The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-20
SECRETARY
WOOD TALKS
Continued from Page Sd
But. WHAT OF HAWAII?

BUT WHAT OF HAWAII?
The railway across the isthmus of
Tehuantepec is ready and open for
business. The harbors of CoatzacoaI-
COS on the Atlantic and Salina Cruz on
the Pacific are being pushed 10 COM
pletion as fast as men. money and the
best Of engineering skill can accom-
plish it
In fact the trans shipment of the
hoped for Iaborers from the Azores
could be readily made at this time with
safety and fair dispatch.
The United States now owns and con-
trolls 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 wiz have a most whole
some effect upon the monopolistic ten
denotes of public carriers. We do not
have to wait Tor the building of the
canal 70 bring about a 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 impracticabIe
on account Of the high freight tariff.
Yet within the last month a rate of
81 q hundred has been made from Los
Angeles and san Diego to European
ports. The great trans-contineuIai
lines are beginning to realize that Tn
Gle Sam IS already a 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 viii 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
Iify and defend the islands viii call
for the expenditure of many millions
Of dollars. 4 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
cIamation Bureau rather than by pri-
vate parties. many thousand tons Of
sugar viii be added 70 the annual out
put OF that commodity and at the same
time an impetus VIII be given 10 other
agricultural and horticultural pur-
suits.
per5enced. intelligent. hard working
farmer with from 5000 70 $50, 600 CAPT
tai. class OF men badly needed in
Hawaii and whose coming should be
encourag ed by every legitimate means.
L IS TO be hoped also that Mr. James
B. Castles efforts to secure for Hawaii !
those experienced agTiculturisJs, those
frugal. honest people. the Molokans,
may meet with success. They viii do
well IN me islands and we need them. |
one IF Hawaii's 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 to
the Coast with the body Of Mrs. Stan /
ford; IN picUurlng the beauties Of Ha-
wall he said:
The glorious climate Of California
stretches like a great mantle over these
Pacific Island wards OF hers, and in
Hawaii her winter sunshine reaches
its ultimate perfection
And the setting. who shall attempt
10 portray Il. our great admiration for
beautiful Hawaii IS best expressed IN .
the words Of Mark Twain with which
You ara all 50 familiar
No alien land IN all the world has
any deep. strong charm for me but
that one no other land could 50 long
ingly and bessechingIy haunt me sleep
ing and waking, through half a life
time. Is that one has done Other
things leave ms. but II abides; other
things change olI- Il remains the same
For ma lis halmy airs ara always blow
ing, is summer seas flashing in the
sun: tae pu.sing Of its surf beat is in
my ear. I can see IFS Ear-anded craigs:
its leapinE cascades. its pIuny palms
browsing By -Ee shore: its remote sum
mits floating ike islands above the
/ can feel che spirit Of its
Woodland solitude. 7 can hear the
plash Of us brooks: IN my 1ost-ils still
lives he breath Of flowers that persisted
twenty years ago"
Hawaii has had its boom. its period
of depression and ROW O new era Of
commercial and industrial develop
uenr 5 al hand Tor the ultimate and