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

during the creates, discomfort can Wis,
TORS reach the summit ami " hen they
get 10 the summit there is not even
an adequate shelter where they may
rest dNTinE their stay at the top.
1t has seemed % the governor that
these two points Of interest shonld he
made both more accessible and more
attractive to the tourist by the people
OF Maui il they expect visitors to come
to this island and 20 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
8 the proposed wharf at Lahaina. and
the completion of the belt road through
; the sO-Caled rainy district to Hama.
Both of these entail tremendous ex-
penditures of money and it has seem
ed to the governor that at the present
! time the game is not worth the candle
+, ! dc not believe that anyone knows
f the exact cost OF building the belt
] road from Kailua to the end Of the
: sOcalled Wilson contract It 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 probable return in the near fu-
| ture
: This Is especially so in view of the
present financial condition. As Won
I have undoubtedly learned by the re-
cent DISPATCHES from Washington, the
| sale of the new bond issue has proven
a complete disappointment. No bids
were obtained in New York up to par.
and in Honolulu only $50, GOA worth of
bonds were subscribed for. This does
not look well 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 own
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
provements with Maui money.
There is just one more thing that
wish to say, and that fear may per-
haps be Seemed by some of you to be
verging on the realm of politics, which
| believe is barred at this convention.
hope you viii 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 fny the Territory, ire
spective Of party, should take q deep
interest in, and when l speak as
shall, hope you will consider that
am speaking not as a member of a
political party but as a 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 |
hopes to remain here 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 free of duty to the !
United States. That is a fact There /
is no theory about it, and it is a fact !
that we must face.
Now there are two attitudes |
which we: may assume-first, that of i
the past, of complaint and outcry
against the administrations atti-
tnde of hostility to the men in charge
CT public affairs at Washington; and :
second, the attitude of friendliness or
perhaps one might say Cancellation.
The president of the United States
is statesman, not politician only, !.
but a real statesman, and In announe- |
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
1915. 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 1915 and thereafter
the entire tariff on our chief product
will be removed.
Now there is no policy of this adj
that is so hard and fast
that it cannot be modified / must
again say that President Wilson is a
and no mere politician, and