The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-09-18

dement's. This place would become a
great International clearing house. IL
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 cheaply. The time may well come,
however when you will enjoy such adj
vantages as Hongkong does now and
the ports of the Danish West Indies
used to.
elf you can bring tourists here
steadily and in large numbers the adj
vantages viii be great. The great adj
vantage does not consist alone in the
gold the tourists spcId, but because
out of their humber there IRE always
many who will decide to stay, who
will bring their accumulations with
them and their wealth for investment
That has been the history of Los An
geles, IL a concrete example is needed
l visited that city twenty live years
ago, when it was small, sleepy, Mex
lean town, and I visited it two years
ago, and found it city of 100000
population and with bank deposits OF
| seventy million dollars. That result
was brought about by attention to the
tourist possibilities. Tourists like
|
with the troubles of customs and in
| spectors.
"There must be serious attention
given to the Investigation of the ag-
| ricultural products of Hawaii The
time may GOMEZ hope not, but in
looking ahead as business men, YOU
must take such things into considera-
tion-when sugar will meet with GER
tain competition which does not now
prevail, sugars imported into the Uni
ted States from Cuba, San Domingo
and Hayti. 1t is not in any one p
mind particularly, but it may be, with
the exception ofACuba, that some and
possibly all the islands of the Carib-
bean Sea may pass under the sway OF
the United States. Some think 30.
In fact, ! believe that some time it
may be necessary for the United States
to dominate all the littoral of the Car
ibbean.
"I think you might increase the cof-
fee industry here. The great thing is
to establish the market and then you
will 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 adaptabili-
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.
IL 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
on the Coast was being organized to
go to Japan. There they told me that
: it was hoped that representatives of
|, the Hawaiian commercial organizations
: would join the party here. ! sincerely
hope that you will send some of your
best men. And let me give you some
l advice. When you do send represen-
!, tatives to commercial gatherings, in
!, sist that they take an active part in
the business being done and make
, themselves heard in the work, on the,
floor of the gathering and in the COM
mttees. This is publicity work and
I you must put yourselves forward and
advertise. Put your best goods in the
: window ahd call attention to them tx
you would succeed. If you do not adj
: vertise yourself nobody else will do
: it for you" $50 esx NJ.
: Lower or No Duties. -NfT--.
! The appreciation of the members and
others present of this straightforward
: talk was shown by the applause that
> came at its conclusion, following
: which, the chairman, Mr.. Swanzy, ask
q ed what was meant by the speaker by
a "free port that being something
: which he had never before, he thought,
, been suggested here.
"By that / mean,n explained Mr..
LOOMS, ga port in which by special
, arrangement through Congress lower
, duties or no duties are imposed on
most articles. 1t would not be an easy
, thing to secure. 1t would be new and
would probably be violently opposed in
Congress as antagonistic to the Ameri.
can idea of protection, but protection,
like all good things, might have its
exceptions. 5
d
: swanzy Explains.
, Mr.. Swanzy, stating that he spoke
, to tell what had been attempted and
/ accomplished along the lines dealt with
( by Mr.. LOOMS, said that the question
, of diversified industries had already
! attracted great deal of attention
, here, but that the matter of bringing
the ideas into practice was more diff
cult than was generally known, except
TO those of long residence. He could
state, however, that at least the people
were experimenting and doing their
hest to increase the number of agri-
cultural products.
i IT,. question of inducing tourists to
visit the islands was also receiving
good attention from the Promotion
committee, but Hawaii was 1000 miles
away from the mainland and prospec-
tive visitors had difficulty in getting
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