The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-14
FREAR'S TALK
Continued From Page one.)

none in the Solidity of her growth or
in the patriotic Americanism of her
citizens. In those islands there was
planted and for three-quarters Of a
century maintained the only Ameri-
can colony on foreign soil. Upon the
comparatively small band of Ameri-
cans constituting that colony there
devoIved the enormous and unique
task of educating and Outstanding
the native race; of building up an
American civilization under tropical
conditions; of SO shaping the course of
events as to prevent those islands from
falling into the hands of various de-
signing nations; and of preserving
them and preparing their people for
union with the United States when
they could no longer stand alone. How
we'll the responsibility was met, the
issue has proved. Against great odds,
the patriotic alertness, courage and
steadfastness of that colony prevent
ed again and again the threatened
acquisition of Hawaii by England,
France and other nations, and so de-
veloped American sentiment and in
culcated American principles among
her inhabitants as to effect an evolu-
ton from an absolute despotism to a
constitutional monarchy and then to a
republic of advanced type-even be-
fore annexation. So well. indeed, was
Hawaii thus prepared along American
lines that when the time came for her
adoption by the great republic, she
was deemed worthy to be received as
one of the family-a fuH-fedged Ter
ritory, and not as a mere possession.
But that is not all. There rested
on the members of that community,
also, the duty of building up those
islands industrially and commercially
"a duty performed with equally
marked success. By the application
of scientific methods and American in
genuity and enterprise, they brought
to the highest point of efficiency yet
attained one of the greatest of the
worlds industries-that of cane sugar.
The position of Hawaii as the center
of the Pacific has given her an i'm
portance to the nations commerce out
of all proportion to her size and pop
ulation. In that commerce, too, she
herself plays no inconspicuous part.
She has, indeed, long been the most
potent factor in the maintenance of
the American merchant marine upon
the high seas. Exclusive of the nu-
merous steam and sailing vessels en-
gagged in the inter-island trade, the
vessels entering and clearing from her
ports annually aggregate over two
million tons, three-fourths of which
are of American register. Her imports
and exports amount to nearly fifty
million dollars a year, of which over
ninety per cent. is carried in Ameri-
can bottoms. They are greater than
those of the entire United States
were at the time of the adoption of
the constitution. She is now pouring
into the national treasury in custom
receipts alone nearly a million and a
half dollars a year.
Hawaii means to do her full part |
in the upbuilding of the nation indus
trially and commercially, as well as
morally and politically. She deems it
an honor and at the same time feels
that she has proved herself not un-
worthy of the honor to be represent |
ed in this great commercial congress |
of the West.
PRESENTING THE RESOLUTION. |
In presenting the resolution which |
he was commissioned by the Chamber
of Commerce and cordially invited by |
the executive committee of the Con- /
gress to do, Governor Frear made an |
address: his theme being Hawaii and |
Pearl Harbor in Relation to American |
Naval and Commercial Supremacy on |
the Pacific"
THE RESOLUTION.
Following is the resolution which was |
unanimously passed by the Congress
on November %:
Whereas, The rapidly growing COM
and naval interests of the Uni
ted States upon the Pacific Ocean re-
quire dry dock and increased wharf
facilities in the Hawaiian Islands, the
strategic center of that ocean, and
Whereas, Pearl Harbor is the only
harbor in those islands adequate and
suitable for such purposes, but in or
der to become available for deep water
vessels requires the deepening, widen
ing and Strengthening of its channel,
and
Whereas. The work necessary to ac-
this result will require much
time and even if begun soon will hard
~ be completed for the opening of the
Panama Canal, therefore, be it
Resolved, BY the Trans-Mississippi
Commercial Congress that the Con-
greSs of the United States be urged to