The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-10-08
HAWAII WILL GET
BETTER HARBORS
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The reform of the public land laws of
the Territory was also considered
broadly and the question of either ap.
plying the American continental regu-
lations or revising them in such a way
as to meet the peculiarities of the Is.
lands has been canvassed by the Wash.
ington lawmakers. Legislation to i'm.
prove interisland commerce has also
been considered by the travellers.
Need of Ship Subsidy.
Each Congressman saw the Islands
through the prism of his habitual the.
cries. DR.. a. j. Barchfeld of Pitts
burg, member of the house committee
on merchant marine and a constant sup.
| porter and stimulator of ship subsidy
measures, was convinced that the trip
was striking object lesson to his col
leagues of the urgent need for a ship
, subsidy law. "'You can say for me
that we shall have ship subsidy bill
passed at the next session of Con-
gress,' he declared.
II. G. Humphreys of Mississippi, a
Democrat with constitutional aversion
to the protective feature of such legis.
lation, went further in the opposition
to the shipping question and declared
that the visit to the Islands had con-
WINGED him that the coastwise ship
| ping law, which exacts penalty on
passengers travelling between the Is
lands and America in foreign bottoms,
should be abrogated in that particular
Richard Bartholdt of st. Louis Mo-,
the dean of the delegation and an in
veterate apostle of peace, went on
| record as complimenting the amity in
| which white, Hawaiian and japanese
children attend school together in the
| Islands, " good lesson to some people
on the Pacific Coast he said. He also
| advocated, to ameliorate any possible
| labor stringency in the Islands, the
admission of a limited number of Chi
nese to perform the plantation labors."
The japanese problem in the Islands,
according to Bartholdt, is fading.
Delegates Well Pleased.
On the whole the Congressman were
gratlfied with their entertainment at
the Islands, and edited and amazed by
the progressiveness, prosperity and re-
sources of the group. The trip was
made by the delegation as guests of the
commercial bodies of Honolulu and the
Islands, and Judging by the enthusiasm
aroused among the members of the |
party the excursion will be profitable |
one to the business and commercial in. |
terests of Hawaii.
Congressman Barchfeld of Pennsyl- |
vania, member of the merchant marine |
committee of the house, drew a lesson |
from the trip that will add fuel to fires |
of his oratory on the ship subsidy bill. |
He furthermore had a critical comment |
to make on San Francisco docking ia
clllties and caustic denunciation of |
the people of Southern California who, |
by their votes, defeated the recent Is
lais creek bond issue project.
Barchfeid said: ~ noted in the Ha- |
waiian Islands lack of ships, of break
waters and Of docks. The sugar bust
ness on the Islands was a revelation to-
us. The pineapple industry will de-
velop enormously, and in five years
from now | believe there will be s.
100000 cases of pineapples shipped from
the Islands every year. The twenty
seven days run which the Pacific Mail
makes from Panama is so long that
Central American pineapples can not
be carried to this port. But there are
no adequate shipping facilities with the
Islands. L believe the Islands are an
pay anu pdlNtl VI lIllS CDUH-
try, and they are entitled to modern,
American accommodations.
The Pacific Mail runs three boats a
month to Honolulu. But the bill which
will become a law at the next session
OF Congress, by postal subsidy. will
give Honolulu two boats a week.
believe that converts to the ship sub.
sidy have been made on this trip. The
proposition of abrogating the coast
WISE shipping laws as applying to pas
senger traffic with the Islands is rot; it
is a subterfuge, tluke, and a farce.
1.-The question of land legislation for
the Islands should be left to the people
OF the Islands. We don't know any
thing about that.
Criticizes Local Docks.
lit pains me as a world traveller to
come into your docks and find that,
while some of them are passing fair,
more of them are mediocre. and some
absolutely antiquated. If San Fran
cisco expects the Panama canal to re-
habilitate her languid shipping indus
try, which has been put to sleep by adj
verse national legislation, let it take
hold and improve the docking facilities.
Have them so that vessel of 10000
or 10000 tons may come into this port
at high tide and not wipe away your
entire dockage system. California
should be wise and patriotic enough to
appreciate that the State best inter
ests lie in inviting the commerce of the
world TO her ports. | know that the
project for the enlargement of your
docking facilities WAS recently defeat
ed by the adverse votes of other see.
tons of the State. l know what was
the matter with those gentlemen-itl
was remorse and chagrin"
Congressman Richard Bartholdt said
that he was most impressed with the
good roads of the Islands. ~ was in.
terested, - he continued, "to see white
children, japanese and Hawaiians sit,
ting together in school without fric.
tion. 1t would have been a good les,
son 10 some of your Pacific Coast PEG.
pie The native American is coming
mo the Islands aud progressing there,
INnfN mo mara ..,,t,a, |