Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-10

Mr. A. Fl. Ford Of Honolulu was
the guest Of the Millions Club y Sc
cay at luncheon at Farmers cafe
M. Arthur Richard, introducing Mr.
Ford, said he represented the Hands
Across the Pacific movement. which
vas intended to promote good feeling
:, amongst countries washed by the Pa
cific, and make known their advan-
tages to the outside world.
Mr. Ford told his audience that to
attend meeting CT the Millions Club
was like coming home again for a Ho-
nolulu man, for Mr. Percy Hunter got
the idea from their Hundred Thousand
Club. The idea OF the Millions club
that all New South Wales should
work together for the best interests Of
! New South Wales, and that Sydney
should lead in this in the matter Of
, making many cities in the country"
would be adopted to suit the case in
Hawaii. The problem was being solved
/ largely in America by the inter-urban
electric tram lines there Every town
of from 10000 to 10000 population
I mad. instead of race tracks. in each
! direction radiating electric tram lines
that stretched out for many miles in
every direction into the country, pro-
! viding convenience to the farmer who
! wished to get into town quickly
| There were probably $4,000 miles of
! inter.urban electric trans in the Uni
/ ted States, every mile built with pri-
Fate capital, and not so miles Of which
would be built today If the projects
had been left to the government In
! America they made it next to impos-
! sible for man to gamble on horse
racing, but they encouraged him to
gamble in traction stocks, for then ev-
cry man who lost his money benefited
some community. If they wished for
population in the country districts,
they had got to make it easy for the
farmer. and his. help to get to the
nearest town, and give him facilities
Tor rapidly sending his perishab
products to the next market. .~u,i
Your organization, ~ Mr. Ford con-
ti1lued. isis taking the lead in reach
ing out for the kind of Immigration
sou wish. In this you are browne
yourself infinitely more wise" than
America. Today a great wave from
Southern Europe is sweeping across
the United States from east to west
You are on the verge of a. great An
glo-Saxon mfgratorial movement
across the Pacific. Are you prepared
for il? America will. need more mfl-
lions Of workers in Australia, for
every year she will need ever-increas-
ing supplies from your country. From
now on and for ever you must help to
feed the Americans at home To-day
the finest vessel on the Pacific trav,
els from Vancouver to Sydney to
bring you the tourist across the Paci-
fic, and others of even larger size, and
more palatfal accommodation are TOT
be built for this service. This is but
a beginning, for the San Francisco
line is also preparing for new sleani- !
ships. The first advance guard Of
American irrigationists rs settlers
has arrived in New South Wales and
Victoria. All of Australasia has g0r
ito pull together for Australasia if you
hope to secure the best results. The
man from abroad who expects to visit !
Australia is not aware that there is
no daily ferry service to New Yea
land. The man who visits New Zea- +
land, of course, expects to visit Aus
tralia. The attractions that draw to
New Zealand are attractions that
draw to every part Of Australasia |
you can't benefit one part of Austria
lssia without having every part of
Australia receive its reflected share"
After speaking of the foundation of |:
the Hands Across the Pacific move
ment, and the good it might accom- ,
plish by securing cooperation amongst
all the Pacific countries, Mr.. Ford !
said they should be prepared first of ,
all, to accept the proposition of a
White Australia, and then the propo-
sition Of a yellow China and Japan. ,
Then they should realize that the
of the half-hillion people .
Of China would mean the commercial
of the entire Pacific Each
nation should be permitted to develop
itself along the lines for which it was
best fitted. The time would soon come
when America crippled would mean
disaster to the cattle and dairy indus
try Of Australasia, as Americas cor
Linued prosperity would mean the ad-
Of these industries in Aus
.ralaSia Their interests were bound
10 be together; they had get to pun
together and boost each other for
heir own salvation. Let them have
l Pacific patriotism. Not that he dis i
a racial patriotism, for he
would Ike to see a TeutOnic alliance, I
or all Of the children sent Out from
he loins of the hearty NorSeman and
he phlegmatiC Teuton-the Briton
nd the American. These brothers
hould work together inteEery part Of
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