The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-02-01
"SENSE, NOT
SENTIMENT :"
How Secretary Atkinson
Describes the Carter
Administration.

The New York Tribune of December
u inst received here by the Alameda,
has this from Our jack abroad:
Alatau L. c. Atkinson, Secretary of
the Territory of Hawaii, who has been
staving for time at the Hotel Aston,
goes today to Washington. OF Enghsh
ontecedents. a native OF Hawaii, Score
tarv Atkinson is a graduate of the law
department of the University OF Mich
gan class of IS He arrived from Ho-
noIulu about a month ago, on imam
cial mission for the government OF
which ne is a part.
Seen yesterday Mr.. Atkinson said: 4
left the Hawaiian capital the day after
the election, and ten days later reached
New York. I am here to place an is
sue of 81 600 GOO of Hawaiian bonds. and
the prospects are that the premium /
shall realize will be little better than
was obtained on the issue of a year
ago, with slight reduction in the in
rerest rate. The only purposes for
which we may make a loan are for
building schoolhouses, penal institu-
tons. roads and bridges, and the i'm
provenent of our harbors. Under the
organic law per cent of our taxable
valuation is the limit of our borrowing
capacity.
I'VE have a spIendid educational sys-
tenn and in 242 schools have nearly
eighteen thousand pupils; the building
Of new schoolhouses is going ahead and
the construction of good roads is max
is being deepened, and with the COM
pletion of two new slips to be estab
lished under q contract recently made,
and amounting to 100000 the facilities
will be greatly improved
Under Governor Carriers admins
tration business methods have been in
troduced in the public service. Sense,
instead of sentiment, has been the
watchword.
President Roosevelt, who received
me, and promptly approved the bond
issue. gave me the most convincing evil
dence of his desire to do everything
possible for Hawaii and her people. I
had feared the large Withdrawals of
and other bonds from the list
of securities accepted by the banks act
ing as government repositories, might
affect my mission; but
Secretary Shaw gave his sanction for
the use of the Hawaiian issue as the
equivalent OF United States Govern II
ment bonds.
The great development of trade DE
tween the western portion of the
United States and the Orient cannot
be fully appreciated by the people of
I he East IT ;c ciupifcapt +ba+ tho VOC
sci on which 1 came from Honolulu to
san Francisco, one of the older ones
plying between these two ports. was
of 1000 tons burden, While one of the
new leviathans of the trans-Pacific fleet
that we met was a $4,000 ton vessel.
is a way station on the route
to the Orient and must profit by the
rapidly developing commerce And just
now the price of sugar gives promise
that the coming crop viii bring an
of money to the islands
The outlook for Hawaii has not been
so bright for years as at the present
time
Speaking of the election and it's re-
suits in Hawaii Mr.. Atkinson said:
The overwhelming choice of President
Roosevelt has marked the ascendency
of American constitutional ideals in the
of the Territory of Hawaii
Our Senate, of fifteen members, is COM
posed of fourteen Republicans who
We're chosen at the last election and
one hold-over Democrat, and the lower
house, of thirty members, contains a
single Home Ruler. 1t Will be obvious
that the minority representative on
the various committees will be COM
PEELED to work overtime.
Governor Carter and the Secretary"
said Mr.. Atkinson, have travelled by
or on horseback through every
valley in all of the eight islands of the
group. and have mixed with
the people, who have been given to I'M
derstand that the administration is anx-
ious to give them a square deal. and
to do the best that is possible for them.
They are assured that their antago-
nism can only initiate against their
own interests, and their cooperation is
solicited