The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-09-27
USING HAWAII
FOR DUMP PILE
Manila Cigar Trade Here Being
Killed by the New
Regulations.

Mauilas are going up in cheap smoke
There is Manila cigar panic on IN
Honolulu this very day, and the whole
salers and the retailers hardly know
where they are
To smoke or not 10 smoke is not 30
much the question, as Is what 60 smoke.
Anybody can smoke, and anybody can
smoke anything that anybody wants to
smoke, IL anybody is not particular.
And there you are.
A funny thing has happened. There
was regulation OF the federal authori-
ties to the effect that only certain
amount Of the Manila product of al
legged tobacco could be brought into
these United States, but latterly the
manufacturers and exporters of the
Philippines made up their minds that
the mainland United States were
easy" and that there was mag
niicent chance to make lot Of money,
so they got together and they put up q
job, and they made certain representa-
tions to the United States internal reve-
nue. representatives in the Philippine
Island, aud besought and beseeched
that there be removed the embargo
which allowed only a certain exporta-
tion, with the result that at the pres
ent time the Hawaiian Islands are being
made the dumping ground of the refuse
of Manila cigars.
In other words, the very worst OF
Manila cigars are being at present
brought into the Hawaiian Islands, and
under such conditions that the people
in these Hawaiian Islands who are i'm
porting Manila cigars are under bonds
not to transship the same alleged
smokes to any other ports or points OF
the United States.
The United States, it will be remem-
beTed had an arrangement established
whereby there could be sent into the
mainland United States certain guam
tity of Manila cigars every year with
out duty. This seemed to interfere with
the idea of the Philippine exporters
and manufacturers as far as making
money was concerned, and so they fixed
it up, or are alleged to have fixed 1t
up, with the internal revenue authori-
ties in the Philippines so MS to allow
an unrestricted expectation of so called
Manila cigars to the Hawaiian Islands
as far as the Hawaiian Islands are con-
cerned, it being understood that any
body receiving said cigars in the Ha-
waiian Islands would not have the right
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in the United States.
Now, since this arrangement has come
to pass, the result is that the Hawaiian
Islands are being used as dumping
ground for the. very worst and least
desirable of cigars made in the southern
islands.
In Honolulu today "Manila cigars"
can be purchased for two and half
cents each, or, in some cases, as cheap
as dozen cigars for twenty-five cents.
The jobbers of this city have held
meeting, somewhat in the nature of
an indignation meeting, and they have
written lengthy communication in the
way of a petition to the manufacturers
and exporters of the Philippine Islands,
asking them please not to make the Ha-
, waiian Islands the dumping ground fer
all their inferior brands of cigars.
This communication has gone for
ward, but what the effect will be can
not at this time be said
In the meanwhile, if the present sys-
tenn continues the Manila cigar trade
in the Hawaiian Islands win be killed,
for the simple reason that the people
here will not tolerate the inferior
brands being sent in.