Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-15

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MORE ABOUT THE coAsTWIsE
! SHIPPING LAWS.
Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Sir: 1t would seem, from the tone
! of the reply of Fair Play" that
| Lave started something along the line
of coastwise shipping laws First, I
wish Fair Play" to understand that
am not speaking ''for all of us" as
he claims. but solely for myself and
what !. individually and personally
think, so We viii let it go at that
shall not go deeply into what Fair
Play" says. but let me quote just a
few lines from his letter. Here they
are: = issgss x
why should Preparations be made
] to defend our coasts and shipping
with armies and nayies if trade will
ruin us To beaf Warswould be more
desirable; our Whipping woui.; be de-
stroyed and then We wonld have ideal
protection; foreign competition would
be eliminated; increased demand fer
l.ome production by, homo buyers
would be a reality; American labor
would find lots OF employment; We
fwou',I be bottled up by the enemy"
Fair Play" gives us mental blue
print of conditions that have never
happened, cannot happen aid will not
! happen, and as for our enemies bot
\ fhnf IL, fr1Y-
Their comment. Ii has been tried but
once, and it created considerable i'll
feeling. have no doubts about
Fair Play. being good American
when he can for a moment consider
such state of affairs.
Fair Play. has. considerable to
say about suspending the coastwise
iiaws aL.l throwing aside other forms
of protection, and letting foreign bot
! tons do the work if they car do il to
the advantage of Americans, Look
here, Mr.. Fair Play" your meat has
been coming into this part in a for,
eign bottom with, the added advan'
Etage Of having the duty Knocked off,
! Is your butcher bill any less than it
: was three months agoR f5ct on Your
Paris panel. .,r,~
r The one and only action Of the
: Democratic party sincerit went into
! power land it lacks but few days
of being in power yeaE-ona-Quarter
of its inning) has been to slice off
some of the protection thai this ceun-
| try has prospert'l under sit'r, genera
| ton, after recovering IL from the
slump that the last. Democratic ad-
I ministration placed it m.s So Ear quite
number of institutions. nrre gone TO
the wall and there ave many more
| that are preparing 10 Giset out from
under"
| | disagree with Fair Play" in his
| statement that every prrchdsir Is
producer. Every purchaser is not d
producer, but a consumer. There are
| many that add nothing TO the would
| except the very little cash they spend
for the necessities of life, and the rest
of the world wouI1 have gJtten It
i through other channe-s, If he mad
never been born. The thousands CT
starving people throughout the word
/ today. and even so near nome as III
! San Francisco, that are consuming
bread by the ton, giving nothing in Ie-
| turn for it, not even the equivalent i'll
labor that Fair Pay talks about,
are. in his estimation producers along
with the farmer who raised the whert
that made the flour for the bread that
!; they are consuming.
The depth of love Of country or
| Fair Play" is measured by his as
sertion that protection 70 American
merchant marine is for the purpose
tof giving a. few sailors JOS. 1t looks
to me as though it was the best klT:
Iof prevention from this ;rritorJ ana
1.-THE niafnlaLd becoming the poverty
stricken, disease-ridden h2u-ho'es as
can be found at any port N the world
where there are no marine RESTRICTION
laws. n ..-
| According to Fair Play me Mat
son Steamship Company and other
like companies that have spcHr mil
| lions oh vessels to make these Islands
| what they are today. and are spend
|. zig millions more to enhance still FUR
Their our commercial value among ma
| tons, shou,l be driven tC the wall and
put out of commission so that a lot
of foreign money kings could grow
little richer, at the same time GIVING
these islands a steamship service that
| would not equal the cattle service OF
the present American boats. Is That
fair play? Hang onto the coastwise
laws. Hang ON like a bulldog.
MAXIM.