Philippines.
Why should the sugar industry be torn
down in Hawaii merely to be set up
again in the Philippine Islands? Will
the business gain in purity, or will 1t
become more American by being trans |
ported to the Philippines? Hawaii is
an American Territory in a sense in
which the Philippine Islands never can
be by any possibility. Hawaii's whole |
development has been on American |
lines. Its customs and internal reven- |
ues pass into the treasury of the Unit |
ed States as a part of the general fund |
The revenues of the Philippine Is |
lands are theirs. This difference of
itself entities Hawaii to different |
treatment than is extended to the
Hawaii contributed to the treas
lry of the United States from S1,250, 900 |
% 81 500, 900 a year. This is equivalent
to a tax of from So to $40 a head upon
every man, woman, and child living
n the Hawaiian Islands. a rate of
unheard of elsewhere the
world over. We would be very glad
o have this turned back for local i'm
We get only so much
Is can be had in the scramble before
he Committees on Public Buildings
md River and Harbor Appropriations.
As to legislation affecting the sugar in
lustry, Hawaii respectfully asks for
small share of the square dear about
which we have heard so much of late"