The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-17

| ing of a free port, If you are to have
| this great traffic and secure all the
DEMENT'S. This place would become a
great international clearing house. If
the ships you are expecting are to come
here for supplies, the supplies must be
sold cheaply, and unless YOU produce
the supplies yourselves you can not sell
them eheaply. The time may well come.
however, when you viii enjoy such ad-
vantages as Hongkong does now and
the ports of the Danish West Indies
used to.
II you can bring tourists here
| steadily and IN large numbers the ad-
vantages viii be great The great adj
vantage ices not consist alone in the
gold the tourists spa1d, but because
out of their uumDer there are always
many who viii decide to stay, who
will bring their accumulations with
them and their wealth for investment
That has been the history of Los An
geles, if concrete example is needed
visited that city twenty-five years
ago, when it was small, sleepy, Mex
lean town, and I visited it two years
ago, and found it a city of 1000
population and with bank deposits of
seventy million dollars. That result
was brought about by attention to the
tourist possibilities Tourists like
free ports, too, and the doing away
with the troubles of customs and in
spectors.
There must be serious attention
given to the diversi1cation of the ag-
ricultural products of Hawaii The
time may come-I hope not, but in
looking ahead as business men, you
must take such things into considera-
tion-when sugar viii meet with GER
tain competition which does not now
prevail, sugars imported into the Uni
ted States from Cuba, San Domingo
and Hayti. It is not in any one IS
mind particularly, but it may be. with
the exception of Cuba, that some and
possibly all the islands of the Carib-
bean Sea may pass under the sway Of
the United States. Some think so.
In fact, ] believe that some time it
may be necessary for the United States
to dominate all the littoral of the Car
ibbean
$ think you might increase the cof-
fee industry here. The great thing is
to establish the market and then You
viii find that there is no great diff
Guilty in getting superior prices for
your superior coffee. The best coffee |
from Central and South America goes
now to Europe, not the United States. |
Europe pays better price, while the |
taste of Americans has been vitiated |
and we seem to prefer the poorer |
quality.
"The agricultural experimenters
should look closely into the adaptable |
ty of the soils here and the conditions |
for the culture of the cacao beans. |
There is a growing demand for these /
beans from the chocolate makers and |
the industry pays better than coffee |
If you have the proper soil here there
is nothing better that you can go in |
for
In San Francisco my attention was
called TO the fact that very strong
delegation of representative men from
The various commercial organizations
IN the Coast was being organized to
90 to Japan. There they told me that
It was hoped that representatives of
the Hawaiian commercial organizations
would join the party here. I sincerely
hope that you viii send some of your
best men. And let me give yon some
advice. When you do send represen-
,atives to commercial gatherings, in
list that they take an active part in
he business being dore and make
themselves heard in the work, on the
ioor of the gathering and in the COM
nittees. This is publicity work and
you must put yourselves forward and
advertise. Put your best goods in the
window and call attention to them if
roYI would suceaad IF voll do NOT adj
rertise yourself nobody else will do
t for you.'
Lower or No Duties.