The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-20

from any place and that they woulC
pay us ten cents a pound for all W,
could send them, when the world
price for all other sisals was seven am
/ half cents
Mr. Dillingham; stated that the sam,
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 aroun'
their houses and to go into fruit rails
| ing. He stated that the time was com
be unable to supply simply because o.
| lack of preparation. When the Army
the Navy and the shipping to come here
as a 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 win prepare.
Diversified Industries Needed.
After a short address by Hugh How
ell, the father of the rubber industry
of Maui, W. o. Smith was called upon
as a 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 s 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 sugar. H. Nj.
Whitney, founder of the Advertiser, had
worked hard to introduce a cotton in.
dustry and was a factor in establishing
the rice industry here. Tobacco had
been tried and failed but he hoped to
see both tobacco and cotton reestab-
lished
owe must turn to other places SINH
larly situated for our examples, said
Mr.. Smith, "to Sumatra, to Java, the
Philippines There we find that de-
pendence is placed in those. products
which have a world s market. There
has been a great deal of misunderstand-
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
cifc 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 su-
gar, tobacco, cotton, rubber, coffee and
those produce which have world s
market Rubber is an article for the
market of the world and there is great
encouragement in it. There may be
overproduction for a time, but there
have been overproductions in other
commodities The production of sugar
now is beyond all anticipation. 1nl6
year in Europe were produced SIX mil.
lion tons of beet sugar and IN d. wan
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 us. Take the case OF
bananas. A short time, ago they were
a rarity except in seaports, now they
are on sale everywhere. There is
great and 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 it at the head of all. I'VE must
depend on products that can go INTO
the world s markets. Temporary set
backs must not discourage us and 1t
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 a witty adj
lress on the possibilities of rubber, be-
NC followed by E. c. Brown, R. A.
J. P. Cooke and w. u.
Scott. Mr. Cooke congratulated the
ubber men that they were starting IN
by tariff and did not need
o live in a constant fear OF tarlH
hanges and a loss of advantage there
". He stated that the sugar men |
would help and kokua the rubber IN
Iustry. He agreed with the statement |
hat rubber was small farmer oppor- |
unity.
List of Guests.
The following were present as guests |
1t the banquet: f. C. Brown, b. Won
Damn, T. L. Waldron, c. NJ. Y. For |
ter. r. J. Pratt. F. T. z. Waterhouse, |
William Williamson, r. ). Hosmer, u. |
laughs, B. F. Dillingham;, l. A. Thurs
on, G. ?. Cooke, J. ?. Cooke, William |
Neinrich. George r. Ewart, A. n Hay |
;elden. DR.. A. B. Clark, John Guild, |
+. NJ. Church. B. Smith, Z. A. Knud- ]
zen, c. d. Lufkin. F. P. Rosecrans, d. |
:. Lindsay. R. A. Wadsworth, II. |
Howell. A. Martinsen, w. A. Anderson,
= A. Austin. G. O. Jacobs, W G. /
Scott. A. L. Castle, DR.. Waterhouse,
Indge s. B. Dole, A W. Bottomley, ".
}. Smith, L. T. Peek, f. O. Hall, DR..
Wilcox. Daniel Logan, A. Gartley, R. |
\. Woodward, R. O. Matheson, R. W. !
Single. H T. Havselden, Mr.. Thorson,
/. P. Wood, W. Langton, A. 3. Clark,
r.; Prof. Gilmore, Mr.. Bond.