The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-08-09

wall" continued Mr.. Straus, land now
that / am here / do not want to go
away. But I am public servant ana
must go where my duty calls me- !
will not always be able to serve the
public, and when the time comes that
1 am called upon to take up again the
| privileges OF a private citizen l VIII
come back here with leisure in which
to enjoy myself"
COMMISSIONER ISHII PLEASED.
Commissioner Ishii, who speaks ex-
cellent English, was next called upon.
The japanese diplomat referred partic-
ularly to the pleasure he had expert
enced in finding the friendliness and
perfect concord existing among the
various races which live together IN
Honolulu. The pleasure he felt in hav-
ing met Mr.. Straus and Congressman
Longworth was referred to and thanks
given them for the assistance he had
received from them. Concerning his
mission, he stated that it was to study
the commercial conditions in the Uni
ted States and Canada and more par
lllC dSiilS SOo<ot oO>AtSo-
FREE SUGAR FOR PHILIPPINES.
Congressman Longworth, upon whose
soulders the responsibility of making
a speech had been cast by the Secre-
tary, was warmly received as he rose
to speak.
"As a citizen of that well-known
suburb of Honolulu, as Secretary
,.;+ 1f
must express my appreciation at the
generous welcome given me. This is
my second visit to Honolulu. I first
came here as a member of the Taft
party, a simple unattached Congress
man."
Here the speaker had to wait until
the lunchers expressed their apprecia-
ton of this remark, which they did
by hearty hand clapping.
81 might add that it was here that
1 tried to get someone to make up their
mind on very important matter"
continued the speaker, land now I am
here as a silent partner"
Before proceeding with the serious
portion of his address, Mr.. Longworth
explained what Congressman was,
his explanation being that so soon as
a newly elected Congressman gets to
Washington he is speedily informed
that he is hot a heaven-born states
man but a very inconsequential in
dividual.
Going back to his trip with the Taft
party to the Philippines, Mr.. Long
worth stated that his opinion of the
Filipino was not a high one. He re-
called the line sung to Secretary Taft
about the Philippine native by his
companions on the trip, which says:
He might be a brother of Will H. Taft,
But he amt no brother of mine.''
Il have visited all the island possess
sions of the United States" said Mr..
Longworth, land none of them is so
valuable and so well worth having as
the Hawaiian Islands. L have visited
the Philippines and although 1 don't
love them 1 realize that they will be
under our protection for long while.
The sooner we can get rid of them
by educating them into a condition
when they may care for themselves
the better, but while we have them it
is our duty to prepare them for self
only morally and socially but also fin
ancially. l believe that we should give
them fair deal and in giving them a
fair deal We must admit free of duty
the products of the islands to the Uni
ted States, not a reduction of the duty
on tobacco and sugar but the abolish
ing of it. In doing so we would not
hurt the sugar men of America, neither
the beet nor the cane sugar industry.
There is only one island of the
more than eighteen hundred in the
group where sugar can be grown prof
itably, that is the island of Negros
On that island there is not a port
where vessel drawing over two feet
OF water can make a landing. To get
the sugar to market it has to be towed
out on RATS, loaded on small vessels
and taken to Iloilo, the nearest point,
thirty miles away, where it can be load.
ed on an ocean going vessel. And to
harvest that crop imported laborers
nave to be relied on and anyone who
has ever seen an imported Filipino Ia
borer knows what he amounts to-
A broad grin passed around the ia
piSo az IHloJ uut IHe speaker QlQ not
notice the impression he had made and
continued:
Under these circumstances, with on
ly the one island and that depending
upon imported laborers, the sugar of
the Philippines can not ever hurt the
sugar industry of Hawaii. / would
not vote for any measure that would
lnJure any American industry, but /
am believer in the square deal for
the Philippines and an advocate of a
free market for their sugar in the Unit
ed States.''.
Whatever feelings this speech may
have aroused among those present, it
was covered up in the hearty applause
which was given as Mr.. Longworth
concluded, the only indication of any
lack of harmony being when Chairman
Smith called upon P. C. Jones, as rep
resenting the sugar industry of Ha-
waii, to give .'the other side"
Mr.. Jones stated that he was not
equal to the task, being a back num-
Der. All he know of the industry at
present was that some of the planta-
tons had a hard time in paying one per
cent dividends. He called upon w G.
Irwin as one in the thick of the fight
to reply to Mr.. Longworth.
Mr.. Irwin stated that he had moth
ing to say, he relied altogether on the
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