The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-09-12
Congressman Kahn Here for Rest
but viii Take Recreation
While Working.
WILL SECURE SUGAR DATA
AS Member Military Committee
Will Also Visit Local
FOrtificationS.
1From sntnrdav,s AdvertIser.l

Congressman julius Kahn of Califor-
mia. one of Hawaii S best friends in
congress, who has been instrumental in
developing the military establishment
and the Pearl Harbor naval station |
and who is the guardian of HawaiS's
sugar interests, arrived yesterday on
the steamship Sierra, accompanied by
his wife, daughter and son, to remain
until the Lurline leaves for San Fran
cisco on September 2G. ON the advice
of his physician he came to Hawaii In
order to get the benefit of sea voy-
age.
For many years Congressman Kahn
has worked right up to the limit OF
his endurance and for the past year he
was never idle moment in his advo-
caey of San Francisco as the site for
the great Panama fair in 1915. That
great fight is won and the strain is
over. hut he feels the need of change
of climate and is now in Honolulu stop
ping at the Young Hotel, where his
name appears on the register as "Ju'
lius Kahn, San Francisco, 1918. NO
true son of California, and particularly
resident of San Francisco signs any
thing now without adding "19l5. "
A number of leading men called upon
Mr.. Kahn at the Young yesterday, the
callers including representatives, of the
large corporations and plantations,
among them also being President E. J..
Spalding of the chamber of commerce,
II. H. Petrie Of Castle & Cooke, Clar-
ence Cooke of the Bank of Hawaii and
J. A. Kennedy, president of the Inter
Island. As member of the military
committee of the house of representa-
tives, Mr.. Kahn win doubtless be given
every consideration at the hands of the
army officials here and will be given op'
portunities to see Pearl Harbor naval
station and the fortiRcations under the
guidance of army and navy officers. Ii
discussing topics in which Hawaii il
interested, Mr.. Kahn says:
Opposed Cuban Reciprocity.
'0The sugar schedule will undoubt
edly receive the attention of the Demo
Gratis in the house of representatives
with a possible view of its reduction
/ want to be in position to know
something of the conditions in cane
sugar raising in Hawaii. l am familiar
with the beet sugar of California anC
the West / want to see, so far as
am concerned, that the sugar of Hawai-
is looked after. l am a proteetionist
and I believe the protectionist polio,
has brought us the greatest prosperity
s"I opposed Cuban reciprocity year
ago. I stated at the time that it woul'
not reduce the price of sugar to tn
consumer cent and that the suga
trust would be the sole beneficiary, an
for the time being we succeeded in de
feating Cuban reciprocity, but it wa
partially put through eventually to tn
amount of $77000,OO0, which has praC
tically been given as a gratuity to tn
tobacco and sugar trusts. That is tn
amount the twenty per cent reductio
has risen to. 1t is not going into tn
treasury of the United States and tn
consumers have not had the benefit, S
l imagine the sole beneieiaries wer
the trusts. I don t want to make an,
more gifts of that kind to an opulen
aggregation of sugar refners.
Believes in Pearl Harbor.
81 am member of the house mil
tary committee and have taken a sp
ciai interest in the development {
Pearl Harbor and the fertilization I
the Island of Oahu. ] have always co
tended that Hawaii is the key to u
Pacific / feel that the time win con
when we shall have TO put a base
the Aleutian Islands, but the importal
thing now is Pearl Harbor, which is Il
Pacific Coast base for the protection
our Coast and the Panama Canal.
''COngress has been rather inelin,
TO help out in these matters and co
gressmen themselves think that Pea
Harbor must be so strongly protects
that no nation can take it away fro
us. and while President Taft is for q
bitration and am fully in accord wi
4 his plans, nevertheless ] am not {
truistie enough TO believe that we q
cease our expenditures on our militia
and naval development simply becau
we have agreed to arbitrate differenC
with foreign countries. l will ma
tain that the strongest guarantee
peace is to be prepared for war,
When the nations shall begin to d
mantle their Notifications and lay
their navies, then we can cut down {
expenses in that direction as speed
as any Of them. But while great pc
ers are building bigger dreadnougl
year after year. your Uncle Sam cam
afford 10 drop TO the rear.
Backs Up ooastwise Laws.
''NOw, as TO the coastwise law pro
eition. in which am probably ns Ike
ly interested as amy one, ] have 81
IN the breach for that law, nnd II q
Of your people feel aggrieyed they )
have "a visit their indignation on
head for / had considerable 90 do "
the killing off Of the proposed legi
ton 20 suspend the c0astwise Law.
believe in doing it have done
greatest possible good 70 the people
these Islands The only line that wa
BE- bene6ied bY the reIeal ~ dif eo
aise lnw would ho ihe Japanese
pagalnR through llon0lHln. undeTal
ller gfe von from 0fiesh 20 eight
fni'nQl d year ThplT gosefnmfpt 3