The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-15


J There were only two formal speeches,
/ one by. Secretary sstraus and one by
! Secretary Root, who is cooperating
/ with the Secretary Of Commerce and
/ Labor with view Of bringing the
consular service in closer touch with
| the business interests OF the United
/ States. The congress held two ses-
sions, besides being received by the
| President and attending a reception
given by Secretary and Mrs. Straus.
! The object in bringing the consular
service in closer touch with the COM
merciaI interests IS to bring about the
! 50 me good results that are found by
| the British in their service and in
other European countries. Secretary
Root said that in future only high
class men would be appointed to the
| service and ii would be no longer a
place for disappointed rivals TO be
/ sent into. Neither viii il be a place
where the people sent viii consider
/ that they have nothing to do. as now,
and carry out the duties with great
/ fidelity
Mr. Wood suggested that the con-
suls in the Orient be asked TO notify
the Honolulu Chamber Of Commerce
| whenever they were TO pass through
| here and be asked to address the
Chamber This matter was taken up
and the notifications were sent out.
OFFICIAL INTEREST IN HAWAII.
Regarding the business that took me
| to Washington. I viii not attempt TO
speak of them all, for there were forty
or fifty subjects practically with all
/ of the departments. ] viii take the
! time to refer 10 only a few of the
most important. I found the officials
intensely interested in Hawaii and all
stated that they would do what they
could for the Territory. I found that
the little expense we had gone to TO
carry out the Congressional trip had
been well justified. for we have now
twenty-nine good friends in Congress
as a result. They all expressed great
satisfaction at what they had seen
and learned here and all are spreading
good seed. They got on to our prob
lens remarkably well and all have
promised TO work and help US. A
great many Of the officials say that
they want TO come here TO end their
days after they have lost their offices.
Chief Wiley, stated that all his de-
partment wanted TO do in the way Of
enforcing the pure food laws here was
TO pay our bills and have us keep still
Some states were so jealous of their
states rights that they would NOT al
low an inspector within their borders
and he only wanted enough friction in
Hawaii 10 give him an excuse to come
down here. General Mackenzie, the
chief engineer, wants the same thing
Pierce, the First Assistant Secretary
Of the Interior viii come next year,
the only thing TO prevent him being
that possibly the Secretary himself
viii come. I hope that they viii both
come
"As yoa are probably aware the
status Of the Territory is now differ
ent. Instead Of being under a sub
ordinate in the Department Of the In
terror il is now under a Bureau of Ter /
ritories and the Secretary gives it his |
personal attention. I found this very
great advantage to the Territory. /
could take up matter personally /
with the Secretary and he would ring
up the particular department and 4
could see the head of the department, /
coming before him in better condition /
he knowing that I had the Secretary I
back of me in the matter. /
IMMIGRATION AND SMALL. FARM
ING
zone Of the matters Of great i'm
portance taken up was that of irnmi- /
grafton. We are very well off for la
Dor now, but We do not know when
the supply of Japanese viii be shut off
by the japanese government. We have
hopes, however. that the emigration
Of laborers may be permitted 10 con-
tinue until We get some other avenue
Of supply at least But we~s@w3ot tell
what time win bring forth. But there
are other things opening up now that
viii mean a competition for the labor
supply. We are now in that period Of
our development when our industries
are becoming diversified.
We do not know to what extent
our pineapple and rubber industries
are going to grow. but I believe that
there is going to be a time when they
VIII give our main industry now. su-
gar. hard rub and viii compete with
that industry for the labor supply.
These Industries opening up viii bring
IN resident class and viii be the
means Of occupying our lands with
homes. They will build up our Ter
'IAOF} ana QeFelOp Us. 4.
MUST SHOW GOOD FAITH.
Now, we must proceed in this mat ]
-er IN good faith If we want the help I
T Washington Washington is inter {
ssted now in seeing that we bring IN /
Europeans to populate our land and II 7
We proceed iaSood faith is disposed 10 I
ct Us bring IN japanese as long as we L
iced them We must recognize the /
treat work that has been done IN c
building uD the sugar Industry and e
ecagnize the fact that this great in I
iustry cannot be safely. 5eopardized. t
ut we must recognize also that our 5
york must be towards Americanfzing q
he Territory Towards that end We q
must work y
According TO the Interpreta tons Of il
he immigration Law corpora tons can s
ot contribute towards the bringing in il
7 immigrants nor can the agents Of Y
migration boards deal directly with C
75iv}duals when soliciting irnmigra- g
lon. but must rely altogether on gen h
raj advertising Now Il would not Y
o to send a large steamship 70 any b