The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-21
BRAKE On THE
TRADE Of
HAWAII
Chicago Hears Message
Brought by L. A.
ThurSton.

r. H. Shingle spoke yesterday o.
the visit paid by himself and Mr.
Thurston to Chicago of which the papel
called Chicago Commerce speaks as fol
lows:
"Chicago, as the continental eros
roads of commerce, is stopping place
for ambassadors of trade from parts
far and near. At this same meeting
of Wednesday, on introduction by Mr.
Wilder, there were presented L. A
Thurston, proprietor of the Honolulu
Daily Advertiser, and one time diplo-
matte representative at Washington
from Hawaii; r. w. Shingle and George
P. Denison, also of Honolulu. In a
brief talk Mr.. Thurston showed that
Chicago is now on the threshold of an
important fruit trade with the Hawai-
ian Islands, and that The Chicago As
sociation of Commerce can help the is
lands in securing from the government
relaxation of the restraint put upon its
commerce with the mainland. -
Chicago Commerce also makes this
report of Mr.. Thurston IS speech:
Il. A. Thurston brought to the Chi
cago business world pungent business
message from Honolulu, when he ad-
dressed the Ways and Means commit
tee last Wednesday. He wanted The
Chicago Association of Commerce to
get clear conception of a commercial
condition charaeterizing the relations
of the islands to the mainland and the
Great Central Market. This condition
is found in the restriction put upon
Hawaiian commerce with the United
States, of which the islands are pros
porous territory, by the regulations con-
fning trade between the part and the
whole to shipments in American yes
sells.
"He first suggested how well worthy
were the islands of being considered
a reciprocal commercial factor in the
business of the country and its depen-
denotes, by remarking that Hawaii has
not only paid all the expenses of its
government, the past year, but that it
has passed over gold surplus of over
a million, to Washington. This condi-.
tion of island development, he thought,
justified the claim that Hawaiians were
holding up their end of the partner
ship with hoAor. He then explained
how certain objects of the mission of
himself and his associates to the Unit
ed States, warranted the contention
that the islands were becoming a con-
siderable commercial factor, and were
worth the patronage and assistance of
the Great Central Market Illustrat-
ing this point, he reported that in view
of the hard wood lumber famine,
Hawaiian firm would supply the Santa
Fe system with the large number of
:, 100000 hard wood ties.
He said that while the leading
product of the islands is sugar, with
a record output in 1907 of 100000 tons,
rbe cultivation of pineapples is going
On with a sensational success; and that
it is expected that the islands would
ship out in 1908, $50, 900 cases of canned
fruit. But shippers were discovering
that there is twice as much profit in
the fresh fruit as in the canned, and,
encouraged by the successful overtures
to the Chicago market make last sum-
ner, through the agency of The Chi
.ago Association of Commerce, there
vas now about to be made Chicago
contract which would probably result
n the weekly sale in this market of
between 80 and 100 carloads of Ha-
vaiian pineapples a week.
But there was restriction, he ex-
blamed, upon such a promising trade,
that Hawaii had the
ruit, and Chicago offered the market, |
md this restriction lay in the regula-
ion that shipments must be made un-
Ter the American flag, whereas to full |
Il this law, and at the same time
levelop trade, service by American
hips, owing to the want of ship sub
idy, was wholly inadequate for proper
expansion of island trade. English,
'rench and japanese lines were barred !
ut of the service, three American /
teamers had been taken off because
ervice was unproductive without sub
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