The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-11-20
IN MEMORY OF
IMPERIAL DEAD

Majesties the Emperor of China and
the Empress Dowager will be held at
the Chinese Consulate on Saturday Nov
ember 81 at IL clock in the forenoon.
Chinese Consul Tseng Hal has issued
invitations to the services. The invi-
tation to Governor Frear was received
lows:
Chinese Consulate, Honolulu, t. H,
November IS, 1908. Hon. w. +. Frear,
Governor, I. Hawaii. Your Excellency,
have the honor to inform Your Ex-
cellency that, on account of the deaths
of their Imperial Majesties, the EN-
peror of China and the Empress Dow
ager. memorial service will be held
at the Chinese Consulate, November 81,
at i a. m.
/ have the honor to request the pres
ence of Your Excellency at said cere-
mony, and would be extremely obliged
if you would extend this invitation to
the heads of your departments. have
the honor to be, sir,
Your most obedient servant,
TSENG Hal,
Chinese Consul.
Acting Governor Mott-Smith has &C.
knowledged receipt of invitations on
behalf of himself and Governor Frear,
and has expressed the sympathy of the
people of Hawaii for the loss sustained
by the Chinese people.
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from any place and that they would
pay us ten cents n pound for all we
could send them, when the world IS
price for all other sisals was seven and
half cents.
Mr. Dillingham; stated that the same
was true of our pines and our sugar.
In another short supplementary address
he advised every member of the asso-
citation to plant orange trees around
their houses and to go into fruit rails.
ing. He stated that the time was com
ing very shortly when Hawaii would
be unable to supply simply because of
lack of preparation. When the Army,
the Navy and the shipping to come here
as result of the opening of the Pa.
mama canal call upon Hawaii for sup
plies we ought to be ready to fill the
demand. The country can supply the
demand if the growers will prepare.
Diversified Industries Needed.
After a short address by Hugh Hoy.
ELL, the father of the rubber industry
of Maui, w. O. Smith was called upon
as representative of the parent in
dustry to address the men of the infant
industry. Mr.. Smith made an excel
lent address on the necessity of having
other industries than sugar in Hawaii,
stating that he looked upon rubber as
sugar nearest neighbor. He reminded
his hearers that there had been set
backs in the sugar industry and also
that sugar had only survived by dint
of perseverance. There had been other
industries started prior to sugai. II. Nj.
Whitney, founder of the Advertiser, mad
worked hard to introduce a cotton in.
dustry and was factor in establishing
the rice industry here. Tobacco had
been tried and failed, but h, hoped to
see both tobacco and cotton reestab-
lished.
"We must turn to other places SINH
larly situated for our examples" said
Mr.. Smith, "to SumaVa, to Java, the
Philippines. There we find that de-
pendence is placed in those products
which have a world market. There
has been great deal of misunderstood
ing of terms here. A small farmer
has been taken to mean the same as
a small farmer on the mainland. Now
we must all agree that we cannot COM
pete with the produce raised on the Pa
cific Coast except as far as our local
market is concerned. We must turn
for guidance elsewhere, to those places
where the dependence is placed in SUI
gar, tobacco, cotton, rubber, coffee and
those produce which have world
market. Rubber is an article for the
market of the world and there is great
encouragement in it. There may be
overproduction for time, but there
have been overproductions in other
commodities. The production of sugar
now is beyond all antic ipation I mis-
year in Europe We're produced ST.. mil
lion tons of beet sugar and in HI wall
we have produced this year over five
hundred thousand tons alone. 1t seems
at times that there might be an over
production of pineapples, but this need
not discourage MS. Take the case of
bananas. A short time ago they were
Il rarity except in seaports, now they
are on sale everywhere. There is
great aad growing demand for pines
and it is encouraging to know that in
the Eastern States already the reputa-
ton of the Hawaiian canned pineapple
places il at the head of all. GIVE must
depend on products that can go into
the worlds markets. Temporary set.
backs must not discourage us and it
will be the greatest boon if we can
have something in this Territory to de-
pend on besides sugar"
Other Speeches.
l.. Tenney Peck made witty adj
dress on the possibilities of rubber, be-
ing followed by L. @. Brown, r. A.
Wadsworth, j. P. Cooke and w. G.
Scott. Mr.. Cooke congratulated the
rubber men that they were starting in
unprotected by tariff and did not need
to live in constant fear of tariff
changes and loss of advantage there
by He stated that the sugar men
would help and kokua the rubber in
dustry. He agreed with the statement
that rubber was n small farmer oppor
tunity.
List of Guests
The following were present as guest
at the banquet: +, c. Brown, B. VOL
Damn, +. l.. Waldron, c. NJ. V. For