Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-21
WHAT THE nation EXPECTS
IN PRODUCTS Of HAWAII

con- umptlon Of our products thirty
fOld. In the short II years since the
actual annexation of those islands
their production has enormously in
creased and our exports to them have
more than doubled. In the II years
since Porto Rico came under the
American flag it has increased twenty
fold its supply of tropical products in
our markets and COrrespondingiy in
creased its consumption of American
goods. In the II years since the
American flag was hOisted At Manila
our exports to the Philippine Islands
have increased fftyfold. and those to
all Asia and Oceanic have trebled.
Future of American Commerce.
What Of the future? What is the
promise of this magnificent country OF
ours, this land of plenty, where are
row produced more of the require
Ilents Of life than in any other land.
and which is to become a perfect unit
through this addition Of tropical terri
tory, to give us the one class Of mater
ials in which We have been lacking III
the past?
In my minds eve | see a great,
wonderful development. far beyond
that before which the world now
stands in Amusement. see our manu-
lecturers again doubling and trebling
their already magnificent output ana
pushing their surplus into every mar
ket of the world. | see Niagara AMI
countless smaller waterfalls furnish
ing electricity to be carried by wire
f,> nj -
he used for light and heat and power,
in manufacturing. and for transporta-
ton on rivers and canals and railways
and roads. | see a great canal con.
Meeting the two oceans and putting
our eastern and western shores in
close water communication and our
great ports in direct touch with the
markets of the whole world. | see an
other ship canal connecting the Great
Lakes with the Atlantic, with ocean
vessels landing, at the docks of Cleve-
land and Chicago and Milwaukee and
Duluth. and making that greatest pro-
ducing section of the whole world a
great ocean frontage. | see another
canal connecting the Lakes with the
Mississippi River, and a great system
Of light draft steamers and barges
carrying the products of that grea'
valley to the ocean steamship either
upon the Lakes or the Gulf of Mexico
as convenience of location may deter
mine. ! see our islands of the Pacific
Supplying us with hundreds of MIL
lions of dollars worth of their pro-
auctions and taking hundreds of mir
lions dollars worth of our products in
exchange. see the islands of the
Gulf of Mexico one by one knocking at
our doors and coming under the Amer
lean flag and furnishing us through
OPEN doors their tropical products to
mingle with those of the islands of the
Pacific. I see a great railway line
extending from Alaska at the north
to Argentina at the south, connecting.
the railway systems of the two ,contin-
ents and bringing the great markets
O. that continent into close relation
with our own. l see steady growth
of American influence and develop
nent of closer commercial relations
with our neighbors of the north and
On the south. I see a magnificent
fleet of steamships, controlled by
American capital and genius, and fly
ing the American flag, penetrating
every sea. carrying American goods
to every continent and every cline.
and sending them to the interior OF
every country by American engines. In
American cars, and upon American
rails. see the product of the Amer,
Can farm and factory in every land
throughout the civilized world, and
with this accomplishment, Increased
activity for American producers and
manufacturers, and increased pros
rerity among all classes of American
citizens.