The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-08-09
LONCW0RTH
ON TARIFFS

81 have no love for the Filipinos
and I hope that the time will not be
too far distant when we will not
include their islands among the Amer
lean possessions, but so long as we
have them we should deal with them
fairly and advance them to the posi-
tion of elf-government not only moral
ly and socially but financially. And
to do this we will have to take off
the duty on the produce of the Philip
pines sent to America, their sugar and
their tobacco"
This was the keynote of the address
made before the members of the Com
mercial Club at their luncheon yester-
day by one of the guests of honor,
Congressman Longworth. His address
was the only one of the three made
which did not deal wholly with pleas
ing and complimentary generalities.
The short speeches of Secretary Straus
and of Commissioner Ishii were those
of men DESTROYS of pleasing but care
full of saying nothing consequential.
Mr.. Straus acknowledged that he had
found that some of the laws applicable
to the mainland did not fit conditions
as they exist in the islands, but he
promised or foreshadowed no changes
in these laws or conditions.
The rooms of the Commercial Club
proved their value for such an affair
as yesterdays luncheon, the large
lounging room and diningroom being
crowded not in the least by the num-
Der of guests and members present,
numbering in all one hundred and TWEEN
ty-fve. The three guests of honor,
Secretary Straus, Commissioner Ishii
and Congressman Longworth were re-
ceived by President George W. Smith
in the lounging room, where many were
presented to them and about half an
hour was spent in informal chatting.
The diningroom was attractively ar.
ranged, the tables for the guests be-
ing arranged on three sides of square
IN the center of the room, with smaller
tables around it. In the center of the
room a table piled high with Hawai-
ian fruits made pleasing centerpiece
the dining tables themselves being dee.
grated with red carnations. The presi
dent of the club, George w. Smith
occupied the head of the tables, with
him being Mr.. Straus, Mr.. Ishii, Mr.
Longworth, Governor Carter, Consul
General Saito and Secretary Atkinson
The other guests were Chief Justice
". F. Frear, Judge Sanford B. Dole,
Justice A. S. Hartwell, Justice A. A.
Wilder, Acting British Consul R. E. G
Forster, Imperial Chinese Consul Chang
Tso Fan, Portuguese Consul General A.
de Souza Canavarro, Italian Consul +.
A. Schaefer, German Consul w. Pfoten-
hauer, French Sonsul Dr. A. Marques,
Russian Vice Consul +. Klamp, Swed-
fsh Consul George Rodiek, Chilean
Consul H. Focke, Mexican Consul w.
LAM, Belgian Consul R. w. LANCE,
Peruvian Consul Bruce Cartwright,
British Vice Consul Give Davies,
Captain Orwell, Major Dunning, W. G.
Irwin, Cecil Brown, s. NJ. Damon, F.
NJ. Hatch, Secretary K. Isuchiya of
Japanese Consulate, Manager Y. Akai
of Yokohama Specie Bank, Vice Presi-
dent w. Motoshige of the japanese
Merchants Association, A. K. Ozawa.
SECRETARY STRAUS COMPLI-
MENTARY.
The first speaker called upon during
The luncheon was Secretary Straus,
who explained that he had already
told in talks and interviews through
the press all that he had to tell the
people of the Hawaiian Islands:
Il had often wondered how it was
that the people of Honolulu made so
much noise in the world, situated as
you are so far away from the great
countries of the earth. Now that 1
have visited you and become acquain-
red with you I have ceased to Won
der. 1 am grateful, too, after having
visited you, that after being coquetted
with by the principal nations of the
earth you finally decided to annex us.
1 am not going to make speech.
I have talked much already since l
arrived here. / have been interviewed
by your enterprising newspaper men
Snd have been quoted until I am re-
minded of the retort of Disraeli, after
listening to a speech of that great
statesman, Gladstone, who could make
great speeches and at great length,
that he was intoxicated with the ex-
uberance of his own verbosity.
Yesterday 1 talked with four news
paper gentlemen, Japanese editors
with American enterprise and Japa-
nese ability. I talked with them. ]
emptied my knapsack in fact and there
IS nothing more in 1t that 1 can give
you. When am asked for something
and I cannot grant it I always throw
rhe responsibility onto Congress and