The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-17
WARNING AND
ADVICE BY
LOOMS
Diversity industries and
Prepare for New
Conditions.

s'YOu must diversity and increase
the agricultural products of your isl
ands," declared the Honorable Franci!
B. LoOmis, formerly assistant secretary
of state and now the United States
Commissioner to the Toxic Exposition
in the address delivered by him yester
day before the members of the Cham
Der of Commerce.
eff the shipping you expect is to
come here for supplies, the supplies
must be sold eheaply and unless you
produce them yourselves you cannot
sell them cheaply," he added, in a pre-
diction that the opening of, the Pana-
ma canal viii mean great things to HO-
nolulu, when a great part of the COM
merce of the world would be borne
past this port, with the ships of all
nations calling here for coal and pro-
visions. Mr.. LoOmis further suggested
the possibility of Honolulu as free
port, depot where che eargoes of the
Orient could pc stored for tranship-
meut to r,airland ports and from which
vessels would bring inward cargoes for
forwarding to the Far East:
The insistence of the speaker on the
Necessity of diversifying the agrieul-
tural industries of Hawaii was because,
as he said in a careful way, of the pos
sibility of the Hawaiian sugar coming
at some time into competition on the
orlr NJ f,f
the West Indies. The speaker was
careful not to be explicit in his warn
ing but coming from one close to The
Cabinet, the words were regarded as
more or less significant.
The address of the visiting ofiei%l
commercial representative of the Uni
ted States was listened to apprecia-
t;1 ely by a fairly representative num-
her of the Chamber of Commerce MEM
btIs. the fact that yesterday was
mail day being accountable for the
absence of some.
In the absence of President Morgan,
vino sailed on the Alameda yesterday
morning, and of the vice president,
Who is on the other side of the island,
r N. Swanzy was chosen to preside.
M. Swanzy suggested dispensing with
the reading of the minutes and intro
dacc, the speaker of the afternoon,
Mr.. Iocmis: His address was-
s'It is a great and an unexpected
Measure that / am able to meet so
many American business men. represen-
tative business men, as | have here, IN
a eitv so far away from the mainland.
Before | had been ashore two hours,
however. Mr.. Wood had asked me toi
address this organization, so l knew
from that that yours was wideawake
and an alert business community.
have been a great deal in the tropics,
hut / find this country quite exceptional
for YOU have here none of that languor
and lassitude that | found elsewhere,
but brisk vitality as in the best New
England cities. ] wish to congratulate
YOU on preserving those qualities of the
race here so successfully.
81 want in the first place to refer
briefly TO the proposed international
exposition at Toxic, for which the Jap
anese government has made large pre-
liminarv appropriation, five million dol
lars. and for which they will apprOprl-
ate many millions more for the purpose
of holding on a proper scale what Will
lie the fist international exposition
ever held in the Orient. With others,
the United States has been asked to
take a part at the exposition, and the
appealed very strongly to the
President, to Mr. Root, and to Mr.. Taft.
They desired that the United States
and its Territories should be strongly
and brilliantly represented. 1t was
thought that it would be quite neees-
s2ry if the United States participated
at all to DO so in an artistic. elaborate
and proper manner, in a way to appeal
to the imagination of the Orient. 1t Is
not Japan alone that viii be represent ,
ell at the exposition, but from each one
of the great ports of the whole Orient
there will be many buyers for the great
marts of trade there, and to these :
should show her best wares. ,
Ii is also under contemplation, after the .
close of the exposition, to take the ,
American exhibit, as much as can be
easily transported, place it on vessel
and exhibit it in the various ports of
The Far East The exposition is now
postponed, until what time I do not ,
know definitely. ] viii know more 9
about that when I return. But when :
hat time comes we are going to make
IN effort to interest the people of these !
Islands that you be properly and ade-
luatelv represented, represented in a
vay that your importance in the Pacific
iustifes and demands.
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