The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-05

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ample of the vast store of historical
and other treasures which the archives
contain and which are now being made
accessible through the indexing which
is going on under the direction of the
archives Librarian, Mr.. R. c. Lydecker.
The Post editorial is:
The Question of Tomorrow.
On Thursday the debate which
makes the Sandwich Islands ours with
out the expense and trouble of govern
ing them is TO be renewed. Their ports
are to be opened to us, if we accept
the treaty, as they will be opened to
no other nation in the world; the prod
ucts of our industry are to be ad-
mitted there as fully as they are ad-
mitted in Florida; we are to be allow
ed TO do the carrying trade between
their marts and our own; we are to
have a commodious and secure naval
station in their sheltered waters, and
we escape the result which otherwise
threatens us, of giving into the hands
of Great Britain a station which, ly-
ing north of the equator, puts into her
hands the key of the Pacific, completes
the mighty chain of her dependencies,
from the remotest south to Vancou-
ver's Island on the northwest coast of
our continent, and links together the
isles and coasts subject to her sway,
forming them into a great Ocean EN-
pire, inhabited by hardy race of men
accustomed to the sea, and having the
same dominion over the Pacific which
Britain once arrogated over the Allan
tic. The possession of the Sandwich
Islands-the virtual and not the nom
inal possessions all that Britain now
requires to make her supreme In those
waters, and that she will have If we
fail to carry the treaty into effect. For
if we reject the treaty by refusing to
conform our revenue laws to its condi-
lions, the authorities of the Sandwich
Islands have already avowed their in
tention of entering into like arrange
ments with the Austrafasian posses
sions of Great Britain.
1t seems 70 us that this treaty ought
to unite the voters of every class. The
mill-owners ought to vote for it, be-
cause it opens a free market for the
products of their looms and FORCES; the
ship-owners ought to favor it, because
it gives employment to their vessels;
the friends of free trade ought to in
sist on giving it effect, because it will
bring the United States and the Sand
witch Islands into those relations with
each other which should prevail every
an ha of q
earth.
Those who look with apprehension
on the enormous growth of British pre-
dominance in the Pacific, and those
who simply desire that a convenient
naval station should be obtained in
that great waste of waters for the
Navy of the United States, should
unite their voices in favor of the
treaty. AS for the cultivators of the
sugar cane in Louisiana and Texas,
they can well afford to bear little
competition on our western coast for
the sake of giving cheap sugar to the
millions who inhabit California and
Oregon.
In the course of years, when the
Sandwich Islands shall have gained
something like their ancient remarka-
BILE populousness, they viii send us, If
we take advantage of the treaty, large
quantities of products peculiar to the
lands which lie between the tropics,
and which we shall receive with no
other enhancement of the price than
the cost of transportation. For 1t
should be borne in mind that so tenn
perate is the climate of those Islands,
that the white race there can endure
to perform the field labor and keep
their health and strength. There will
come a time when we shall receive
coffee from the Islands equal to the
Mocha. raised in spots too elevated to
feel the blight which attacks the
shrub in the lowlands Then we shall
import indigo, which there is literally
weed, and sandalwood, which grows
wild; to say nothing of the sea island
cotton, which grows in SO few places
on the globe, and of which the SAM
wieh Islands produce the best in the
world Let the treaty go into effect
and American capital will accompany
the migration of American adventur-
ers to this new field, and these garden
isles of the Pacific will be essentially
part of our country.
One great advantage of this measure
is that it strengthens our power with
out causing a drain upon our treas
urv. We build fortresses, we establish
garrisons, we lay the keels of ships of
war, we east huge guns of new con-
struction, we forge muskets and small
arms by the million, and all these at
a vast expense, and we claim that we
are providing for defense against the
or