The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-06

stand. Tor Uu 900. Fl. i''U. I. o. the
meeting place OF the nations with the
Americans far in the cad and rapidly
d.splaciug AN others ON the streets
are seen black jamaica negroes. the
lighter. sometimes blond panaman,
the Hindu. But he most striking
figure OF an is the American, seen in
great numbers
Il is doubtful if the people in the
ISN'tos realize how many of their
neighbors are making sightseeing
tours to Panama. It is estimated that
not less than 2C0O a month come to
this city for stays of varying length,
and steamships are unable to take care
of the increasing throng. If you go tC
the Tiyoi Hotel you will see hardly
any but American folk hundreds of
them. constant procession; you
might easily believe yourself at an
American summer resort, so American
is the hotel 1t is almost a disappoint-
ment to one expecting none but
strange sights. The tourists acquired
bits Of Spanish are quickly forgotten,
for lack of occasion for use Of that
tongue.
1t is believed here that the tourists
will continue to come in an ever in
creasing stream after the canal Isl
opened. This procession cannot fail
to strengthen the impress of Ameri-
cGnism already stamped upon PaLa-
ma. 1t is circulated that the tourist
will be the forerunner of the capitalist
and that more American money will
come to stay.
1t i,s of course recognized that the
canal will be the meeting place of the
traffic of the East and the West, the
North and the South One proposition
which has been put forth is expected
by Americans here to appeal to the
manufacturers at home seeking eX-
pansion of their market in South and
Central America 1t is proposed that
Panama shall be made the great dis
tributing center for American made
goods to be sold in the Spanish Amer
lean countries.
The scheme is that American houses
shall establish in Panama bonded
warehouses where they may maintain
complete stocks of their goods suitable
for the trade and where buyers from
South and Central America may select
what they wish. This plan, its sup
porters say, will be cheaper than that
of each manufacturer maintaining an
American agent in every capital in
these countries, moro advantageous to
his interests than depending upon ma
tive agents, and will enable the Span
ish American buyer to get what he
wants rather than from catalogue.
1t is also suggested that American
houses not larga enough to maintain
warehouses in Panama might cooper
ate along the lines of common interest
by establishing such warehouses at
Panama to be used by them jointly.
Panama for the most part is a wild
and undeveloped country. One Pan
aman, candidate for the Presidency,
frankly declared today that the best
interests of Panama demanded the
placing of American capital in this
country To this declaration of policy
he addedsa corollary calculated to APP
peal to Americans, namely, that Amer
lean capital exclusively should be used
in developing Panama, to the barring
out of all European investments. Pan
anna wants capital for a railroad to
open up the great banana country on
the Atlantic coast. There is no doubt
that the needed money will soon be
forthcoming, and there is good reason
to believe that it will be American
money.
On the Pacific coast Panama has
thousands and thousands of acres Of
savannas, or grazing lands American
capital is wanted there to take up the
land and develop its possibilities as
a cattle raising country. 1t is said
here that a group of Chicago packers
have already investigated the pros
poets of cattle raising on these savan-
mas. The land is cheap, and it has
already been demonstrated that it is
well suited for cattle raising. The
land is so situated that the promoters
could ship with equal facility and at
low rates to both the east and the
west coasts of the United States, and
of course there is to be a big trade
in provisioning the ships which pass
through the canal.
For the rest Panama is already
raising some tobacco, some coffee, a
great deal of sugar though lacking
the modern machinery and large scale
methods now considered necessary for
'profitGb BILE sugar enterprises, and she
sends to the United States already,
besides bananas, hardwood and pearls
and mother OF pearl.
Whatever the manifestations of