The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-08

ibilitv Of speaking onto Congress in the
person of the distinguished MEMBER
Nicholas Longworth.
Continuing Mr.. Straus stated that he
had found that some of the laws pass
ed for the eighty millions of people IN
the United States proper did not al
wavs fit when applied here. In Illus
tration he related a story of stout
woman who had inadvertently sat
down upon a tail beaver hat, the owner
of which, surveying the ruins, said:
| knew, madam, that that hat would not
fit you
Il have been thirty years waiting
until I could afford to come to Ha-
vail" continued Mr.. Straus, land now
that | am here I do not want to go
away. But / am a public servant and
must go where my duty calls me. l
| will not always be able to serve the
public. and when the time comes that
/ am called upon to take up again the
privileges of a private citizen l Will
| come back here with leisure in which
| to enjoy myself
COMMISSIONER ISHII PLEASED.
| Commissioner Isrii, who speaks ex-
/ EngIlSuy
| The japanese diplomat referred part1c-
| 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 nav
| ing met Mr.. Straus and Congressman
| Longworth was referred TO and thanks
given them for the assistance he had
TnT10nrT9iYHcr
mission, he stated that it was to study
the commercial conditions in the Uni
| ted states and Canada and more par
ticularly the Pacific coast states.
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
Straus says, the city of Cincinnati, I
must express my appreciation at the
generous welcome given me. This is
my second visit to Honolulu. I first
came here as member of the Taft
party. a simple unattached Congress
man.
Here the speaker had to wait until
the 1unchers expressed their apprecia-
ton of this remark, which they did
by hearty hand clapping.
Il might add that it was here that
I tried to get someone to make up their
mind on a very important NATTER,
continued the speaker, land now I am
here as silent partner
Before proceeding with the serious
portion of his address, Mr.. Longworth
explained what a Congressman was,
his explanation being that so soon as
a newly elected Congressman gets to
Washington he is speedily informed
that he is not a heaven-born states
man but very inconsequentiaI 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 nigh one. He re-
called the line sung to Secretary Taft
about the Philippine native by his
companions on tie trip, which says:
He might be a brother of Will H. Taft, |
But he amt no brother of mine.''
II have visited all the island possess
sions of the United States" said Mr..
Longworth, land none of them is so
d
the Hawaiian Islands. I have visited
the Philippines and although l don't
love them l realize that they win be
under our protection for a 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
government tn OF
only morally and socially but also fin
ancially. l believe that we should give
them a 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 Negroes
On that island there is not a port
where a vessel drawing over two feet
of water can make a landing. To oct
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
have to be relied on and anyone who
has ever seen an imported Filipino la
borer knows what he amounts to-
A broad grin passed around the ta-
bles at this, but the speaker did not
notice the impression he had made and
continued:
Under these circumstances, with on
ly the one island and that depending |
upon imported Faborers, the sugar of |
the Philippines can not ever hurt the |
sugar industry of Hawaii. [ would |
not vote for any measure that would |
injure 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. Longwortn |
concluded, the only indication of any