The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-07-09
Robert J. Burdette IN J


il there IS il IS kept under cover. This
one has few rivals out Of doors, even IN
i the most beautiful world I have ever
\ seen. It is three miles long, with many
graceful wiudings hemmed in by wood
ad hills and ornamented with many
! Islands. Close to the city are the large
docks belonging to the Mtsubu-shio
/ company, which has builded ships Of
5000 tous-one of the things that Japan
| does which are not in the netsuke class.
| These works employ a force Of more
than 5000 workmen. The city has d
population of over 80, 900. Most Of them
boarded the ship Immediately after we
ianchOred with things to sell that catch
he fancy Of the tourist. As there were
a score of merchants to one buyer, the
market was duIler than real estate IN
August and prices ruled low with
downward tendency, shading off to any
fair offer. And when you bought some
thing for which you had no earthly use
and which you didn t want anyhow,
and learned a few minutes later that
your neighbor had bought the same arti-
Gle of another pirate for half as much,
,-,,, -o,,soroa how business men ever
made living.
People talk very glibly about the low
standards of commercial ethics in
,ranan without pausing to remember,
| = -bar- aver knew. that the merchant
nIac. NJ +bi, country is not. as with
America. established with an aristoc-
ra.v If its own: with old and honorable
| ira .li+ions and with great names among
lis own people. On the public square
Of PHILADELPHIA stand three statues
in bronze commemorating the djstin-
ani.bed services Of three great men,
eona}7v bonored. Two are soldiers
REYNOLDS and McCIellan-and the third
is an American merchant stephen
Gfrard And to this day our own land
j. a. proud Of her merchants as she IS
Of her soldiers and statesmen. The re
public has no better and no more hon
orabl4 citizens.
MINI a., f,.+ which :
Now rear iii mint 'A'e
50 foreign to o"r own experience anu
80 repugnant to our own ideas, that
only . quarter Of a century ago a mer-
..1.-.oI 1;++l, f;e,har
chant III id pa" "o9
than the cooiles, II not with l1eh- ooHl-
merce took a place lower than the till
a,-o of the soil The social and political
49,. .7..-.- oz fret tho
stah91H@ u INC o-''770' "'
samural, the warrior class; theh, de~
scending the scale IN order, the peas
ants who were the farmers: the arti-
7 o1o.o - +to 1-ar,- bo+-
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tom, the tradespeople-lh merchants
Small reason had they for maintaining
. bigb standard Of commercial morality
>-ohoa,- ox,oc+o5 ench q tbino
u 'lo--'-' ~, -...h
OF them; no one taught 'Heil SU0-
standard And now 1t IS most unrea-
sonable for Us to insist that in twenty
e 1000 49, zbo,,15 o++a;, 70 and
i-'e cas- '"0S -, .-5
live by American ana EnsIish S'an0-
ards and customs Of fair trade. Their
development and progress in this re-
spect has been wonderful.
Even in Christian nations, in nations
Of shopkeepers, attainment to our own
recognized standards has not yet
reached the point Of perfection Ten
nvson in his day sneered at the clerk
with his " cheating yard wand, - with
d gasp If admiring wonder that he
could feel the fire Of patriotism. Hon
est farmers have been seen to weigh
themselves with the load of hay; it was
no longer ago than winter before last
or was it last winter-that the Los
Angeles newspapers investigated wide
~nread charpes Of lIqht wcight in the
sacks If coal. every simmer the ice
MAJ, ! accused Of SELLING more climate
rhan ice in the block he leaves to melt
on the doorstep. and | believe it is
frDe that amonG the officials Of our
GREAT American cities is an INSPECTOR
~ WEIGHTS and measures
..To7 tra fro3.,, roorad an INDIGNANT
.oa1 merchant to an irish driver.
- Won .vo heen with me five wears and
80: Io,rroa q +hinorf,, .tSurq. hut
T,,-a learned wan THING, :, pleaded
o,Eo,,rI,o uT4 OH tell mo what #
l. IN 1-ao,, Wv, ~, >, ..Wen thin.
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