The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-04
Taylor for Suspension.

Toastmaster Dillingham; then intro
dueed Col. George w. Taylor, represen-
tative from Alabama, who paid his re-
spects to the POSTMASTER, members OF
the club, brother officers of the Army
and his own friends of the Congress
sionaI party, and remarked that his
colleagues of the party had never heard
him talk before, which caused a ripple
of laughter, for the colonel is known
as a fluent talker, but it was explained
later by some of his colleagues that he
has never made speech in the House,
doing all his talking in the committee
room. He made some humorous refer
ences to Republicans and Democrats,
for he is one of the latter. He was in
Hawaii as an American and he repre-
sents only the nation in the matters
which were being brought up here. He
did not come down here 1000 miles to
find out what fine country Hawaii is
He knew that before annexation and
before he voted to take us in. Gap
plause). He did not vote to take US
in except to shoulder our responsible.
tiles and when we need help to give it.
He found a group of islands doing ev-
erything in the line of progress, sur
mounting difficulties as they do on the
mainland.
He asked the people to be frank with
the Congressman, to tell them all about
the Islands and their needs. They
wanted the truth. There were little
forms of observance, of course, among
the delegation, just as in the Army and
Navy He personally was on the Rivers
and Harbors Committee, and this was
the best subsidy ever given 20 the ma
ton. Every man in Congress is in
favor of river and harbor improvement.
Ship subsidies did not seem to be
favored Why, he did not know. He
gave lot Of figures showing how
American shipping had declined. Ac-
cording to the figures given by Mr..
Thurston we had less of the problem
here than they had in the United
States proper with regard to the mer-
chant marine, for Hawaii had So per
cent. American ships, and on the At
lantic they had but per cent. He
would be glad to give a suspension of
the coastwise law, but he said ii would
not be done. People had been talking
about suspension of the eoastwise law
for forty years. The reasons he said
were not because it was a political
question. 1t was because as business
proposition it is impossible for the
American government to build up an
American merchant marine on such a
plan. The cost of building vessels in
American shipyards is too great.
Hawaii was not considered in the
enactment of laws for the American
government. Porto Rico has no such
problem as we have, for Cuba lies be-
tween American ports and Porto Rican
ports. God made Hawaii away down
| in the middle of the Pacific without
any neighbor TO help. The Philippines
| question was a military question and
| they got temporary suspension of
| the eoastwise law. but the same reason
! does not exist for Hawaii, as yet. The
! people of Hawaii. however. are asking
| for nothing more than what is right
"A suspension of the eoastwise law.
/ The matter was not in committe
/ of which he was a member. but anv
/ questions affecting the Rivers and Har-
bors Committee coming from Hawaii
he would attend to. When it came to
asking for the rights of the Islands the
! people here would find that he would