The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-19
REPRESENTATIVE J. BARcHFELD.

That we have all been pleased and
educated goes without saying AS a
result of our investigation you should
and viii have proper harbor facilities
and adequate breakwaters to protect
the same. The day of picking up cattle
or unloading passengers from a derrick
has passed away under the Influence of
a progressive American spirit. Your
islands have many good roads, (better
than many of the older States upon
the mainland that [ have traversed, but
they need improvement and more of
them. You should have railroad on
every one of the larger islands, trans
portation facilities by land and sea
influence in every land Your islands
are fairyland indeed, and as the world
knows more about you she will be
anxious to become part and parcel of
you. Many, temporarily seeking rest
and recreation and comfort; many per-
manentfy believing that a residence in
these PARKWAY islands in the South
Pacific seas, under a semi-tropical sun
and your balmy trade winds, under the
protection of the Stars and Stripes, is
not an undesirable place to reside in and
become part and parcel of the moving
body polite. You should have better
means of communication with the main
land, and ycu are going to obtain it not
by the suspension of the eoastwise
shipping laws, but by the development
of merchant marine which will carry
our mail, our passengers, our commerce,
and, last but not least, our flag; teach
ing an advanced civilization and a
broader and more enlightened HUMANE
tarianism, wherever that flag may be
seen. You are going to get this mer-
chant marine, which viii be in the
shape of mail subsidy, because the
President of the United States, the
broadminded, patriotic William Howard
Taft, has said so; the Speaker of the
House, the Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, is
in favor of it; the party in power has
been entrusted with the duty of legis-
lating in favor of it and above all
things the American people demand it,;
and the viii Of the American people
is always supreme, as soon as their will
is known.
We have mighty object lesson
with the Pacific squadron present in
the harbor of Honolulu and nothing TO
protect. Our land Notifications are
adequately sufficient to protect US
against any foreign encroachment. We
are building magnificent navy with
nothing to protect. England, Germany,
France use her navy TO protect her
commerce in the uttermost ends of the
earth, but the United States has no
foreign trade, It is high time we were
aroused to proper sense of duty
We are now at the task of building the
magnificent Panama Canal at an ex-
pense of $400,000,000 and when that
canal is completed other nations out
side our own viii be made beneficiary
unless we awake from our lethargv
and have the ships to fly our flag when
that canal is completed, which will be
in the next FIVE years. When that
| canal is completed, Honolulu should
be made beneficiary as no other favor
ed section of our common country, the
transient passenger, the home and
health seeker, the man of means, look
ing for a safe and permanent invest.
ment. will stop at Honolulu, and give
| this town such legitimate boom, as
| will make some of the booms that took
place upon the mainland look like an
Arabian Night story compared to the
| real thing at Honolulu proper. Then
the Tantalus will be the residential
| section and Honolulu proper will have
| 100000 population. Aloha until we
come back again in "1919.',
A. F. BARCHFELD,
Pennsylvania,