The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-27
MI KINNEY 4 GOOD
FRIEND or HAWAII

| Los Angeles Express.E'I am in IA
vor OF the fullest development of the
Hawaiian and Philippine islands, =
said James Mckinney of Aledo, Ill,
| congressman from the Rock Island
district and member of the house COM
mittee on territories, who with three
other members has completed a tour
of inspection of the territorial possess
sions of the United states.
With Mrs Mckinney, he is at the
Hotel Alexandria, where he will re-
main until tomorrow. when he win
start for his eastern home, stay there
a few days and then go to Washing
ton for the next session of congress.
Everything tending to improve the
islands, commercially and otherwise,
should be done,' he said. ''I believe
that all that is needed is a practical
and systematic development to make
them very valuable to the United
States.
$50 far as the destiny of the Philip
pines is concerned, il rests with the
natives. If they prove that they are
capable of government, / believe
that government should be grant
ed them. I am not sanguine of that
being done, however, for several gen.
erations.
Meantime Old Glory is good enough
for me. l would not have the Ameri-N
can flag hauled down because of any
hostile demonstration of any kind or
of any nation.
with John NJ Reynolds of Penn
sylvania. E. w. Higgins of Connecticut
and w. W. Cox of New York, all mems
beers of the house committee on terri-
tories, I left San Francisco upon the
transport Crook for Honolulu in June.
I'VE passed three weeks in the Ha-
wafian islands, visiting every one of
them as guests of the territorial gov
eminent. AS members of the commits
tee upon this subject, we are largely
interested in everything pertaining to
them.
I'VE were shown many points of in |
terest and many places which need !
federal legislation. One of these is |
Pearl Harbor, about twelve miles from |
3
drydocksa be established, as there is
ample room for the largest vessels
there 1t is quite safe, and it has suf-
fcient depth of channel, bur it really /
needs a greater width. Hawaii also
needs assistance in improved naviga-
ton laws.
\ after leaving Honolulu we went to
the Philippines by way of Midway ISL
q F.
gressmen to visit the former. They /
are barren islands with no trees and |
almost no vegetation. Guam has IA
cable station where one lieutenant ana
twenty marines are on duty.
''At Manila we went aboard the
transport Mcclellan and took a seven,
teen days trip around the archipelago,
covering $500 miles. We crossed some
parts of the country where it was .nec-
essary for us to have an escort of SOL
diers. This was in the Moro or Min
danao section. 4 II
I'VE were greatly pleased with theI
resources. The islands possess great
mineral wealth. there being much golo,
copper and iron. Hemp, rice and to-
bacco> thrive.
II visited portions of Japan and
found that country friendly to the
United states. 1t has enough PROB
ems upon it's hands now without seek
ng further trouble. Among the masses
here may be some antagonism, but
the officials are friendly.
81 went to China and was told by the
governor of the Shantung province,
through his interpreters, that he re-
CARDS the United States as the most
lnselfsh of China's friends. / met
him at Tsi-Nan-Fu, the capital of
which has a population of
90 GOO, 900.
Our party became separated and
he others have not returned to Amer
ca yet. I arrived ON the Persia at =
san Francisco Nov. s. It was upon
his vessel that Hunter Sharp, the
American consul at Kobe, Japan, also i
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