The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-04-15
KEEP 1T UP" SAYS
MAINLAND REPLY
(From saturday Advertiser)

Yesterdays mail brought moro r.
sponscs to the sugar tariff letters that
were started for the mainland from
Honolulu about three weeks agb.
Among them was one from q prominent
New York Democrat to one OF the
workers in Honolulu, which greatly ep.
eouraged the, protection committee 9s
to the efficiency of its plan of work,
bearing out Ex-Governor Carter's oft
repeated statement that letterwritipg
is the important thing. The letter Is
from New York Democrat, and con
tains several suggestions regarding let
ters to be written. 1t is as, follows:
cit was Very gratifying to receive
your letter OF March IL containing con
gratulations ON the work we are doing
for sugar and the information contained
therein In regard to the active coopera,
ton of the business interests in Ha-
wall. The newspapers you SO kindly
sent also contained excellent accounts
of their activity. The work outlined
other hand, this is not n public line.
The company did not lay Il TO supply
water to residents along the way, but
merely to convey the water to its own
plant. .... ~.
"Therc has been considerable com.
plant because IL is alleged that the
company will have the use of oil the
water 1t needs when water famine
in the valley will result in restrictions
being placed on the water privileges Of
the public. This is not so FOR the com.
pany is subject to regulation in the
same manner as is the public. In case
of famine we can forbid the use of
by all concerned will haye wonderful
effect on the men in Washington as they
are keenly alive to public, opinion aud
this is tho very way to make it. IL,
"Letters from the business men there
to their friends in the States asking
them 20 write or communicate with
their representatives will at this time
be most effective although 1 warn you
that the Democrats in congress do not
like the word protection and suggest
that its use be tabued. An appeal for
fair treatment with the other big in.
terests and the redemption Of party
pledges that no great industry would
be injured by radical changes in the
tariff, and that the ultimate interest
Of the consumer is opposed to the crea.
tion of monopoly of the business. by
the fefners which would surely result
when the domestic production Is limit,
ed or destroyed and the sugar tariff as
great revenue producer when so much
money is urgently needed for great
public works and also the low price of
sugar at present to the consumer, are,
/ believe the greatest arguments which
can be used in favor of tho present
tariff.
ri am mighty well pleased that you
have been able to stir up so much
public interest in this subject and ]
congratulate you and all our friends
on the intelligent manner in which yon
have taken hold of this work. Person
ally, will say that I can only judge
of its tremendous effect by my own
work and what / have been able to
accomplish in a comparatively short
space of time, which / win set forth to
you in some future letter.
81 am glad to report that firmly
believe that our chances are Improving
and that sentiment is swinging our way.
Much is, ut least, due to better un,
Outstanding .of,who win be the benef.
eiary Of radical changes.
puoN NV Winning Hdfu w
New York State which I found has
been surrendered to the enemy without
much of a fight, which ] think was bad
on account Of the fact that good stiff
fight here would tend to keep our
enemy at home and out of territory
where, the sentiment was with us,
Therefore am going to ask you to re-
quest the business men and tho .associa-
ton to write or communicate with Tor
through their friends in New York
State) Senator o'Gorrnan, and Con.
gressmen Harrison and Fitzgerald who
are the leaders,. as you. know, in New
York. J feel as. yon do in the Islands
that good big push and o personal
effort on the part of individuals inter.
ested now. will wip this fight for us and
future prosperity for the Islands,"
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