The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-04-11


Alexander Young Hotel yesterday
morning stood out eonspicuousiy, the
first being the big asscmblage which
filed the hall and ovorfowed onto the
roof . garden, composed of bankers,
planters,! ir0nwofkers, teamsters, road
workers, legislators, BARRIERS, hackdriv-
ers, masters, mates, seamen, clerks, gov
ernmfpt officials and employees, steve
dAressssnd WOMEN. representing many
nationalities; and the last being the
three rousing cheers proposed by
George ". Smith and shouted by the
crowd for Ex-Governor George r. Car
ter, who leaves on the next steamer
direct for Washington to continue the
fight for the preservation of Hawaii IS
main industry.
The other features were the stirring
address of Mr.. Carter, teeming with
statistics 7of the financial havoc which
a, tariff. lredrIctiony he claimed. wonld
/ cause throughout the Hawaiian Islands;
a concise, report of the letter writing
rampaisn. made by Ed Towse, and reso-
! lntions proposed by Attorney Frank f.
1hompson which were carried by ac-
olamations;s
1.-THE Hawaiian band concluded its
2
when the hands of clock in the hall
We're stopped by Ed Towse. The hall
was filled and no time was lost in get.
ting down to business. Upon the plat
form were President Swain of the mer-
chants association, who presided;
Chairman George r. Carter of the
Sugar Tariff Protection committee; Sec
rstary, w u. Bnbbitt; President j. p,
Cooke,o of the planters associations; Fred
j.. ,Whldron. Ed Towse and f. A.
Berndt, committeeman; Speaker Iol-
stein of the nouse of representatives,
and Mayor Fern.
Iresideutei Swain, in opening the
meeting said that Hawaii s industry, is
nfenaeed, tibet the farmer and his crops
3resthe bone and snew of the country,
tad that the island people are behind
shis movement
Yesterday, we received cables that
the administration at Washington had
rome out on. tile tariff question:, said
Swain. ''ln other words, the die is
ttstIt f1istppito VS. to carry this cam
phikaS idt tse, fverS end. Mr.. Carter
u Rcfete I'm tic midds of all of you,
as well as in the opinion Of all the
American people, that the interests of
thels pr0dnccr' should be regarded as
Carter Said that All Honolulu had to-
day me8h6sphuse, stop. and consider
Our commercial situation.
Hawaii Faces Crisis.
;f"We faces a. crisis, - said Mr.. Carter.
. Houg, Industrial heart has ceased to
beatobeeiglsee, "a a, president of our great
Iepdhlic has said, that three years
Ne niust accept free sugar. His state
niehti w6,ilf not bear weight except
tlatlHe si&i spppnrted' in congress by a
RoliNcab partYswhich is in the ascend
pcy and has obtained its working
hajority, not because its tenets have
5een adopted BY the larger half of our
people, shut BECAUSE (time and proper
Lrosnectiye Will show). that they came
into power from the internal strife of
their opponents. We Progrcssives be-
Heverthat professional politicians Sc
daired a strangle hold on the great Re-
publican party and all the common peo-
pie in breaking that hold forced the
leaders of that party into a death
struggle. Therefore those now in pol
itical control err in assuming that their
policies have been wholly endorsed by
the great American people. Be that as
It may, it is safe to say that no such
Industrial crisis has occurred in Homo.
lulu since 1893 when Captain Brown
discovered our beautiful little harbor
and named it Fair Haven
"What does this declaration of our
president meant In simple terms it is
that Java with its 27 millions of people,
the most denseiy populated portion Of
the globe, and the island of Formosa,
With its overflow from the japanese
mpire, both shipping their products in
he subsidized ships of other nations,
,an send their sugar into the United
states of America untaxed.
3 y Tariff Necessary.
- ms figures, the, statement means
hat if the theory is correct that the
femoyal Of the tariff on sugar will re-
lice the price of sugar correspondingly,
hon sugar IF selling at todays price
$40 or 500 per short tom will sell
or $50 less, that is. based on today s
price, it viii sell for $36 a ton. and
as we produce sugar under the present
conditions at an average of $5S, we
would lose on a crop of 100000 tons
I'll ,000,0OO. This is the situation that
we are asked to face, and to which we
may he Obliged to adjust our industrial
existence. 1t is no wonder that the
clock of the mayor of Honolulu which
hangs.on the wall has stopped.
Fellow citizens! We are told that
this policy is to be adopted in order to
give our. people cheaper sugar. We are
not told that in carrying out this policy
/. welsfall be free to obtain our neces.
sites in the world s cheapest markets,
but only that the world shall be free to
sell sugar in our market. We are
not even told that at the end of three
ears We can ship our produce or travel
n the subsidized ships of foreign ma
Ions which toucn our shores.
1--WE. in Hawaii, are tilcrs of the
pda' Already energy and capital have
cen spent in the preparation of our
cids for the sugar crop OF three years
ence. We have literally mill ons of
pillars already invested in crops Tor the
blowing two years, and like all pro-
sters of wealth from the soil we must
Se in advance the risks of weather
al over-production. Unlike the man
facturer, we cannot cancel our orders
- saw material, discharge our labor,
nd limit MIR tOscag IN n 81 -oo,.o,,