Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-10-08

during the greatest discomfort can Wis
itoTs reach the summit and when they
get To the summit there is not even
an adequate shelter where they may
rest during their stay at the top.
1t has seemed to the governor that
these two points of interest should be
made both more accessible and more
attractive TO the tourist by the people
of Maui if they expect visitors to come
to this island and go away with a
pleasant taste in the mouth
There are two projects which have
been strongly urged by Maui people
for the improvement of the island, OF
which they feel the territory at large
should stand the expense. These are
the proposed wharf at Lahaina, and
the completion of the belt road through
the so-called rainy district to Hama.
Both of these entail tremendous eX-
penditures of money and il has seem
ed to the governor that at the present
time the game is not worth the candle,
! do not believe that anyone knows
the exact cost of building the belt
road from kailua to the end of the
socalled Wilson contract. 1t will reach
undoubtedly more than 100000. The
proposed wharf at Lahaina will cost at
least $4,000, and conditions at the
| present time certainly in the tourist
business do not warrant the eXpendi-
ture OF so large a sum for so made
Quate a probable return in the near flu
ture.
This is especially so in view of the
present financial condition. AS you
have undoubtedly learned bv the re-
cent DISPATCHES from Washington, the
sale of the new bond issue has proven
complete disappointment No bids
were obtained in New York up to par.
and in Honolulu only 100000 worth of
bonds were subscribed for. This does
not look we'll for our securing anv of
! the amount of the proposed loan fund
which will be necessary If we are to
put in the proposed Improvements.
Maui has now before it again the
question of raising its own funds for
certain public improvements. With
! the lack of success of the Territory
| in floating its bonds abroad, it is not
likely that Maui would be more sue
cessful. However, your people are
rich enough to take up your OVID
bonds for these necessary public i'm
provements, and if you sincerely de-
sire that they should be put through
there should be no trouble about Sc
curing the money from your own citi-
zens, and this is as it should be, for
then you will be standing firmly on
your own feet, and making Maui i'm.
proYements with Maui money. s..
There is just one more thing that
wish to say, and that fear may per-
haps be ceemed by some of you to be
Verging on the realm of politics, which
believe is barred at this convention.
! l. hope you will do me the justice, how.
ever, to believe me when / say that
do not consider this to be a politi-
cal question, but to be one which
every citizen in the Territory, ire
spective of party, should take deep
interest in, and when / speak as +
shall, hope you will consider that J.
am speaking not as member of a
political party but as government
official deeply conscious of the re-
sponsibilities of his position and also
as a citizen of the Territory, all of
whose interests are here, and who
i.CpSo " nCIC always.
Il am speaking of the situation with
regard to the sugar industry. 1t is
time for US to face the future. The
people of the United States have
placed in power an administration
whose announced policy is that sugar
should be admitted tree of duty to the
United States. That is a fact. There
is no theory about it, and it is fact
that we must face.
Now there are two attitudes
which we may assume-frst, that of
the past, of complaint and outcry
against the administration-an atti-.
tude of hostility to the men in charge
OF public affairs at Washington; and
second, the attitude of friendliness or
perhaps one might say .eonciliation.
The president of the United States
is a statesman, not a politician only,
but a real statesman, ana in announc-
ing the policy of the reduction Of the
tariff, he followed what he believed to
be the command of the people of the
United States in good faith and with |
the full belief that it would be for
the best interests of all of the people
OF America The majority party in
Congress has placed upon the
statute books the present tariff law,
and that law says that sugar shall go |
into the United States free of duty in !
1916. The tariff on wool was wiped |
out at once. The elimination of the |
tariff on sugar was deferred for a pc |
riod of three years, but there is every
prospect that in 1916 and thereafter |
the entire tariff on our chief product |
will be removed.
Now there is no policy of this ad- |
ministration that is so hard and fast |
that it cannot be modified. | must |
again say that President Wilson is |