The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-24
USING HAWAII
FOR DUMP PILE
Manila Cigar Trade Here Being
Killed by the New
Regulations.

Manilas 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 to smoke is not so
much the question, as is what to smoke.
Anybody can smoke, and anybody can
smoke anything that anybody wants to
smoke, if anybody is not particular.
And there you are.
A funny thing has happened. There
was a regulation of the federal authori-
ties to the effect that only a 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 We're
" easv.'' and that there was a mag
nificent chance to make lot Of money,
so they got together and they put up
Job, and they made certain representa-
tions to the United States internal reve-
nue. representatives in the Philippine
Island, and besought and beseeched
that there be removed the embargo
which allowed only certain eXporta-
ton, 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 viii be remem-
bered, had an arrangement. established
whereby there could be sent into the
mainland United States a certain guam
! titv 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 autborl-
! ties in the Philippines so as 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
vaiian Islands would not have the right
| to transship the same to anywhere else
in the United States.
Now. since this arrangement has come
| to pass, the result is that the Hawaiian
Islands are being used as a 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 halt
cents each. or, in some eases, as cheaI
As dozen cigars for twenty-five cents
The iobbers Of this city have hello
a meeting. somewhat in the nature OF
an Indignation meeting. and they have
written lengthy communication in thf
way of a petition to the manufacturer;
and exporters of the Philippine Islands
asking them please not to make the Tia
waiian Islands the dumping ground fo1
all their inferior brands Of cigars.
This communication has gone for
ward, but what the effect will be ear
not at this time he said
In the meanwhile, If the present sys
TEN continues, the Manila cigar trade