Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-12-08
!. |. PECK, IN
new YORK, TELLS
ABOUT TERRITORY
Talks of haWaii's Fight to
Protect Industry and on Race
Conditions Here

Protect INDUSTRY ana OF hdCe
Conditions Here
Continued from page ons)
amended BY the legislature and pub
llic utilities commission established.
ana by reason Of our being under q
territorial form Of government all our
franchises and laws relating to public
lands must be confirmed By Congress.
$50, you see, We don't have complete
home rule.
Our street railway has been prOtit.
able from the start, when we supplant-
| ed London-owned horse car system.
I've have now Is miles Of tracks IN
| the city Of Honolulu, and the main
Iline Is double tracked through the
center of the city. We are projecting
an extension to the naval base at
Pearl Harbor, which viii bind all the
Notifications and military posts. At
present our main line runs from the
loot Of Diamond Head to Fort Shat.
tier.
THE financial situation in Hawaii
| Just now 10 one OF great uncertainty.
The prosperity Of the islands is abso-
ilntely contingent on the prosperity Of
| the sugar industry. The effect of the
new tariff legislation thus far. with
| the certainty Of the entire removal Of
| the tariff on sugar about two years
hence. has been the cause Of kind
lof paralyzing gear Of what the result.
viii be when this Hawaiian industry
| Is brought into the world conflict with
sugar raised BY cheap labor In Cuba,
| the Philippines the Dutch East In
dies. and the beet sugar districts Of
Europe. Many think q large number
icf sour plantations will be practically
| put out Of business and that only those
plantations of the very greatest fer.
Utility Of soil and superior natural ad.
yantages viii pull through and meet
the situation. which may give fair re
TURNS on capital after q fundamental
/ adjustment shall have been consul
mated
consumptiop Must l1cfease.
Of the price Of the future is to be
exactly decreased ys the tariff differ.
Iential there. will be little hope for the
Industry In the Hawaiian islands.
However. the probability of increased
consumption, coupled witlr the pos
sible trade combinations In Europe,
may keep the average price up to q
level which will, perhaps, be more
than, the cost of producing and mar
keting the Hawaiian crop That means
that the Eeduction ii8 price to the con.
sumer will not beoneasafed BY the
exact tariff reduction
Seine resentment has been ex.
dressed in Congressional centers &C
the strong fight made by representa-
itiyes OF the Hawaiian sugar industry
against the policy Of free sugar
/ was not born In Hawaii, and have
lived there only IS years, and It IL
only fair to f4those Americans who
were born fl tieHislands that their
eountrymen on the hmainland should
take some account of the situation
| with respect to Hawaii. 1T must be
Remembered that Hawaii has been d
part Of the United States only about
a dozen years. The islands came In.
to the American fold voluntarily by
a treaty Of annexation. Since that
| time Hawaii has enjoyed the benefits
tof an American protective tariff. Be.
/ fore the annexation It had access to
the labor markets of the whole world
to man its plantations. Now the pro.
itection Of the tariff Is denied its PEG
PIE, and the labor markets of the
world, through American legislation.
Iare also denied them, and they are
! row forced to struggle for an indus
1 trial existence In competition with
those very countries whose cheap
labor they are unable to procure.
But you can depend upon it that
Hawaii will make q gallant fight to
maintain her Industries, hoping mean.
while that further time may be given
by Congress before the protective tar.
if duty on sugar is entirely removed.
No Racial Preiudices. s, s
| In Hawaii there is excellent feel
ing between the whites and the jap
anese, who number almost half the
entire population of the islands. The
relations, whether between employers
and employees or between tae works.
tof different nationa1ities. are those OF
/ friendliness and amity. America
would never be in danger of any
trouble from Japan If American citi.
zens OF all classes would feel as indi.
yiduals that they have the honor of
their. country in their own keeping,
and refrain from giving insults to Jap
anese or any other people. who, under
1 treaty, are accorded domicile in the
United States.
THE Wanton insults of thouRhtfess
individuals, or perhaps of certain
=. Grasses, are only the firebrands which
could provoke . conflict with Japan,
and then only because the Japanese