The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-11-20
HAWAII MIGHT.
SECURE TRADE

Honorable Francis B. LOOMS, American
Commissioner General to the Toxic Ex-
position, is a passenger on the Mongo-
liza, returning from Japan. Accompany
ing Mr.. LOOMS is Mrs. Loomis; j. Q.
o Laughlin, secretary to the commits
sion, Mrs. o 'Laughlin and Mr.. New
come.
"We have received satisfactory as.
surances from the highest official au-
thority that the Exhibition will be
held in 1917 at Toxic, and that it will
be very considerably enlarged in scope
and more varied in character" said
Mr.. Loomis last night, regarding the
postponement of the Exposition. "Both
the people who exhibit, and those who
60 to see the Exposition, will be the
gamers by the delay. The Japanese
government and people wish to produce
n singularly impressive, beautiful
unique and important exposition. They
are doubtless doing a wise thing in
taking ample time to prepare TO- it.
They will be able to achieve great and
brilliant results at moderate expense by
giving themselves long term of years
for preparation. Exhibitors will b. the
gamers in several respects. In the first
place the Exposition will attract a
great many more people; the accommo-
dations for them will be vastly i'm.
proved and amplified, and transporta-
tion facilities will be so advanced that
the largest merchant vessels can be
unloaded alongside the pier, exhibits
placed on cars which will convey them
to the interior of the exposition build.
ings where the goods or exhibits are to
be displayed. Z"
Mr.. LOOMS and the other American
representatives and many tourists who
have been in Japan during the last six
weeks, were very much impressed by
the manifestations of good will on the
part of the Japanese government to-
wards the people of the United States,
as indicated by their magnificent recep.
tion to the American feet, to the
American Exposition Commission and
to the delegation of American busir ess
men from the Pacific Coast. These
three separate bodies Of American rep
resentatives were entertained in a
sumptuous and delightful manner, and
the Commissioners and business mer
were given very great opportunities h
study industrial and commercial condi
tions in the great trade and industrial
eenters of Japan.
The Japanese government and tn,
Japanese people were unrepitting il
their attentions and their courtesies
No nation could have entertained i'll
guests with greater distinction ant
taste. 1t was stated that the enter
tainments given in behalf of the Off
GERS and men of the American flee
were by far the most splendid ant
brilliant ever seen in the Orient.
The Pacific Coast business men AM
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great deal to interest them, not only i
looking over actual conditions in Japan
but in studying their system of trade
industrial and technical schools and il
investigating, as far as they could il
the time allotted them, the possibilitie
of Japan as a manufacturing nation il
the near future.
At banquet given by the Amer;
can Commissioners General in homo
Of the Marquis Katsura and the Min
lister of Commerce and Agriculture
the Prime Minister stated very i'm
pressively that henceforth it would b,
the WORK of the Japanese Government
30 concentrate its energies on the de
yeGopment of the industrial and com
mercial potentialities of the country.
The Prime Minister further oh
served that all of the natural re
sources of the nation would be deve
Oped TO their utmost, and for the fr
ture Japan would lay much NOR
stress upon the exploitation o
her manufacturing, commercial an
shipping activities than upon the fun
Their immediate development of he
army and navy.
These words were naturally inter
preted to mean that it is the purpos
of the japanese Government in Tn
first place to get the most out of ayr
culture, not only in Japan, but in Fo,
mosa and in Korea, and, in the mex
place, to convert Japan, as far as pc
sible, into great workshop teemin
with activity. The regions abol
Osaka and Nagoya seem special
marked for exploitation along the
lines.
Asked about the market for Hawa
ian products in the East, Mr.. Loom
said that there was unquestionably 4
excellent opening for the sale, in
large way, of the very superior pin
apDles of the Hawaiian Islands