The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-16
(Amsterdam Evening Recorder, June -

Of tobacco promises possibly to over
| take the pineapple industry, and it af-
fords good opportunity for the invest
j ment of capital. Considerable culti-
walton of rubber trees has been made
with indications of success The
growth of sisal has proved profitable,
the fiber finding a ready market in San
| Francisco. With capital, the rope
! might be made and exported instead of
the raw material
5.-The land laws of the Territory as
/ they now exist are best suited to local
requirements. the American land laws
not being adapted to our local condi-
tions.
6.--The japanese do not take kindly
to American ideas; they are not in
touch with cur sentiments and insti-
tutions except as a means of learning
what may be useful to them in their
own country; they do not become ex-
patriated
with some hesitation I answer
yes. The idea is an absolutely new
one and was not at first regarded with
| favor but the subject has been thor
! oughIy discussed and studied and is
row regarded more favorably by the
| sugar plantation interests, and an hon
! est endeavor is about TO be made to in
troduce and doniciie European labor
On the plantation.
81 certainly do, and have devoted
almost my whole time and energy, dur
! ing the past two years. 10 the accom-
| p!ishment OF a plan which will result
| in bringing and domfciling European
| Ia Dor.
! 81 am optimistic and believe thac
/. # the Europeans are furnished with
| homes and lands OF their own, and
| treated like white men, they will work
ccntentedly alongside of the Japa-
nese. AS to replacing the Japanese,
| the conditions here are simply that the
japanese under the offer of better
wages on the mainland are leaving our
plantations. so to that extent will they
be replaced by European laborers, but
I stin believe that these islands will,
for some tirne to come. require the ser
vices of a certain number of Japanese
field laborers.
10.-It certainly has These Islands
are large buyers of American products
and manufactures. They furnish a val
liable naval depot for the United States,
where ships of war and transports can
call and communicate by cable with
Washington for orders. Not only this,
our large internal and external COM
merce with the mainland, amounting
almost to 50.G00000 yearly, is carried
exclusively by American vessels: be-
sides this. the large passenger traffic
from Hawaii to the mainland, which
means an expenditure of several mil
lions in all Of the states is carried un-
der the American flag, to the exclusion
of vessels Of all other nationalities.
Moreover. these Islands afford an eX- |
cellent health resort to invalids, need /
ing a change of climate, and to those
desirous of escaping the rigors of the |
mainland winter.
u.-Hawaii should be fortified so !
strongly that it would be futile for any
foreign power to attempt an attack.
1t should be made the Gibraltar of the
Pacific.
12.-The service will in my opinion,
be mutual Where Hawaii will gain
by commerce through a larger number
of vessels calling here. the Panama ,
canal will gain through having such a
port Of call which VIII aid in the de-
velopment of commerce via the Pana
ma canal
13-Certainly; the Tehuantepec rail-
road will be of advantage. 1t will re-
suit in the saving of several hundred
thousands of dollars of freight money
per annum. besides a greater assur-
ance of our sugar reaching the Eastern
market which could not always be Sc
cured in shipments made by the main
land railroads The more means of
communication with both the Atlantic
and Pacific seaboards, the more advan-
tage ii must be for Hawaii commercial
~.
1.-THE number of tourists visiting
Hawaii IS decidedly on the increase.
We are now beginning to feel the re-
suit of the promotion work begun
few years ago. and indications are :
that TIE number of tourists visiting
Hawaii hereafter will be poportionate-
ly very much larger. Our work in this ;
direction is being intel1igently devel-
oped and viii bring results. but to /
make Hawaii the only island tourist
resort of the United states. as it is. we {
must have more and better transporta- {
ton facilities than we have been able /
TO secure. But this is coming and / /
look forward with confidence to the
time when we shall have tourists come !
here by thousands. instead of by tens 7
and twenties. and there is not the least {
doubt that everyone that does come .
here will be a good and perpetual ad-
vertiser of Hawaii after his visit I {
am looking forward to the establish
ment. before long. Of a bureau for Ha- &
waff interests right in Washington. i
Then we should invade New York and J
Chicago.
[ trust that the information con s
tanned herein will be OF use TO you. !
/ have the honor to be. sir, your :
obedient servant
A. I. c. ATKINSON. &
Acting Governor of Hawaii.