The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-09-18
WARMING AND
ADVICE BY
LOOMS
(rrom Thursdays Advertiser,

(Erom Thursdays Advertiser.)
"You must diversity and increase
the agricultural products of your isl
ands, . declared the Honorable Francis
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.
"If 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 will mean great things to Ho-
nolulu, when 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 the cargoes of the
Orient could We stored for tranship-
ment to r,ainland ports and from whiih
vessels would bring inward cargoes for
forwarding to the Far East.
The insistence of the speaker on the
necessity of diversifying the agricul-
) tural industries of Hawaii was because,
) as he said in careful way, of the pos
sibility of the Hawaiian sugar coming
at some time into competition on the
American market with the sugars of
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 es
more OF less significant.
The address of the visiting official
commercial representative of the Uni
led States was listened to apprecia-
lively by fairly representative num-
Der of the Chamber of Commerce MEM
bcis, the fact that yesterday was a
mail day being accountable for the
suscnce of some.
In the absence Of President Morgan,
who sailed on the Alameda yesterday
morning, and of the vice president,
Who is on the other side Of the island,
f N. Swanzy was chosen to preside.
Mr.. Swanzy suggested dispensing with
the reading of the minutes and intro
duccL the speaker of the afternoon,
Mr.. Inomis: His address was:
cit IL n great and an unexpected
pleasure that ! am able to meet so
|
tative business men, as I have here, in
city so far away from the mainland
Before / had been ashore two hours
however, Mr.. Wood had asked me to
address this organization, SO I knew
, from that that yours was q wideawakt
and an alert business community
have been q great deal in the tropics
hut find this country quite exceptional
. for you have here none of that languor
and lassitude that i 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
anpse government has made a large pre-
liniinary appropriation, five million dol
lars, and for which they will appropri
ate many millions more for the purpose
of holding on a proper scale what viii
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
proposal 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 neces
sGry 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 will be represent
ed 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
America should show her best wares.
1t 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 a vessel
and exhibit it in the various ports of
the Far East. The exposition is now
postponed, until what time do not
know definitely. / will know more
about that when ! return. But when
that time comes we are going to make
an effort to interest the people of these
Islands that you be properly and ade-
quately represented, represented in n
way that your Importance in the Pacific
justifies and demands.
sfYon have a unique position in the
Union. This place was for 80 long an
independent state among the nations
that you are unlike any Of the other
Territories. We will expect much of
Hawaii. We can not expect the Indian
Territory or Alaska to make any such
a showing in an international exposi-
ton as you can. You are justly expect
ing much and looking into the future
confidently for great things to come
within the next ten years. The opening
of the Panama canal can do as much
for Honolulu as for any other city in
the world. Just as it was said that all
roads led TO Rome, SO it can be said
that all the waterways will lead to
Honolulu and the channels OF commerce,
and there will be many of them, will
lead to your door, In view of all this
! hope that you will look at the advanr
tages to come from taking leading
part in the Toxic exposition and the
bearing that, such an adequate repre-
sentation VIII have on your own future. |
fThere are two or three things neces- |