The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-09-19

4 ''You can afford to be pa
4 triotic and take an American \
4 steamer even if it is a little X
4 smaller, and even though the +
4 accommodations be not so
4 sumptuous as the others.
X pI say to you be patient
4 Won have more service now than y
4 YOU ever had. You are not miss =
4 inc verv much under the coast =
\ wise law. You must meet the X
r situation as cheerfully as you x
X can Be patriotic to your flag"
= X
+++**+*++ 4 4 X X X X x
Advising Honolulu,to be patient and
wait for steamer accommodations until
the government could pass 2 ship sub
sidy law so that there would be GER
tainty of more American steamers for
Honolulu, Congressman Kahn made a
plea before the chamber of commerce
yesterday against further agitation for
the suspension of the coastwise law,
saving that it hurt the efforts of those
who advocated subsidy and greater
American merchant marine.
MIR. Kahn said that the duty of the
people in the Islands was to be pa
triotic and wait for the flag to come on
ships. He said that at one time he
waited in New York for a ship which
few the American flag just to show his
patriotism. San Francisco at times
could get no Pullman accommodations
out of San Francisco for days, and if
they could afford to do that, Honolulu
could Just as well afford to be patient
when there was lack of steamer ac-
cOmmodations.
Mr.. Kahn forgot to mention that
Pullman trains pulled out of San Fran
cisco several times a day and mail
steamers left this port for the mainland
only once in while.
Mr.. Kahn was also positive that all
those who had travelled on foreign
steamers when it was case of sick
ness or death on the mainland which
called them, had had the fine of 5000
remitted by the treasury department.
Always Room, He Is Told.
Mr.. Kahn also made the positive
statement that he had learned from the
steamship agents and had been given
Habsolute figures" to show hardly a
single instance when all the accommo-
dations had been taken on their coast
bound steamers, adding that rarely has
such an occurrence been cited. Mr.
Kahn must have been misinformed, as
there have been many times when doz.
ems of people have been left behind
when n steamer left port because no
additional accommodations could be
had for love or money even when the
officers quarters had been bought by
passengers who had to get to the main
land.
Mr.. Kahn, however, made an able
and patriotic argument in behalf of a
larger American merchant marine, and
asked that the Islands support the ship
subsidy movement as far as practica-
BILE, for he said he was in the fight to
win, and the fight would be won.
He said in opening his address, after
being introduced by President Spalding
of the chamber of commerce, that he
was particularly pleased to speak be
fore a body of representative business
men of Honolulu.
rIn the early life of the American
Republic the American flag was seen
on every sea, said Mr.. Kahn. "The
clipper ships sent ont from New Eng
land were the great promoters of trade
in the early part of the nineteenth
century, and up to the very beginning
of the Civil War the ships of the
United States maintained their pres
tige throughout the world. The priva
teers that were fitted up in England by
The Confederate government drove oul
ships of the ocean, and we have nevel
been able to regain the lost ground
We pay annually to the owners of for
eign built ships in the neighborhood o
$250,000, 600 for the carriage of Ameri
can-made goods, 10 the nations of tn
world. That sum is taken right out o
our circulation.
"'There are only nine American ship
of the frst-elass crossing the .Atlanti
and Pacific Oceans.
Terrible Commentary.
cit is terrible commentary upo
our lax legislation, hut we OF the SCI
board country have faith that the ia
is not far distant when congress wi
enact some legislation that viii NAL
II possible 20 put American vessels
the first class again upon all the sea
In 1851, on March 5, law WAS pass,
by congress and approved 10y the Prei
dent that WAS interded 20 help son
mail iines aud put them back upon Il
aeas. That lass provided for two dolla
per mile rate on the outward yOyal
for gesafis thai would he constructed
participate in the oversee trade hl
Wauld rarfy the American malls 40 /
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