Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-02-08
will Increase Traffic In
American Goods
And Ships
Will ALL PASS THROUGH, .n,
PORT OF HONOLULU
Foreigners Now Getting Philippine
Trade That Should Be Done
With Americans

Accompanying. tue OlB Danu VI the
Philippines Constabulary which ar
rived here Saturday on its long voy-
age to take a leading part in the in
auguration of President-elect Taft, Is
Mr.. Chauncey M'Goyern, well known
IN Manila business circles as general
manager of the Escolta Press, Inc,
printing house. Mr.. M'Govern has
been in the Philippines for some
eight years and is taking his first va
cation to the homeland in that
period. ...s '.. -
when a representative OF the d u J.
e n. saw Mr.. M'Govern on the
transport, 1t was not alone Of the
wonderful Constabulary Band hel
spoke at length. 1T is matter of
much regret to us In the Philip
pines" he stated, That the people
Of the Hawaiian Islands should feel
Opposed to the campaign now being
waged in the United States to grant
the Philippines free trade with the
States. This opposition is attributed
by us to the one fact that the general
public of Hawaii does not really I'M
derstand what 1t will mean to the
g. eater advantage OF Hawaii itself
for this free trade measure to pass
through Congress.
No Injury To Hawaii
In the first place, this granting OF
free trade to the Philippines cannot
possibly injure the agricultural In
terests OF the Hawaiian Islands. You
are already a great, rich. prosperous
people agriculturally. You are al
ready raising and selling sugar crops
to within ten percent OF your total
possibilities; and to my mind with
the establishment of free trade be-
tween the Philippines and the United
States the demand for tropical prod
nets will drift eastward over the Pa
cifc away from the West Indies and
South America, affecting the Hawaii
an Islands In such a way that you
will be raising and selling at even
higher prices the full crops possible
to your Islands
More Steamships
"An interesting fact that seems to
have been lost sight OF by those In
Hawaii opposed to free trade with
the Philippines Is the very important
prospect that developing the Philip
pines agriculturally, does not mean
merely a big line of,steamships regu-
larry bringing Philippine products to
the Pacific ports Of the United States.
II means much more than that. II
means that these same ships will all
return to the Philippines land with
cotton goods; with iron and steel
goods; with mining machinery; and
with the thousand and one articles
common to United States export
which inhabitants OF the Philippines
1 are now importing largely from the
countries of Europe. In this manner
there will be'created, in time, an i'm.
mense American shipping trade on
the Pacific ocean, to the material bet
tcrment commercially OF your beautf.
ful islands SO fortunately situated fol
! such certain development. =
1T must be remembered that the
foreign trade of the Philippine Isl
ands already well worth while. III
100000. inhabitants are already edu
Gated more or less to the need o.
L articles not produced In the Philip
pines and not produceable there on {
commercial basis. There are doubt
less many people In Hawaii who be
0 lleve that most of the imports of tn,
philippines already come from tn
!, United States on vessels which stol
,. at Honolulu. But such is far from
being the case. In reality only q yer,
small proportion OF the imports o
the Philippines come from the Unite
!. States today. And even II the pur
/ chasing power Of the people of tn
!. Philippines were not greatly In
!, creased by giving them free trad
with the United States, II the Gus
toms tariff were so rearranged as I
bring about reciprocal trade rela
y lions between the Philippines. an
= the homeland, the enormously In
creased volume OF American good
that would be carried on America
vessels passing through Honolulu o
their way to the Philippines would /
an added harvest to the people {
q the Hawaiian Islands.
Iron and Steel .aa '-.-
Take, for example, the item ,
Z. iron and steel articles imported I'M
- the Philippines, Statistics GOVERN